EXCLUSIVE: We remember that Amazon Studios MGM Senior Manufacturing & Construction Government Sandino Moya-Smith was once sadly a part of the cuts made via the streaming/theatrical studio this morning.
Moya-Smith, who was once serious about building and in addition characteristic bodily manufacturing, was once lately running on Doug Liman’s Street Area starring Jake Gyllenhaal as an ex-UFC middleweight fighter who finally ends up running at a rowdy bar within the Florida Keys the place issues don’t seem to be as they appear. Moya-Smith was once additionally overseeing Wrecking Group, the Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa friend motion comedy from Blue Beetle director Ángel Manuel Soto. The chief was once a part of the movie groups overseen via Courtenay Valenti and Julie Rapaport.
Moya-Smith was once employed all through the Jonathan Glickman-run technology of the MGM Movement Image Staff, and persisted to paintings right through the Michael De Luca-Pamela Abdy regime into the studio’s absorption via Amazon. Previous to Amazon’s takeover over MGM, Moya-Smith was once the VP of Manufacturing at MGM.
A few of the initiatives he labored on had been Panorama with Invisible Hand, Pussy Island, and Tomb Raider along with No Time To Die, Appreciate, and Samaritan.
Previous to MGM, he was once the VP of Manufacturing at Limelight Leisure the place he put in combination Palm Springs, which wound up promoting large out of Sundance 2020 to NEON/Hulu in what was once then a pageant $22M file.
Moya-Smith was once a Manufacturing Government at June Photos, the place he labored on movies together with The Florida Mission (2017), E book Membership (2018), Natural world (2018), and Dude (2018).
Previous to that, he labored for filmmaker Gary Ross on such movies as The Starvation Video games (2012). Moya-Smith was once an affiliate manufacturer on Loose State of Jones (2016), and Ocean’s 8 (2018). The exec is an alum of San Francisco State College.
Moya-Smith didn’t go back request for remark via Time limit.
Amazon layoffs these days numbered within the a number of hundred throughout High Video and Amazon Studios.
Resources additionally inform Time limit that amongst the ones let pass these days — many simply didn’t see it coming, and had been totally jarred.