Digital Domain has brought on board Terry Clotiaux as VP of feature film production while promoting long-time VFX marketing director Joanna Capitano to executive producer and elevating the division’s other exec producer, Lisa Beroud, to a member of the company’s senior management team.
A veteran VFX executive who has worked on more than 35 feature films in a 25-year career, Clotiaux comes on board to oversee all feature films in production at Digital Domain’s California and Vancouver studios, reporting to CEO Ed Ulbrich.
Clotiaux was EP of Digital Domain’s Feature Film Division from 2007 to 2009 where he worked on features including Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and 2012. He rejoins the company most recently from Prime Focus Group where he was president of global VFX production. There he oversaw VFX work on feature films including Avatar and Tree of Life, and 2D-to-3D conversion on features including Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1 and 2, Shrek and Star Wars Episodes I and II. Clotiaux also served as sr. VFX producer at Sony Pictures Imageworks/Columbia Pictures overseeing work on Spider-Man 3, and has been a VFX producer for Warner Bros. Pictures, 20th Century Fox, InterMedia Films and Columbia Pictures/Tristar. He holds VFX producing credits on The Matrix: Reloaded and Revolutions, Independence Day and other top features, commercials and trailers.
Capitano, who has been with the company since 1993, has been a driving force behind bidding and overseeing many of the 100 feature film productions on which Digital Domain has worked. She and Beroud, a 25-year veteran producer of visual effects, live action feature films and commercials, will report to Clotiaux.
In addition to driving bidding and managing feature film productions at Digital Domain, Capitano also oversaw publicity and marketing for the company for more than 10 years, including driving publicity campaigns for two features that earned visual effects Academy Awards๏ฟฝ. She is credited on Oscar๏ฟฝ-nominated Real Steel, Thor and Oscar๏ฟฝ-winning The Golden Compass, among other feature films.
During her tenure at Digital Domain Beroud was the VFX producer on the Oscar๏ฟฝ-winning Curious Case of Benjamin Button as well as TRON: Legacy, Zodiac, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Oblivion. She is currently the EP of visual effects on Ender’s Game. She has produced VFX for commercials from David Fincher, Joseph Kosinski, Carl Rinsch and other top directors, and the live action short Family Tree.
Review: Drew Hancock Makes Feature Directorial Debut With “Companion”
"Iris, wake up!"
Early in "Companion," lovely Iris and her nerdy-nice boyfriend Josh are driving to a secluded lake house for a stay with friends. Iris wakes from a nap and lovingly tells Josh she was dreaming about him. They reminisce about how they first met at the supermarket. All those oranges tumbling onto the floor! Ha ha.
In 20 minutes, absolutely everything about this sweet scene will be turned on its head in a terrifying and sinister manner. You will be surprised and shocked. Unless you saw the trailer, which reveals the whole thing.
And so we begin with a dilemma, dear moviegoer. "Companion," an exceedingly clever and entertaining sci-fi-horror-thriller-comedy by Drew Hancock in his feature debut, has more twists and turns than a corkscrew. But it's utterly impossible to write about the film without revealing the first of those twists.
So if you like coming in totally cold to a movie, then we're sorry to see you go, but stop reading! Otherwise, stay with us โ we promise there'll be more surprises to come.
Moving on: Iris (Sophie Thatcher) and Josh (Jack Quaid) arrive at the estate. A nervous Iris stops at the door, worried that Josh's friends won't like her. He urges her to simply brighten up and act happy.
Kat (Megan Suri), Josh's ex, greets them. She is gorgeous, and frosty to Iris. Eli (Harvey Guillรฉn) and his handsome boyfriend Patrick (Lukas Gage) are nicer. Then there's Sergey (Rupert Friend), Kat's aloof Russian boyfriend โ sugar daddy, really โ and owner of the house. The password to his devices is Stalin's birthday, which tells you something.
Things get dark, quickly. The next morning, someone dies. They will not be the first โ this is a horror movie. And suddenly Iris, caked in blood,... Read More