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The Final Days of Technicolor: Inside a Band of Employees’ 72-Hour Race to Launch New Company ARC Creative (EXCLUSIVE)


The final days of Technicolor: Inside a band of employees' 72-hour race to launch new company ARC Creative

A month later, members of The Mill’s U.S. leadership team shared with Variety their personal stories and recollections of the 72-hour period from receiving notice of Technicolor’s downfall to launching ARC Creative amid a chaotic and emotional weekend. “Having spent my entire career at The Mill, my first thought was the staff and their families, from the runners to the MD’s we were all being relieved of our duties and left without any severance so we knew we had to make a plan and act quickly.” On those calls, he also learned of the potential opportunity with Dream Machine. According to von Rahl, ARC Creative was able to hire roughly 100 people full-time while providing freelance work to an additional 50 artists — more than half of The Mill’s U.S. team — and plan to keep their bicoastal operations.

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