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It Moves from TV to Film

Warner Bros. will re-adapt Stephen King's novel IT into a feature film, with Dave Kajganich to write the script, according to VARIETY.

Dan Lin and Vertigo's Roy Lee and Doug Davison will produce. A 1990 ABC miniseries also followed the story of seven children in a small Maine town who confront a murderer who strikes in 1958 and again in 1985.

Kajganich is also working on ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK for Neal Moritz and New Line, as well as TRUE STORY (Plan B at Paramount Vantage) with director Kevin McDonald attached.

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Digital Video Launches Story Planner

Digital Video, the R&D branch of the 2D software Toonz, has announced the release of Story Planner and Story Planner Pro. The new application is a tool for creating storyboards with graphical and textual information, and generating animatics with soundtrack and animations.

Developed on the base of expert storyboard artists' suggestions, Story Planner is a fundamental management tool to facilitate the creative thinking process simplifying the workflow in cinema, advertising, animation and videogames industries, increasing the production speed, saving time and costing.

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Brickyard VFX Serves Up Holiday Cheer for RadioShack

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.

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Microsoft, Chorion Bring Time For A Story Home

Microsoft is bringing Chorion's online interactive storytelling application Time for a Story into the family of services offered to the 17 million-plus U.K. users of Windows Live Messenger. Microsoft has signed a long-term distribution license with Chorion for exclusive use of the application. Chorion owns the rights to characters like Noddy, Mr. Men and Paddington Bear.

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Bolt & Buzz Lightyear Head to New York City for Thanksgiving

Walt Disney Studios will celebrate Thanksgiving this year by sending characters from BOLT and TOY STORY to New York City to participate in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Miley Cyrus is slated to sing "I Thought I Lost You" from the upcoming Walt Disney Animation Studios' comedy BOLT aboard a float starring characters from the movie, which features the voices of Cyrus and John Travolta and opens in Disney Digital 3-D on Nov. 21, 2008.

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Animated Series Best Ed Gets Nutty Web Site

marblemedia Interactive and 9 Story Ent. have partnered to create an innovative Web site for the animated children's series BEST ED (52x11), produced and distributed by 9 Story. Fans can play in the world of best buddies Ed (a dog) and Buddy (a squirrel) when the BEST ED Web site launches in February 2009.

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Pixar Gives Nod To Past At Future-Looking SIGGRAPH

For their night at the uber-progressive SIGGRAPH, Pixar Studios honored the past, showing legendary animator Frederic Back's THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES and honored their own past with documentary THE PIXAR STORY.

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CIS London And Brideshead Revisited

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, Miramax Films' recently released feature adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's cherished novel, is filled with seamless invisible visual effects created by CIS London.

Working closely with the film's director, Julian Jarrold, VFX Supervisor Adam Gascoyne oversaw the challenging subtleties that were essential in bringing Jarrold's version of the classic story to life.

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Headlight Reinterprets A Classic With Wolfie

From New York-based Design + VFX house Headlight comes WOLFIE, an inventive interpretation of the classic THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF fable. This animated two-minute short was stylishly crafted for the second annual Twenty 120 film collection. The 2008 Twenty120 collection features works from renowned commercial directors, designers, television creatives, art directors and fine artists; spanning from Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, London and Cologne, Germany. This year's theme: "Truth vs. Deception."

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The Ultimate Storyboard Tool From The Developers Of Toonz

Digital Video, the R&D company of the leading 2D animation system Toonz, announces a new production software: Story Planner, the ultimate tool for creating storyboard and animatics.

With Story Planner it is possible to create from start to finish a storyboard with sketches and notes laid out in an unlimited number of panels describing the flow of the story.

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Toy Story Mania! Launches With Four Dimensions Of Fun At Disneyland

In a ceremony featuring sky divers, fireworks and Disney executives, along with NASA Astronauts and Buzz Lightyear on board the International Space Station, the new TOY STORY MANIA! attraction premiered Tuesday in Disney's California Adventure as part of Disney's "Year of a Million Dreams."

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Horton Director Signs With UTA

HORTON HEARS A WHO! helmer Jimmy Hayward has signed with UTA, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. Previously, he has no agency representation. Hayward made his feature debut on HORTON, which has grossed over $275 million worldwide thus far.

Hayward began his career working on REBOOT, before moving to Pixar where he worked on such films as TOY STORY, A BUG'S LIFE, TOY STORY 2, MONSTERS, INC., and FINDING NEMO. He started working for Blue Sky on ROBOTS.

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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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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.

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