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Autodesk Headline News

Autodesk Helps Heat Up Summer VFX

Digital artists around the world relied on Autodesk's media and entertainment solutions for summer vfx thrills ranging from TRANSFORMERS to FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER to SURF'S UP to PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END to PENELOPE, among others.

Headline News

Ice Cube Gunning for 10 Graphic Novel Adaptation

Ice Cube's CubeVision is in talks to produce an adaptation of the graphic novel 10 for Dimension, VARIETY reports. Cube plans to produce with partner Matt Alvarez alongside Circle of Confusion's David Alpert and Rick Jacobs. The ARE WE THERE YET? star also hopes to play the lead. Gustin Nash and Jesse Cale adapted the script.

Headline News

Pathe, BBC Open New Live-Action Jungle Book

Pathe and the BBC have teamed on a new live-action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's classic THE JUNGLE BOOK, reports VARIETY. BBC documentary filmmaker John Downer (PRIDE) will helm the $50 million production, which will be based on a screenplay by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle. 102 DALMATIANS producer Michelle Fox will produce for Downer's shingle.

Watch Headline News

Unrated Day Watch to Explode from Fox on DVD

DAY WATCH, the even more successful Russian sequel to NIGHT WATCH, debuts Oct. 30 on DVD in an unrated version (Fox Home Ent., $27.98). Set in a world where an age-old truce between the conflicted dark ones and light ones hangs in the balance among the unsuspecting humans, the action-packed fantasy thriller is once again directed by Timur Bekmambetov, based on the best-selling novels by Sergei Luyanenko.

Headline News

See What You Missed at SIGGRAPH in fxguidetv & AWN's Netcast

If you didn't attend the event or missed some aspect, then you have to check out fxguidetv and Animation World Network's exclusive coverage of SIGGRAPH 2007 via the newly launched AWN Media Center (media.awn.com). The eight video netcasts feature artist interviews, industry news and coverage of the major events happening at the premiere conference covering computer graphics and interactive techniques.

Home Headline News

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie Invades DVD

Adult Swim and Warner Home Video now offer AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE COLON MOVIE FILM FOR THEATERS FOR DVD on Aug. 14, 2007 ($29.98). Written and directed by AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE's Matt Maiellaro and David Willis, the movie reveals the mysterious origins of Meatwad, Frylock and Master Shake. When an immortal piece of exercise equipment threatens the balance of galactic peace, it is up to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force to run away from it. Peril escalates when the Plutonians team up with the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past to strive for ultimate control of the sinister, deadly device.

Licensing Headline News

DECODE Enlists Rocket Licensing For Franny's Feet

Leading kids and family entertainment specialist DECODE Ent. has signed up Rocket Licensing as the U.K. licensing agent for its hit preschool property FRANNY'S FEET, the adventures of a little girl with magical shoes. The company has already completed a deal for costume characters with Rainbow Prods. for Europe.

Pitch Events

TV Hit Makers Summit

By Guest (not verified) | Monday, August 13, 2007 at 11:00am
Begins: August 13, 2007

Sell your TV show faster.

One-on-one training to help you to pitch and sell your TV shows. 3 day summit of development, pitch practice and more.

Catered event held at Universal Studios Orlando.

Special guests include network executives, producers and screenwriters.

Headline News

Rush Hour 3 Beats Bourne

New Line's RUSH HOUR 3 (with vfx from ILM, Halon Ent. and Element FX, among others) debuted with a box office rush of $49.1M for the weekend period ended Aug. 12. Meanwhile, Universal's record breaking THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM (with vfx from The Senate, Lip Sync Post and Snow Business) finished second with $32.8M after a 51% drop off, with a two-week cume of $131.5M. Fox's THE SIMPSONS MOVIE followed in third place with $11.2M, good enough for a $152.3M tally.

Headline News

NVIDIA Introduces Quadro Plex VCS Model S4

NVIDIA will offer in the fourth quarter the Quadro Plex Visual Computing System (VCS) Model S4, a graphics server featuring a record number of GPUs in a standard 1U server form factor. The new server contains more Quadro graphics processing power in less space than has ever been achieved before, enabling interactive visualization of extremely large-scale data sets by multiple users with a minimal footprint.

Headline News

SIGGRAPH 2008 to Evolve in Los Angeles

After attracting 24,043 to San Diego last week for SIGGRAPH 2007, the 34th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, the 2008 edition will institute fundamental conference changes to bring attendees a synergistic, educational experience resulting from a content selection process that affords focus on timely industry themes rather than strictly on presentation type. The conference changes will be enacted in 2008 and are also anticipated to further foster more fluid cross-program collaboration.

Events

Afro Samurai Screening

By Guest (not verified) | Sunday, August 12, 2007 at 11:00am
Begins: August 12, 2007

Aero Theater is hosting a 7:30 pm Los Angeles premiere screening of AFRO SAMURAI, (2006, Takashi OKazaki, Gonzo/Samurai Project/FUNimation, 125 min (5 episodes)). This samurai story, with a revolutionary animation style and hip-hop flavor, tells the tale of a black swordsman set in a futuristic, yet feudal, Japan who is on a mission to avenge the wrongful death of his father. Samuel L. Jackson voices the title role of "Afro," a mysterious warrior who travels a solitary path encountering a myriad of enemies, friends and challenges beyond imagination.

Blogs

THE DEVILS (1971) (BOMB)

This pseudo-critique of the Catholic church has as much depth as a piece of artistic social rebellion as someone running into a church and screaming obscenities at the top of their lungs when no one else is around. Possibly amusing to the perpetrator, but no one else. Director Ken Russell strings together every possible image and/or action that could offend a devotee without any real substance behind it. Further diluting this "expose" is the setting of 17th Century France when it is clear the modern church is its target, yet never clearly laying out what point, if any, it wants to make about the modern church. This self-indulgent mess will most certainly ruffle the feathers of the more prudish viewer, however everyone else will be laughing their pants off at the absurdity of it all.

Festival Events

MediaBridge Youth Film Festival 2007

By Guest (not verified) | Saturday, August 11, 2007 at 11:00am
Begins: August 11, 2007

MediaBridge Youth Fest is a two-day film festival curated by 14 youth ambassadors from China, Palestine, the U.K., Serbia, Slovenia, India, Mexico and Puerto Rico and 11 Illinois teens. The international short films and feature were selected by MediaBridge participants from a pool of nearly 200 films through a process of dynamic small-group debates.

Events

Gundam Expo Tokyo 2007

By Guest (not verified) | Saturday, August 11, 2007 at 11:00am
Begins: August 11, 2007

The Sotsu Agency and the Sunrise Animation Company are hosting Gundam Expo Tokyo 2007 at Tokyo's Ikebukuro Sunshine City complex. The free event will feature previews of the upcoming MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 00 television series as well as displays of the newest plastic models, figures, games and other items. The event will also FEATURE BB WARRIORS: ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS, the newest SD Gundam line.

World Events

Journey To The Center Of The Earth/ World Without End Double Feature

By Guest (not verified) | Friday, August 10, 2007 at 11:00am
Begins: August 10, 2007

The Egyptian Theater is hosting a 7:30 pm JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH/ WORLD WITHOUT END double feature. First up is a new 35mm print of JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, (1959, 20th Century Fox, 132 min.), directed by Henry Levin. Along with Richard Fleischer's 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, this is one of the finest versions of a Jules Verne novel ever filmed, with James Mason beautifully cast as an obsessive Scottish geology professor who descends into the depths of the Earth with eager student Pat Boone, alluring widow Arlene Dahl, and sinister nemesis Thayer David.

Film Events

Family Friendly Film Festival 2007

By Guest (not verified) | Friday, August 10, 2007 at 11:00am
Begins: August 10, 2007

The Family Friendly Film Festival is back and bigger than ever! After its phenomenally successful launch last year, the Family Friendly Film Festival will return for ten jam-packed days of screenings, workshops and events to entertain all the family

A fantastic selection of short and feature length films from across the globe will be screened at family friendly venues across Greater Manchester, including The Manchester Museum, The Zion Arts Centre, The Imperial War Museum North, The Opera House, The Science and Industry Museum, Stockport Plaza and the Odeon.

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