FIA Animation Festival 2009Stockholm, SwedenOctober 2009Deadline: August 19, 2009
In October 2009 it's time for the second annual FIA Animation Festival in Stockholm. You can see the splendid program from last year's festival on our site (www.fiastockholm.se). Films from all over the world, exhibitions, workshops, guests, parties and debates about animation! This year's festival will take place at Kulturhuset (the Culture House) and at Cinema Rio in Stockholm.
Zurich, Switzerland -- July 8, 2009 -- Procedural Inc. today announced the appointment of Dieter Hofler as SVP Business Development as of August 1, 2009.
San Francisco, CA (July 8, 2009) -- Tweak Software, developers of RV, the image and sequence viewer for animation and visual effects, announced today the release of a significant new version. New features introduced with RV 3.6 include: 2K uncompressed playback from disk, remote sync, HDR LUTs, and a Package System for RV scripts and other extensions.
eDward - The Young Filmmaker's Award 2009Deadline: August 28, 2009
eDward - The Young Filmmaker's Award is the international Film-Competition for young talents up to 30 and is announced by eDIT 12. Filmmaker's Festival. Prove your talent and creativity with a 30-second-film and win prizes in a total of 4.000 Euro. The Competition is open to young filmmakers up to 30. They must have been born on or after 1.1.1979. Students, agency juniors and free film-creative especially are called worldwide to take part individually or in teams.
AWNtv has debuted a new THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG featurette, where the crew talks about the creation of the new princess.
Disney animators interviewed include Mark Henn, supervising animator, Tiana and directors Ron Clements and John Musker. Henn has supervised animation on several Disney princesses in the past, including Ariel (THE LITTLE MERMAID), Belle (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST) and Jasmine (ALADDIN).
BURBANK, Calif. -- July 8, 2009 -- The fantastic intersection of Disney creativity and science-fiction imagination will be the focus of D23's first-ever appearance at San Diego Comic-Con from July 23 to July 26, and D23: The Official Community for Disney Fans has been developing unique plans for its debut at the popular annual convention.
The second season of Joss Whedon's DOLLHOUSE will premiere Friday, Sept. 25 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Series creator and executive producer Joss Whedon will write and direct the episode that will set the stage for Season Two.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- July 8, 2009 -- NewTek Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading video and 3D animation products, today announced the release of the 3D Content Pack Volume 1: Sports, a collection of network-style, ready-to-use, customizable animated 3D scenes designed for use with LightWave 3D and 3D Arsenal. The NewTek 3D Content Pack, Volume 1: Sports offers nearly 100 dynamic and animated scenes designed for football, baseball, basketball, soccer and hockey productions.
Each sequence contains:
New York, NY -- July 8, 2009 -- WAREHOUSE 13, Syfy's newest original scripted series, made Syfy the #1 most-watched ad-supported cable network in primetime Tuesday night. The two-hour premiere last night (9-11pm) delivered a 2.5 Household rating, 3.5 million total viewers, 1.7 million Adults 25-54 and 1.3 million Adults 18-49. Syfy was the #1 most-watched ad-supported cable network in primetime.
Syfy was the #1 ad-supported cable network in primetime for total viewers and also placed #2 for Adults 25-54 and #3 for Adults 18-49.
Vertigo Films is producing 3-D horror film ELFIE HOPKINS AND THE GAMMONS, calling it U.K.'s first, per VARIETY.
A co-production with Size 9 Productions will star Jaime Winstone as a teen misfit and amateur detective living in a rural village. A mysterious family, the Gammons, moves into her neighborhood, arousing her suspicions. Ryan Andrews, who co-wrote the film with Riyad Barmania, is set to direct.
London/New York, 8 July 2009: Leading family entertainment producer and distributor Chorion has been appointed by Dan Dare Corporation to represent the international licensing rights to the iconic retro character Dan Dare, hero of THE EAGLE comic.
The first issue of THE EAGLE went on sale on 14th April 1950 and quickly became the biggest selling British comic of all time, selling a million copies a week in the 1950s.
Fantastic Planet Film Festival 2009Sydney, AustraliaDeadline: July 31, 2009Withoutabox Deadline: August 14, 2009
Fantastic Planet: Sydney's Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Festival reminds filmmakers and screenwriters to submit their film or script soon.
Beverly Hills, CA (July 7, 2009) -- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that the annual branch elections of governors of the organization have returned nine incumbents to the board as well as four new governors and one who returns to the Academy's governing body after a year off.
Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation have tapped Raja Gosnell (BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA, SCOOBY-DOO) to direct SMURFS, the live-action/animated film based on the legendary blue characters created by Peyo, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures, Bob Osher, president of digital production for Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Hannah Minghella, president of production for Sony Pictures Animation.
Randall Wallace (BRAVEHEART, PEARL HARBOR) has been hired by Disney to re-write CAPTAIN NEMO: 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, per THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.
McG (TERMINATOR SALVATION) is directing the take on the classic Jules Verne character with Idealogy's Sean Bailey producing with McG.
NEW YORK, July 8, 2009 -- Can't sleep? No problem, because COMEDY CENTRAL is just getting started! Chug some coffee and get ready for some hilarity on Sunday night, July 12 with the premiere of "Fonejacker" at 2:00 a.m. and the return of "Kenny vs. Spenny" at 2:30 a.m.
BURBANK, Calif. -- A new generation of fans will soon connect like never before with the illustrious story and characters of A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Disney Interactive Studios today announced it will publish the video game inspired by DISNEY'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL, the Charles Dickens tale re-imagined by Robert Zemeckis as a major feature film starring Jim Carrey. DISNEY'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL video game is scheduled for release exclusively for Nintendo DS in North America on November 3, 2009.
Cartoon Network and Adult Swim announces a number of panels, fan events and signings at 2009 Comic-Con International in San Diego, Calif., Thursday, July 23 - Sunday, July 26, 2009. All times, dates and locations subject to change.
ADULT SWIM: Robot Chicken w/ Titan Maximum 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.Location: 6AModerator: Keith Crofford, vice president of production Adult Swim
