The folks at Red Giant, creators of sexy VFX plug-ins and filmmakers themselves, have come up with a clever piece of software called BulletProof that gives you many of the advantages of an on-set data wrangling set-up for a fraction of the cost.

SAN FRANCISCO — Paramount Pictures’ Flight, which is already garnering some Oscar buzz, is a story about a hero who also proves to be human.

HOLLYWOOD — Cloud Atlas, the award-winning multi-dimensional narrative written by David Mitchell, has been rendered into an epic, visually-stunning movie experience by three renowned directors: Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) and Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski (The Matrix Trilogy). This unique collaboration reportedly earned the film a seven-minute standing ovation at its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.

LONDON — Warner Bros. & Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, boasts over an hour of stunning IMAX footage, an accomplishment that raised the bar for the film’s visual effects supervisor, Paul Franklin, and his team at Double Negative UK (www.dneg.com), which delivered over 450 VFX shots at an astonishing 4K and higher resolution, more than double the 2K resolution of effects produced for most movies made today.

CULVER CITY, CA — Act of Valor is the first dramatic feature film from stunt men and documentary directors Scott Waugh and Mike “Mouse” McCoy. By mixing “reality-style” storytelling, video-gaming sensibilities and technically embracing a cutting-edge production and post workflow that combined Canon 5D Mark II, Arri and Panavision packages, they have created a unique work that embodies the essence of vanguard moviemaking.