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Post Logic Studios has hired well-respected colorist Frank Roman for its Hollywood-based DI team and vastly expanded motion picture services pipeline and infrastruture. Romans career includes a stint at pioneering DI facility Cinesite; he joins Post Logic from Laser Pacific Media Corp.

Roman recently collaborated with legendary cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC, on the 4K digital intermediate for the upcoming feature, THE BLACK DAHLIA. Roman also worked with cinematographer Shane Hurlbut on the digital intermediates for SOMETHING NEW and INTO THE BLUE.

Respected industry vet Joni Jacobson has been hired to head the new Los Angeles offices of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). Jacobson steps into the newly created role of exec in charge of Production Marketing, and will lead marketing efforts going forward.

Jacobson will also develop the L.A. marketing beachhead for Skywalker Sound. The new Los Angeles offices will be opened in January and are located at The Lot in West Hollywood.

Peter Jacksons popular online production diaries chronicling his eight-month KING KONG shoot, which first appeared on the official website (kongisking.net), have been assembled as a limited edition DVD set (Universal Studios Home Ent., $39.98) for release Dec. 13, 2005 one day before the highly anticipated remake hits the big screen.

For those who have been waiting for the recut SIN CITY on DVD, the wait is over. SIN CITY: RECUT, EXTENDED, UNRATED (Buena Vista Home Ent., $39.99) bows on DVD Dec. 13, 2005. The new set by director Frank Rodriguez contains the theatrical cut on disc one (with vfx by Troublemaker Digital Studios, CafeFX, Hybride Technologies and The Orphanage) and also reassembles the movie on disc two, reinserting a few bits of business but more crucially allowing you to view each chapter separately. Thus, the chapters have been extended to more closely resemble the experience of Frank Millers stories.

Award-winning visual effects studio Digital Dimension makes a splash in fully animated entertainment with the completion of DEEPO, an underwater adventure piece that marks the companys first all-CG entry. Renowned themed park attraction developer Gary Goddard entered a partnership with Digital Dimension to produce and direct the film, which is the centerpiece of the 4-D theater presentation at the recently opened 500,000-square-foot, $250-million-dollar new Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta.