Tag "House"

Darnell, Rydstrom to Speak at Italy’s VIEW Conference

May 21, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Italy’s top CG animation and vfx technology conference VIEW has announced some of the key speakers for its 2012 Edition, which takes place Oct. 16-19 in the beautiful city of Turin. Among the top-notch guests of the fest this year are Eric Darnell, director of DreamWorks’ Madagascar trilogy; seven-time Oscar-winning [...]

Fry and Laurie to Voice New ‘Canterville Ghost’

May 18, 2012 by Ramin Zahed 2 Comments divider image

Actors Hugh Laurie (House) and Stephen Fry (Bones, The Hobbit), who used to work together as the comedy team of Fry & Laurie, will reunited on a CG-animated feature project titled The Canterville Ghost. Based on the classic story by Oscar Wilde, the movie will center on a 300-year-old ghost [...]

Big Innovation from Little Packages

December 1, 2011 by Michael Mallory 1 Comment divider image

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a chat I had with Brendan Fraser regarding the fine art of acting on a set opposite characters that aren’t really there, but will be added later through animation. Whether the animation in question is a gigantic, towering robot, as in the case [...]

‘X-Men’ Director Singer on Board for ‘Munsters’

by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

The TV world has already been furrowing its brows in puzzlement over how NBC’s planned one-hour-drama reboot of 1960s slapstick The Munsters is going to turn out, but now The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that a nearly finalized deal will bring on board director/producer/writer Bryan Singer of X-Men film franchise [...]