Den Bart wachsen lassen?

Per this week's Entertainment Weekly:

Days after winning a BAFTA award for its work creating the Bengal tiger in Life of Pi, the visual effects firm, Rythm & Hues, laid off 250 employees and filed for bankruptcy. The LA based company, which lost $22.5 million last year after a decline in new projects had five big films in its pipeline. Thanks for interim loads of up to $17 million, R&H is moving forward on Universal's RIPD starring Ryan Reynolds (due July 19) and Fox's Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (Aug. 16.) But Warner Bros. pulled its three R& H projects. A production source says 300:Rise of the Empire (Aug. 2) and Seventh Son (Oct. 18) should hit theaters on schedule. Another Warner movie, Black Sky, hasn't set a release date yet.

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/rhythm-hues-bankruptcy-status-update-shows-no-decision-warner-bros-films-79841

Warner Bros. is weighing whether or not to pull two projects from bankrupt visual-effects company Rhythm & Hues Studios, multiple individuals with knowledge of the projects told TheWrap.

The studio is still assessing whether the company will be able to complete work on "300: Rise of an Empire" and "Black Sky," one individual told TheWrap. Despite the uncertainty, both films will be released as scheduled, with the "300" sequel hitting theaters on Aug. 2 and "Black Sky," a disaster film starring "The Hobbit"s' Richard Armitage, due out later this year.

Der Termin rutscht ja ziemlich nahe an TH2 heran.

Work on two additional films from Warner Bros.—300: Rise of an Empire and Black Sky—were in house at Rhythm & Hues as the time of the bankruptcy filing, but Berger said that Warners took those two projects to other vendors “for scheduling reasons.”