At Comic-Con on Friday, July 21, 2006, at 10:30 am in Room 6B, IDT Ent. will present a special panel with the creative force behind the animated adventure, HELLBOY: SWORD OF STORMS. The panel will feature: Mike Mignola HELLBOY creator/creative producer; Tad Stones supervising producer/director; and Guillermo del Toro creative producer/director of 2004 live-action feature film, HELLBOY.
ASIFA-Hollywood is hosting a lineup of events at Comic-Con, including panels and animators animating live at the ASIFA-Hollywood booth 5434.
DreamWorks has lent ASIFA a paperless 2D animation system, where animation all-stars like Eric Goldberg and David Burgess will be animating live at the convention.
ASIFA-Hollywood is also hosting panels and screenings, which include:
Margaret Kerry Voice Acting TrialsThursday, July 2011:00 am-12:30 pmRoom 4
Animation On A Shoestring BudgetThursday, July 20
Portsmouth, New Hampshire's Hatchling Studio's short film THE TOLL is set to premiere July 20, 2006, at the Comic-Con Intl Independent Film Festival in San Diego, California.
Written and directed by Zack Pike, THE TOLL is a computer animated mockumentary featuring a troll that lives under a bridge. As the camera rolls, the troll's comments on work, life and love range from somewhat inappropriate to outrageously delusional, slowly revealing the hilariously tragic figure of a monster in denial.
VIZ Media Llc. (VIZ Media) has a variety of special events, theatrical premieres and speaker panels planned in and around the 2006 Comic-Con International from July 20-23, 2006, at the convention center in San Diego. VIZs booth is #4013.
Fox Atomic, the new youth-focused division of Fox Filmed Ent., announced its 2006-2007 lineup and theatrical release dates for three of their upcoming films. TURISTAS, a recent acquisition, will jump start the studios slate on Dec. 1, 2006, followed by THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2 and 28 WEEKS LATER, both going into production this summer, and being released in theaters in 2007. Also on the production slate for Fox Atomic is a re-imagining of the 1984 classic REVENGE OF THE NERDS and THE COMEBACKS, a sports comedy.
Continuing its strategy to independently develop and produce a new slate of feature films, Marvel Studios has signed director Louis Leterrier (TRANSPORTER 2, UNLEASHED) to helm a new big screen adaptation of THE INCREDIBLE HULK.
Exodus Film Group announced that Christian Slater, Steve Buscemi and John Cleese will lend their voices to Exodus' CG-animated feature comedy, IGOR. The Weinstein Co. (TWC) has an all encompassing distribution deal for the film including North America as well as representing international rights. TWC recently returned from the Cannes Film Festival having sold the film into most foreign territories.
Taylor Jessen reviews five short films One Rat Short by Alex Weil, Smile by Chris Mais, Memorial by Matt Clausen and Jon Gutman, Coffee by Rohitash Rao and Abraham Spear, and Dog Worries by Chris Armstrong. Includes QuickTime movie clips!
Guillermo del Toro is in talks to partner with Don Murphy's Angry Films to bring cult DC Comics DEADMAN to the big screen for Warner Bros. Pictures, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. Del Toro will develop comics-to-film adaptation with Murphy and Susan Montford.
With the 2006 Comic-Con upon us, new announcements of comics-to-film adaptations are flooding out. VARIETY reports that Warner Bros. Pictures is set to bring DC Comics cult favorite DOOM PATROL to the big screen. Akiva Goldsman will produce through his Warners-based Weed Road Pictures. Adam Turner will pen the screenplay.
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced the Emmy Award winners in Outstanding Voice-Over Performance as well as Individual Achievement in Animation for the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. Having won four-times previously for Outstanding Actor on FRAISER, Kelsey Grammer won his fifth Emmy for his voice work on THE SIMPSONS as Sideshow Bob.
These are juried award categories, which have no nominations and will be presented at the 2006 Creative Arts Awards on Saturday, Aug. 19, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
The Art Institute of California
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From Van Eaton Galleries, The Largest Selection of Original Animation Production Art Anywhere In The World
Hollywood, Calif.--Van Eaton Galleries of Sherman Oaks, will be showcasing four of the top artists in their field at their booth, Number 501, in Exhibit Hall A at the San Diego Comic-Con International.
Film Life and HBO will host the American Black Film Festival (ABFF). HBO is the ABFF's founding and title sponsor and Wal-Mart Voices of Color is the presenting sponsor.
The 2006 ABFF program includes independent film screenings, network and studio premieres, panels, workshops and seminars led by accomplished industry professionals. Other highlights include live entertainment, exclusive networking events and the ABFF Awards presentation.
Throughout July, FrameForge previs software will be demoing at various locations in Los Angeles.
On Wednesday, July 19 in West Los Angeles at 5:00 pm, the Media Services/Showbiz Software Store, located at 500 S. Sepulveda Blvd. on the first floor, will demo the software. To RSVP, contact Leimomi Coloretti at Leimomi@media-services.com.
The next demo will be in Hollywood on Wednesday, July 26 at 7:00 pm at the Final Cut Users Group meeting, Barnsdall Art Park located at 4800 Hollywood Blvd. To RSVP, contact Michael Horton at michaelh@lafcpug.org.
Davy Jones, the tentacle toting villain from PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MANS CHEST, has already been hailed as the next great leap in CG character performance, thanks to ILMs new on-set motion capture system, some terrific facial animation and a fine performance from actor Bill Nighy.
Alfred Haber, founder of Alfred Haber Distribution Inc. (AHDI), announced that the company has entered into an agreement for the first time with MTV Networks' Spike TV to serve as the international distributor of SPIKE TV SCREAM AWARDS 2006, the first annual televised event devoted to celebrating the horror, sci-fi and fantasy genres. Haber has secured the rights to worldwide distribution of SPIKE TV SCREAM AWARDS 2006 with the exception of the U.K. and Canada.
Academy Award-nominated Brown Bag Films has just delivered the 52x2 animation series I'M AN ANIMAL for kids 3-6. The series was commissioned by state broadcaster RTE and the Irish Film Board and distributed by Monster Distributes.
All computer how-to books in the In Pictures series are being provided free to the public, as downloadable files.
Anyone who visits In Pictures' website at www.inpics.net/ can download any and all of its 22 different books for free, in Adobe PDF format. In the month since the site was launched, more than 20,000 people have visited it to download free books.
Odd Lot Ent. announced that Frank Miller (SIN CITY) will adapt and direct THE SPIRIT, based on Will Eisners influential comic strip, and will talk about the project for the first time at a panel at this years Comic-Con Intl on Saturday, July 22, 2006.
Canadas only animation-specific industry forum, the Television Animation Conference (TAC), which returns to Ottawa Sept. 20-21, 2006, at the Château Laurier hotel, has announced its 2006 lineup.
ReelTime Rentals Inc., the first broadband network offering a true full screen, DVD quality, "point, click and watch" online television experience, announced today (July 19, 2006) it is launching a specific service for kids of animated and live-action programming.
Nina Jacobson is out and marketing head Oren Aviv is in as president of production, Walt Disney Pictures, as chairman Dick Cook announced the anticipated restructuring and downsizing of The Walt Disney Studios. Aviv will oversee the live-action development and film production slate.
Thus, there will be a strategic shift toward more Disney branded movies aimed at global synergy across all entertainment platforms. The studio will produce and distribute approximately 10 Disney live-action and animated films a year and two to three Touchstone films a year.
Marisa Materna chats with director Richard Linklater on the production of A Scanner Darkly, which utilizes interpolated rotoscoping to bring live-action footage into an animated dream world.
