LOS ANGELES — The Hollywood Post Alliance (www.hpaawards.net) has added a new craft award category for independent feature films to its 2012 HPA Awards. The category will include three separate awards ...
July 5, 2012
NEW YORK — IdeaRocket ( idearocketanimation.com ) has created the new whiteboard show open for the Showtime series Weeds, which is back for its eighth and final season. Production on the final season’ ...
July 3, 2012
CULVER CITY, CA — WESTDOC: The West Coast Documentary and Reality Conference (www.thewestdoc.com) has reached a sponsorship agreement with New York’s Footage.net, an online aggregator of stock footage ...
HANOVER, GERMANY — DVS Digital Video Systems GmbH, which joined the Rohde & Schwarz group in December 2010, will now operate under the name Rohde & Schwarz DVS GmbH (www.rohde-schwarz.com). Th ...
July 2, 2012
BURLINGTON, MA — Avid has initiated a series of strategic actions to focus the company on its media enterprise and post & professional customers and to drive improved operating performance. As par ...
Bringing a child’s teddy bear to life might sound like a warm and fuzzy VFX assignment, but Ted, the brainchild of the multi-talented Seth MacFarlane, of Family Guy and American Dad fame, is like no o ...
July 1, 2012
HOLLYWOOD — Director/writer/producer Len Wiseman, who began his career as a storyboard and conceptual artist as well as an art department assistant on such Roland Emmerich blockbusters as Independence ...
CULVER CITY — Black suits and shades. Aliens. Neuralyzers. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Yep, the men of Men in Black are back for the third installment of director Barry Sonnenfeld’s sci-fi c ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Grass Valley is now shipping a new version of its Edius multiformat nonlinear editing software. Edius Pro 6.5 includes a comprehensive 3D editing workflow and cross-platform codec supp ...
June 29, 2012
NEW YORK — ABC News VideoSource (www.abcnewsvsource.com) has upgraded and expanded its Website, providing easier access to its vast collection of archival footage online. Producers and researchers can ...