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Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Bankrupt 'Life of Pi' VFX studio agrees to $1 million back-pay settlement after Oscars protest

The Verge: More than 200 employees of an Oscar-winning visual effects studio could finally get their back pay after two of their colleagues reached a $1 million settlement over layoffs earlier this year, Variety reports. Rhythm & Hues, which won Academy Awards for its visual effects on Babe, The Golden Compass, and Life of Pi, filed for bankruptcy on February 11th, leaving 238 people without jobs.

1 comment:

AAKennar said...

So I know very little about this. Just remember last year seeing all the green profile pictures in support of the the computer design industry? The awesome people that make visual effects using their computers, Those Guys and Gals!! So this sounds like a good thing or maybe just more of a positive thing. Hopefully the money will help them continue to move forward in life and that they have been able to find other employment since the lay offs. It does intrigue me to find out why the office had to lay off people to begin with. Well yet probably boils down to someone want a large piece of the pie then he really should have taken. Maybe, I could be wrong, I have been wrong before and I will be wrong again