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Features

Producer, Ani Director attached to Scanner Darkly

Ryan Ball - April 20, 2004

Daily Variety reports that producer Tommy Pallotta and animation director Bob Sabiston have come aboard director Richard Linklater’s animated feature adaptation of the Philip...

VFX

NAB NEWS: Alias Busts Out Maya 6

Ryan Ball - April 19, 2004

Alias, a Silicon Graphics Inc. company, today announced Maya 6, the next version of its award-winning 3D animation and special effects software. The release...

VFX

Discreet Ignites IBM Linux Workstations with flint

Ryan Ball - April 19, 2004

Discreet, a division of Autodesk Inc., today announced that its flint visual effects system will soon be available on the Intel-based IBM IntelliStation Z...

VFX

NVIDIA Hopes Animators Gel with Gelato

Ryan Ball - April 19, 2004

NVIDIA Corp. today unveiled NVIDIA Gelato, a 3D final-film renderer accelerated by industry-standard graphics hardware. Designed to create high-quality digital effects and animation, NVIDIA...

Television

JUNIOR Channel Picked Up in Switzerland

Ryan Ball - April 19, 2004

A distribution deal signed with EM.TV & Merchandising AG will see Swiss infrastructure and pay-TV provider Swisscom Broadcast AG carry the JUNIOR Channel. The...

Television

Zee TV to Launch Space Toons in India

Ryan Ball - April 19, 2004

Daily Variety reports that Zee TV will launch a new children’s programming network called Space Toons in India. Backed by Indian media mogul Subhash...

Features

Punisher Gets Spanking From Bill

Ryan Ball - April 19, 2004

It was vengeance unlimited at the North American box office over the weekend as genre fans lined up to see Miramax’s Kill Bill: Vol...

VFX

VES Gears Up for Sixth Festival of Visual Effects

Ryan Ball - April 16, 2004

The Visual Effects Society (VES) will present VES 2004, its sixth annual Festival of Visual Effects, on June 18-20 in San Rafael, Calif. The...

Home Entertainment

Gary Baseman Book Coming

Ryan Ball - April 16, 2004

May will see the release of Dumb Luck, the first retrospective book from Gary Baseman, the avant-garde artist behind Disney’s Teacher’s Pet TV series...

Television

Groening Throws Himself into The Simpsons

Ryan Ball - April 16, 2004

Over the years, many entertainers and other public figures have lent their voices to animated versions of themselves for Fox’s The Simpsons. Now the...

Features

Home on the Range Wrangles No. 1 Spot

Ryan Ball - April 16, 2004

After debuting in fourth place two weeks ago, Disney’s animated feature Home on the Range has been enjoying a week at the top of...

Features

Marvel Hits Moviegoers with The Punisher

Ryan Ball - April 16, 2004

Will it be doling out the punishment or taking it? That’s the question as Lions Gate’s big-screen adaptation of Marvel Comic’s The Punisher shoots...

VFX

Alias to be Sold

Ryan Ball - April 15, 2004

Technology-focused private equity firm Accel-KKR will acquire Alias from parent company Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI). Alias is the maker of Maya, the popular 3D...

VFX

SPIN Takes West Coast Turn

Ryan Ball - April 15, 2004

With studios in Atlanta and Toronto, digital effects studio SPIN has taken its operations to the West Coast with the creation of SPIN West...

First Online Star Wars Store Opens

Ryan Ball - April 15, 2004

Lucasfilm today opened the virtual doors of its first online store with the launch of StarWarsShop.com. The site features an extensive selection of exclusive...

Home Entertainment

Kill Bill Slays on Home Vid

Ryan Ball - April 15, 2004

According to Miramax Home Entertainment, director Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1 sold 2 million combined units on DVD and VHS on its first...

People

Cinar Co-founder Dead

Ryan Ball - April 15, 2004

The Canadian press is reporting that Cinar Corp. co-founder Micheline Charest died on Wednesday while undergoing plastic surgery in a hospital in Montreal. She...

Video Games

Nick Trivia Challenge DVD Game Arrives in Stores

Ryan Ball - April 14, 2004

Think you know your Nick toons? Imagination Ent. wants to test your knowledge with the new Nick Trivia Challenge DVD game, now available at...

Video Games

Take-Two Interactive Shakeup

Ryan Ball - April 14, 2004

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. announced today that Jeffrey C. Lapin has stepped down from the post of company CEO and director. The company has...

Video Games

VU Games President Resigns

Ryan Ball - April 14, 2004

Interactive entertainment executives seem to be playing musical chairs today. Los Angeles-based Vivendi Universal Games (VU Games) has announced that its North American President...

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