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Argentina’s RedLojo Gets Animated
Veteran Argentinian film and TV producer Jorge Rodriguez, is goosing up his company’s recent entry into the animation business. Rodriguez is head of Buenos Aires-based RedLojo Entertainment. Known for tele-novelas such as Salvame Maria and Paraiso Rock, Rodriguez plans to increase the budgets and frequency of releases of his ani [...]
Mirage Studio Pro On Sale Today
Mirage Studio Pro, the latest addition to the Mirage 2D animation product line, is officially on the market as of tomorrow morning. The new software integrates both the Bauhaus Animator’s Toolbar, and the recently released Board-O-Matic 2 into Studio Pro. The Toolbar automates many functions that are vital to the [...]
You’ve Got A Deal: Mouse House/AOL Sign Narnia Pact
The Walt Disney Studios and AOL have announced an exclusive content partnership through which AOL web sites will offer movie fans a first look at photos, artwork, behind-the-scenes video and extended footage from Walt Disney Pictures’/Walden Media’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The film [...]
Sci-Fi Channel Grabs Ring Saga
The Sci-Fi Channel has acquired the rights to Ring of the Nibelungs. The hit fantasy-adventure miniseries from Tandem Communications was Germany’s most successful TV movie of 2004. Loosely based on the Germanic myth about the magic ring of the Nibelungs and the Nordic Volsunga Saga, Ring is set to air [...]
Sony Electronics Keeping It Reel Debuts 4K Projector
After years of bickering over whom will foot the bill for it, the Holy Grail of digital cinema seems to be coming closer to reality. The major studios and the big exhibition chains know that they’ll both reap economic benefits from digital distribution, so the new paradigm is that, in [...]
Can U Pic’s Doom, Fox’s Hitman Succeed Where Others Have Failed?
When it comes to video games transmogrifying into feature films, the B-school logic of the MBA studio marketing teams isn’t hard to figure out (think of a boardroom filled with Apprentice winners). Video games generated nearly $25 billion in 2004, nearly three times more than the revenue generated at the [...]
Fanning Gathering Rosebuds While She’s Young
Whether young Dakota Fanning will be able to make an Elizabeth Taylor-like transition from child star to grown up actor remains to be seen. Whatever the future holds, her current career as award-winning tyke phenom continues apace. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Fanning has been signed to voice the [...]
If You Can’t Lick ‘Em, Have Them Join You
A Norwegian hacker hero has been hired by a San Diego, California-based digital music service. The Associated Press is reporting that Jon Lech Johansen a.k.a "DVD Jon" began work this week at MP3Tunes, the digital music service started in February by Michael Robertson. As a teen, Johansen was arrested for [...]
Lagoon Creature To Make Comeback With Eisner Scion
Michael Eisner is out of work, but son Breck is going from strength to strength. Eisner is now set to direct a re-make of Universal’s Creature From the Black Lagoon with Gary Ross producing. Eisner made his feature directorial debut with the modest action hit Sahara. Ross’s father, Arthur A. [...]
Blu-ray Gains More Traction Over HD DVD
The major trades are reporting today that Warner Bros. has come over to Sony’s Blu-ray platform. For reasons known only to God, the industry still seems to have a hard time remembering the expensive debacles that happen when competing, incompatible formats battle for consumers. The DVD/DivX and BetaMax/VHS mis-steps cost [...]
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The parade of stars stopping by The Simpsons office to do guest voice stints on...
Boinx Unveils New Features of...
German software producer Boinx has unveiled some special upgrades the 3.1...
