Sam Neill, Sean Bean and Joss Ackland have signed on to the cast of NBC's fall action series CRUSOE, says THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.
The project is based on Daniel Defoe's novel about dashing and resourceful castaway Crusoe (Philip Winchester) and his companion Friday on a desert island. Not un-LOST-like, the show will give viewers flashbacks that deal with Crusoe's life before his fateful voyage.
Principal photography for TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE FUTURE BEGINS, starring Sam Worthington and Christian Bale, is now underway in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE FUTURE BEGINS is directed by McG from a script by Michael Ferris and John Brancato. It is a Halcyon Company film from Mortiz Borman Production and a McG Film.
McG will write a production blog on the movie's official site: http://rss.warnerbros.com/terminatorsalvation/.
Academy of Art University is the nation's largest private art and design university with nearly 12,000 students. Established in 1929, the university offers accredited AA, BFA, M.Arch and MFA programs in 13 areas of art and design emphasis, online or in San Francisco. Students from the School of Animation and Visual Effects are highly recruited by companies such as Pixar.
With VFX editor Bill Desowitz away this week, it's my pleasure to share with you some of the great articles we have schedule for the next week. In this month's edition of "The Digital Eye," Peter Plantec chats with Paul Debevec about his latest research projects involving realtime 3-D display and capturing and rendering human faces, including a new skin rendering technique.
MPC has signed two of the industry's most creative individuals to add to their team of outstandingly talented Flame artists, vfx supervisors: Yourick Van Impe and Rob Walker.
Van Impe joins from The Mill. Van Impe's recent credits include a Pontiac spot directed by Pleix at Furlined, Audi R8 by Olivier Gondry at Partizan and Audi RS6 for Paul Hunter at Prettybird.
Some of the first fruits of Axis Films' investment in a Silicon Imaging SI-2K Mini digital camera system can now be viewed in the form of two TV ads for British Telecom (BT).
Irish production company, 4x4, chose to use the SI-2K Mini from Axis Films after being commissioned by The Heavenly Group to make a pair of commercials promoting BT's newly enhanced consumer broadband offering which were aired in the U.K. at the start of May 2008.
Prior to Microsoft Advance 2008, James Cameron spoke about his new film AVATAR, per SEARCHENGINEWATCH.com.
Jon Landau, Cameron's producing partner at Lightstorm Ent., said the abundance of digital information and the ability to use technologies opened up a new window Cameron didn't know existed. When Cameron started, films were photochemical emulsions. They're all digital now.
The Visual Effects Society (VES) has published the first ever set of VES guidelines for titles in the visual effects industry. The list has been vetted by VES members and ratified by the VES Board of Directors. Major studios have reviewed the list as well and are encouraged to utilize it.
AMD today announced the first commercial implementation of Graphics Double Data Rate, version 5 (GDDR5) memory in its forthcoming next generation of ATI Radeon graphics card products. The high-speed, high-bandwidth GDDR5 technology is expected to become the new memory standard in the industry, and that same performance and bandwidth is a key enabler of The Ultimate Visual Experience, unlocking new GPU capabilities.
AMD is working with a number of leading memory providers, including Samsung, Hynix and Qimonda, to bring GDDR5 to market.
Movie lovers are saying that Indiana Jones may have enough gray hair to be a classic, but they also overwhelmingly agree he's a modern-day hero that still captures their hearts and imaginations.
Blockbuster revealed the results of a survey in which film buffs gave "classic" status to several scenes from the first three Indiana Jones movies. The survey also reveals that fans still see Indy as a bonafide action hero, even if he has aged since his first film came out more than 25 years ago.
The new 30 second commercial SILHOUETTES for the Bold 2in1 Infusions range, follows from the beautiful SPIRIT DANCER spot. Focusing specifically on the White Diamond and Lotus Flower fragrance from the company, this is another stunningly sumptuous piece from Director Howard Greenhalgh.
The objective of the creative was to communicate the elegant and luxurious fragrance of Bold in1 Infusions' White Diamond and Lotus Flower and how it would really indulge the consumer's senses.
Entity FX, an award-winning film, television and commercial visual effects company in Santa Monica, California, and Vancouver, British Columbia, announced today that it is completing many of the visual effects for the upcoming feature THE SPIRIT from producers Odd Lot Ent. and Lionsgate.
Based on Will Eisner's comic and representing Frank Miller's directorial debut, THE SPIRIT was recently teed up for release this December.
Sci Fi Channel's new original special MYSTERY OF THE CRYSTAL SKULLS, which premiered on Sunday May 18 and hosted by NBC News' Lester Holt, scored ratings records as the #1 documentary special in Sci Fi history.
The Sunday night special which aired at 9 p.m. brought in a 2.2 household rating 1.4 P18-49, 1.6 P25-54 and 2.8 million total viewers. Sci Fi was the #1 cable network in primetime Sunday and delivered four of the top five P25-54 telecasts for the day and four of the top six P18-49 telecasts, including the #1 telecast of the day in both demos.
Jake Gyllenhaal will portray the title character in Disney's PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME, based on the Ubisoft hit video game, per VARIETY.
Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney are hoping to turn the fantasy action story into a franchise a la PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN. Gemma Arterton will co-star as Tamina. She appears next in the upcoming James Bond film QUANTUM OF SOLACE in November.
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DreamWorks will bring legendary pirate Blackbeard's story to the big screen, according to VARIETY.
Writer David Franzoni (DreamWorks' AMISTAD and GLADIATOR) will pen the script about the life of British buccaneer Edward Teach, who became known to history as Blackbeard.
Producers are Barry Josephson (ENCHANTED) and motivational speaker/Philadelphia 76ers president/co-owner Pat Croce, who wrote PIRATE SOUL that chronicled the golden age of piracy (1690-1730).
George A Romero's DAWN OF THE DEAD will be presented in stereoscopic 3-D for a planned theatrical release, per THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.
New Amsterdam Ent. has hired In-Three, which will use its proprietary "dimensionalization" process to turn the 1978 indie horror flick to 3-D, and should be completed this year.
Looking to add another dimension to your next Adobe Photoshop project? DAZ 3D, a leading developer of professional-quality 3-D software and models, today announced the immediate availability of the DAZ Studio 3D Bridge plug-in for Photoshop.
The 3D Bridge plug-in for Photoshop allows DAZ Studio users to automatically apply 3-D imagery and artwork to any Photoshop project. To help artists master the seamless transfer application, DAZ 3D is offering a free 30-day evaluation license of the 3D Bridge plug-in for Photoshop prior to purchase.
THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO recently began using AJA's XENA 2Ke video card as a key component of its vfx editing pipeline. AJA XENA 2Ke is AJA Video Systems' top-of-the-line card for Windows Vista and XP, delivering uncompressed SD, HD and Dual Link HD video, enabling customers to work with 2K frames in a flexible and future-safe architecture.
i3DTutorials, an Autodesk Authorized Publisher, announces their latest training product for 3dsMax 2009, INTRODUCTION TO 3DSMAX 2009. This latest offering from the growing i3DTutorials library of 3dsMax training products, introduces newcomers to the world of computer graphics with Autodesk's award winning computer animation software.
Creative design and digital production studio The Syndicate has won a prestigious Gold Clio Award for their contribution to the execution of Freixenet's THE KEY TO RESERVA.
JWT Spain, RSA Films and The Syndicate were awarded Clio's top honor in the Beverages/Alcohol category. The Clio Awards is the world's most recognized global awards competition for advertising, design, and interactive.
JWT Spain and RSA Films also won a Gold Pencil for THE KEY TO RESERVA at the 2008 One Show in New York.
Harvey Weinstein will produce Paulo Coelho's international best-selling novel THE ALCHEMIST, they announced at Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.
The Weinstein Company will hold exclusive world-wide motion picture and television rights for the film. Glen Basner, President of The Weinstein Company International, will handle global sales.
nPower Software, a division of IntegrityWare, has released the 5.0 version of its Power NURBS, Power Solids, and Power Translators products (with support for 3ds Max 2009 and 3ds Design 2009, including 64 bit support).
nPower Software's popular Power NURBS, Power Translators, and Power Solids products received a turbo charged performance boost with the version 5.0 release. This 5.0 version dramatically improves productivity and design throughput by significantly optimizing the most common operations used in virtually all of the commands.
John Cusack has signed on to star in Roland Emmerich's apocalyptic thriller 2012 for Columbia Pictures, according to VARIETY.
Chiwetel Ejiofor is in talks to join him in the big-budget epic, whose title refers to the end days of human civilization as predicted by the ancient Mayan calendar.
The story starts with a global apocalypse, then chronicles the heroic struggle of the survivors. Emmerich and Harald Kloser wrote the script, which Sony bought in February. Barring a Screen Actors Guild strike, shooting will begin in July in Los Angeles.
SCI FI WIRE reports that in-demand producer J.J. Abrams is weighing the possibility of working with CLOVERFIELD writer Drew Goddard and director Matt Reeves again, but not on another CLOVERFIELD.
"We're talking about it," Abrams said of CLOVERFIELD 2 during an interview at the Fox upfront presentation for advertisers in New York on May 15, where he was promoting his upcoming Fox series FRINGE. "But the truth is there's another idea that I'd rather do with the same people than do a sequel. It's a whole new thing."
