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2012 SIGGRAPH Must-Sees


August 6, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image
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With the 39th annual conference and exhibit running August 5-9 in the Los Angeles Convention Center, there’s plenty for CG fanatics and technophiles to check out. Here’s our list of can’t-miss confab events. Electronic Theater: Enjoy the year’s most impressive CG feats in short films, commercials, music videos and more [...]

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The Bugs Are Back!


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Director Shinji Aramaki and exec producer Casper Van Dien take us back to the world of Verhoeven’s classic with the new CG-animated movie Starship Troopers: Invasion. It’s been 15 years since Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers captured the imagination of fantasy and sci fi lovers with its depiction of a stark [...]

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Toon Goggles Launches Viewing App for Sony Tablets


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Online kids channel Toon Goggles is partnering with Sony to launch an exclusive app to deliver children’s content to  Sony tablet computers via the Google Play app store. The app will have exclusive content available in the U.S. and Canada until early October. The app will provide viewer’s instant access [...]

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‘Dark Knight’ Has a Heroic $64 Million Weekend


July 29, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image
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Chris Nolan’s epic feature The Dark Knight Rises managed to remain on top of the box office chart his weekend, taking in $64 million domestically. The Warner Bros. release, which will forever be connected to the Aurora shooting tragedy, has a $289 million cume after its second weekend in U.S. [...]

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‘Ice Age 4' Still Hot for Auds Around the Globe


July 15, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image
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Families around the world can’t get enough of the preshistoric antics of the Ice Age bunch as the fourth installment of the Blue Sky franchise rose to the No. 1 spot this weekend with an estimated domestic total of $46 million. Ice Age: Continental Drift opened with slightly more than [...]

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The Spandex Speculations


July 10, 2012 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image
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In honor of Comic-Con, we humbly offer our annual glimpse at the gritty details and vague conjectures about upcoming film adaptations of comic-book properties. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…a greenlit production!     Director Marc Webb’s hotly anticipated reboot of the Spidey story finds a teenaged Peter Parker [...]

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Consider These Careers Launched!


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A look at the three animated winners of this year’s Student Academy Awards. When the medalists at the 39th Annual Student Academy Awards gathered in Beverly Hills in June, their group photo shows animator David Wolter in the last row. Standing 6’10”, Wolter is used to being placed in back. [...]

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Details Announced for Comic-Con’s ‘Hotel Transylvania’


July 9, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image
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Director Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars) and producer Michelle Murdocca (Open Season) will share new footage from their upcoming animated comedy, Hotel Transylvania, during a panel at Comic-Con in San Diego, CA on Thursday, July 12 at 3:00 p.m. in the Indigo Ballroom of the [...]

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Spidey, ‘Ted,’ ‘Brave’ Spin Box Office Gold


July 8, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image
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The high weekend temperatures translated to big box office numbers for audiences in the U.S. and all over the world this past weekend. Sony’s successful Amazing Spider-Man reboot proved to be the huge blockbuster that everyone expected, landing on the top spot with $140 million (during its six-day opening) and [...]

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Spidey’s VFX Revealed: Extreme Webslinging Ahead!


July 3, 2012 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image
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Our writer goes behind the scenes of Sony’s Amazing Spider-Man reboot to uncover the secrets of some of its high-end visual effects. It has been only five years since Marvel Comics’ iconic webslinger last graced the scene in the Sam Raimi-directed Spider-Man 3, but Sony is banking that fans are [...]

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