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EXCLUSIVE: Gary Mundell has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer at Tippett Studio , the award-winning effects studio founded by two-time Academy Award winner Phil Tippett. The industry vet takes over the role previously held by Sanjay Das, who now serves as CEO . Prior to his promotion, Mundell served as an executive producer and Head of Production at the studio, overseeing its operations and producing several of its large-scale projects. The expert in pipelines and software for production also previously co-founded Berkeley’s Loft Software—a company building asset control tools for global real-time film, games and commercial production—and served as its CEO. He was a founder of the open-source workflow platform and digital asset management system Southpawtech/TACTIC, and supported the creation and development of computer graphics application Maya at Alias/Wavefront. “Gary Mundell has filled a position sorely needed at my company,” said Tippett. “In the short … [Read more...] about Tippett Studio Promotes Gary Mundell To COO

Be happy, be kind, be Tony. Ricky Gervais is coming to the end of After Life , the Netflix comedy series that he created and stars in and which has been watched by 100 million people around the world. The final season marks a departure for the British comedian, who has never made a third season of any of his scripted series before – The Office, which spawned the NBC adaptation, Extras and Derek all ran for two seasons and a special. Gervais is aware of this fact, telling Deadline in a wide-ranging interview that he really should have done a fourth season but that he didn’t want to risk the quality of the show dropping. After Life , which returns January 14, follows Gervais’ Tony, a writer for the local Tambury newspaper, who is dealing with life after his wife, played by Kerry Godliman, dies. The third season picks up with the complicated relationship with Tony and nurse Emma, played by Ashley Jensen, as Tony must also deal with the grief of his father … [Read more...] about As ‘After Life’ Comes To An End, Ricky Gervais Faces Up To What’s Next – The Deadline Q&A

Marielle Heller ( A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood ), Garrett Bradley ( Time ), Joey Soloway ( Transparent ), Andrew Haigh ( Lean on Pete ) and Dawn Porter ( The Me You Can’t See ) have been named as jurors for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival , taking place virtually from January 20-30. Heller, who brought her first feature The Diary of a Teenage Girl to the festival in 2015, will preside over the U.S. Dramatic Competition with C’mon C’mon producer and former Annapurna Pictures exec Chelsea Barnard, and A Separation actor Payman Maadi. Bradley, whose Sundance-premiering doc Time earned an Oscar nomination in 2021, will oversee the U.S. Documentary Competition with Peter Nicks, the director behind 2021 Sundance title Homeroom, and director-cinematographer Joan Churchill. Soloway, the Transparent and I Love Dick creator who brought their first feature, Afternoon Delight , to Sundance in 2013, will serve as this year’s sole juror of … [Read more...] about Sundance Film Festival Juries Set; Marielle Heller, Garrett Bradley, Joey Soloway, Andrew Haigh, Dawn Porter & More

Opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not reflect the views of Rolling Stone editors or publishers. We have been through — and are still in — the ringer. With the continued Covid-19 pandemic and its variants circulating, we are yearning for a break in the action. We are contending with all manners of equity concerns from financial to societal, to the biggest of them: environmental equity. We are striving to use emotional intelligence and be more knowledgeable about all manner of concerns. We’re dealing with burnout and the anxiety brought on almost daily from glancing at the headlines. It’s exhausting, to say the least. Where can we get a break and create a safe space of our choosing? Welcome to the metaverse. 2021 ushered in an NFT rush, with an equal emphasis on the digital landscape. Why? I’d argue that these innovations were partially brought on by our societal desire for escape. If you invest in your metaverse gear (e.g., land, luxuries, etc.), you can … [Read more...] about The Metaverse, Morals and Brand Culture