CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: WORLDS AWAY 3D ... - Visual Hollywood

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: WORLDS AWAY 3D (2012)PRODUCTION NOTESED JONES (executive producer), a pioneer in digital media and industry expert in animation andvisual effects, won the 1988 Academy Award® and BAFTA Award for Special Effects for WhoFramed Roger Rabbit? He took home his first BAFTA Award for Special Effects the previous yearfor The Witches of Eastwick and was given the 1996 International Animated Film Society "Annie"Technical Achievement for Space Jam.H e was e xecutive producer of director George Miller's 2007 Oscar® winner and Golden Globenominee for Best Animated Feature, Happy Feet. Jones founded Cinesite's facilities in Hollywoodand London and eventually left to continue his career as a sought-after VFX supervisor.In a career spanning three decades with more than 200 projects to his credit, the chief executive officerof Reel FX Studios joined ReelFX Inc. with Cirque du Soleil Worlds Away producer CaryGranat to produce family franchise films in the $50 million budget range. Aside from the upcomingrelease of Turkeys and Guillermo Del Toro's Day of the Dead, other projects in development includepopular children's books such asRobert C. O'Brien's Rats of NIMH, and William Joyce's DinosaurBob.Before joining Reel FX in 2009, Jones worked for Rainmaker Entertainment in Vancouver and producedEscape From Planet Earth for the Weinstein Company.Prior to that, Jones ran ESC Entertainment, a company Warner Bros. chose Jones to run and buildin 2001. The AOL/Time Warner subsidiary was the primary studio responsible for Matrix Reloadedand Revolutions, Catwoman and Constantine. As CEO of ESC he built and led a team that developeda creative pipeline culminating in six patent applications being filed by AOL/Time Warner.Warner Bros. then asked Jones to join its Australia-based team in 2005 as executive producer on theCG feature Happy Feet.Before ESC, Jones worked in lead VFX roles with Warner Bros., DreamWorks and Paramount Pictureson numerous films including Hard Rain, Soldier, Almost Famous and Cats and Dogs.From 1992-1996 he worked for Cinesite as CEO/president and senior visual effects supervisor afterworking for Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) for 13 years. During his tenure at Cinesite he set theindustry standard for digitizing images and created a data-centric production model for handlinglarge volumes of computer graphic images. Among the films he worked on: Waterworld, BrokenArrow, Mission: Impossible, Jerry Maguire, Free Willy II, Outbreak and In the Line of Fire.Jones began his career at ILM in 1979 when there were only 40 employees. He worked in creativeand management roles, breaking ground with accomplishments such as the 2 1/2 D look for WhoFramed Roger Rabbit? There he was responsible for optical photography, work that brought himthe 1988 Academy Award ®. Jones oversaw the shaping of ILM's foundation for expansion in digitaltechnology. At ILM, he was involved with more than 90 films including such blockbusters asStar Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Ghostbusters I &II, Ghost, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and the Indiana Jones trilogy.DAVID MALLET (additional filming), considered the most experienced and prolific live musictelevision director in the world, has amassed 105 long form and event films and more than 80 musicvideos to his credit with artists ranging from U2, Tina Turner, Beyonce, Janet Jackson and EltonJohn to the Three Tenors and Andrew Lloyd Weber. He is the key live performance director forCirque du Soleil, capturing its shows in Las Vegas and worldwide.© 2012 Paramount Pictures14