Surprising theater-goers who went to see ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN with a teaser trailer, Twentieth Century Fox has announced details about the highly-anticipated SIMPSONS MOVIE.
The film will open worldwide in theaters on July 27, 2007. David Silverman, THE SIMPSONS supervising animation director, who also co-helmed Pixars MONSTERS, INC., is directing.
Each month, ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE focuses its attention on a particular theme.
Slime and stars were featured at the 19th Annual Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards, televised live from the UCLA campus on Saturday night. Will Smith, Lindsay Lohan, Chris Rock, Kelly Clarkson, Drake Bell, Jamie Lynn Spears, Lance Armstrong, Jesse McCartney, Green Day, SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, HARRY POTTER were among those who captured the coveted Kids' Choice Blimp Award.
Test your skills and challenge your brain with AWN's Animation Trivia Quiz.
Eovia Corp., developer and publisher of leading 3D software tools, released Eovia Carrara 5.1, a free update to its complete 3D solution. Carrara 5.1 delivers enhanced stability and an array of compelling new capabilities.
This week in AWN's Forums, the members are abuzz with the release of THE SIMPSONS MOVIE teaser trailer. In more SIMPSONS debate, theres a poll asking whether the Simpsons kids should grow up. A member needs soft shading help. A CG fan is looking for the name of an elusive CG film. A member from Europe is curious about the 2D prospects in the U.S. Theres also a thread collecting the worlds funniest cartoon quotes.
KING KONG provided blockbuster numbers in its first six days in release, selling more than 6.5 million DVDs, generating $100 million in consumer spending, the largest six-day performance in Universal Studios history.
KING KONG ranks as the studio's fourth-highest grossing film in the studio's 94-year history. To date, the film has amassed approximately $550 million in ticket sales worldwide, following on the heels of JURASSIC PARK, E.T. and THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK.
Sony Pictures Home Ent. (SPHE) will launch its digital sell-through business on April 3. Partnering with Movielink and CinemaNow, the service will allow broadband Internet users in the U.S. the opportunity to download-to-own for the very first time a wide range of entertainment content from the SPHE and MGM collective libraries.
Fox/Blue Skys ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN, hailed as the first blockbuster of 2006, opened with a very hot $68M in its opening bow for the weekend ended April 2, 2006.
Animation veteran Thom Richardson travels to the inaugural AFF event, uncovering the truth about the controversy that has swirled around the new traveling festival.
Independent Exposure is based in San Francisco and Houston. The program, held continuously since 1996, has presented the short moving image works of more than 1,500 artists from all over the world. Beyond the San Francisco and Houston screenings, Independent Exposure tours many worldwide venues
Headed by: Ernest Adams / Guest Speaker: Jessica Mulligan / March 31 2006 - April 06 2006, Academy for TV and Film, Munich
The Web Marketing Association announces the launch of its fourth annual Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Awards. The IAC Awards is the first and only industry-based advertising award competition dedicated exclusively to online advertising. The competition website is located at www.iacaward.org and the deadline for entry is Jan. 31, 2006.
2005 Best of Show Awards were awarded in each of the online medium categories. Last year's winners include: EVB, Inc., TMX Communications, she communications (Hong Kong), Power Design, Organic, Inc., i33 Communications, and Agency.com.
Alain Bielik wraps himself around the CG creatures and other creepy vfx that inhabit Slither.
There was no meltdown at Blue Sky Studios when it came to creating all-new fur and water technology for its Ice Age sequel. Bill Desowitz gets the scoop from first-time director Carlos Saldanha and others. Includes a QuickTime clip!
Legendary stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen has wowed film audiences for generations, bringing chess-playing apes, fighting skeletons and legions of fantastic creatures to life using his self-styled
The Crossroads Film Society presents the 7th annual Crossroads Film Festival with entries from Mississippi and around the world. More than 50 films, which range from two minutes to two hours, will be shown at Parkway Place Regal Cinema in Flowood, Mississippi.
SUPERMAN RETURNS will become the first live-action Hollywood feature to be converted from 2D to IMAX 3-D. IMAX Corp. will use its proprietary 2D to 3-D conversion technology to convert approximately 20 minutes of the film into An IMAX 3-D Experience.
"Releasing select sequences of SUPERMAN RETURNS in IMAX 3-D marks a groundbreaking moment in movies," said Dan Fellman, president of Domestic Distribution at Warner Bros. Pictures. "This film is going to give fans an opportunity to be immersed in a major live-action motion picture like never before."
Apple is now shipping the first Universal version of its Final Cut Studio video production suite that delivers up to 2.5x the performance when running on a MacBook Pro notebook computer. Final Cut Studio features state-of-the-art tools that complement Final Cut Pro 5, including Soundtrack Pro, a new audio editing and sound design application that makes video projects sound as good as they look; Motion 2, the first realtime motion graphics application with GPU accelerated 32-bit float rendering; and DVD Studio Pro 4 for professional DVD authoring.
NVIDIA Corp. announced a new line of NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics solutions. This new lineup includes:
* The NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M: the company's first professional GPU designed specifically for thin and light mobile workstations.* The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M: offering outstanding application performance and the industry's highest image precision and quality.* The NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M: bringing an industry best 512MB of graphics memory for customers looking for the highest performance.
Vicon has released Vicon iQ 2.5, the most recent installment of the company's industry-leading Vicon iQ software. Vicon iQ has consistently streamlined and automated motion capture workflows by providing intuitive controls and a user interface that simplifies the tasks associated with recording and managing even the most complex motion capture data.
With its year anniversary upon us, PSPs proprietary Universal Media Disc may soon be a home entertainment avenue of the past, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. Universal Studios Home Ent., Paramount Pictures Home Ent. and Image Ent. have stopped releasing titles on the UMD format while retailers are shrinking the amount of shelf space they've been devoting to UMD movies. Rumors are abuzz that Wal-Mart will soon discontinue the sale of UMDs completely. Moreover, Buena Vista Home Ent. and 20th Century Fox Home Ent. have significantly pulled back on their UMD release schedules.
Buena Vista Home Ent.'s CHICKEN LITTLE has clucked up enough cash to secure the top spot on the First Alert DVD sales chart for the week ending March 26, 2006. VideoScan data reports that CHICKEN LITTLE, which grossed more than $135 million in theaters, outsold second-ranked debut DREAMER: INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY, from DreamWorks, by a nearly 4-to-1 margin. Paramount's seventh-season set of Comedy Central's SOUTH PARK debuted at #9. In rental stores, Chicken Little arrived ay #7, with $3.9 million.
Cartoon Network U.K. is producing SKATOONY, the worlds first animated game show with real life kid contestants. It is scheduled to premiere in October 2006.
Hosted by animated characters Chudd Chudders and The Earl, the 13x30 series is animated entirely in-house by the Cartoon Network team at its London headquarters. Each week real-life and cartoon contestants will play each other through three rounds of challenges, with the final contestant taking everything in an against-the-clock challenge.
Completing its first full year as an individually rated network, the late-night service announced the new slate of programming on deck for 2006 at the Adult Swim Upfront event in New York. New series for the year are DEATH CLOCK METALOCALYPSE, FRISKY DINGO, ASSY MCGEE, SAUL OF THE MOLE MEN and LUCY, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DEVIL.
