The visual effects group behind Disney’s Mufasa The Lion King and its upcoming Snow White remake, is on the brink of failure. Technicolor owns several leading visual effects studios including MPC, Mikros Animation and The Mill, with operations in the US, UK, Canada and India. The Paris-based company employs 446 people in the UK, according to recent corporate filings. The company has told staff not to come into the office. Visual effects (VFX) studios play a key role in film production, along with purely animated films and TV, many live action releases are in large-part the work of the employees of VFX studios. 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’ troubles on jobs.
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