Pixelogic has opened six review and audio mixing theaters at its facility in Burbank. With these new theaters, the post-production company has extended its end-to-end services and will benefit its customer base of the major Hollywood studios, broadcasters and digital retailers. Each of the theaters was built from the ground up to include high dynamic range picture and immersive sound technologies. The spaces use Dolby Atmos and DTS: X audio. The main theater is equipped with a Dolby Vision projection system that can screen content in 2K and 4K resolutions at multiple frame rates. Andy Scade, general manager of Pixelogic’s worldwide digital cinema services, said the overall design of the Burbank facility theaters enables rapid and seamless production and supports digital cinema screening, audio recording, audio mixing and other mastering and quality control jobs. “We’re committed to building solutions that are advanced, integrated and efficient such that we can deliver the most value to our clients who are creating and distributing the most in-demand content in the world,” Scade said in a statement. Pixelogic, with additional offices in Culver City, London and Cairo, provides post-production services including digital cinema mastering, home entertainment mastering, subtitling and closed captioning, foreign language dubbing and transcoding and packaging for digital distribution. Hollywood HR Cast & Crew has appointed Chris Williams as senior vice president of human resources. Williams brings 30 years of business-to-business and technology experience to the Burbank accounting and production workflow products provider to the entertainment industry. He has designed compensation and leadership development programs, automated human resources systems and processes and championed employee-centric cultures. Chief Executive Eric Belcher said that Williams’ background was the perfect fit for Cast & Crew. “His innovative approach leading (human resources) for world-class, product-focused companies is particularly relevant, given where we are strategically and operationally as a company,” Belcher said in a statement. Prior to joining Cast & Crew, Williams was senior vice president of human resources for Calabasas-based Ixia Solutions Group of Keysight Technologies Inc. He has held senior human resources positions at Helio Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Move Inc. and Dassault Systems. “Cast & Crew is at a period in its growth and development that is particularly interesting and challenging, and I really am delighted to join the team,” Williams said in a statement. “The company has a rich tradition of client service and attention to company culture and, even as it incorporates product development into its core mix of activities, there is a firm determination to hold on to those characteristics that define and differentiate it.” Chinese Production Cinedigm Corp. has partnered with Mark Yellen Productions and Rosenbloom Entertainment on a multi-season series about literary adventurer Emily “Mickey” Hahn. The Sherman Oaks distributor and producer of entertainment content expects to start filming the series next year and is currently pitching it to showrunners, writers and directors. Hahn was a prolific author who is credited with introducing U.S. audiences to Shanghai and China through articles published in The New Yorker magazine in the 1930s. The series will film on location in Hong Kong and Shanghai, where producers plan to take advantage of that city’s waterfront and its collection of Art Deco architecture. Cinedigm Chief Executive Chris McGurk called Hahn a charismatic and unconventional free spirit. “Now is the perfect time to re-introduce audiences to the vibrant, complex and intriguing world of 1930s Shanghai from a uniquely female perspective,” McGurk said in a statement. Rosenbloom Entertainment in Beverly Hills and Mark Yellen Productions in Los Angeles acquired the rights to Hahn’s story and then approached Cinedigm on production and distribution. The still untitled series will be available to U.S., international and Chinese outlets. Cinedigm is a publicly traded company whose majority owner is Bison Capital Holding Co. Ltd. in Hong Kong. Nuts, Flakes, Fruits Animation studio Gas Money Pictures is getting nutty with its newest series, “Hollywould.” The North Hollywood production house has cast actors Corin Nemec and David Faustino to voice the leads in the series about two nuts that are washed-up screenwriters working on their comeback. They deal, literally, with the fruits, nuts and flakes that inhabit Hollywould. The show’s tag line? “Come for the fruit, stay for the nuts.” The series was previewed at the 71st Cannes Film Festival and is geared toward an adult audience. It is currently in production. Nemec gained fame in the early 1990s as the lead on the Fox teen sitcom “Parker Lewis Can’t Lose,” while Faustino played son Bud on the long-running Fox sitcom “Married … with Children” and has done voiceover work for “The Legend of Korra” on Nickelodeon and “Dragon: Race to the Edge,” streaming on Netflix. Staff Reporter Mark R. Madler can be reached at (818) 316-3126 or [email protected].