Hornet has signed director/animator Julia Pott for global representation. She has turned out work for such clients as Bat for Lashes, Etsy, The Decemberists, J. Crew, Malibu Rum, Skins and Toyota. Her latest short film, Belly, set in fantastical underwater environs, is slated for a fall release. Raised in London, Pott completed her schooling at the Royal College of Art, earning a Masters in Animation. Hornet's European representation partner, Passion Pictures, will handle Pott internationally….DarrenLamb has joined Crossroads Films UK as head of digital content….B-Reel Films has a new office in London headed by the recently hired Philippa Allen as exec producer. B-Reel Films now has four offices–including L.A., NYC and Stockholm–which can work in close collaboration with digital production company B-Reel. Allen will introduce B-Reel Films as a TV commercial production company in the U.K. She comes over from Rogue Films, London….Eran Dinur has been upped to visual effects supervisor at Brainstorm Digital. He will bring his talents as a VFX supervisor to HBO's lauded series Boardwalk Empire as well as to History's new miniseries, The Men Who Built America. Dinur had been Brainstorm's digital compositing supervisor for the past year. He earlier served as senior compositor at Brainstorm and at such shops as Industrial Light+Magic Singapore and Framestore New York. He has created visual effects for high-profile movies including Iron Man, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Star Trek, Terminator Salvation, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Salt….
Disney Pledges $15 million In L.A. Fire Aid As More Celebs Learn They’ve Lost Their Homes
The Pacific Palisades wildfires torched the home of "This Is Us" star Milo Ventimiglia, perhaps most poignantly destroying the father-to-be's newly installed crib.
CBS cameras caught the actor walking through his charred house for the first time, standing in what was once his kitchen and looking at a neighborhood in ruin. "Your heart just breaks."
He and his pregnant wife, Jarah Mariano, evacuated Tuesday with their dog and they watched on security cameras as the flames ripped through the house, destroying everything, including a new crib.
"There's a kind of shock moment where you're going, 'Oh, this is real. This is happening.' What good is it to continue watching?' And then at a certain point we just turned it off, like 'What good is it to continue watching?'"
Firefighters sought to make gains Friday during a respite in the heavy winds that fanned the flames as numerous groups pledged aid to help victims and rebuild, including a $15 million donation pledge from the Walt Disney Co.
More stars learn their homes are gone
While seeing the remains of his home, Ventimiglia was struck by a connection to his "This Is Us" character, Jack Pearson, who died after inhaling smoke in a house fire. "It's not lost on me life imitating art."
Mandy Moore, who played Ventimiglia's wife on "This Is Us," nearly lost her home in the Eaton fire, which scorched large areas of the Altadena neighborhood. She said Thursday that part of her house is standing but is unlivable, and her husband lost his music studio and all his instruments.
Mel Gibson's home is "completely gone," his publicist Alan Nierob confirmed Friday. The Oscar winner revealed the loss of his home earlier Friday while appearing on Joe Rogan's... Read More