Walt Disney Animation Studios has licensed Nuke, the Sci-Tech Award-winning compositing technology from leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry, and will utilize it in the production of its feature projects, it was announced today by Bill Collis, CEO, The Foundry.

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced that Troublemaker Studios utilized Six-Core AMD Opteron processors and ATI FirePro graphics accelerators to create animations and special effects for the new film “Predators”, now in theaters.

Caleb Landry Jones and Nicholas Hoult have been cast in 20th Century Fox's X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, reports VARIETY.

Imira Entertainment, Spain’s leading production and distribution company specialising in youth programming, has brokered a deal with RTP for HIT Entertainment’s internationally popular series Angelina Ballerina – The Next Steps.

ShockTillYouDrop.com is reporting that Lionsgate has renamed SAW VII.

eDIT 13. Filmmaker's Festival will take place September 26th to 28th 2010 in Frankfurt am Main.

The governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences finalized the rules for the 83rd Academy Awards at its most recent meeting (June 22).

ATONEMENT director Joe Wright has joined Working Title's adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's THE LITTLE MERMAID, reports VARIETY.

Twentieth Century Fox and James Cameron today announced that AVATAR: SPECIAL EDITION will be released in theaters August 27, in a limited engagement and exclusively in Digital 3D and IMAX 3D.

HIT Entertainment, a leading provider of quality children's entertainment, and Discovery Kids, the pioneer preschool channel in Latin America, debuted new episodes of Thomas & Friends (Thomas y sus amigos/ Thomas e seus amigos), presented for the first time in CG animation and with individual character voices, as well as the new CG animated series, Angelina Ballerina The Next Steps (Angelina Ballerina, Los Siguientes Pasos/Angelina Ballerina, Os Seguintes Passos) in Latin America.