Tag: Steven Spielberg
Legend 3D Makes Key Hires: Post Director Meetal Gokul, VFX Supe Jay Mehta
Legend 3D welcomes two multiple award-winning creatives to key positions in its global organization, with the addition of Meetal Gokul as Director of Post...
Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri to Receive VES Lifetime Achievement Award
The Visual Effects Society has named Chris Meledandri, acclaimed Oscar-nominated producer and founder and CEO of Illumination, as the forthcoming recipient of the VES...
‘Spider-Verse’ Snags Animated Feature Golden Globe in Its Web
Sony Pictures Animation's superhero shake-up Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was named the winner of the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Animated at...
Unity to Acquire Digital Monarch Media to Advance Real-Time Filmmaking
Unity Technologies, creator of the world’s most widely used real-time 3D development platform, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Digital Monarch Media...
‘Solar Walk’: A Cosmic Ode to Creation
Réka Bucsi wants audiences to feel the warmth emanating from the mystical creatures of her award-winning short Solar Walk available to view for free...
Academy Governors Awards Honor Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday night (September 4) to present Honorary Awards to publicist...
Producers Guild to Honor Marvel’s Kevin Feige with Selznick Award
The Producers Guild of America announced that Kevin Feige, President of Marvel Studios, will be honored with the 2019 David O. Selznick Achievement AWard...
9-Time Oscar Winner Dennis Muren to Keynote VIEW 2018
Organizers of the 2018 VIEW Conference (Turin, Italy; Oct. 22-26) have announced that Industrial Light & Magic’s Senior Visual Effects Supervisor and Creative Director...
SIGGRAPH Sessions Include ‘Wreck-It Ralph 2,’ ‘Missing Link, ‘Incredibles 2’
SIGGRAPH’s 2018 conference on all things CG and interactive is right around the corner, with new announcements for its Production Sessions program. Covering a...
VFX Artist, Illustrator George Jenson Dies Age 87
Oscar-nominated visual effects artist, art director and illustrator George Jenson -- whose credits include sci-fi classics Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star...
Shinbo’s ‘Fireworks’ Lights Up U.S. Theaters This Week
Producer Genki Kawamura discusses the making of this time-bending animated feature.
By Charles Solomon
At a time when American filmmakers have attempted to remake anime properties...
Meet the New Hybrid Dinos of ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’
***This article originally appeared in the June/July issue of Animation Magazine (No. 281)***
Dealing with the pressure of fan expectations for an established cinematic franchise...
VRV Adds Millennial-Friendly Toon Classics to Streaming Slate
Ellation’s aggregation platform VRV (https://vrv.co) continues to build its animation slate with an action-packed collection of classic cartoon series of the ‘80s and ‘90s....
‘Ready Player One’ Brings the OASIS Home in July
Home audiences can immerse themselves in an incredible virtual universe all over again when Steven Spielberg’s gameworld action-adventure Ready Player One arrives on 4K...
Katzenberg’s NewTV Video Startup Raises $800 Million
Former DreamWorks Animation leader Jeffrey Katzenberg has secured about $800 million in financing for his video startup NewTV. Bloomberg reports that the company will...
Spielberg Responds to Carl’s Jr. SpielBurger Campaign
Since Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated homage to gaming and ’80s pop culture, opens in theaters today (with a 77 % rating on...
Daily News Bytes: ‘Ready Player One’ an Animation Contender? New ‘Hell to Pay’ Clip & More
Estonia Announces First Batch of Animation Grants for 2018
The national film institute at Tallinn has allotted 214,000 EUR ($260K USD) to artists and studios...
Spielberg Says ‘Tintin 2’ Is Not Dead
Fans of Tintin, the popular comic-book character created by Belgian artist Hergé and adapted into several TV series and the 2011 motion-capture feature directed...
Trailer: Iron Giant Rises Again in Extended ‘Ready Player One’ Spot
Warner Bros. has released a new, extended trailer for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming immersive-gaming fantasy Ready Player One, showing us more of the OASIS virtual...
Producer Melissa Taylor Named Joint Biz Dev Head at Framestore
Oscar-winning VFX company Framestore has appointed Melissa Taylor as Global Joint Head of Business Development. The highly regarded producer has worked with some of...
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