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Universal Studios (www.filmmakersdestination.com) announces the opening of four acres of newly rebuilt New York Street backlot locations. A fixture in Hollywood for decades, New York Street (which consists of 13 city blocks of buildings) has been the...
Oscar®-nominated actor Jeremy Renner has been tapped to present at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 37th Annual Student Academy Awards ceremony on Saturday, June 12, 2010, at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The awards ceremony is the culmination of a week of industry-...
With stereo 3D features and TV productions rapidly on the rise in Asia and around the globe, ASSIMILATE™ is featuring 3D post-production workflows in its SCRATCH® v5.1 Digital Finishing Solution at Broadcast Asia 2010 (www.broadcast-asia.com), June 15 – 18...
As the first wave of 3D content and services roll out – including coverage of hockey, baseball, and international soccer as well as popular motion pictures – and manufacturers race in parallel to build the products needed to ride it, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE...
Visual effects company Origami Digital has completed the move to its new location near the Hawthorne Airport. The 8,000-square-foot building includes an expanded performance-capture stage, a large studio for the artists and state-of-the-art infrastructure...
BIRD Design, a strategic creative consultancy based in Hollywood, CA, collaborated to create a rebrand on behalf of the multi-platform network, FEARnet, across all media. As a result, BIRD Design contributed to the win of a 2010 CableFaxie Award in the category "Best Advertising Campaign for a...
Saddle Ranch Productions, a leading provider of digital signage and film content, today launched Sul Set (www.SulSet.com), a new and immersive experience for filmmakers and enthusiasts that provides complete access to a film set during its entire production via...
Currently marking its 20th anniversary year, prominent, independent music publisher/production music library Black Toast Music has added 200 new songs and instrumentals to its wealth of available material for clients. Black Toast Music CEO/owner/founder Bob Mair made the announcement.
The...
The Detroit Public Schools' "I'm in." campaign, created by Leo Burnett as a movement to save the city's school system, captured the Grand Effie Award at the 42nd Annual North America Effie Awards, which was held last night at Cipriani...
As the excitement of FIFA's 2010 World Cup Soccer gets underway,...
Vision On's first color grading of a feature film – director/writer Alistair Banks Griffin's "Two Gates of Sleep" -- had its premiere at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Directors' Fortnight on May 18. This speaks volumes about the caliber of work being done at...
The Art Directors Club ((www.adcglobal.org)), the premier organization for creatives in integrated media and the first global creative collective of its kind, awarded its first-ever ADC Black Cube for best-in-show in advertising to TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg...
Hollywood Center Studios is hosting a series of informative presentations, dubbed It's Better in Hollywood, designed to showcase the advantages of producing film and television projects in Hollywood. The It's Better in Hollywood series will present...
Matt Miller, President and CEO of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP), today unveiled the lineup for the 2010 Next Awards, a featured presentation of the AICP Show. The program will be held the morning of June 8th at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, with Kevin...
Leading post-production house Optimus Santa Monica launched with Draftfcb Orange County the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens spot, which supports the foundation's work to help teens graduate from high school. The spot highlights the fact that a leading factor in a teen's future success is a high...
Joseph Finn Co., Inc. will conduct the auction of a New York Video Post House. The auction will take place (onsite/online) in New York City on Tuesday, July 13th at 10:00 A.M. EDT.
The facility is open for inspection on Monday, July 12th at Gizmo Post, which is located at 333 7th Avenue...
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This year's elite Titanium and Integrated Jury, which awards breakthrough ideas and the best integrated campaigns, will now be chaired by Bob Greenberg, Chairman, CEO and Global Chief Creative Officer of R/GA. He takes over from Bob Scarpelli, DDB Worldwide's Chairman and Chief Creative Officer...
Deluxe Digital Studios has become the first entertainment services company in the world to achieve the Content Delivery and Storage Association (CDSA) Content Protection and Security Standard certification at three of its home entertainment facilities in North America, Europe and Asia.
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The Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci have announced the recipients selected for the 2010 Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund which provides finishing finances to domestic and international documentary filmmakers with feature-length films that document pressing social issues of immediate and...