Saville Productions has signed spot director Greg Gray for exclusive representation in the U.S. market. He broke into directing with South Africa house Velocity in the late 1990s, breaking through with his BMW “Free Diver” campaign. His other notable credits include commercials for Guinness, Ford, Nike, Axe and Virgin Upper Class. For the latter, Gray helmed the lauded “Love Story”…..Method Studios, which maintains shops on both coasts and in London, has bolstered its talent pool at its New York facility with the hiring of VFX supervisor Peter Marin and senior Flame artist Martin Lazaro. Marin has worked in visual effects since 1997, when he first joined The Mill as a Flame artist. Since then, Marin has served as VFX supervisor at a number of leading facilities, including Framestore CFC in Reykjavik, Iceland, Animal Logic, and Sweden's Redrum, where he worked on the 2009 Cannes Lion Grand Prix winner, “Carousel.” From 2002-2008, Marin was partner, senior creative artist, VFX supervisor and head of 2D and 3D at Stockholm Postproduction, before which he worked on feature projects such as Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Black Hawk Down at Mill Film in London. A seasoned VFX talent with over 15 years of experience, Lazaro got his start in the industry as a graphic designer at Metrovision in Buenos Aires, Argentina, designing commercials and TV shows before forming his own VFX boutique, Dynamo Post. After that, Lazaro moved to Spain, where he worked on numerous high-end VFX commercials and feature film projects. Prior to joining Method, Lazaro headed the VFX department as a Flame artist/VFX supervisor at wild(child) and Resident Creative Studio in NYC, where in addition to commercials for clients such as AT&T and Sirius/XM, he worked on music videos for Coldplay, Jay-Z, Kanye West and the Black Eyed Peas, as well as the opening titles for HBO's Entourage….RIOT Atlanta has added Smoke artist Mike Wardner to its talent roster. He comes over from Shooters Post and Transfer, where he edited both offline and online, and expanded his range working on commercials for national and regional campaigns, and feature films…..
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