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    Supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer Will Files joins Sony Pictures Post Production Services

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    CULVER CITY, Calif. --

    Award-winning supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer Will Files has joined Sony Pictures Post Production Services. Files, who spent a decade at Skywalker Sound, brings credits on more than 80 feature films, including Passengers, Deadpool, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Fantastic Four. Files won a 2018 MPSE Golden Reel Award for his work on War for the Planet of the Apes. His current project is the upcoming Columbia Pictures release Venom out in U.S. theaters October 5, 2018.

    “Will is a brilliant sound artist with an impressive resume and an uncanny ability to enhance stories through sound,” said Sony Pictures Post Production EVP Tom McCarthy. “It’s great to be welcoming him to Sony Pictures at a time of real momentum for our sound team.”

    Files calls joining Sony Pictures Post Production Services a great opportunity. “Sony has some of the best mix stages in the world,” he observed. “The facilities are extraordinary, and I’m so happy to be here.”

    He added that he was also attracted by Sony Pictures’ ability to support his work both as a sound editor/sound designer and as a re-recording mixer. “I tend to wear a lot of hats. I often supervise sound, create sound design and mix my projects,” he said. “Sony Pictures has embraced modern workflows by creating technically-advanced rooms that allow sound artists to begin mixing as soon as they begin editing. It makes the process more efficient and improves creative storytelling.”

    Files will work in a new pre-dub mixing stage and sound design studio on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City. The stage has Dolby Atmos mixing capabilities and features two Avid S6 mixing consoles, four Pro Tools systems, a Sony 4K digital cinema projector and a variety of other support gear.

    Files describes the stage as “a sound designer/mixer’s dream come true.” “It’s a medium-size space, big enough to mix a movie, but also intimate. You don’t feel swallowed up when it’s just you and the filmmaker,” he said. “It’s very conducive to the creative process.”

    Files began his career with Skywalker Sound in 2002, shortly after graduating from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He earned his first credit as supervising sound editor on the 2008 sci-fi hit Cloverfield. His many other credits include Star Trek: Into Darkness, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Loving.

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    Hwang Dong-hyuk On Season 2 of “Squid Game,” Wrapping Production on Season 3; What’s Next?

    Thursday, December 26, 2024

    Viewers may gasp, cringe or cry out watching characters die on Netflix's "Squid Game," but those simulated deaths have a different effect on its creator, writer and director. Instead, Hwang Dong-hyuk feels happiness seeing them go.

    The show has a huge cast and Hwang says it was "really difficult" to manage everyone on set.

    As characters would die, Hwang recalls saying to the actors on their last day, "'Oh no! How sad! I won't see you tomorrow,' but I was always smiling inside."

    "Squid Game" season two premieres Thursday. It once again stars Lee Jung-jae and centers around a secret competition in South Korea that targets people in debt and the winner gets a big cash prize. What they don't know is that losing the game is deadly.

    Hwang originally conceived of the show 15 years ago as a two-hour film but it failed to gain traction with financiers or even interested actors. He put it aside and worked on other films instead. He then had the idea to make it a TV series instead and took the project to Netflix. There, it could reach a wide audience.

    "I never in my wildest dream thought it was going to be this huge," said Hwang, who spoke about the show and what comes next. Answers have been edited for clarity and length.

    Q: What have you learned from "Squid Game"?

    HWANG: I learned that I shouldn't give up. If you love something and if you want to create something, it might not work now, but the time might come later. Or that idea could be the source of inspiration for something else.

    Q: You've already finished filming season three of "Squid Game." Have you thought about what your next project will be?

    HWANG: I'm afraid to talk... Read More

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