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    Matthew Bristowe Named Hogarth’s Global Director Of VFX

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    LONDON --

    Hogarth, the WPP global creative content production company, has appointed award-winning VFX, animation and postproduction expert Matthew Bristowe as its global director of VFX.
     
    In this newly created role, Bristowe will champion Hogarth’s globally connected team of 2D/3D CGI producers, artists and technologists to deliver world-class VFX and in turn, strengthen Hogarth’s global production strategy. 

    Bristowe will report into Penri Jones, global chief production and innovation officer, and be based out of the company’s head office in London. 

    Bristowe joins Hogarth from Jellyfish Pictures where his role as managing director saw him overseeing global operations across four studios, covering VFX, feature animation, technology and creative. He was also responsible for financial sustainability, strategy and client management.

    Over the course of his career, Bristowe has worked across commercial, feature film and episodic VFX, garnering nominations and wins at the BAFTA and Emmy awards. His 25+ years in the industry have seen him work with Warner Bros, Netflix, Amazon Studios, Disney, DreamWorks, Sony Pictures, Paramount, Lucasfilm, Marvel and more, and on landmark entertainment properties including Star Wars, the Harry Potter franchise, Stranger Things, Guardians Of The Galaxy, The Crown, and Gravity. 

    “An impressive global career in VFX makes Matt a superb addition to Hogarth. His leadership experience building highly skilled, creative teams that deliver high-profile projects is key to taking Hogarth’s vision of a world-class global VFX platform to the next level,” said Hogarth’s Jones. 

    Bristowe stated, “It’s a really exciting time to join Hogarth and WPP, connecting the wealth of craft talent we have across our entire global making capabilities, and expanding it to take on ever more exciting, innovative and creative projects.” 

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    Linda Lavin, Tony-Winning Actor Who Starred In The Sitcom “Alice,” Dies At 87

    Monday, December 30, 2024

    Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom "Alice," has died. She was 87.

    Lavin died in Los Angeles on Sunday of complications from recently discovered lung cancer, her representative, Bill Veloric, told The Associated Press in an email.

    A success on Broadway, Lavin tried her luck in Hollywood in the mid-1970s. She was chosen to star in a new CBS sitcom based on "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," the Martin Scorsese-directed film that won Ellen Burstyn an Oscar for playing the title waitress.

    The title was shortened to "Alice" and Lavin become a role model for working moms as Alice Hyatt, a widowed mother with a 12-year-old son working in a roadside diner outside Phoenix. The show, with Lavin singing the theme song "There's a New Girl in Town," ran from 1976 to 1985.

    The show turned "Kiss my grits" into a catchphrase and co-starred Polly Holliday as waitress Flo and Vic Tayback as the gruff owner and head chef of Mel's Diner.

    The series bounced around the CBS schedule during its first two seasons but became a hit leading into "All in the Family" on Sunday nights in October 1977. It was among primetime's top 10 series in four of the next five seasons. Variety magazine listed it among the all-time best workplace comedies.

    Lavin soon went on to win a Tony for best actress in a play for Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound" in 1987.

    She was working as recently as this month promoting a new Netflix series in which she appears, "No Good Deed," and filming a forthcoming Hulu series, "Mid-Century Modern," according to Deadline, which first reported her death.

    Lavin grew up in Portland, Maine, and moved to New York City after graduating from... Read More

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