Even though TRON LEGACY’s release still nine months away, Walt Disney Pictures has set writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz onto a sequel, according to HEAT VISION.

Kevin Dunn and Julie White, who have played Ron and Judy Witwicky, respectively, in the TRANSFORMERS franchise, have signed on to the third installment, reports VARIETY.

In an effort to inspire and equip students to create film projects that exceed their goals, Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, sponsored the Visual Effects Society (VES) Second annual award for "Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project".

The good news is that THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE MOTION PICTURE TRILOGY is finally available on Blu-ray today (4/6/10) from Warner Home Video/New Line, showing off Weta Digital's Oscar-winning VFX along with all of the other brilliant technical attributes (http://www.awn.com/articles/digital-truth-about-ithe-lord-ringsi-trilogy).

Technicolor (Euronext Paris 18453; NYSE: TCH) today announced that Nickelodeon, part of MTV Networks, a division of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: KDE), has awarded Technicolor's Bangalore-based animation studio, Paprikaas, the Kung Fu Panda TV series, which will be produced as an animated series for the worldwide broadcast market, initially comprising 26 episodes.

Astral Media's Family Channel presents the network premiere of the Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios animated feature, A Bug's Life.

This week, The Gnomon Workshop announces the release of a new creature design DVD by concept artist Neville Page.

Juan Jose Campanella, who just took home the Best Foreign Language Oscar for THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES, is set to helm Argentina’s first 3-D animated feature, FOOSBALL, reports VARIETY.

Imira Entertainment, Spain's leading production and distribution company specialising in youth programming, has signed a deal to co-produce new 3D HD series Escape Hockey which is created by Enne Entertainment Studios in Spain and has been nominated for a prestigious Pulcinella Award in the cross-media category.

Image Metrics, Inc. (OTC BB: IMGX), a leading provider of facial animation technology and services for the entertainment industry, today revealed its work with creative production studio Motion Theory on an official 2010 NCAA March Madness public service announcement (PSA) that will air throughout the year to encourage NCAA athletes to commit equal effort to both studies and sports.

At a press event on the DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (NASDAQ: DWA) campus, HP and Intel detailed a path toward performance increases that will help workstation customers transform computing workflows and, ultimately, their businesses.

NVIDIA announced that the GPU Technology Conference 2010 (GTC 2010) will take place on Monday, Sept. 20 to Thursday, Sept. 23 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, Calif.

Director Noah Baumbach is in negotiations to helm an adaptation of Richard and Florence Atwater’s 1938 book, MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS with Ben Stiller attached to star, reports VARIETY.

The HOODWINKED producers have filed suit against their distributor The Weinstein Co. over the failed release of the sequel in January, reports VARIETY.

THE BIG BANG THEORY star Kaley Cuoco has signed on to the live-action/CG feature, I HOP, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

Stephen Dorff has joined the cast of Relativity Media’s WAR OF THE GODS, reports VARIETY.

With HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON underperforming compared to DreamWorks Animation’s last feature MONSTERS VS. ALIENS, the company’s stock fell 8% on Tuesday, March 30th, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

Legendary Pictures has picked up the rights to Toho Co.’s classic movie monster Godzilla, reports HEAT VISION.

Sofia Vergara, the sexy Colombian actress from TV’s MODERN FAMILY, has been cast in Sony’s THE SMURFS, reports HEAT VISION.

Custom Film Effects, a long-time provider of visual effects services for feature films, handled all of the visual effects and animation work for "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," a mostly live-action adaptation of the first book in Jeff Kinney's illustrated kids' novel series.