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.

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.

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."

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

In the latest battle between studios and theaters in the theater-to-DVD windows war, Walt Disney has requested a shortening of a month for the home entertainment release of ALICE IN WONDERLAND, reports VARIETY.

James Cameron told AWN that AVATAR will be released on Blu-ray and DVD toward the end of April or May from Fox Home Ent.

UGO reports that Columbia Pictures has hired comic legend Jonathan Winters to voice Papa Smurf in their live-action/CG animated THE SMURFS.

Walt Disney Studios Intl. Prods. has hired Jason Reed as its new EVP and GM, reports VARIETY.

DreamWorks is putting out a nationwide casting call for the Hugh Jackman's son in REAL STEEL, VARIETY reports.

Disney has hired Jessie Nelson (FRED CLAUS) to write a sequel to ENCHANTED, reports VARIETY.

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch told analysts during a quarterly earnings call that he is in "very early talks" with director James Cameron to do an AVATAR sequel, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

Warner Bros. Pictures has confirmed a series of upcoming 3-D releases.

VARIETY is reporting that Michael Bay's next project, TRANSFORMERS 3, might be getting the 3-D treatment at Paramount with help from Industrial Light & Magic.

Lionsgate announced that it will partner with Crest Animation Studios to co-produce NORM OF THE NORTH, a stereoscopic 3-D animated family feature, according to COMINGSOON.NET.