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Framestore Headline News

House of Cards Falls on Framestore

HOUSE OF CARDS is a new spot created by Leo Burnett as part of a campaign for homeless charity Shelter. Directed by Dom & Nic, HOUSE OF CARDS features music donated by Radiohead and a voiceover by actress Samantha Morton. The spot's low-key yet spectacular visual effects were created by Framestore, who also donated their services.

Effects Headline News

Digital-Tutors Unveils Stereoscopic Training Titles for Maya and After Effects A

Digital-Tutors has released STEREOSCOPIC 3D IN MAYA and STEREOSCOPIC 3D IN AFTER EFFECTS, the latest additions in a library of interactive training for new and experienced digital artists learning stereoscopic 3D in Autodesk's Maya.

Game Headline News

Metal Gear Creator Hideo Kojima Gets GDC Lifetime Achievement Award

Think Services Game Group's 2009 Game Developers Choice Awards, the highest honors in game development acknowledging excellence in game creation, will honor Hideo Kojima with a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's ceremony taking place at the Game Developers Conference (GDC).

Ntropic Headline News

Ntropic Bring Wealth Of Knowledge In Quirky Campaign For KGB

Fresh off its VFX work for the feature UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS, Ntropic was commissioned by The Brooklyn Brothers to complete a comedic eight-spot campaign for kgb (Knowledge Generation Bureau), the world's largest provider of directory assistance and enhanced information services.

Film Headline News

Rhino Rebrands to Reflect Global Reach

rhinofx is dropping off the "f" and "x" and changing its name to Rhino. A year after uniting with Gravity, one of Israel and Canada's premier media development studios, Rhino has updated its name, identity, and vision to coincide with its dramatic and global evolution in both traditional and non-traditional work across TV, film, web, and mobile screens.

Universal Headline News

Costumes, Props From Hellboy II, Coraline on Display at Universal Hollywood

The costumes from Universal Pictures' FROST/NIXON and Focus Features' MILK are now on display along with props from Universal Pictures' HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY at Universal Studios Hollywood's "The Universal Experience: Behind the Scenes of Universal Pictures."

Fans of Guillermo del Toro's HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY, Oscar nominated for Best Makeup - Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz, can preview an eclectic display of the original prosthetic masks and props and costumes featured in the film.

Awards Headline News

Dark Knight, Benjamin Button Win Art Directors Guild Awards

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON won for Period Film, and THE DARK KNIGHT for Fantasy Film, at the 13th Annual Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Awards. The awards were held Saturday in Beverly Hills, and also honored George Lucas and Paul Sylbert.

At this Sunday's Academy Awards, CHANGELING, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, THE DARK KNIGHT, THE DUCHESS and REVOLUTIONARY ROAD will be up for the Oscar for Art Direction.

Period Films

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTONProduction Designer: Donald Graham Burt

Award Headline News

Slumdog Millionaire Wins ASC Award, CSI and Eleventh Hour Claim Top TV Honors

Anthony Dod Mantle, BSC, DFF, Nelson Cragg and David Stockton earned top honors in the three competitive categories at the 23rd Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards held Sunday at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel. Dod Mantle won the feature film competition for SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. Cragg topped the episodic TV competition for CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION/"For Gedda" (CBS). Stockton won the movie/miniseries/pilot category for the pilot of ELEVENTH HOUR (CBS).

Headline News

cmiVFX Launches New Video: Houdini Introduction To Particle Animation

cmiVFX | cmiStudios launches another Houdini Software Training Video for its customer base. Particle animation training has always been limited by selection. cmiVFX is proud to offer the most robust particle training for a large majority of animation packages. The INTRODUCTION TO PARTICLE ANIMATION VIDEO is geared towards training entry level individuals or those migrating from other animation packages. Video is about four hours in length.

This video is available today at the cmiVFX store: http://cmivfx.com/store/Browse.aspx?Category=11.

Creating Particles

Avatar Headline News

Mattel Tapped for Cameron's Avatar Toy Line

Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising has selected Mattel to develop a toy line inspired James Cameron's AVATAR.

Tapped as master toy licensee for the epic sci-fi film property, Mattel will create a line of action figures and vehicles scheduled to hit retail nationwide in October 2009, months in advance of the film's release in December 2009.

Headline News

Peter Jackson Signs Deal With Newly-Launched Strategic Marketing Company

Veteran interactive marketing and integrated promotions executive Gordon Paddison has now launched his new global marketing firm Stradella Road, which will provide entertainment, and corporate clients a wide range of innovative marketing solutions targeting consumers and communities of influencers worldwide.

Universal Headline News

Universal Looks at More Ludlum

Universal is in negotiations for the film rights to Robert Ludlum's THE PARSIFAL MOSAIC, in what could be the first major project for Captivate Ent., the company that controls the rights to Ludlum's novels, per VARIETY.

Universal and Captivate signed an overall deal last year, in the wake of the studio's success with the BOURNE IDENTITY series. The deal gives Universal first-look at all Ludlum titles, 25 of which haven't been optioned off yet, as well as the rights to continue the BOURNE series into a fourth film and beyond.

Headline News

Hardy Men Gets New Writer

Ed Solomon is the latest writer to be attached to the 10-years-in-development THE HARDY MEN at Fox 2000, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. The MEN IN BLACK writer will re-write the comedy project, with Ben Stiller and Tom Cruise attached to star and NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM director Shawn Levy to helm.

Headline News

Curtis Hanson, Bruckheimer are Gemini

Curtis Hanson is in negotiations with Disney to direct the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced GEMINI MAN, per VARIETY. In the action thriller most recently penned by David Benioff, an NSA agent tries to retire and is targeted for assassination. His would-be assassin is actually a younger cloned version of himself.

Exec producers are Mike Stenson and Chad Oman with Don Murphy. GEMINI MAN has been in development for almost a decade, with Darren Lemke originating the project and other drafts written by Jonathan Hensleigh and others.

Post Headline News

Post Logic Studios Expands Film and TV Restoration Services

Post-production facility Post Logic Studios, a division of Prime Focus Group, have expanded their film and television restoration services. The company has been managing restoration work for titles such as HONDO and THE RULES OF THE GAME from their Hollywood facility, and has more than tripled its capacity for restoration work through its relationship with Prime Focus in Goa, India. Restoration projects are still managed and completed at Post Logic in Hollywood, however clients now have the cost-effective option of having film clean-up handled in India.

Headline News

Watchmen / Apple In-Store Events

Meet Dave Gibbons at the Apple Store in San Francisco

Join Dave Gibbons as he discusses his Hugo Award-winning graphic novel, WATCHMEN. Arguably the most honored graphic novel ever created, WATCHMEN was named one of the 100 Best Novels of all time by Time Magazine. After the discussion, Gibbons will take questions from the audience and also demonstrate his illustrations. Download the "Watchmen Motion Comics" and other film related content from the iTunes store.

Tuesday, February 17Apple Store San Francisco7 p.m.

Design Headline News

Hollywood's Feng Zhu to Launch New School of Entertainment Design in Singapore

Hollywood-based concept designer Feng Zhu will launch a new school in Singapore -- FZD School of Entertainment Design -- come April 2009.

Sega Headline News

SEGA Announces New Aliens vs. Predator Game

SEGA of America, SEGA Europe and Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising have revealed new details of their increasing portfolio of upcoming games based on Twentieth Century Fox's ALIENS universe.

SEGA will publish an all-new ALIENS VS. PREDATOR (working title) game in early 2010. The game is currently in development with independent developer Rebellion, creators of the original 1999 ALIENS VERSUS PREDATOR; a legendary title that went on to define an entire generation of multiplayer gaming.

Headline News

Escape Studios Announces Camera Tracking for VFX Course

Learn the art of mixing computer-generated objects into real-life footage with "Camera Tracking for VFX," a new online course from Escape Studios that delves deeply into the professional camera tracking techniques required by aspiring 3D artists. Taught by the world-renowned staff at Escape Studios, "Camera Tracking for VFX" covers background, workflows and best practices in a flexible online format that includes 12 hours of video content.

Creative Headline News

Royale Elevates the Spirit of Discovery in Vibrant Re-Brand

Motion design and production studio Royale recently completed a comprehensive re-design of Discovery Channel's on-air look and branding. Playing with the idea of "discovery," Royale created a high-energy package that exhibits Discovery Channel's repertoire of stunning show footage and imagery in unexpected ways.

Headline News

Nemo Gets Marks Re-Write

Disney's remake of 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA: CAPTAIN NEMO will get a re-write from Justin Marks, who has recently penned HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, VOLTRON: DEFENDER OF THE UNIVERSE, STREET FIGHTER and the upcoming Green Arrow feature, per VARIETY.

The fast-tracked NEMO film will be an origins story to be directed by McG, his follow-up to TERMINATOR SALVATION. The first draft was written by Bill Marsilii.

Headline News

Malkovitch to Join Brolin in Jonah Hex

Warner Bros. adaptation of DC Comics' JONAH HEX will star John Malkovich as Turnbull, who blames the title character (played by Josh Brolin) for the death of his son, per VARIETY.

Production begins in April on the film that also has seen Legendary Pictures join in as co-financier and co-producer. Turnbull, a Southern plantation owner whose son was killed by Union soldiers during the Civil War, blames Hex, a Confederate soldier who becomes a bounty hunter.

Game Headline News

G.I. Joe Set to Invade Videogames this Summer

Electronic Arts is developing Hasbro's G.I. JOE brand to all major console and handheld gaming platforms in summer 2009 to coincide with the theatrical release of the G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA live-action movie from Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment, in association with Hasbro, which opens in theaters August 7, 2009. EA will unveil a "first look" of the G.I. JOE video game at Hasbro's Showroom at Toy Fair on February 15-17, 2009 in New York City.

Online Headline News

Help Solve the Mystery of the Dollhouse with Interactive Online Drama

Game enthusiasts and Joss Whedon fans alike need not wait for the series premiere of the highly anticipated new drama DOLLHOUSE Friday, Feb. 13 (9:01-10 p.m. ET/PT) on FOX to begin to unravel the show's mythology. "Dollplay," an innovative and unique online participation drama invites Whedonites, crime buffs and FOX fans to solve an intriguing mystery now unfolding at www.fox.com/dollhouse and www.rprimelab.com.

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