Charlotte Huggins
| Charlotte Huggins | |
|---|---|
| Born | Charlotte Clay September 15, 1958 Fayetteville, Arkansas, US |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of California, San Diego |
| 💼 Occupation | Film Producer Theme Park Show Producer Commercials Producer Visual Effects Producer Television Writer |
| 📆 Years active | 1981-present |
| Known for | 3D Films Imax films |
| Notable work | Journey to the Center of the Earth Metallica: Through the Never |
Charlotte Huggins (née Clay, born September 15, 1958). is an American film and theme park attraction producer. She was nominated for a Grammy Award for the 2013 3D concert film Metallica: Through the Never.[1] She produced the hit 2008 feature Journey to the Center of the Earth, a.k.a. Journey 3D. She pioneered the application of special-venue filmmaking technologies such digital 3D and large-format (IMAX) projection to mainstream commercial filmmaking and was among the first producers to embrace digital 3D film in the 2000s.
Early Career
In 1983 Charlotte Clay was hired to run public relations for Stephen J. Cannell Productions.[2] After Stephen Cannell introduced her to veteran television writer-producer Roy Huggins, who was to run the new series Hunter, she left her publicity role to become Huggins' writing assistant. Huggins introduced her to his son, Thomas Huggins. The two became writing partners and were hired as story editors on Hunter. They married in 1990.
Visual Effects and Commercials
When the Writers Guild went on strike in 1988, Huggins became a production coordinator at special effects company Boss Film Studios,[3] working on commercials.[4] In the early 1990s, she produced an acclaimed series of Magnavox commercials starring John Cleese, in which Cleese appears in a set of ever-larger screens, reacting to his larger self with each new appearance.
Special Venue Films and nWave Pictures
Huggins produced a ride film for Taejŏn Expo '93 in Korea for Boss Film Studios, eventually heading up the company's Special Venue division. In that role, she was Visual Effects Producer on the Disney theme park attraction Honey, I Shrunk the Audience!, working with 3D and large-format filmmaking for the first time.
Huggins then joined Sony Pictures Imageworks soon becoming head of the company's Special Venue division. While at she was at SPI, Wings of Courage director Jean-Jacques Annaud engaged her as Visual Effects Producer. She remained on the project through its completion. The film was the first scripted drama made in Imax format.
In 1996, she founded nWave Pictures with Belgian technologist and filmmaker Ben Stassen. Through nWave, Huggins and Stassen began producing IMAX films that were purely entertainment, including Alien Adventure and Haunted Castle. This was a departure from traditional IMAX films, which had been educational or documentary shorts, and blazed the trail for IMAX's later expansion to multiplexes and Hollywood releases.
nWave also pushed to advance filmmaking techniques, especially for 3D filmmaking. Variety's review of nWave's 1999 Encounter in the Third Dimension, which Huggins produced, noted "As the first independent film company to produce and distribute a large-format 3-D film, nWave has effectively raised the bar on what is possible in this type of pic, having entered a field previously dominated by Imax and Sony Pictures Classics."[5]
Huggins was a producer on Stassen's 3D animated feature film Fly Me to the Moon. nWave was the production company. While Fly Me to the Moon was in development, Huggins also developed the live-action 3D feature Journey to the Center of the Earth with Walden Media and New Line Cinema. Huggins parted ways with nWave during the making of Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Theatrical Films
In 2008, Huggins produced two of the first features to get wide release in digital 3D: Journey to the Center of the Earth, from New Line Cinema, directed by Eric Brevig; and Fly Me to the Moon, from Summit Entertainment and Stassen. Both were conceived as 3D-only releases.[6] Huggins was also a producer on Journey to the Center of the Earth sequel, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, based on another Verne novel. A second sequel based on Verne's From the Earth to the Moon, was announced with Huggins attached, but has never gone into production.
In 2011, Huggins was approached by Cliff Burnstein, the manager of thrash metal band Metallica, about producing a 3D music film starring the band.[7] The resulting film, Metallica: Through the Never, combines concert footage with a narrative story.[8][9] It was released in 2013 in both Imax 3D and Digital 3D. Metallica: Through the Never was nominated for a Grammy Award as Best Music Film, and was generally well-received by critics (earning a 61 score on Metacritic[10]) but was not a box office success.
Huggins produced a 2019 Imax film, Back From the Brink, on efforts to save endangered species, with the Russo brothers and the Huayi Brothers as Executive Producers.
Theme Park Attractions and Miziker Entertainment
In 2016, Huggins became a partner in, and President and Executive Producer of, Miziker Entertainment (a then 30-year-old firm that makes special venue and theme park shows) along with Ryan Miziker, son of company founder Ron Miziker. In that role she supervises both animation and live productions. In 2018, Huggins and Ryan Miziker received a Themed Entertainment Assn. Award[11] for "Outstanding Achievement - Live Show" for the "Journey of Lights" nighttime parade attraction created for Chimelong Ocean Kingdom theme park in Zhuhai, China.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Distributor | Involvement | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | A Minor Miracle | Entertainment Enterprises | Production Assistant Extras Coordinator |
as Charlotte Sawyer |
| 1993 | Journey to Technopia (short) | N/A | Producer | as Charlotte Clay Huggins Attraction Film for Taejon World Expo |
| 1994 | Honey, I Shrunk the Audience! | Walt Disney Imagineering | Visual Effects Producer | 3D Attraction film Disneyland & DisneyWorld |
| 1995 | Wings of Courage | Sony Pictures Classics | Visual Effects Producer | as Charlotte Clay Huggins
Imax 3Dfirst dramatic film shot in Imax format |
| 1995 | Virtuosity | Paramount Pictures | Visual Effects Producer: SPI | |
| 1996 | Ahead of Time | N/A | Visual Effects Producer | 3D Attraction film for LG Headquarters, South Korea |
| 1996 | Special Effects: Anything Can Happen | Imax | Executive Producer - Kong Sequence | as Charlotte Clay Huggins
Imax |
| 1997 | Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun | Sony Pictures Classics | Producer | as Charlotte Clay Huggins Live Action/Animation Imax 3D |
| 1997 | Dolphins: The Ride | Imax Ride Films | Producer | Ride Film |
| 1999 | Encounter in the Third Dimension | nWave Pictures | Visual Effects Producer | as Charlotte Clay Huggins Live Action/Animation Imax 3D |
| 1999 | Alien Adventure | nWave Pictures | Producer | as Charlotte Clay Huggins
Imax 3D |
| 2000 | Superstition | nWave Pictures | Producer | 3D Ride Film |
| 2000 | Virtual Time Machine | nWave Pictures | Producer | Digital Animation 3D Ride Film |
| 2001 | Haunted Castle | nWave Pictures | Visual Effects Producer | as Charlotte Clay Huggins
Imax 3D |
| 2002 | SOS Planet | nWave Pictures | Producer | as Charlotte Clay Huggins
Imax 3D |
| 2003 | Misadventures in 3-D | nWave Pictures | Producer | Imax 3D
Live Action/Animation Imax 3D |
| 2004 | Panda Vision | nWave Pictures | Producer | Digital Animation Multi-platform 3D Attraction Film |
| 2005 | Time Line | Fedex Forum | Producer | Interactive Digital 3-screen |
| 2005 | Wild Safari 3D | nWave Pictures | Producer | Imax 3D
Documentary |
| 2008 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Warner Bros. | Producer | Digital 3D
Live-action feature |
| 2008 | Fly Me to the Moon | Summit Entertainment | Producer | Digital 3D
CG animated feature |
| 2009 | Flying Over America | OCT | Producer | Digital Dome Experience |
| 2010 | Panasonic Blue Man Group 3D Music Video | Panasonic | Producer | Live-action Music Video
3D |
| 2010 | Flight of the Dragon | OCT | Producer | Digital 3D
Documentary/Fantasy short Nominated for Visual Effects Society Award: Best Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project[12] |
| 2012 | Journey 2: The Mysterious Island | New Line Cinema | Producer | Digital 3D |
| 2015 | Power of Nature | Wanda Group | Producer | Wanda Wuhan Movie Theme Park 3D Dome film |
| 2015 | Metallica: Through the Never | Picturehouse | Producer | Imax 3D Digital 3D Nominated for Grammy Award: Best Music Film |
| 2017 | The Nightmare Clock (short) | N/A | Executive Producer | Special Venue film for Chimelong Paradise |
| 2019 | Back From the Brink | Cosmic Picture | Producer | Imax 3D
Documentary |
References
- ↑ "Artist: Charlotte Huggins". grammy.com. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- ↑ "(no headline)". Daily Variety. December 7, 1983. p. 5.(subscription required)
- ↑ (staff writer), Edward (February 9, 2012). "Leaping From the Screen". UCSD Guardian. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ↑ Bass, Charlie (April 1, 2008). "Charlotte Huggins". Vegas Talk Radio. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ↑ Lowenstein, Lael (February 26, 1999). "Film Review: Encounter in the Third Dimension". Daily Variety. p. 82. Retrieved September 17, 2019.{subscription required}
- ↑ Bass, Charlie (April 1, 2008). "Charlotte Huggins". Vegas Talk Radio. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ↑ Bishop, Bryan (October 3, 2013). "Heavy metal spectacle: the making of 'Metallica Through the Never'". The Verge. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ↑ Radish, Christina (July 24, 2013). "Lars Ulrich, Robert Trujillo and Producer Charlotte Huggins Talk METALLICA THROUGH THE NEVER, 3D, Finding the Right Director, and More at Comic-Con". Collider. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ↑ Hasty, Katie (July 22, 2013). "Interview with 'Metallica' movie director Nimrod Antal and producer Charlotte Huggins". Uproxx.com. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ↑ "Metallica: Through the Never". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ↑ "THEA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT - LIVE SHOW". Themed Entertainment Association. Retrieved September 18, 2019. Unknown parameter
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