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Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee 2007Kansas City, Kansas, USAApril 12-16, 2007December 10, 2006

Imagica Holdings Inc. has reorganized its group companies. The parent company has been renamed Imagica Robot Holdings Inc. Imagica Technologies Corp., the engineering solutions division responsible for developing the Imager XE and HSX Film Scanners and the Imager HSR Film Recorder has been spun off as an independent entity.

Bionatics announces the release of the version 4 of its 3D plant modeler natFX for 3ds max.

This latest version was developed to integrate even better into an Autodesk 3ds max production workflow, explains Stephan Gourgout, vp/sales director. It answers, in large part, the needs requested for the last 12 months by our clients from the varied industries such as architectural visualization, to the production requirements of the videogame industry and the 3D animation film studios, who need to build rapidly complex realtime or pre-rendered scenes.

Cartoon Network and Adult Swim will host a number of panels, special events, artist signings and for the first year ever CN will sponsor a booth, during Comic-Con International, to be held in San Diego, California, Thursday, July 20 - Sunday, July 23, 2006. The various events will give fans a chance to see sneak peaks of new shows and especially the first look at the AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE feature.

Panels include:

THE LIFE & TIMES OF JUNIPER LEEThursday, July 20, 5:00-6:00 pmLocation: 6BThe panelists include:

Lionsgate has picked up the Cruise/Wagner-produced remake of THE EYE out of turnaround from Paramount, reports VARIETY. The studio is now in talks with Jessica Alba to star and French helmers David Moreau and Xavier Palud to direct.

Lionsgate hopes to shoot the film this winter.

Directed by Danny and Oxide Pang, the original thriller follows a cornea transplant recipient who starts seeing disturbing images, which spurs her to find out what happened to the donor of her new eyes.

After previously pulling a rerun of the Trapped in the Closet episode, Comedy Central has set July 19, 2006, to rerun the SOUTH PARK episode that lampoons Scientology and Tom Cruise, according to VARIETY. The episode was recently nominated for an Emmy.

The move is seen as the a big step in the studios effort to patch up their relationship with SOUTH PARK co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

STAN LEE'S LIGHTSPEED, the latest in a series of POW! Ent.'s projects, will premiere on NBC Universal's SCI FI Channel. The live-action Stan Lee Original will air the evening of July 26, 2006, at 9:00 pm ET/PT.

SNAP TO GRID: the UN-Juried ShowLos Angeles, California, USASeptember 14 - October 7, 2006Deadline: August 27, 2006

Los Angeles Center For Digital Art hosts third annual SNAP TO GRID: the UN-Juried Show. In its third annual exhibition of this kind participants each upload one image to be printed on high quality paper (8.5x11) and hung in a grid in our gallery. The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artists.