Rhythm & Hues, a famous American special effects production company, announced application for bankruptcy protection

Source: Internet
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Absrtact: According to foreign media reports, in the last two weeks of the award for the best visual effect of this year's Oscar, rhythm Hues, a famous American special effects production company, was finally able to support the production team of the magnificent fantasy scenes

According to foreign media reports, in less than two weeks before the award of the best visual effect of this year's Oscar, the Rhythm & hues--of the famous American special effects production company, "the fantasy rafting of the young", were finally unable to support the claim for bankruptcy protection. Hollywood's long history of unfair treatment of film-effect companies has sparked outrage. So, before the February 25 Oscars, Hollywood dramatically appeared in two very different scenes, one side is the Dolby Opera star red carpet eye-catching, one side is not far from the Vine hotel's top hundreds of visual effects practitioners in the "abuse" and rally protest.

Although the teenager has harvested more than 500 million dollars in box-office results worldwide, rhythm & hues to file for bankruptcy protection on February 13, 2013. The 25-year-old Hollywood veteran visual-effects studio has won the Oscars for the best visual effects two times before the Junior school, one for the 1995 Pig Babe (Babe) and another for the 2007 Golden Compass (The Golden Compass), This year was also due to the creation of the "Juvenile pie" and "Snow White and the Hunter" (Snow and the Huntsman) won the award two nominations. "The main actor" in "Junior School"-a monkey, a zebra, a phosphorescent whale, countless island mongoose and the charismatic tiger "Parker" are the company's masterpieces, Rhythm & Hues's special effects director Bill Wisdenhofer (bill Westenhofer and his team fought for more than three quarters with the special effects of the teenager pie.

According to reports, 500 of thousands of visual effects practitioners protesting that Hollywood has been unfair to their technical workers, and in recent years the U.S. film special effects production industry has been affected by global competitors, including China, India and Canada, These countries are helping to cut tax cuts for the film special effects industry, making them more competitive than their American counterparts.

In addition to running down the street to protest, former employees of Rhythm & Hues also sued the former employer, saying that Rhythm & Hues fired approximately 250 employees without a 60-day notice, a move that violates Los Angeles labor law.

Ang Lee said last week that he was "very sad" about the plight of rhythm & hues, "I hope they get help and I support them in my heart (my Herat goes out to them)". Rhythm & Hues's special effects director, Bill Wisdenhofer, who was on the stage to accept the Oscar statuette, tried to explain Rhythm & hues's plight, but was interrupted by the music of the orchestra that followed.

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