{"id":3182,"date":"2025-02-24T15:26:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/lion-king-visual-effects-studio-on-brink-of-collapse\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T15:26:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:26:58","slug":"lion-king-visual-effects-studio-on-brink-of-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/lion-king-visual-effects-studio-on-brink-of-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Lion King visual effects studio on brink of collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lion King visual effects studio on brink of collapse<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"byline-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 dlWCEZ\">\n<div data-testid=\"byline-new\" class=\"sc-b42e7a8f-0 haItSe\">\n<div class=\"sc-b42e7a8f-1 cjDa-dM\"><time datetime=\"2025-02-24T15:20:09.101Z\" class=\"sc-b42e7a8f-2 bGezbH\">7 minutes ago<\/time><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"byline-new-contributors\" class=\"sc-b42e7a8f-12 fcCDwR\">\n<div class=\"sc-b42e7a8f-5 evAEAB\" readability=\"6\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><span class=\"sc-b42e7a8f-7 khDNZq\">Chris Vallance<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Senior Technology Reporter<!-- --><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure>\n<div data-component=\"image-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 ejjhCR\">\n<div data-testid=\"hero-image\" class=\"sc-a34861b-1 jxzoZC\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/6DadIi.png\" class=\"sc-a34861b-0 cOpVbP hide-when-no-script\"><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/240\/cpsprodpb\/4cb0\/live\/6a262ba0-f2ba-11ef-8db0-bbc7a4fcf665.jpg.webp 240w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/4cb0\/live\/6a262ba0-f2ba-11ef-8db0-bbc7a4fcf665.jpg.webp 320w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/4cb0\/live\/6a262ba0-f2ba-11ef-8db0-bbc7a4fcf665.jpg.webp 480w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/4cb0\/live\/6a262ba0-f2ba-11ef-8db0-bbc7a4fcf665.jpg.webp 640w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/800\/cpsprodpb\/4cb0\/live\/6a262ba0-f2ba-11ef-8db0-bbc7a4fcf665.jpg.webp 800w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/4cb0\/live\/6a262ba0-f2ba-11ef-8db0-bbc7a4fcf665.jpg.webp 1024w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1536\/cpsprodpb\/4cb0\/live\/6a262ba0-f2ba-11ef-8db0-bbc7a4fcf665.jpg.webp 1536w\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/4cb0\/live\/6a262ba0-f2ba-11ef-8db0-bbc7a4fcf665.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Getty Images A picture of the outside of a cinema where a promotional sculpture carries text promoting Disney Mufasa The Lion King  \" class=\"sc-a34861b-0 efFcac\"><span class=\"sc-a34861b-2 fxQYxK\">Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 dlWCEZ\" readability=\"21.19222462203\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The visual effects group behind Disney&#8217;s Mufasa The Lion King and its upcoming Snow White remake, is on the brink of failure.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Technicolor owns a brace of leading visual effects studios including MPC, Mikros Animation and The Mill, with operations in the US, UK, Canada and India <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Paris-based company employs 446 people in the UK, according to recent <!-- -->corporate filings<!-- --> and has told staff not to come into the office.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The BBC has approached Technicolor for comment <!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 dlWCEZ\" readability=\"35.348837209302\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Visual effects (VFX) studios play a key role in film production. Most modern big-budget movies and television will rely heavily on visual effects to transport actors and audiences into outer-space, the distant past or the deep-sea.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">And the appearance and non-vocal performances of characters and creatures, fantastic and otherwise will often be partly or fully the creation of animators and other specialist staff.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">As well as purely animated films and TV, many live action releases are in large-part the work, of the employees of VFX studios.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Many staff work film-to-film on fixed-term contracts, so redundancies if they are announced, may not reflect the total impact of the business&#8217; troubles on jobs.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Technicolor owned MPC, was founded in 1970 as a Soho based production company. It has been a major force in the VFX industry delivering big budget movies such as recent computer-animated remakes of Disney&#8217;s The Lion King and the Jungle Book. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Recent projects include &#8220;Kraven the Hunter,&#8221; &#8220;Young Woman and the Sea&#8221; and &#8220;Emilia Perez&#8221; <!-- -->according to Variety.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Mikros Animation projects include two recent Mutant Ninja Turtles titles and the Paw Patrol series of films.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><h2 class=\"sc-518485e5-0 kRvAla\">&#8216;Render in peace&#8217;<!-- --><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 dlWCEZ\" readability=\"27.378494623656\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">In an email sent to UK staff, Technicolor said the group&#8217;s UK entity Technicolor Creative Studios UK Ltd filed for administration Monday.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Staff were told not to come into the office.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">US employees were also notified the company could fold via email.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">According to <!-- -->animation news publisher Cartoon Brew<!-- --> an email sent over the weekend by chief executive Caroline Parot said &#8220;external headwinds&#8221; had exacerbated problems caused by factors including post-covid recovery. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">She also said the US writers&#8217; strike which led to a slow-down in demand for VFX work causing &#8220;severe&#8221; pressure on cash-flow.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Those same issues will add to the anxiety of staff and may fear re-entering what has been a relatively lean jobs market for VFX professionals.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;Render in peace&#8221; one self-described 13-year veteran of The Mill <!-- -->wrote on Reddit<!-- --> &#8211; a reference to the computationally intense process of producing final, film grade images, a process known as rendering.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Published at Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:20:09 +0000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lion King visual effects studio on brink of collapse 7 minutes ago Chris Vallance Senior Technology Reporter Getty Images The visual effects group behind Disney&#8217;s Mufasa The Lion King and its upcoming Snow White remake, is on the brink of failure. 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