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Audiomotion Taps VICON To Drive Digital Characters On 10,000 BC

Audiomotion, the multi-award winning motion capture studio, used VICON mo-cap systems in the making of 10,000 BC. Over the course of several weeks Audiomotion set up and recorded all of the motion capture elements of the movie. They used 60 out their 100 strong suite of state-of-the-art Vicon MX40+ cameras.

10,000 BC was directed by Roland Emmerich and follows the journey of a young mammoth hunter through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.

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Eden FX's VFX Work For Nim's Island And Get Smart

Eden FX, a Hollywood-based creator of visual effects for feature films, television programs and commercials, worked on an extensive array of digital effects for two major studio feature films, NIM'S ISLAND and GET SMART.

On behalf of client Walden Media, Eden FX produced 200 visual effects shots for NIM'S ISLAND, including a number of complex 3-D elements, and a wide variety of other digital FX.

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Illness Forces Casting Change For Craven's New Thriller

A bout with mononucleosis will delay Henry Lee Hopper's screen debut, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER reports.

Dennis Hopper's son, 17, was set to play the lead in Wes Craven's tentatively titled 25/8, a horror thriller for Rogue Pictures. Instead, JUMPER star Max Thierot will star as one of seven teens haunted by a killer who was supposed to have died before they were born.

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New Projects In The Works For Ashley Tisdale

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL's Ashley Tisdale is in talks to star in United Artists' remake TEEN WITCH, per VARIETY.

Tisdale, best known as Sharpay Evans in the HSM franchise, has also set up a first-look deal with AMERICAN IDOL producers FremantleMedia North America.

In a one-year pact, which is close to being signed, the production company will develop projects around Tisdale.

Tisdale, 22, stars as Maddie in the Disney Channel sitcom THE SUITE LIFE OF ZACH & CODY and is also a singer, releasing the album HEADSTRONG in 2007.

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X-Files Movie Has A Title To Believe In

Fox has confirmed the title of the new X-FILES movie will be THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE, per VARIETY.

The second feature, based on Chris Carter's cult TV show reteams David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. It opens July 25.

Carter is directing from a script he wrote with Frank Spotnitz, and is still refusing to discuss much of the story. He did disclose that the plot will not focus on the show's alien mythology but instead feature a stand-alone story about the struggle between faith and science.

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Rainmaker Partners With POW! On Stan Lee's Legion Of 5

Legendary comic book creator Stan Lee and his company POW! Entertainment, along with Brighton Partners, have joined forces with Rainmaker Entertainment to launch the new superhero property LEGION OF 5, it was announced today by Warren Franklin, CEO of Rainmaker.

Rainmaker, a leading CG animation producer, will develop and produce the feature length film properties.

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Atlantis To Rise For DreamWorks

DreamWorks has optioned the rights to ATLANTIS RISING, a comic book from Platinum Studios, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci will produce the live-action feature adaptation for DreamWorks. Platinum chairman and CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenberg will also produce.

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Shyamalan Airbender Project Gets Greenlight

Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies have greenlit the live-action epic adventure M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN'S THE LAST AIRBENDER, which will launch over the Independence Day weekend in 2010, opening on Friday, July 2, 2010.

Shyamalan, the creator of the Oscar-nominated THE SIXTH SENSE, SIGNS and the upcoming THE HAPPENING, will direct and produce the epic action-adventure based on a script that he penned.

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Global Mechanic And The NFB Of Canada Shoot Stop Motion Film

Design-based boutique production company Global Mechanic and the National Film Board of Canada are in production on a new animated film. VIVE LA ROSE is a five-minute short set to a soulful version of the song by the same name.

The incredible emotional tone of the song was GM creative director and owner Bruce Alcock's initial inspiration for the film. Sung by legendary Newfoundland folksinger Emile Benoit when he was 92, this heartfelt recording was Benoit's last. The visual treatment includes beautifully rendered paintings and found objects animated in stop motion.

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Ghost In The Shell Bought By DreamWorks

DreamWorks has acquired the rights to GHOST IN THE SHELL, and plans to turn the Japanese manga into a 3D live-action feature, per VARIETY.

Steven Spielberg took an active role in the deal, telling VARIETY, "GHOST IN THE SHELL is one of my favorite stories," said Steven Spielberg. "It's a genre that has arrived, and we enthusiastically welcome it to DreamWorks."

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Snyder To Direct Guardians Of G'Hoole

Zack Snyder (300, WATCHMEN) will direct the animated adventure feature GUARDIANS OF GA'HOOLE for Village Roadshow Pictures.

The film will be produced by digital production studio Animal Logic at Fox Studios in Sydney. Animal Logic head Zareh Nalbandian will produce.

The script, written by John Orloff (A MIGHTY HEART, BAND OF BROTHERS) and John Collee (HAPPY FEET), is based on the popular children's book series by Kathryn Lasky. The film is set for a 2010 release.

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Weekend Box Office Scores On Prom Night

New release PROM NIGHT (Screengems, vfx by Lola Visual Effects) won the weekend box office (ending April 13) with $22.7 million, almost double what the number two movie made.

Also in new release and in second place was Keanu Reeves' L.A. cop thriller STREET KINGS (Fox Searchlight, vfx by At The Post and CafeFX) with $12M.

Last week's winner 21 slipped to number three with $11M for Sony (vfx by Proof, SWAY Studios) with a three-week gross of $62.3M.

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Fox Animation Gets Mummy Curse

Fox Animation has optioned young-adult book THE ANUBIS TAPESTRY: BETWEEN TWILIGHTS by Bruce Zick, according to VARIETY.

The film will be a loose adaptation of the novel, which follows a mummy curse condemning Dr. George Henry's spirit to the Egyptian Underworld. His son Chance encounters monsters in trying to free him.

Zick worked as an artist on FINDING NEMO, THE ROAD TO EL DORADO and A BUG'S LIFE before writing his 2006 novel, which creates a very detailed mythology.

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Sexton To Write Timecrimes Adaptation

United Artists hired Timothy J. Sexton to write TIMECRIMES, an adaptation of Spanish-language film LOS CRONOCRIMENES, per THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

Steven Zaillian and Agnes Metre are producing the noir thriller about a man who travels back in time 30 minutes to prevent a serious crime. The rights were acquired by UA in January, when the original, from Nacho Vigalondo, aired at Sundance.

Sexton helped write the Academy Award nominee CHILDREN OF MEN and has worked on various TV projects like HBO's LIVE FROM BAGHDAD.

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First Images Of Pixar's Up Available Now

Check out some early images of upcoming Pixar flick UP, on UpcomingPixar: http://pixarplanet.com/blog/3d-render-of-up-artwork.

Pete Docter and Bob Peterson are directing UP, which is set for a May 29, 2009 release.

The film features the surprisingly poignant premise of a 78-year-old widower (voiced by Ed Asner, Hollywood's grumpiest old man) embarking on an unlikely adventure (one that involves sending his house aloft via helium-filled balloons) to fulfill his late wife's dream. Peterson described the film as "a coming-of-old-age story."

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James Cameron Talks Avatar And 3-D

In a lengthy email interview, James Cameron discusses with VARIETY's David S. Cohen his highly anticipated project AVATAR. Although declining to discuss the specifics of his first film since mega-blockbuster TITANIC in 1997, Cameron delves deep into the 3D process.

The entire dialogue for "James Cameron Supercharges 3D" can be found on VARIETY's site.

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Dark Country Realizes A True 3D Thriller

3D cinematography has always held the potential for delivering to audiences a more realistic storytelling experience. This promise has been largely unfulfilled due to the physical constraints of traditional dual-camera cinema rigs, which limit the creative direction of any given shot.

Director Thomas Jane and Cinematographer Geoff Boyle, of the 3D film noir thriller DARK COUNTRY, were able to overcome these obstacles through a new highly mobile 3D Steadicam-based rig made possible by the Silicon Imaging SI-2K stereo camera system.

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Animated Batman Gotham Knight Premiere At Wizard World Chicago

The world premiere of the DC Universe animated original PG-13 movie, BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHT will premiere at Wizard World Chicago on June 28, 2008.

DC Comics, Warner Premiere, Warner Home Video and Warner Bros. Animation made the announcement Thursday.

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Universal Wins The Earth And The Moon

Universal won a four-studio bidding war this week for a sci-fi epic pitch from writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, per THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

EARTH VS. MOON was picked up for a mid- to high-six figure deal, with Scott Stuber to produce. No other plot details were revealed.

Reese was a writer on Pixar's MONSTERS, INC, and Wernick has earned three Emmys for TV news work.

The writing duo will executive produce EARTH VS. MOON, with Stuber Productions' Jon Mone to oversee; Lawrence Grey will oversee for Universal.

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Marks To Hack And Slash For Rogue

Writer Justin Marks has been hired to adapt HACK/SLASH for Rogue Pictures, per VARIETY. Todd Lincoln is on board to direct the film version of the comic from Devil's Due Publishing.

Tim Seeley and Stefano Caselli's comic surrounds Cassie Hack, a young woman who kills homicidal maniacs and serial killers on a nationwide road trip of vengeance.

The action flick is said to be both comedy- and horror-heavy.

Producers are Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter, who most recently oversaw HITMAN for Fox.

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Disney Taps Deep Into DNA In Unveiling Animation Slate

In announcing its animation slate for the next four-plus years yesterday at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, The Walt Disney Studios affirmed the new "director-driven" mandate since the acquisition of Pixar and rejuvenated leadership from John Lasseter and Ed Catmull.

Weekend Headline News

Valkyrie Release Date Moved To President's Day Weekend 2009

MGM and UA announced today they are moving the release date of Bryan Singer's World War II thriller VALKYRIE, to President's Day weekend, February 13, 2009.

This moves the Tom Cruise vehicle out of awards season contention, but will have more moneymaking potential.

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Actors Assembled For Robosapien

Bobby Coleman has been added to the cast of ROBOSAPIEN: REBOOTED, now filming in New Orleans, per THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

Coleman (MARTIAN CHILD) will play a boy who befriends a robot on the run from evil corporate interests. Penelope Ann Miller, David Eigenberg, Holliston Coleman, Joaquim de Almeida and Kim Coates are also part of the cast.

The Robosapien robot is the recipient of more than 30 national and international toy awards and recognitions. The movie will combine a live action story with advanced CG.

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