Moving Picture Company closes Vancouver studio: report
Credit to Author: Tiffany Crawford| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:24:40 +0000
Moving Picture Company is closing its Academy Award-winning animation and visual effects studio in Vancouver, according to reports.
News that the company was shuttering its Vancouver location appeared on a Reddit thread on Wednesday. A Reddit user posted a photo claiming to be the letter sent to Vancouver employees. The letter was also posted on the image sharing site Imgur.
It says that MPC’s Vancouver studio will “cease operations effective immediately and refocus its geographical presence to other locations.” The letter notes that there are more attractive opportunities in other locations, and that it has become challenging to sustain its Vancouver office.
This is a screen shot from Reddit claiming to be the letter sent to employees of MPC’s Vancouver studio.
Messages to MPC and its parent company Technicolor confirming the closure have yet to be returned.
It’s unclear how many people have been laid off but at its height the studio had 800 artists.
MPC has worked on blockbusters such as The Amazing Spider Man, Bladerunner 2049 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The Vancouver studio opened in 2007 with a 38,000-square-foot space on Hamilton Street in Yaletown. It won an Academy Award for its work on the The Life of Pi.
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