While not our usual content here at VizWorld, I wanted to give a little publicity to the plight of the VFX experts who worked for Meteor Studios on “Journey to the Center of the Earth”.
The curtain closes this weekend on an offer to more than 100 mainly Canadian movie special-effects artists attempting to recuperate nearly $1.2 million they claim is owed them for work done on one of last summer’s biggest blockbusters.
Monday is the deadline for them to accept or reject about 63 per cent of that amount from the owners of Meteor, the Montreal facility that closed in November 2007 after wrapping up Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then filed for bankruptcy.
If you’re not familar with their story, they worked relentlessly during the creation of the picture, and the studio went bankrupt during that time. They’ve since been labeled unsecured creditors and have not been paid for their work. This has been going on for over a year now.
