Quentin Tarantino's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS will be released on August 21, 2009, the Weinstein Company announced Wednesday (via ComingSoon.net).
Universal Studios and Weinstein are co-financing the film, a World War II flick starring Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger and Christoph Waltz.
USA TODAY has some details about next year's big sequel TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, including a sizeable U.S. military cooperation and presence during filming.
GHOST, THE TRUMAN SHOW and SERENITY are all now out on Blu-ray.
Los Angeles federal judge Gary Allen Feess ruled on Christmas Eve that 20th Century Fox owns the distribution rights to WATCHMEN, a film they developed but was ultimately made by Warner Bros. and is due for a March 6 release (per VARIETY).
In a surprise five-page ruling a week after setting a Jan. 20 trial date for Fox's suit, Feess said, "Fox owns a copyright interest consisting of, at the very least, the right to distribute the WATCHMEN motion picture."
Twentieth Century Fox is continuing in their fight to delay the release of WATCHMEN after the studio won a round in the court battle against Warner Bros., per the ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A previously-announced trial will commence as scheduled on January 20. U.S. District Court Judge Gary Allen Feess held a status conference with attorneys for both sides on Monday, per VARIETY, and no settlement emerged.
Disney will not co-finance the third CHRONICLES OF NARNIA film with Walden Media, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.
Without elaborating, the two entities confirmed Tuesday that for "budgetary and logistical reasons," Disney will not co-produce and co-finance THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER. The third book in the series by C.S. Lewis follows the younger two Pevensie siblings, Lucy and Edmund and their tiresome cousin, Eustace Scrubb, as they voyage to the end of the world with now-King Caspian.
ComingSoon reports that Bruce Boxleitner is returning for Disney's upcoming TR2N, joining fellow cast member Jeff Bridges and newcomers Olivia Wilde and Beau Garrett. In the original 1982 film, hacker Kevin Flynn (Bridges) gets trapped into the graphical world of his computer, joining forces with Tron (Boxleitner) to outsmart the software pirate that holds them captive.
Artist owned-and-operated bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX contributed visual effects, including CG and compositing work, on RadioShack’s holiday campaign from ad agency Arnold Worldwide. The four-spot effort, entitled "The Best Gifts Ever," comprises SANTA, STORY, HOT FRIDAY and HOT WEEKEND, and began airing in December.
Stephen Chow told THE ASSOCIATED PRESS that, in addition to dropping out as director of THE GREEN HORNET, he will only play Kato if his schedule allows.
Last week, Chow's departure from the director's chair was announced, but at the time, it appeared as if he would continue on as the superhero's sidekick. Columbia Pictures did not respond to the AP's email request for comment.
Framestore recently completed THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX for Universal Studios, using its in-house developed high performance computing system for the rendering of the images. This system was made up of a 200TB clustered Linux file system closely coupled to a 6000 core render farm. Production data was mirrored on a second 400TB cluster, all of the data storage was based on Infortrend EonStor storage systems.
Smith Micro Software, Consumer Group have released Manga Studio Debut 4.0 and Manga Studio EX 4.0, the world's leading manga and comic art software used by professional artists and hobbyists to create professional, ready-to-publish comics and print cartoons from start to finish.
Warner Bros. will not release THE DARK KNIGHT in China, according to VARIETY.
According to a statement Tuesday, "Based on a number of pre-release conditions that are being attached to THE DARK KNIGHT as well as cultural sensitivities to some elements of the film, we have opted to forego a theatrical release of the film in China," the studio said.
LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD actress Maggie Q has joined the cast of Japanese videogame adaptation KING OF FIGHTERS, per VARIETY.
The film is currently lensing in Vancouver. Q's credits also include MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3.
Houdini training partner Digital-Tutors has released INTRODUCTION TO FLUIDS IN HOUDINI, the latest release for emerging digital artists learning Houdini. INTRODUCTION TO FLUIDS IN HOUDINI offers three and half hours of practical projects for effects artists and provides production-applicable techniques and general workflows to particle-based and volume-based simulations to create realistic fire, smoke, and liquid effects with Houdini.
Five films based on Arcana Studios' comics will be produced by Canadian production company Legacy Filmworks, production-finance group Bron Management and Arcana, per THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.
First up is sci-fi thriller PARADOX, to star Kevin Sorbo and to be directed by Brenton Spencer (STARGATE: ATLANTIS). Sorbo will portray a homicide cop on a parallel-universe Earth ruled by magic. He investigates a series of murders committed by a previously-unseen force: the power of science.
DARKHORIZONS is reporting that DNA Films, Rebellion and 2000 AD will bring a new version of JUDGE DREDD to movie audiences.
No other details were available, but 2000AD CEO Jason Kingsley confirmed they were working with DNA Films on the project.
Sylvester Stallone starred as the Judge in a poorly-reviewed and received version in 1995. The new film will go into production next year.
Although Disney has yet to confirm, AIN'T IT COOL NEWS reports that TR2N will be shot entirely in 3-D. The sequel to the groundbreaking 1982 film is due out in 2011.
PNY Technologies' new ultra high-performance graphic boards, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 by PNY and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 by PNY, are now available.
Stephen Chow has dropped out as director of THE GREEN HORNET over "creative differences," per VARIETY. He will still play Kato, however. Columbia Pictures and producer Neal Mortiz are in the process of finding a new director, hopefully before the end of the year, to keep the film on track to begin production in the spring.
AUSTRALIA director Baz Luhrmann has bought the rights to F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel THE GREAT GATSBY, the trades are reporting.
Both THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER and Nikki Finke's DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD DAILY say that Luhrmann will get this project out more quickly, with less of a delay than between his last few films.
The director has taken between four to seven years between projects STRICTLY BALLROOM (1992), ROMEO + JULIET (1996), MOULIN ROUGE! (2001) and this year's release of AUSTRALIA.
Neither a script or an attached studio has come about yet.
NVIDIA has made available version 2.1 beta of its CUDA toolkit and SDK. This is the latest version of the C-compiler and software development tools for accessing the massively parallel CUDA compute architecture of NVIDIA GPUs. In response to overwhelming demand from the developer community, this latest version of the CUDA software suite includes support for NVIDIA Tesla GPUs on Windows Vista and 32-bit debugger support for CUDA on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.x (separate download).
As the demand for an efficient, feature-rich and cost-effective 3D toolset expands, DAZ 3D responds with the release of Carrara 7.0, the latest version of its popular all-in-one 3D modeling, animation and rendering solution. Carrara 7.0 boasts a broad set of new, easy-to-use features such as 3D paint, multi-pass rendering and assembly room vertex modeling for professionals, students and hobbyists within multiple industries including digital photography, illustration, creative design and videography.
Making It Look Great 5: Design, Production and Workflow Techniques for Adobe After Effects: provides seven hours of in-depth video training for Adobe After Effects and After Effects plug-ins from Motionworks.
Demonstrating its commitment to OpenGL and the standardization process, NVIDIA has released fully supported drivers for OpenGL 3.0 for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux on its select GeForce and Quadro solutions. These drivers enable software developers to take full advantage of all OpenGL 3.0 capabilities, accelerating their delivery of cutting-edge media platforms and applications.
Online marketplace of 3D assets, TurboSquid, is now an official reseller of Craft Director Tools.
"Our objective is to change the attitude of animation by educating a wide array of users about Craft Director Tools and their ability to offer a simple, fast and effective solution for professional-quality 3D animation," said Craft Animations Founder and Head of Research, Luigi Tramontana. "There is no better way to achieve this goal than to expand the Craft audience, and we see TurboSquid's renowned marketplace and active community as the perfect venue to help us do so."
