LONDON — Double Negative, which won an Oscar in 2011 for its work on Inception, has been nominated for a Visual Effects Oscar for the studio’s contributions to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Par ...
January 25, 2012
GRASS VALLEY, CA — AJA’s ( www.aja.com ) new Thunderbolt-enabled Io XT device is now shipping. The video I/O device features dual Thunderbolt ports allowing users to connect it to a Thunderbolt-enable ...
LOS ANGELES — The Independent Film & Television Alliance reports that independent films captured 60 nominations in feature categories for the 84th Academy Awards. The IFTA (www.ifta-online.org) is ...
January 24, 2012
HOLLYWOOD — Soundelux’s supervising sound editors Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis are among the nominees for Best Sound Editing in the 84th Annual Academy Awards. The team is nominated for their work ...
HOLLYWOOD — The hit CBS TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation will use the expertise of VFX company Dilated Pixels (www.dilatedpixels.net) as its sole VFX vendor for Season 12. In related news, the ...
January 23, 2012
ROCHESTER, NY — Eastman Kodak Company ( www.kodak.com ) announced that it and its US subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for chapter 11 business reorganization in the US Bankruptcy Court for the So ...
January 20, 2012
LONDON — The Foundry (www.thefoundry.co.uk) has begun open beta for its latest VFX innovation, Hiero. The solution is designed to address challenges and improve efficiencies in collaborative workflows ...
LOS ANGELES — Empire Post Media (www.empirepostmedia.com), a 3D TV content developer, producer, 2D to 3D converter and 3D distributor, has entered into a contract to explore the potential for a variet ...
NEW YORK — Deluxe Entertainment Services Group’s Encore facility has expanded with a new location in NYC. Encore in Hollywood, and its sister facility Level 3 in Burbank, specializes in television pos ...
January 19, 2012
NEW YORK — Cinedeck (www.cinedeck.com) is shipping its Cinedeck RX, a new, rack-mountable, solid-state recording, monitoring and playback system. Cinedeck RX is the next generation of the platform pio ...
January 18, 2012