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‘Iron Man 3' Crosses $300 Million Mark Overseas
As Disney/Marvel’s Iron Man 3 crosses the $300 million line overseas—the pic has grossed over $307.7 million through Wednesday. The studio is expecting the Shane Black-directed pic to deliver huge numbers Stateside during its Thursday night and Friday shows. The movie’s Chinese opening day on Thursday brought in $21.5 million, [...]
Cinema 4D Aids Futuristic Vision of ‘Oblivion’
VFX and animation tech house Maxon has announced that the designers and animators charged with visualizing the complex in-camera and on-screen motion graphics sequences of Universal Pictures sci-fi flick Oblivion utilized the company’s Cinema 4D software to bring their futuristic vision to the big screen. Directed by Joseph Kosinski (TRON: [...]
‘Iron Man 3' Intl. Opening Beats ‘Avengers’ Record
You’ve got to give it Tony Stark and his alter ego Iron Man: They definitely know how to put on a show. This past week, Disney/Marvel’s Iron Man 3 posted phenomenal numbers in Europe during its first week at the box office, prior to its May 3 U.S. opening. The big [...]
Marvel Releases 10-Disc Phase One Collection
Marvel fans got a big home entertainment gift today (April 2) as the 10-disc, six-movie collection Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One Collection – Avengers Assembled arrived in stores. Complete with glowing Tesseract, this exciting collection includes stunning Blu-ray 3D and regular Blu-ray presentations of Marvel’s The Avengers, Captain America: The [...]
‘Gumdrop’ Premieres on WIGS
A cool new CG-augmented short titled Gumdrop premieres today (Nov. 19) on WIGS, the #1 YouTube channel for scripted drama. The short stars Gumdrop, a 27 year old Bulgarian actress who loves the Charleston, has a gift for vacuuming, has starred in films with Charlie Chaplin and Fred Astaire…and is [...]
Cinesite Appoints Eamonn Butler Animation Director
Leading digital visual effects house Cinesite has announced it has appointed Eamonn Butler as animation director to head up its expanding animation division. Butler joins the studio from Double Negative, where he was head of animation and supervised high-profile vfx blockbusters including Iron Man 2, John Carter, Hellboy 2, Paul [...]
Tartakovsky Signs Overall Deal with Sony Animation
Acclaimed animation veteran Genndy Tartakovsky has inked an overall deal with Sony Pictures Animation. The overall agreement goes beyond his current role as director of Hotel Transylvania and will include development and direction of his own projects, as well as the upcoming new take on Popeye. The deal was announced [...]
Gran Canaria’s Grand Animation Event
Damian Perea, director of the ANIMAYO International Festivals, does not entertain the idea that something may be too difficult to accomplish: He dwells in the world of the possible. Against the backdrop of festivals around Spain and the world struggling or closing their doors, he has continued to build the [...]
Evil Eye Contributes 200 VFX Shots to ‘The Avengers’
San Francisco-based vfx house Evil Eye Pictures has contributed nearly 200 visual effects shots for the Marvel’s The Avengers directed by Joss Whedon, which opens this Friday. Weta Digital, Digital Domain, Fuel VFX, Hydraulx, ILM, Lola VFX, Cantina Creative, Luma Pictures, Mova, The Third Floor and Trixter Films were among [...]
Anniversaries 2012
5 Years Still Loco for Toons It seems like just yesterday that we began hearing whisperings of the Latin American animation market’s emerging promise, and a certain Gothic-inspired CG animated feature out of Mexico that was stirring antennas in the Toon Town hive. It’s hard to believe that’s it has [...]
‘Beware the...
Cartoon Network has announced the premiere date of it’s brand-new CG...
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Those crazy, irreverent kids on FOX TV’s Family Guy team have done it...
