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NVIDIA GPUs Power All 2010 Best Visual Effects Academy Award Nominees

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Each of the films nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects in this year's competition depended on NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics to power their stunning special effects.

Avatar Wins Big at VES Awards

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The Visual Effects Society announced the winners of the 8th Annual VES Awards tonight at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

Cage & Reynolds Go Crood

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DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) announced today that Academy-Award® winning actor Nicolas Cage and Ryan Reynolds will both star in its pre-historic themed 3D CG animated comedy adventure "The Croods."

Academy To Showcase Oscar Animated Features

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The Academy’s 2nd annual Animated Feature Symposium celebrates the work of the 2009 Oscar nominees in the Animated Feature Film category.

Reepicheep Reveals for Dawn Treader

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NarniaWeb.com has posted a video from a recent interview with David Frost that reveals the actor who will be voicing Reepicheep in THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER.

Little Airplane's Small Potatoes Premieres At BAMkids Fest

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First you can see them on the big screen and then you can download the iPhone ebook.

GenArts & The Foundry Collaborate to Enhance Nuke

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GenArts Inc. has expanded its visual effects software portfolio (Sapphire, Monsters, Raptors and wondertouch) by acquiring The Foundry's Tinder and Tinderbox plug-ins, and will also collaborate closely to expand the capabilities of the Nuke platform.

Madagascar Writer Has Holy Night

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VARIETY reports that Spain-based Dygra Films has hired MADAGASCAR scribe Billy Frolick to pen HOLY NIGHT!, an English-language 3-D animated Christmas flick.

StudioCanal & NWave Ink Development Deal

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StudioCanal and NWave have signed an extensive development, co-funding and global distribution agreement, reports VARIETY.

Up Wins ACE Award

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This weekend the Editor's Guild handed out its ACE awards.