Shari Hanson has been promoted to the function of EVP, Bodily Manufacturing and Visible Results at Paramount Footage and Nickelodeon Animation.
In her new function, Hanson will proceed her work on Paramount’s live-action options, whereas increasing into the realm of hybrid animation/live-action titles at Nickelodeon. The business veteran got here to Paramount in 2015, most just lately serving as Senior Vice President, Bodily Manufacturing. Previous to her time on the studio, she labored as a contract producer and VFX producer for over eight years. She beforehand spent practically 13 years as a VFX producer at Industrial Gentle & Magic, having launched her profession throughout the realm of promoting.
Saying Hanson’s promotion immediately was Paramount Footage and Nickelodeon Studios’ President of Worldwide Bodily Manufacturing, Lee Rosenthal. Learn his memo circulated internally at Paramount and Nick beneath.
Expensive Crew,
As our group continues to maneuver ahead with the general technique for aligning and optimizing the manufacturing teams throughout Paramount Footage and Nickelodeon Studios, I wish to share an thrilling replace with you.
I’m proud to announce that Shari Hanson, an exemplary govt, and invaluable member of our crew, is being promoted to Govt Vice President of Bodily Manufacturing and Visible Results for Paramount Footage and Nickelodeon Animation. Along with her work on Paramount’s live-action movies, Shari’s portfolio will develop to incorporate our hybrid animation/live-action titles produced at Nick Animation.
As everyone knows, Shari is a good bodily manufacturing govt and trusted associate to our producers, as witnessed on The Misplaced Metropolis, Clifford the Massive Crimson Canine, Gemini Man and Crawl. With this newly created hybrid function, we’ve got an incredible alternative to bridge our VFX and manufacturing work in distinctive, collaborative methods transferring ahead. Given her thirty-year observe report in manufacturing and VFX and robust, trusting filmmaker relationships, I’ve little doubt Shari will elevate our VFX operations as we proceed to ramp up our slates in ’23-’24 and past.
Previous to becoming a member of us as a bodily manufacturing govt in 2015, Shari labored with Paramount on a number of of its most beloved franchise properties. After starting her profession in promoting, her ardour for visible storytelling led her to Industrial Gentle & Magic in 1994 the place she moved up the manufacturing ladder on over 200 commercials, music movies and have movies. Throughout an period of immense visible results innovation, Shari was a visible results producer for a number of groundbreaking movies similar to Hulk, The Day After Tomorrow, The Island, Mission: Not possible 3 and Transformers. Constructing on her filmmaker and studio relationships, she transitioned to freelance and continued to VFX produce, affiliate produce and co-produce tentpole movies similar to Star Trek, the Oscar®-winning Rango, The Lone Ranger and Terminator Genysis. Shari has labored repeatedly with most of the business’s most revered administrators together with Ang Lee, JJ Abrams, Michael Bay and Gore Verbinski.
It’s unbelievable to suppose how a lot we’ve achieved as a studio for the reason that begin of the 12 months, and I’m simply so grateful and proud to be a part of this crew. I hope everybody is basically feeling our momentum and understands how essential our experience is to the broader group.
Thanks to everybody in your dedication, laborious work and fervour — and please be a part of me in congratulating Shari on this new function!
Lee
