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CGI Haters Club, Ride For 'Transformers, & VFX Directors Advisory...

2008-05-16T15:49:30Z

'Prince Caspian' Looks for $80M Open (latimes.com) Testing faith is a major theme of "The Chronicles of Narnia" stories, but Hollywood clearly has confidence in the fantasy film franchise from Walden Media and Walt Disney Pictures. ...

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Disney Anim Overtime, Hobbit Q&A, & Lucas and Zemeckis B-Day Boys...

2008-05-15T04:51:12Z

Overtime Crunch At Disney Animation Studios (animationguildblog.blogspot.com) I whiled away Tuesday afternoon at Disney Animation Studios. There was lots of activity going on -- story meetings, animator meetings, supervisors rushing t...

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Playstation 3 Render Farms, Meet ILM's Ben Snow, & Prehistoric CG Creatures Explained...

2008-05-14T14:41:11Z

Render Your Movie On A PlayStation 3 (bloomberg.com) International Business Machines Corp., the largest computer-services provider, is making lower-cost supercomputers for Wall Street firms and movie studios using chips designed for ...

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Iron Man's 20 Year Render, Of Hippogriffs and Red Tape, & Narnia in 2018...

2008-05-13T06:28:55Z

Sci-fi "District 9" Heads to Soweto (thetimes.co.za) Oscar-winning film maker Peter Jackson has chosen South Africa as the location for his latest science fiction movie. The film, District 9, has already been nicknamed "Star Wars in Sow...

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VFX Outsourcing Survey, Speed Racer Crashes, & MacBook Crime Buster...

2008-05-13T06:18:41Z

'Iron Man' to 'Speed Racer': Eat My Dust (suntimes.com) LOS ANGELES -- ''Speed Racer'' was lapped at the box office as ''Iron Man'' continued to fire its jets with an estimated $50.5 million in ticket sales. The anime-inspired ra...

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Verbinski In Bioshock , Buck Rodgers Returns & Birthing "Super-Bling Flare"...

2008-05-09T15:09:09Z

Gore Verbinski to Direct "Bioshock" (Variety.com) Universal Pictures has signed "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy helmer Gore Verbinski to direct and produce an adaptation of Bioshock, last year's hit video game that sold more tha...

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Speed Racer Stalls, VFX Go Post-Apocalyptic, & "Universal Monsters" Man Needs Your Vote...

2008-05-08T15:22:50Z

"Speed Racer" Stalling Out? (sliceofscifi.com) Early tracking results for Speed Racer are in and it appears that adaptation of the popular animated series may not be sitting at the pole when box-office tallies are released M...

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Space Nazis Return, Catmull Gets His Utah On, & Sex Bests Skull...

2008-05-07T16:42:37Z

The Space Nazis Return in 'Iron Sky' (twitchfilm.net) Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I proudly present to you one of the official Best Things Ever: outer space Nazis. We have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of some footage...

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Vampire Army Rises, XSI Dating Maya, & Poptimistic Photo-Anime...

2008-05-06T14:57:33Z

Universal Assembling Vampire Army (variety.com) Universal Pictures is developing The Knights Templar, picking up a spec script from Adam Torchia and Justin Stanley for Marc Platt and Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov to produce. Va...

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Iron Man Now Gold, Marvel Greenlight Orgasm, & Heaven Can Wait For Peter Jackson...

2008-05-05T16:03:52Z

Oh Yeah, He Can Fly! Iron Man Rockets To $201M Worldwide! (comingsoon.net) The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with studio estimates for the weekend. Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios' Iron Man exceede...

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