Nexus Studios has brought producer Juliet Tierney on board its Los Angeles office to serve as executive producer for commercials and branded content.
Before joining Nexus Studios, she led Ntropic’s L.A. studio as EP and was head of production at Eight VFX where her team’s work was highlighted in the Oscar nominated I, Tonya and the FOX sci-fi primetime show The Orville (created by Seth McFarlane).
Her career began in London, working for production companies such as Great Guns and Love as well as agencies including Wieden+Kennedy, Fallon and Mother, producing the notable Orange ‘Goldspot’ ads featuring Rob Lowe, Snoop Dogg, Angelica Houston and others.
Tierney said, “I’ve always been a huge fan of Nexus Studios and the work they do. I’ve been fortunate to work closely with the team during my recent years in VFX and am extremely excited to be part of the company expanding the creative vision in L.A.”
Nexus Studios’ co-founder and ECD Christopher O’Reilly said of Tierney, “She has a great understanding of the evolving landscape of commercial production here. From our previous collaborations we know her to be a resourceful and intelligent executive with great experience. She has worked at a high level in strong creative agencies but also has large scale practical animation and VFX production skills.”
Judge Gives US Justice Dept. Until December To Propose Penalties For Google’s Illegal Search Monopoly
A federal judge on Friday gave the U.S. Justice Department until the end of the year to outline how Google should be punished for illegally monopolizing the internet search market and then prepare to present its case for imposing the penalties next spring.
The loose-ended timeline sketched out by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta came during the first court hearing since he branded Google as a ruthless monopolist in a landmark ruling issued last month.
Mehta's decision triggered the need for another phase of the legal process to determine how Google should be penalized for years of misconduct and forced to make other changes to prevent potential future abuses by the dominant search engine that's the foundation of its internet empire.
Attorneys for the Justice Department and Google were unable to reach a consensus on how the time frame for the penalty phase should unfold in the weeks leading up to Friday's hearing in Washington D.C., prompting Mehta to steer them down the road that he hopes will result in a decision on the punishment before Labor Day next year.
To make that happen, Mehta indicated he would like the trial in the penalty phase to happen next spring. The judge said March and April look like the best months on his court calendar.
If Mehta's timeline pans out, a ruling on Google's antitrust penalties would come nearly five years after the Justice Department filed the lawsuit that led to a 10-week antitrust trial last autumn. That's similar to the timeline Microsoft experienced in the late 1990s when regulators targeted them for its misconduct in the personal computer market.
The Justice Department hasn't yet given any inkling on how severely Google should be punished. The most likely targets are the long-running... Read More