Lay offs Follow Happy Ft Two Failing

It’s bad enough that Happy Ft Two wentover budget by $50 million. Or that my sources say Warner Bros blocked it foreseeing the follow up towards the smash hit2006 Best Animation Oscar champion wouldbe another large earner. However it’s not. The vacation pic is tanking. Now comes a whole lot worse Christmas news.Based on a web-based article today in IF magazine, the Australian digital productioncompany behind Happy Ft Two islaying off600 staffers at the begining of December. Sydney-based Dr D Galleries may be the 2007 joint venturebetween filmmaker George Burns’s and producer Doug Mitchell’s Kennedy Burns Mitchell, which isAustralia’s most effective production company, together with The Mapp family’s Omnilab Media Group, that is Australia’s biggest film services company.Dr D Galleries was meant to rival Peter Jacksons Weta Digital in Nz like a home for top-finish effects and digital feature film production.The IF article states some employees were also offered positions in a new company that KMM plans to setup early the coming year. Now, a retrenchment such as this usually follows the finish of the large budget film like Happy Ft Two, and KMMs Doug Mitchell lately stated the company was restructuring because it faced a production gap prior to the Dr D’s next production, the fourth Mad Max film titledFury Road.