Warner Bros. Reworked Feature Animation Unit Appoints Artist-Turned-Executive Shane Prigmore As Senior Creative Advisor
Reporting to studio president Bill Damaschke, Prigmore will also director a film for the unit.
Reporting to studio president Bill Damaschke, Prigmore will also director a film for the unit.
Has Warner Bros. finally figured out how to run a feature animation division?
The news of Damaschke’s official appointment came during WBD’s Q1 earnings call led by CEO David Zaslav.
Warner Animation Group has been operating without a dedicated boss since Allison Abbate’s departure last August.
The one-year-old animation company is teaming up with Headless Productions for a new feature project.
Nathan Greno will create and direct an original animated feature for the fast-rising Skydance.
The former chief creative officer of Dreamworks Animation will help start up Skydance’s new animation division.
DreamWorks announced this afternoon that veteran producers Bonnie Arnold and Mireille Soria, the respective lead producers of the studio’s “How to Train Your Dragon” and “Madagascar” franchises, will oversee creative development and production for DreamWorks Animation’s theatrical releases.
“DreamWorks Animation: The Exhibition” opened last month at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). Clearly inspired by “Pixar: 20 Years of Animation,” which was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York back in 2005, the DreamWorks show includes over 400 items, and covers the studio’s twenty-year history right up to the present—there are displays about “Mr. Peabody & Sherman” and “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” which will be released next month. It is the largest exhibition in the twelve-year history of the ACMI.
Yesterday’s New York Times delivered a glowing profile of DreamWorks chief creative officer Bill Damaschke. The pieces describes how CEO …
In the mid-1990s, Bill Damaschke was a struggling LA actor who found a job working as a PA on Pocahontas. Today, he is the Chief Creative …