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Clotiaux to Head Up Frantic’s Global Efforts
Terry Clotiaux, a 20-year veteran of the visual effects industry, has signed on with Frantic Films, a division of Prime Focus Group, as senior VP and COO of visual effects worldwide. Clotiaux will work out of Frantic’s Hollywood office and is responsible for building up the company’s international visual effects [...]
Hulk Vs. Leads Week’s DVD Releases
A newly animated Hulk takes on both Wolverine and Thor in this week’s batch of DVD releases. Hulk Vs. (Lionsgate) includes two animated features from Marvel and is available in a regular widescreen edition ($19.98), a widescreen special edition ($24.98) and on Blu-ray ($29.99). Also new this week is Open [...]
Imagi Debunks Rumors of Halt to Astro Boy
Amid reports of financial problems plaguing Hong Kong-based Imagi, president of the company’s U.S. operation Erin Corbett denied in an interview with io9.com that the Astro Boy feature film has halted production. Corbett told the site that the studio has the money to finish the film, due out in October [...]
Tintin Starts Production, Casting
The final pieces have been put in place for The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, the first film in Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s 3-D motion-capture trilogy adapting the classic European comic book series. Joining the cast are Jamie Bell (Defiance, Jumper) as the titular hero and Daniel [...]
Animated Fare Racks Up Sound Editors’ Nominations
The Motion Picture Sound Editors have announced the nominations for the Golden Reel Awards, honoring the best work in various areas of sound editing in features, television and DVD. Eight films were nominated for the Golden Reel for best animated film: Bolt, Fear(s) of the Dark, Horton Hears A Who!, [...]
WALL’E Adds PGA Win to Its Awards Roll
WALL’E won the animated feature of the year honor at the Producers Guild of America Awards in a ceremony that seemed to confirm its front-runner status for next month’s Academy Awards. The award for WALL’E went to producer Jim Morris, with the film beating out Bolt and Kung Fu Panda [...]
Venice Fest to Fete Lasseter, Pixar and Disney
The Venice Film Festival will break with its indie tradition and bestow a career achievement honor on John Lasseter and the directors of the Disney and Pixar studios. The festival’s organizers called Lasseter “one of the great innovators and experimenters of Hollywood,” according to a Reuters report. Lasseter is chief [...]
Cartoon Movie Picks 50 Features for Its Lyons Debut
Cartoon Movie, a co-production forum for animated features, has selected 50 projects for its first edition in Lyons, France. Among the finished European animated movies screening at the event this year are Cartoon Saloon’s Brendan and the Secret of Kells (Ireland), Art and Animation Studio’s Goat Story (Czech Republic), Toons [...]
Little Princess Gets a Go for Third Season
Partners TV-Loonland and The Illuminated Film Company have announced production on a third season of the award-winning series for preschoolers Little Princess. The season was commissioned by Five’s Milkshake in the U.K., and will consist of 35 episodes of 11 minutes each. The series airs in more than 165 countries, [...]
Blue Sky Completes Move to Connecticut
The state of Connecticut welcomed last week its most animated new resident, Blue Sky Studios, which recently completed its move to Greenwich from White Plains, N.Y. The studio has set up shop in a one-story, 106,000-square-foot space in the Greenwich American Centre, an upgrade from its three-story, 85,000-square-foot shop in [...]
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