The initial round of contract talks between Hollywood union animators and producers have broken down after three days, three months before the current deal expires on July 31.
Aspera announced that Fuel VFX has selected and deployed Aspera faspex to manage and transfer their digital assets.
Adobe announced Adobe Creative Cloud, a radical new way of providing tools and services that will change the game for creatives worldwide.
Ensemble comedy “Think Like a Man,” adapted from Steve Harvey's best-selling advice book “Act Like a Lady”, gets bragging rights to being the film to topple Lionsgate's blockbuster “The Hunger Games,” which has now grossed $357 million domestically.
Rich Ross resigned as chairman of Walt Disney Studios on Friday, his surprise exit bookended between the company's recent $200 million loss from “John Carter” and the forthcoming box office and other ancillary earnings from Marvel's “The Avengers.”
In a campaign to change working conditions for VFX artists at Sony Pictures Imageworks, a group calling itself SpiUnion will hold a lunchtime meeting in Culver City on Friday with officials from the Animation Guild and its union parent IATSE.
Buster and its print design unit, BusterINK, have both expanded their teams of senior personnel.
Rosabel Tao has been named Senior Vice President, Communications, for CBS Interactive.
Zoic Studios has promoted rising visual effects talent Levi Ahmu to Creative Director.
NATPE today announced that more than 250 companies from 50 countries are confirmed to attend the inaugural NATPE Budapest content market.
VIZ Media has promoted Alvin Lu to Executive Vice President of Publishing.
Straandlooper Animation announced a slate of new IP to build on the success of the highly acclaimed games trilogy "Hector:Badge of Carnage."
Gruppo Alcuni announced that the hit series "SLASH://" has just been picked up by Al Jazeera Children’s Channel for the MENA region.
LAIKA has optioned “Goblins,” from award-winning children’s writer Philip Reeve, and has signed Mark Gustafson to direct the 3D stop-motion animated film.
Visual effects software developer The Foundry announced a new Beta version of HIERO, which allows users to download and trial the software on the Windows operating system.
Fusion-io announced that the upcoming release of Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium, Adobe’s powerful new generation of post-production software, is optimized to work with Fusion’s new ioFX workstation products.
HP announced that the HP Z1 Workstation is now available worldwide for a starting price of $1,899.
Dora The Explorer, Nickelodeon’s popular children’s show, has a bit more to explore thanks to Calabash Animation who partnered with the network to create the new minute-long show open.
RTL Group announced the appointment of Cécile Frot-Coutaz as the new CEO of FremantleMedia, effective July 1, 2012. Current CEO Tony Cohen will step down to focus on his non-executive work.
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The Television Division at Gravity was responsible for creating the branded design for the newly launched Virgin Produced In-Flight TV Channel.
Charlex showed off the full range of its production and post-production capabilities recently with a lively spot for all Laundry Detergent via Merkley + Partners.
Phoenix recently completed a striking :30 spot promoting China Central Television's (CCTV) Biz Asia America, an hour-long daily global economics news program.
In a move sure to raise eyebrows on the heels of the recent announcement of Disney’s Chinese animation partnership, the studio yesterday announced that they would be co-producing the upcoming Iron Man 3 feature in China.
Beginning yesterday, movie fans can now gain digital access to current DreamWorks Animation titles, including "Shrek," "Madagascar," "Kung Fu Panda" and "How to Train Your Dragon."
