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‘Ernest & Celestine’ Earns Top NYICFF Prize

March 19, 2013 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

The New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) has announced the winners of its 2013 awards, presented March 17 at the DGA Theater, with the 2D French feature Ernest & Celestine, and U.K. short I Am Tom Moody taking home the top juried honors. This year’s jury was comprised of [...]

All the Pretty Digital Pictures

January 14, 2013 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

A passing glance at the list of the 10 features which made the vfx Oscar shortlist and will present 10-minute clips at the January 3 Bake-0ff is that many of them are returning champs. From Spider-Man and Batman to Gollum (The Hobbit), Snow White and Iron Man (The Avengers), we’ve [...]

DreamWorks ‘Guardians’ Brings in $32.4 Million

November 25, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

The long Thanksgiving weekend was good to DreamWorks Animation and the band of legendary childhood heroes featured in Rise of the Guardians. Directed by Peter Ramsey, the much-anticipated pic, which rated 74% on the rottentomatoes.com review site, brought in an estimated $32.6 million at the box office over the five-day [...]

Lee’s ‘Life of Pi’ to Premiere at N.Y. Film Festival

August 13, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Director Ang Lee’s much anticipated feature Life of Pi is scheduled to premiere at the 50th New York Film Festival as its Opening Night Gala program in September. The selection will allows Lee to join Robert Altman, Pedro Almodóvar and François Truffaut as the only directors to have had more [...]

A Hot VFX Summer Sampler

June 2, 2012 by Thomas J. McLean 1 Comment divider image

We focus on some of the innovative digital effects of three of the season’s early blockbusters. Men In Black III (Sony) VFX Supervisor: Ken Ralston It’s been 10 years since Agents J and K last graced the big screen to police the alien population living among us—not so long by [...]

Best British Animated Character Race Is On

February 21, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Wallace & Gromit, Paddington Bear and The Snowman are some of the popular animated characters competing against each other in a national poll to discover Britain’s Favorite Ever Animated Character as part of this year’s British Animation Awards (BAAs). Compiled by members of the UK Animation Industry, the all-Brit shortlist [...]