Blumhouse and Atomic Monster to Become ‘Horrific’ Monopoly?
Horror giants Jason Blum and James Wan are in talks to join their creative houses, while still maintaining brand identity and autonomy, to expand into new types of content.
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Disney Drops Final ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Trailer
Marking ‘Avatar Day,’ the spot will debut tonight on ESPN’s ‘Monday Night Football’ game as part of worldwide celebrations transporting cities to the world of Pandora; Original ‘Avatar’ now streaming on Disney+.
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Exxact Corp. Works with NVIDIA to Support Omniverse Enterprise
The Fremont, CA-based provider of high-performance digital hardware helps bring real-time collaboration to a growing clientele.
Just Released Unreal Engine 5.1 Update Targets M&E Professionals
Enhancements in the latest version include a host of improvements and additions to toolsets specific to the animation and VFX industries’ needs.
MGM+ and Prime Video Teaming with Marvel-Sony for Suite of Live-Action Series
First up is ‘Silk: Spider Society,’ which follows Cindy Moon, a Korean-American woman bitten by the same spider that bit Peter Parker, with Angela Kang (‘The Walking Dead’) as showrunner for Amazon Studios.
Travis Fimmel Snags Key Role in ‘Dune: The Sisterhood’
The magnetic ‘Vikings’ and ‘Raised by Wolves’ actor will portray Desmond Hart, a charismatic soldier at odds with the sisterhood of the Bene Geserit in the upcoming ‘Dune’ prequel.
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AWS Thinkbox Plugins Released as Open Source
Artists and studios gain broader accessibility to products and tools with Krakatoa and XMesh source code available for Autodesk Maya under Apache 2.0 open source license; artist tools simplify rendering, VFX, and simulation workflows.
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Animal Logic Gets ‘Unhinged’ with ALab Phase 2, Unreal Engine, and a Sock Puppet Scientist
Art director Grant Freckelton and director David Peers talk about the studio’s groundbreaking open-source USD ALab, its expansion into ALab Phase 2, and the Unreal Engine-created short film that grew out of their R&D efforts.
Coming December 8: PNY, Vū, NVIDIA, and Puget Systems’ ‘How Vū is Revolutionizing Virtual Production’ Webinar
This free virtual presentation will explore how Vū’s virtual production environment, coupled with NVIDIA RTX™ A6000 professional GPUs, is optimizing workflows and pushing the boundaries of the possible in virtual production.
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DNEG Announces New Sydney Studio
Slated to open in early 2023 with award-winning VFX Supervisor and Australian national Andrew Jackson at the helm, the studio will lead the visual effects production on George Miller’s highly anticipated ‘Mad Max’ prequel ‘Furiosa’ - coming in 2024.
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FMX 2023 Set for April 25-28
The 4-day hybrid event returns to Stuttgart with 1-day devoted to online presentations from around the world; BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated producer Jinko Gotoh serves as the next program chair.
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Wētā FX Works Their Smashingly Good Magic on ‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’
In an extensive Q & A, Senior Animation Supervisor Sidney Kombo-Kintombo and Senior VFX Supervisor Guy Williams talk about their gargantuan contributions to Marvel Studios’ 'She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,' streaming exclusively on Disney+.
BOXX Upgrades APEXX S4 Workstations with New CPUs
Now featuring 13th Gen Intel Core i7 and i9 processors, the desk-side system is built to optimize creative and accelerated 3D workflows for CAD, 3D design, motion media, and other professional software applications.
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Arcturus Announces $11M Funding from Cloudtree Ventures, Autodesk and Epic Games
New round of Series A funding will enable HoloSuite platform enhancements and continued development of new tools and techniques for 3D creation tools like Maya and Unreal Engine.
Jetstreak Ink Shares ‘Legacy of the Mandalorian’ Trailer
Fan film uses ARwall virtual production tools for interactive lighting within different virtual environments; watch the behind-the-scenes video to see the new technology and its in-camera applications.
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Sony Pictures Imageworks Celebrates 20 Years of ‘Spider-Man’
While celebrating its 30th anniversary, the leading animation and VFX studio drops a highlight reel celebrating the iconic Marvel superhero’s 20th anniversary and the studio’s innovation and artistry across all 9, soon to be 10, movies.
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Epic Games Releases Unreal Engine 5.1
New release increases efficiency and versatility across industries, and includes enhanced world-building tools; animation, rigging, and modeling enhancements; and updates for virtual production, broadcast, live events.
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Fancy VFX Adds Janine Conway and Chris Green
The two visual effects veterans join the studio as Senior Producer and Compositing Supervisor, respectively.
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Netflix Working on Multiple ‘Gears of War’ Projects
The popular sci-fi Xbox franchise is headed to both a feature film and adult animation series, with more potential adaptations in the future.
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‘Indiana Jones’ Series May Be Headed to Disney+
The streamer and Lucasfilm are actively seeking a writer for an ‘Indiana Jones’ TV series, which could be a prequel, spinoff, or set-up for future films in the franchise.
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A ‘Hercules’ Live-Action Adaptation Inspired by TikTok?
Fans are up in arms after a Variety interview with Joe Russo describes the upcoming musical remake as ‘modernized’ and ‘experimental,’ with possible inspiration by elements of the popular dancing app.
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Jogger Studios Adds Producer Joel Paisner
Industry veteran produced for The Mill and Media Arts Lab before joining the boutique visual effects studio.
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BIG TEASE: Potential Lucasfilm and Studio Ghibli Collaboration in the Works
While neither camp has officially commented, the beloved Japanese animation studio Tweeted a video of the Lucasfilm logo, followed by the Studio Ghibli logo, hinting at a future project.
Netflix Drops ‘The Witcher: Blood Origin’ Teaser Trailer
Minnie Driver and Michelle Yeah star in the prequel set 1,200 years prior to the popular ‘The Witcher’ series, when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one; the 4-part limited series streams Christmas day.
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Milk Names Steve MacPherson Chief Technology Officer
The former Framestore CTO steps into studio’s newly created role to drive technology strategy and operations including Systems, Pipeline, Editorial, and R&D.
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