Digital Artists Agency (DAA), a licensed below-the-line talent agency specializing in visual effects
Digital Artists Agency (DAA), a licensed below-the-line talent agency specializing in visual effects, has signed a trio of noted VFX artisans for representation: motion capture producer and supervisor James Knight, visual effects supervisor Gray Marshall, and animation director and supervisor Bernd Angerer. Knight served as motion capture producer for the Academy Award®-winning Avatar, Knight also has among his credits The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and I Am Legend. Marshall has served as production visual effects supervisor on The Hangover, 21, Dreamgirls and Adaptation, and as VFX facility visual effects supervisor on Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Italian Job, xXx, Fight Club and the television series West Wing. He has also worked as effects supervisor on leading commercial campaigns, including Nike's “Morning After” directed by Spike Jonze, and Sun Microsystems' “The Dot” directed by Phil Joanou. Marshall has worked at Digital Domain and was also creative director and co-owner of visual effects studio Gray Matter FX. And Angerer is a longtime animation supervisor at Digital Domain where he is attached to the upcoming 47 Ronin and where he was also animation supervisor on X-Men: First Class, TRON: Legacy and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra; lead animator on The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor; and senior animator on Speed Racer. At Sony Imageworks he was character animator on I Am Legend and Beowulf and lead character animator on Spider-Man 3. During an earlier stint at Digital Domain Angerer was character animation sequence lead on I, Robot and character animator on Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Aeon Flux, What Dreams May Come and Titanic. Headed by founder Bob Coleman, DAA reps VFX and animation artisans for freelance and staff positions….Tony Ferkranus has been appointed VP, Sales, for Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc.'s Media Services division in Northvale, New Jersey. Ferkranus brings 20 years experience to the industry with 10 of those years at Deluxe in Los Angeles and Sydney, Australia…. Dattner Dispoto and Associates has just signed production designer Jahmin Assa….
Alec Baldwin Urges Judge To Stand By Dismissal Of Involuntary Manslaughter Case In “Rust” Shooting
Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge on Friday to stand by her decision to skuttle his trial and dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie.
State District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case against Baldwin halfway through a trial in July based on the withholding of evidence by police and prosecutors from the defense in the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust."
The charge against Baldwin was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't be revived once any appeals of the decision are exhausted.
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey recently asked the judge to reconsider, arguing that there were insufficient facts and that Baldwin's due process rights had not been violated.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer on "Rust," was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when it went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired.
The case-ending evidence was ammunition that was brought into the sheriff's office in March by a man who said it could be related to Hutchins' killing. Prosecutors said they deemed the ammunition unrelated and unimportant, while Baldwin's lawyers alleged that they "buried" it and filed a successful motion to dismiss the case.
In her decision to dismiss the Baldwin case, Marlowe Sommer described "egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct" by law enforcement and prosecutors, as well as false testimony about physical evidence by a witness during the trial.
Defense counsel says that prosecutors tried to establish a link... Read More