Category: Visual Effects

Concord Records has released the individual soundtracks to the original three INDIANA JONES films: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM and INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE.

All three feature Oscar-winning composer John Williams' soundtracks digitally remastered from the original tapes, plus unreleased music from each respective film. Previously available only as part of last year's box set release INDIANA JONES: THE SOUNDTRACKS COLLECTION, these reissued CDs will be available individually for the first time from producer Laurent Bouzereau.

Jackie Earle Haley (Rorschach in WATCHMEN) will co-star in Fox's drama pilot HUMAN TARGET, alongside PUSHING DAISIES' Chi McBride, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

HUMAN TARGET, a DC Comics title, is about Christopher Chance (Mark Valley), who does freelance security by assuming the identities of the people in danger. Haley will play Chance's information guy, while McBride is set to play Chance's business partner and friend.

WATCHMEN did $4.6 million in midnight Thursday shows, according to VARIETY, almost doubling Zack Snyder's 300 same-day numbers.

The Warner Bros. film played 1,595 midnight runs, and expanded to 3,611 on Friday, the most ever for an R-rated film. IMAX sold out all of their midnight screenings, and had to add 3 a.m. showings to keep up with demand. Most of their screens are sold out for the weekend.

300 went on to gross $70.9 million in its opening March 2006 weekend, making $2.5 million on Thursday.

Okino Computer Graphics is now shipping two products: its Solid Edge CAD conversion system and the Autodesk-certified Inventor 2010 CAD Conversion System for 3ds Max, Maya, Lightwave Cinema-4D, XSI and all major downstream 3D file formats.

WATCHMEN will open on 3,611 screens this weekend, the most ever for an R-rated film, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

Among those will be 124 IMAX theaters, as well as 29 international IMAX theaters. On MovieTickets.com, IMAX ticket sales account for one-third of all Watchmen sales, and IMAX's site crashed four times this week due to WATCHMEN traffic surges, according to IMAX Filmed Entertainment president Greg Foster.

Brand New School, the bicoastal directing collective serving all fields of commercial art, recently completed work on a whimsical and eclectic spot via Saatchi & Saatchi for the Toyota Rav4 sport utility vehicle.

Co-directed by Brand New School's Jonathan Notaro and Eric Adolfson, the 30-second spot uses vibrant locations, an attractive cast, and some (literally) mind-bending visual effects to transform the urban landscape with elegant efficiency.

Toronto-based producer and distributor Tricon Films & Television has signed a series of major international deals for the series SANCTUARY, whilst at the same time preparing for production on season two. The show was recently commissioned for a second season by Sci Fi Channel in the U.S. and by the Space channel in Canada.

For the YES Network, New York-based creative services agency Blue Room NYC has created an image spot for the launch of the New York Yankees season and a topical promo toolkit as well. The 2009 inaugural Yankees image spot, which includes a :30, :20, :25/5 and :23/7, began airing nationally on DirecTV and regionally within the tri-state area the first week of March. The topical promo graphics package for the 2009 Yankees Season will begin airing in April.

Michael Brandt and Derek Haas have been hired by New Line Cinema to turn Richard Doetsch's upcoming novel THE THIRTEENTH HOUR into a screenplay, according to VARIETY. Michael De Luca is producing.

Brandt and Haas (WANTED, 3:10 TO YUMA), recently adapted Robert Ludlum's THE MATARESE CIRCLE for MGM and director David Cronenberg and likely will star Tom Cruise along with Denzel Washington. They are also working on a new BEVERLY HILLS COP installment for Eddie Murphy and director Brett Ratner at Paramount.

A proprietary 3-D camera system designed by Oscar-winning director James Cameron and Vince Pace returns to digital 3-D production for Walt Disney Pictures. Disney, which first turned to PACE to create Disney Digital 3-D for the HANNAH MONTANA 3-D movie, has once again tapped PACE for the production of JONAS BROTHERS: THE 3D CONCERT EXPERIENCE.

TRANSFORMERS actress Megan Fox will star opposite Josh Brolin and John Malkovitch in Warner Bros.' JONAH HEX and is attached to star and develop FATHOM at Fox Atomic, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

In HEX, an action Western based on the DC Comics character, Fox will play Leila, Hex's love interest and a gunslinger herself. Filming is set to begin in April under Mad Chance's Andrew Lazar and Weed Road's Akiva Goldsman producing.