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Kodak and REAL D to Deliver Digital 3-D Cinema in Australia

Kodak Digital Cinema and REAL D announced that the companies have formed a strategic alliance to roll out digital 3-D cinema throughout Australia. Installation of digital 3-D cinema systems will be complete in time for the country's upcoming premiere of Disney's CHICKEN LITTLE in 3-D starting Jan. 1, 2006.

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Autodesk Technology Shapes Holiday Movies

From an inviting ice castle to a thawing waterfall, many of the holiday season's movies were shaped with Autodesk Inc.'s media and entertainment software. Leading post-production facilities, including Sony Pictures Imageworks, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and The Orphanage, relied on Autodesk's systems and software to realize their wildest wintry ideas.

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Carmike Cinemas to Install 2,300 Digital Cinema Projection Systems

Carmike Cinemas Inc., the third largest national movie theater chain, has signed a deal with Christie/AIX for the installation of up to 2,300 Digital Cinema projection systems throughout the U.S. With this agreement, Carmike and Christie/AIX will begin installing 2K DCI-compliant DLP Cinema projectors. The rollout is scheduled to begin in January 2006 and to be completed by Oct. 31, 2007.

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Kong Lives In Ubisoft's King Kong Game

Ubisoft revealed that its critically acclaimed game of the year contender, PETER JACKSON'S KING KONG: THE OFFICIAL GAME OF THE MOVIE features an un-lockable, exclusive alternate ending in which players can save the giant ape from his cinematic death, pilot an airplane and discover Kong back home on his native Skull Island. The game, rated "T" for Teen, based on Universal Pictures' release, KING KONG, from three-time Academy Award winner Peter Jackson, is positioned to be the top-selling title for the holiday season and is currently available nationwide.

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HP Unveils Halo Collaboration Studios

HP introduced a first-of-its-kind collaboration studio for simulating face-to-face business meetings across long distances, brought to life in partnership with DreamWorks Animation SKG.

The HP Halo Collaboration Studio enables people in different locations to communicate in a face-to-face environment in realtime. Whether across a country or across the world, users are able to see and hear one another's physical and emotional reactions to conversation and information as it is being shared.

Series Headline News

British Music Channel Fuses With Animated Empire Square

British music channel Fuse is set to debut its first animated TV series, EMPIRE SQUARE. The show follows three foul-mouthed characters Rabbit, Hooks and Tourette's-afflicted wannabe rocker Richie. The trio always gets into strange get-rich-quick schemes while trying to obtain rock stardom.

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Win a Writing Job at BioWare

BioWare Game Writing Contest World Wide WebFebruary 27, 2006Deadline: January 30, 2006

BioWare is holding a contest to find talented writers to help develop its award-winning roleplaying games. BioWare's director of design James Ohlen and assistant director of design Kevin Barrett have agreed to make the process of submitting work as easy as possible for writers looking to work for BioWare.

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Annecy’s International Project Competition Wants Your Work!

International Project CompetitionJune 7-9, 2006Deadline: February 15, 2006

The 10th edition of the International Project Competition at Annecy 2006 is now open. Around 120 short film or TV production projects were in competition in 2005 for 12 cash prizes. This mine of independent creation has been evolving and intensifying its support to young authors, since 1997. The competition is open to any animated short film or TV production project (TV special or series) irrespective of the genre and techniques used.

Winners will receive:

Animation Headline News

Digital Asia School Of Animation Launched in Mumbai

Crest founder and Digital Asia chief Shyam Ramanna recently launched Digital Asia School Of Animation in Mumbi, India in association with Meteor Films Satyam Bansal, reports NewKerala.com.

DASA is located in Lokhandwala, Mumbai with courses in virtual reality, animation, game design, film editing and mobile gaming. Its headquarter is situated in Bangkok.

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Bill Buckley New Chief Marketing Officer For Bakers Man

Bill Buckley joins Bakers Man as chief marketing officer for its family of companies, including Bakers Man Prods., Bakers Man Technology Group, Bakers Man Ent. Group, TrueLight Ent. and Image Quest Studios.

Buckley will develop and oversee the marketing, sales and media relations efforts and, in addition to enhancing existing relationships with key entertainment accounts in theatrical, home entertainment, music and platform games, he is tasked with positioning Bakers Man solutions in a more integrated fashion.

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Original Movie Scooby-Doo in Where’s My Mummy? Comes To DVD

This holiday season Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang ride camels alongside the pyramids, explore the Nile and flee from a mummy or two in Warner Home Video (WHV) all-new, animated original movie, SCOOBY-DOO IN WHERES MY MUMMY?, now available for $24.98 SRP on DVD and $14.94 SRP on VHS.

Animation Headline News

Tern Television Forays Into Animation

Tern Television, one of Scotlands most diverse and creative indies, has jumped into the animation pool with a raft of high-profile projects involving such leading talents as Oscar-nominated animator Sylvain Chomet (BELLEVILLE RENDEZ-VOUS) and Hollywood writer Brian Ward (THE INTERPRETER). Terns first foray into the animation genre with a commission for Channel 4, a pilot for the BBC and a £20m feature film in development for Scottish Screen.

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Maniaci Upped to SVP, Development & Original Production, TV Land & Nick at Nite

Sal Maniaci has been promoted to the newly-created position of svp of development and original production for TV Land and Nick at Nite. He will continue to be based in New York City and will oversee the creation, development and execution of original programming and production for TV Land and Nick at Nite.

Maniaci has been instrumental in launching the originals agenda on both networks. TV Land and Nick at Nite have substantially increased original content since Maniaci joined the networks two years ago.

Autodesk Headline News

Autodesk Ships Cleaner 6.5 Software for Apple Macintosh

Autodesk Inc. announced the availability of Autodesk Cleaner 6.5 for Macintosh, the newest update to its professional desktop media mastering and encoding software. Autodesk Cleaner is an industry standard application for encoding and optimizing video content for delivery formats ranging from the Internet and DVD to handheld mobile devices. On the heels of the release of Cleaner XL1.5 for Windows, Cleaner 6.5 for Mac brings extended format support and increased workflow flexibility to the Mac-based digital video encoding community.

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Kong Not So Powerful Box Office King

Peter Jacksons KING KONG performed well below industry expectations with $50.1M in its initial bow for the weekend ended Dec. 18, 2005. However, with a five-day tally of $66.1M, Universal has high hopes that momentum will build for the $207M epic (with impressive vfx from Weta Digital).

Meanwhile, in its second weekend, Disneys THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (with impressive vfx of its own from Rhythm & Hues, Sony Pictures Imageworks and ILM) finished second with $31.8M and a cume of $113.1M.

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Edinburgh College of Art Sweeps Student Awards

The Edinburgh College of Art has swept the RTS Scotland Student Awards, reports Scotsman.com. Hosted by the Royal Television Society Scotland, the event awarded the animation prize to Asaf Agranat for the film A BUS RIDE AND FLOWERS IN HER HAIR. Gunhild Enger won both the factual and non-factual categories with the films BARGAIN and WAITING FOR HAPPINESS, respectively.

International Headline News

Mantis Parable Bites At ION Fest

The ION Festival is now over. The winners of the second ION International Animation, Games & Short Film Festival include:

ION International Animation Of The Year AwardTHE MANTIS PARABLE, Josh Staub (USA)

ION International Short Film Of The Year Award ANTEBODY, James P. Gleason (USA)

ION International Music Video Of The Year Award CON TODA PALABRA, Brigitte Henry, Ralph Dfouni (Canada)

ION International Game Of The Year Award CALL OF DUTY 2, Activision (USA)

Channel Headline News

Convicted Sex Offender Arrested for Molestation on Nick Campus

On Dec. 16, 2005, Ezell Elester Channel, a convicted sex offender, was arrested on the suspicion of molesting a 14-year-old boy at Nickelodeon Animation Studios while he served as a production assistant on the film, ADAM SANDLER'S EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS, reports the BURBANK LEADER.

Award Headline News

Winston Wins Tesla Award

Special-effects veteran Stan Winston was awarded the Tesla Award for visionary achievement in filmmaking technology from the International Press Academy on Dec. 17, 2005, reports SCI FI WIRE.

Winston responded by saying, "This award is for technical innovation, and it's interesting that I'm getting this award, because I really don't know much about technology, and, in fact, I'm techno-ignorant. I am an artist... Any technology I created for special effects I was forced to develop in order to do the things I love... I created it for the characters in the movies."

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Female Cartoonist Flies Shirtless Over Fox

In a stunt to bring attention to her legal battles with the studio, publicist/cartoonist/fashion designer Ivy Supersonic chartered a plane to fly a 100-foot banner emblazed with her topless image over the 20th Century Fox headquarters in Los Angeles for eight hours on Dec. 19, 2005.

Supersonic commented, "Fox wants the shirt off my back so badly I've decided to give it to them. This woman warrior doesn't scare so easily."

Films Headline News

New Survey Finds Positive Signs for 3-D Future

More than 39 million American adults would go to the movies more often if Hollywood offered more feature-length films in 3-D, according to a new survey by Opinion Dynamics Corp. (ODC).

Results from a nationwide survey of 900 adults show that 12% of Americans roughly 26 million adults would go to the movies more often to see 3-D movies. Another 6% 13 million adults would go more often depending on the types of films offered in 3-D.

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