Sony Footage Imageworks EVP Michelle Grady Promoted to President – Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has discovered that Michelle Grady has been upped to President of Sony Pictures Imageworks. She was beforehand, EVP Sony Footage Imageworks.
Grady’s promotion comes within the wake of Sony Footage Imageworks work on the blockbuster hit, Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse which grossed $690M. Along with the primary film, which Sony Footage Imageworks labored on, the Oscar profitable 2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the franchise counts $1.07 billion.
Throughout Grady’s tenure at Sony Footage Imageworks, the division has labored on the Oscar nominated, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, The Sea Beast, Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 3, Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity, Resort Transylvania: Transformania, amongst many others.
Grady has spent over 20 years within the VFX and post-production business in Vancouver, Canada. She joined Imageworks from the visible results studio MPC, the place she served as head of movie, managing tasks together with Suicide Squad, Batman v. Superman: Daybreak of Justice, Godzilla, Maleficent and the Oscar profitable Lifetime of Pi.
Previous to MPC, Grady was VP and common supervisor at Technicolor, overseeing a 35mm movie laboratory, digital submit manufacturing and VFX divisions. She is Chair of the Animation & VFX Alliance of BC, Vice Chair of the Movement Image Manufacturing Trade Affiliation of BC (MPPIA), and Govt Committee Member of Inventive BC.
Beneath is the e-mail to employees from Sony Footage Leisure Movement Image Group Chairman and CEO, Tom Rothman about Grady:
Pricey colleagues,
I’m delighted to share that Michelle Grady has been promoted to President of Sony Footage Imageworks.
Beneath Michelle’s management for the final seven years, Imageworks has change into the most modern and ground-breaking visible results and animation facility on this planet, famend for its work on first of their sort CG options and enormous scale live-action VFX tasks. Michelle and her gifted crew contributed significantly to the outstanding success of Sony Footage Animation’s visually spectacular Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse, which has gained the hearts of critics and audiences around the globe and earned almost $690 million globally.
With the studio’s headquarters in Vancouver, an workplace in Culver Metropolis, and its current enlargement into Montreal in addition to a rising repertoire of movies – together with Academy Award profitable movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the Academy Award nominated movies The Mitchells vs. the Machines and The Sea Beast, and Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 3 – Michelle is effectively positioned to additional Imageworks’ exceptional development and proceed to interrupt new floor.
Please be part of me in congratulating Michelle.
Tom
