Special effect artist Grant McCune has died at the age of 67, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
I hope everyone had a great holiday, and is looking forward to an indulgent New Year's Eve.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Asylum VFX founder Nathan McGuinness has took the post of creative director at Double Negative Singapore. Asylum shut its doors last month. Double Negative Singapore hopes to expand to 100 employees in early 2011. McGuinness will be based out of Los Angeles.
9 Story Entertainment has tapped TWO AND A HALF MEN exec producer Jeff Abugov as the showrunner for its Teletoon production FUGGET ABOUT IT, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Nomination ballots for the 83rd Academy Awards® were mailed today to the 5,755 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
True Grit, from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions, opening nationwide today, marks the fourth collaboration between Luma Pictures and Academy Award®-winning directors Joel and Ethan Coen.
The Gnomon Workshop is proud to announce the release of the latest title focusing on FX Workflow and integration.
Based on the premise that every Toyota owner has an anecdote about why they love their car, Mike McKay, Executive Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles, led the team who came up with ‘Auto-Biography’, a Facebook community where Toyota drivers can share their stories.
chrome Editors Hal Honigsberg and Lance Pereira, collaborating with Psyop/Smuggler and Wunderman, just released a slate of :30s promoting Dell's exciting new products. The project showcases a myriad of challenging split-screens and an ever-changing mix of graphic and live-action footage.
Animal Logic CEO and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole Producer, Zareh Nalbandian last night accepted one of the Australian Film Institute’s (AFI’s) top honours at its annual AFI Awards gala in Melbourne.
“Think of this book as a Disney History companion filling in some of those nooks and crannies that may only be mentioned in a brief sentence or two, if at all, in other Disney history books. These chapters truly are the forgotten but fascinating Disney stories.” Through the compilation of the wide array of articles that he has written through the years, Korkis presents a work that provides his readers with little known histories and stories about Walt Disney and the empire that he created.
Walt Disney Pictures is bringing TRON: Legacy to the big screen, using the latest computer graphics technology to introduce a new wave of video game battles on the Grid. And Disney Interactive Studios has enlisted Propaganda Games to develop the TRON: Evolution game, which tells the story of what’s been going on within the TRON mythology over the past three decades.
James Caan is providing voice for a talking jalapeno on OpenFilm.com's THE ANNOYING ORANGE, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Phillip Noyce told Moviehole that he would not return to direct the sequel to SALT.
McG and Breck Eisner are the latest directors to pitch their visions of the OUIJA feature to Universal, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Paul Yanover, evp and managing director of Disney Online, will be exiting the company in January, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
We chatted with Joseph Kosinski, the director of the highly anticipated TRON: LEGACY, which opens today from Disney.
With the release this week of DESPICABLE ME on Blu-ray (from Universal Home Ent.) along with the Golden Globe nomination, we took the opportunity to chat with producer Chris Meledandri.
A lower court ruling was upheld by an Oklahoma appeals court in the lawsuit against Disney and Pixar over the likeness rights of Lightning McQueen from CARS, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Melissa Rosenberg (TWILIGHT) will write and exec produce an adaptation of Marvel’s AKA JESSICA JONES for ABC, reports Variety.
Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) announced today that IVS Associates, Inc., the independent Inspector of Elections, has released its preliminary report for Lionsgate's 2010 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held on December 14, 2010.
Target Entertainment announces that Oliver Ellis, Target’s director of children’s and family, and Helen Howells, commercial director, will be leaving Target Entertainment to set up their own prodco.
With offices in Hollywood, Hong Kong and Shanghai, acclaimed industry leader yU+co. has added two-time Emmy award-winning Creative Director Eric Anderson to their Hollywood roster.
Few cartoons have been able to capture the attention of multiple generations like the Looney Tunes. As Ruth Clampett, daughter of Looney Tunes animation director Bob Clampett, points out in her foreword to THE LOONEY TUNES TREASURY (Running Press; Publication month: October 2010; $45.00), "Looney Tunes are the animated family we grew up with."
Special Guest: Ottawa International Animation Festival - Part 1. Full laurels, keys to capitals, and banks of international accolades might weigh down other comedy podcast journaltarians of animation, but never for the lion-hearted, docu-brave, master news-making martyrs (and hyperbolically humble) Joel Frenzer and Alan Foreman. Join them as they interview animation's brightest and best about books, inappropriate cartoons, competing podcasts, pirates, and pumpkins - live from North America's largest festival of international animation in Ottawa, ON in 2010 at the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2010.
