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Gondry to Direct Green Hornet
Michel Gondry, best known for the cult hit Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is set to direct The Green Hornet, Variety reports. Seth Rogen is set to play the masked crime fighter, and also co-wrote the screenplay with Evan Goldberg. The pair is best known for writing the hit [...]
Iron Man DVD Lifts Marvel Earnings
Marvel Entertainment reported stronger than expected profits for 2008, fueled in large part by strong sales of the Iron Man DVD. Net sales for the company were $224 million, up from $109.3 million for the fourth quarter. That powered the year’s net sales to $676 million, up from $485 in [...]
Sesame Joins Universal’s Dubai Park Plans
Universal Studios Dubailand has signed a deal with Sesame Workshop to develop three Sesame Street-themed venues for an under-construction theme park in the United Arab Emirates. Anchoring the addition is Sesame Street 4-D Movie Magic, an experience that will explore the moviemaking process using such familiar characters as Big Bird, [...]
Autodesk Introduces Softimage 7.5
Autodesk has launched Softimage 7.5, adding features such as UV unfolding technology and an integrated mental ray renderer into the popular game creation and visual effects application. This release sees a name change for the software, which was formerly known as Softimage|XSI and was acquired by Autodesk from Avid Technology. [...]
DreamWorks Taps NM Supercomputer Capacity
DreamWorks Animation has linked up with a New Mexico-owned supercomputing initiative to make more efficient CG movies. In a deal announced by New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, DreamWorks is teaming up with Cerelink Digital Media Group to use the New Mexico Computing Applications Center’s resources for rendering its 3-D movies. [...]
Futurama’s Final Finale, Plus Akira Arrive on Blu-ray
Comic and tragic visions of the future lead off this week’s animated DVD releases. Up first is Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (Fox, $29.98 DVD, $39.99 Blu-ray), the fourth and apparently final outing for the long-running series from Matt Groening and David X. Cohen. Directed by series regular Peter [...]
Nick Grabs Elephant Princess for Global Markets
Nick International has picked up the live-action tween series The Elephant Princess to air in Europe, Africa and Latin America. The channel also picked up from distributor ZDF Enterprises the rights to extensive online content that will debut in conjunction with the ramp up to the series debut. The show, [...]
Disney Buys Kids Animation Site Kerpoof
The Walt Disney Co. has acquired Kerpoof, a kids-oriented website that lets users easily create pictures, cards and short animated clips. Kerpoof launched in 2007 and will continue as its own online portal, according to TechCrunch. Disney has already begun to incorporate Kerpoof’s technology and simple interfaces into its Disney [...]
Button, WALL’E Dominate VES Awards
The night belonged to a robot, a backwards-aging Brad Pitt and the nation’s second president at the 7th annual Visual Effects Society Awards. WALL’E, the Pixar-Disney animated film, took all the animation awards, including outstanding animated character, outstanding effects animation and outstanding animation in an animated motion picture. The results [...]
Coraline’s Selick to Give NAB Keynote
Henry Selick, director of the 3-D stop-motion animated feature Coraline, will be a keynote speaker at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas. Selick will speak on how digital technology has helped to revitalize the handcrafted approach of stop-motion animation in a session set for the afternoon of [...]
Adobe’s Creative Cloud...
Adobe announced that a major update to Adobe Creative, the company’s flagship...
‘Kung Fu Panda 3'...
Production on DreamWorks Animation’s late-2015 release Kung Fu Panda 3...
