James McAvoy (WANTED) has inked a deal with 20th Century Fox to play Charles "Professor X" Xavier in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, reports ComingSoon.net.

During Time Warner's investor day, Warner chairman and CEO Barry Meyer revealed the studio's upcoming release dates, as well as the progress of films based on DC Comics characters, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

HEAT VISION reports that the start of production on Bryan Singer's JACK THE GIANT KILLER has been delayed from this summer to February 2011.

Deadline.com reports that Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form have been hired to produce a new TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES feature for Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon.

Chris Columbus' 1492 Pictures and Korea-based CJ Entertainment are developing three supernatural family films, including an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's THE GRAVEYARD BOOK, reports VARIETY.

Sam Fisher is a military grade ninja in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction. Hit the jump to see the review.

Michael Emerson, who played Ben on LOST, revealed details of the LOST Complete Season DVD and Blu-ray release on ATTACK OF THE SHOW.

MAXON Computer , a leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of an updated CINEMA 4D exchange plugin for Adobe After Effects CS5.

Mike Newell's film is the best movie adapted from a video game made thus far. It also happens to be the first good movie based on a video game. But the bar was set pretty low so Prince Dastan could easily jump over it with the help of Mr. Spectacle producer Jerry Bruckheimer. While I'll probably need the sands of time to travel back and remember the film by the end of the summer, the journey while I was sitting in the theater was a nice trip.

Find out how Look Effects fared in completing the trippy series.

DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) today announced that Gary Oldman, Michelle Yeoh, Jean Claude Van Damme and Victor Garber will join Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross and James Hong in its upcoming film, "Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom," which is now scheduled to be released on May 27, 2011 (Memorial Day weekend). The previously announced release date was June 3, 2011.

The power of HP technology and the creativity of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) fuse once again as the studio’s final chapter to the Shrek film series, “Shrek Forever After,” hits theatres Friday in 3-D.

BOXX Technologies, the leading authority on dedicated rendering and innovator in high-performance computing systems for visual effects, post production, animation, product design, and advanced visualization, today introduced renderPRO, the industry’s first personal, dedicated rendering module.

Bryan Hoff evaluates a major Intel core increase for the new HP Z800.

The trailer for Lionsgate's ALPHA AND OMEGA has hit AWNtv.

Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films have paid low-seven-figures against $3.5 million to Terry Rossio and Bill Marsilii for their pitch LIGHTSPEED, reports VARIETY.

New Line and Walden Media have decided to moved ahead on JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH 2 without director Eric Brevig and star Brendan Fraser, reports Deadline.com.

Jim Morris, general manager and EVP of production at Pixar Animation Studios, will give one of the keynote presentations at SIGGRAPH 2010, the 37th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.

IMAX Corporation (Nasdaq:IMAX) (TSX:IMX) and DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq:DWA) today announced opening weekend results for Shrek Forever After, the final chapter in the Shrek film series.

The Previzion system allows the user to pre-composite on set thereby greatly reducing the labor required for post production compositing. This will prove a great asset to editors as they will have clean, possibly final versions of green screen shots that they can rely upon while cutting the film.