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Press Named Exec Producer at Zoic

Visual effects and production company Zoic Studios has hired veteran VFX producer Erik Press as an executive producer.

Press previously was executive producer of CBS Digital, producing effects for various TV projects, including ESPN’s The Bronx is Burning and the remastered episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series.

Press also has worked as an exec... more

Raksis Named New LAIKA CFO

Gary Raksis, former head of strategic planning and corporate finance for DreamWorks Animation, has joined LAIKA as chief financial officer.

Raksis will be in charge of business operations and exploiting growth opportunities for the Portland, Ore.-based studio, which released earlier this year its first feature film, Coraline.

“Gary brings an exceptional ran... more

Disney Distribution Chief Zoradi Resigns

Mark Zoradi has resigned as president of the Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Group, the latest in a series of longtime studio executives to leave the studio in recent months.

Zoradi, who had worked for the studio for 29 years, oversaw the marketing and distribution for all of the studios films, including Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Touchstone Pictures an... more