BEVERLY HILLS, CA — The Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded $455,000 to 25 US film festivals for the 2012 calendar year. The Cleveland International Film ...
November 28, 2011
BEVERLY HILLS, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (www.oscars.org) have announced that 15 films in the Documentary Feature category will advance in the voting process for the 84th Ac ...
We got to sit down with Ren Klyce, Oscar-nominated sound designer (Social Network, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), to ask a few questions about the technical and creative sides of the sound desi ...
November 23, 2011
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — NSW will be the production base for a new animated feature film based on Lego toys. Warner Bros. contracted Academy Award-winning Sydney animation studio Animal Logic to make the f ...
November 17, 2011
CHICAGO — Brian “Crash” Carlucci has been hired by Filmworkers, Chicago, as senior colorist. Carlucci’s career includes tenures at Riot in Santa Monica, FSM in Sydney, Rumblefish in Milano, and most r ...
November 15, 2011
LONDON — The Mill London (www.themill.com) has hired Jon Chads as its business development director — creative. Chads joins the studio from BMB London where, as head of broadcast, he was responsible f ...
November 14, 2011
SANTA CLARA, CA — Today, Nvidia introduced its new Maximus (www.nvidia.com/maximus) technology, which accelerates work by enabling a single workstation to simultaneously handle interactive graphics an ...
LOS ANGELES — Last night, the The Hollywood Post Alliance (www.hpaonline.com) presented the Sixth Annual HPA Awards, honoring post professionals in 12 different creative categories, as well as for Eng ...
November 11, 2011
HOLLYWOOD — NetApp ( www.netapp.com ) has introduced a solution for bandwidth-intensive environments that offers facilities high performance and always-available data access to maximize collaborative ...
November 7, 2011
NEW YORK — Design and visual-effects company Phosphene (www.phosphenefx.com) created numerous CG environments for Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment’s new action-comedy Tower Heist, starring ...