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Speaker 1: So a couple of local winds in Hollywood yesterday. If

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Speaker 1: you didn't catch up with the Oscars costume designer Kate Hawley,

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Speaker 1: she won for her work in Frankenstein. Water FX got

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Speaker 1: Best Visual Effects for their work on Avatar. Matt Haikin

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Speaker 1: is the water head of visual effects and is with us.

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Speaker 1: Matt morning.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, good morning, Mane.

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Speaker 1: You're not in Hollywood, I take it.

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Speaker 2: I am. I am in Los Angeles. I was lucky

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Speaker 2: enough to be at the ceremony last night.

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Speaker 1: It looked like a boy you'd still look because I

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Speaker 1: was going to ask does winning ever get old? And

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Speaker 1: looking at your reaction doesn't look like it get old.

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Speaker 1: Look looks like you still enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, It's very special. Signifies a huge level of

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Speaker 2: work that the crew at when they did over twelve

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Speaker 2: hundred people at where To worked on Avatar, Fire and

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Speaker 2: Ash and this acknowledgement of all their hard work and creativity.

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Speaker 1: How did you go out last night? Did you go

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Speaker 1: to mister Chowles? What'd you do?

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Speaker 2: We certainly celebrated this, you know, we think that the

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Speaker 2: work was the best work that has ever been done

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Speaker 2: in visual effects, but you never know how it's going

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Speaker 2: to go on to night. So we were very pleased

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Speaker 2: when the award was announced, and we made sure that

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Speaker 2: we celebrated appropriately afterwards. I'm sorry if I sound sounds

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Speaker 2: slightly croaky this morning. I'm sorry. I'm a little bit dusty.

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Speaker 1: Do not apologize for celebrations. It comes at an interesting time,

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Speaker 1: doesn't it. Get I mean, you would have heard James

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Speaker 1: Cameron's comments about the movie at the time of release

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Speaker 1: and his concerns over Warner Brothers and Netflix and the

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Speaker 1: future of movies, et cetera, et cetera. What's your vibe

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Speaker 1: over the big budget blockbuster that you've been involved in.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's it's an interesting time in our industry. We

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Speaker 2: definitely have noticed since the peaks of the late teens,

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Speaker 2: post COVID cinema tendances have dropped off. Studios are making

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Speaker 2: fewer films. The proposed merger between Paramounts Guide out of

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Speaker 2: Warner Brothers Discovery is it's going to be challenging for us.

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Speaker 2: The potentially less feature film is going to be made.

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Speaker 2: Our approach at Weather Effects is just to keep doing

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Speaker 2: the best quality work in the industry in the world,

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Speaker 2: and we think that that will continue to attract these

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Speaker 2: top projects to the facility.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic, Well, congratulations again and I'm glad you had a

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Speaker 1: good celebration. And fly well Mattake and who is the

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Speaker 1: weather Efics head of visual effects from Hollywood this morning.

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