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Warner Bros. Supports Christie/AIX Digital Cinema Funding Plan

Access Integrated Technologies Inc. has received the commitment of Warner Bros. Studios to release future movies in digital format as part of Christie/AIX's digital cinema nationwide rollout. The sixth studio backing the plan, Warner Bros. will also pay Christie/AIX virtual print fees for each movie booked helping fund exhibitor adoption of digital cinema equipment.

Game Headline News

Miami Vice PSP Game Coming This Summer

Vivendi Universal Games' Sierra Ent. has announced the development of MIAMI VICE THE GAME, a third-person action shooter inspired by the Universal Pictures crime drama, MIAMI VICE, directed by Michael Mann, in theaters July 28. Set in present-day Miami, players will go deep undercover as narcotic officers Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) in the rich, glamorous and decadent world of Miami Vice, a place where badges don't count.

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Artbeats Offers Free Educational Demos & IdeaDisc at NAB 2006

Spark your creativity with a multitude of valuable resources available from Artbeats during the NAB2006 (booth SL3758). Whether you are watching one of Artbeats many informative demos, taking home a free IdeaDisc or browsing the companys expansive library at one of its many kiosks, attendees will gain essential know-how on using Artbeats royalty-free footage to make their stories come to life. Artbeats is also giving away numerous prizes during NAB, including free royalty-free stock footage, an iPod nano, backpacks and more.

Business Headline News

Dominique Crosby Upped to SVP, Nick & MTVN Kids & Family Group

Dominique Crosby Moves up to svp, strategy and business development, Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids & Family Group. In her new role, Crosby will oversee these areas for these groups and will be responsible for identifying, analyzing and recommending new business opportunities, as well as providing long-term strategic analysis and vision for existing lines of business.

Disney Headline News

Disney Characters Get Romantic on New U.S. Postal Stamps

The U.S. Postal Service honors romance in the third in the Art of Disney series to be issued on April 21, 2006, and available April 22, nationwide.

These romance 39-cent stamps will be issued during the kick-off of the 13th annual Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival (April 21-June 11). All of the stamps will be recreated in larger- than-life, seven-foot topiaries composed of fresh flowers and plants and will be unveiled on stage in an elaborate ceremony directly behind Epcot's Spaceship Earth.

Each stamp tells its own romantic tale:

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NVIDIA Launches GeForce Go 7900 Series GPUs

NVIDIA Corp. unveiled the new NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 Series of graphics processing units (GPUs), which enable gamers to experience vivid, extreme high-definition (XHD) games on notebook PCs.

The two new GPUs are:

* GeForce Go 7900 GTX GPU the new NVIDIA flagship GPU, which delivers XHD graphics performance and extends the company's position as a performance leader.* GeForce Go 7900 GS GPU enables superior gaming performance in slimmer performance notebooks

Studios Headline News

Production Begins on Next

Filming has begun in Los Angeles on Revolution Studios' NEXT, a science fiction thriller starring Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore and Jessica Biel. NEXT, which is being directed by Lee Tamahori (XXX: STATE OF THE UNION and DIE ANOTHER DAY), will be released domestically by Columbia Pictures in 2007. IEG Virtual Studios, an affiliate of Initial Ent. Group, holds the international distribution rights.

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New ATI SDK Anticipates Microsoft DirectX 10

With the introduction of the latest software development kit (SDK), ATI Technologies Inc. is giving developers and artists the tools to fully leverage the power of unified shaders and the graphics processing unit (GPU), and a sneak peek at the possibilities of the future Microsoft DirectX 10.

Version Headline News

Sgt. Rock Finds Writer

John Cox, who has projects in development at the USA Network and ESPN, has been tapped by by Joel Silver for Warner Bros. Pictures to write SGT. ROCK, an adaptation of DC Comics' World War II adventure comic, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

Sgt. Frank Rock was the leader of his infantry unit called Easy Company. He first appeared in a 1959 issue of OUR ARMY AT WAR. As the characters popularity rose, the comic was renamed SGT. ROCK in 1977 and ran until 1988.

Time Headline News

eDward Travels in Time for 2006 Young Filmmaker’s Award

For the seventh year running the eDIT Filmmakers Festival is holding its international competition for up-and-coming filmmakers under 30. The organizers are looking for films that sum up the subject of time travel in only 30 seconds, the length of a classic advertising spot.

Nobody knows the future, and nobody knows what the past was really like. How would it be if we could travel into the past and intervene in the course of history? Or look into the future and find out if todays decisions were the right ones?

Animation Headline News

Next-Gen Animation Artists Creating European Network

The Halle, Germany-based European Animation Masterclass (EAM) initiated a European network of animation film artists and animation schools. Last week, the EAM brought together 25 of the next-generation animation film producers from 11 countries with internationally acclaimed trainers from Italy, the Czech Republic, Germany and the U.S.

Festival Headline News

VES Announces 2006 Festival at Egyptian Theatre

The 2006 Festival of Visual Effects has been set for July 7-9, 2006 at the famed Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California.

"We are thrilled to be presenting our eighth annual Festival at the Egyptian for the first time," said Visual Effects Society (VES) exec director Eric Roth. "Each year the Festival has grown in scope and number of attendees. This venue shows how much the VES has expanded as well as the visual effects industry's continually increasing influence on the business of films, animation, games and television."

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JibJab Launches Massive Online Joke Sharing Community

JibJab Media, known for its entertaining Internet political animation satires GOOD TO BE IN DC! and THIS LAND, have launched JokeBox a place for people to get together online and share laughs, sort of a Comedy Central meets MySpace.

"We think of JokeBox like MySpace meets Comedy Central," said JibJab brother and co-founder, Grevan Spiridellis. "We have over 25,000 video, picture and written jokes at JibJab.com and our community is over 640,000 people strong. We're thrilled that so many people are making JibJab the place to come and share laughs."

Animation Headline News

SIGGRAPH 2006 Announces Computer Animation Festival Schedule

The Computer Animation Festival jury for SIGGRAPH 2006 selected 97 films and two award winners from 726 entries for exemplary use of computer-generated imagery and animation and compelling storytelling.

The SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival is an internationally recognized event that engages and inspires artists and technologists alike. Each year, it serves as a mirror of what is possible today and a window into what can be achieved in the future.

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Gnomon Workshop Releases Matchmoving DVDs

The Gnomon Workshop provides the answer to all your matchmoving questions, with five new titles from artists Tim Dobbert, who joins the Gnomon Workshop with three new releases, and Stephen McClure, whose two new titles introduce tracking in boujou. Ethan Summers rounds out the releases with a new title showing how he creates landscapes in Vue.

Effects Headline News

particleIllusion ‘Too Hot Not to Handle’

Extreme Digital Prods., a New York-based effects company, utilized wondertouchs award-winning particleIllusion for a range of provocative vfx on the HBO/Lovett Prods documentary, TOO HOT NOT TO HANDLE: A GLOBAL WARMING PRIMER. The film debuts on Earth Day, April 22, and will air exclusively on HBO.

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Autodesk Introduces Discreet Inferno on Linux OS

Autodesk Inc. launched its Academy Award-winning Discreet Inferno visual effects system running on the Linux operating system. The Discreet Inferno system enables the world's top digital artists in broadcast facilities, post-production houses and film studios to deliver extraordinary moving imagery. This system contains a robust creative toolset for high-speed compositing, advanced graphics and interactive design.

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Boomerang Premieres Captain Planet and the Planeteers Lost Episodes

In honor of Earth Day 2006 on April 22, Boomerang will air an exclusive, first-time presentation of the 13 half-hour episodes that comprise the sixth and final season of CAPTAIN PLANET AND THE PLANETEERS. Each episode presents an important environmental concern and will play in order from 7:30-11:30 am, and from 3:30-7:30 pm.

Television Headline News

John Henson To Host 33rd Annual Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards

Actor, writer, comedian John Henson (WATCH THIS) will host the 33rd Annual Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 22, 2006, at Hollywood and Highland's Grand Ballroom. The non-televised award show honors excellence and achievement in animation and many program categories as well as all technical areas of daytime television. Red Carpet arrivals begin at 4:00 pm and the awards presentation is from 5:00-6:30 pm.

Series Headline News

Empire Square Premieres April 18 on fuse

Americas only viewer influenced, music television network, fuse, will premiere EMPIRE SQUARE, the networks convention-shattering cartoon series dubbed by the U.K. press as the British South Park. The six, half-hour episodes, created exclusively for fuse, will debut at 10:30 pm as part of fuses new titillating fuseday tuesday programming block.

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