Trilith Studios is working with Nep Virtual Studios to build a new virtual production facility at its Atlanta headquarters — touted as one of the largest in the world.
The permanent Prysm Stage facility will offer filmmakers “the most stable and advanced real-time workflows and technology,” according to the partners.
Trilith Studios (formerly known as Pinewood Atlanta Studios) said the Prysm Stage will be operational in the first quarter of 2022 and that the company will soon be booking productions for the spring of 2022. It features an enclosed 80-by-90-by-26-foot virtual production volume, housed in an 18,000-square-foot purpose-built soundstage. The Prysm Stage is built to accommodate large set pieces, wrapped 360 degrees with LED panels (including an LED ceiling), and is equipped for game-engine-driven video playback. The facility also will include a process stage designed for automotive shoots.
The buildout of the Prysm Stage is being led Trilith Studios director of creative technologies Barry Williams,...
The permanent Prysm Stage facility will offer filmmakers “the most stable and advanced real-time workflows and technology,” according to the partners.
Trilith Studios (formerly known as Pinewood Atlanta Studios) said the Prysm Stage will be operational in the first quarter of 2022 and that the company will soon be booking productions for the spring of 2022. It features an enclosed 80-by-90-by-26-foot virtual production volume, housed in an 18,000-square-foot purpose-built soundstage. The Prysm Stage is built to accommodate large set pieces, wrapped 360 degrees with LED panels (including an LED ceiling), and is equipped for game-engine-driven video playback. The facility also will include a process stage designed for automotive shoots.
The buildout of the Prysm Stage is being led Trilith Studios director of creative technologies Barry Williams,...
- 11/9/2021
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
Broadcast and live events company Nep Group — which is U.S. headquartered and maintains operations in 25 countries — has acquired Prysm Collective, Lux Machina and Halon Entertainment.
The combined new entity will form a new business venture, Nep Virtual Studios. The terms of the deals were not disclosed.
Entertainment industry veteran Cliff Plumer, who joined Nep as part of the Prism acquisition, will lead the venture. Plumer has served as CEO of VFX studio Digital Domain, Cto of Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic, and president of the former VR venture Jaunt Studios.
Rounding out the executive team are ...
The combined new entity will form a new business venture, Nep Virtual Studios. The terms of the deals were not disclosed.
Entertainment industry veteran Cliff Plumer, who joined Nep as part of the Prism acquisition, will lead the venture. Plumer has served as CEO of VFX studio Digital Domain, Cto of Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic, and president of the former VR venture Jaunt Studios.
Rounding out the executive team are ...
Broadcast and live events company Nep Group — which is U.S. headquartered and maintains operations in 25 countries — has acquired Prysm Collective, Lux Machina and Halon Entertainment.
The combined new entity will form a new business venture, Nep Virtual Studios. The terms of the deals were not disclosed.
Entertainment industry veteran Cliff Plumer, who joined Nep as part of the Prism acquisition, will lead the venture. Plumer has served as CEO of VFX studio Digital Domain, Cto of Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic, and president of the former VR venture Jaunt Studios.
Rounding out the executive team are ...
The combined new entity will form a new business venture, Nep Virtual Studios. The terms of the deals were not disclosed.
Entertainment industry veteran Cliff Plumer, who joined Nep as part of the Prism acquisition, will lead the venture. Plumer has served as CEO of VFX studio Digital Domain, Cto of Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic, and president of the former VR venture Jaunt Studios.
Rounding out the executive team are ...
Pennsylvania-based Nep Group, the large-scale production facilities outfit that houses TV broadcasts including the Oscars and the Superbowl, is founding a new virtual production (VP) business with three significant acquisitions.
The company has bought post-production outfit Prysm Collective, tech company and virtual production specialists Lux Machina, and visualization specialists Halon Entertainment.
Cliff Plumer – who has 30 year’s experience in entertainment technology, having previously been the Cto of both Ilm and Lucasfilm, and had recently been heading up Prysm Collective – has been hired to lead Nep’s new VP wing. Jeff Ruggels will act as SVP of Finance and Operations, Phil Galler and Zach Alexander as co-Presidents of the Lux Machina Nep Business Unit, and Daniel Gregoire and Chris Ferriter as Executive Creative Director and President, respectively, of the Halon Nep Business Unit.
Virtual production – the use of digital tools to mimic and replace live-action production paradigms – has been a growing...
The company has bought post-production outfit Prysm Collective, tech company and virtual production specialists Lux Machina, and visualization specialists Halon Entertainment.
Cliff Plumer – who has 30 year’s experience in entertainment technology, having previously been the Cto of both Ilm and Lucasfilm, and had recently been heading up Prysm Collective – has been hired to lead Nep’s new VP wing. Jeff Ruggels will act as SVP of Finance and Operations, Phil Galler and Zach Alexander as co-Presidents of the Lux Machina Nep Business Unit, and Daniel Gregoire and Chris Ferriter as Executive Creative Director and President, respectively, of the Halon Nep Business Unit.
Virtual production – the use of digital tools to mimic and replace live-action production paradigms – has been a growing...
- 8/3/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Void,” a full-body virtual reality experience, is expanding to nine new locations after a successful round of Series A funding late last year, it announced Wednesday.
The new locations include Atlanta; Austin, Texas; Dallas; Hollywood, Calif.; Minneapolis; New York; Philadelphia; Santa Monica, Calif.; and Washington, D.C.
“The Void” combines state-of-the-art Vr technology, physical stages, and multi-sensory effects (including touch and smell) with IP from some of Hollywood’s biggest players to create interactive entertainment. The ‘Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire’ attraction, for example, allows a group of people to journey to the molten planet of Mustafar and recover Imperial intelligence vital to the rebellion. Disguised as Stormtroopers, they’ll infiltrate an Imperial base, solve puzzles, and fight giant lava monsters. Another attraction lets people suit up as Ghostbusters and battle the paranormal.”
“The power of ‘The Void’ allows guests to step into worlds that were beyond their reach until now.
The new locations include Atlanta; Austin, Texas; Dallas; Hollywood, Calif.; Minneapolis; New York; Philadelphia; Santa Monica, Calif.; and Washington, D.C.
“The Void” combines state-of-the-art Vr technology, physical stages, and multi-sensory effects (including touch and smell) with IP from some of Hollywood’s biggest players to create interactive entertainment. The ‘Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire’ attraction, for example, allows a group of people to journey to the molten planet of Mustafar and recover Imperial intelligence vital to the rebellion. Disguised as Stormtroopers, they’ll infiltrate an Imperial base, solve puzzles, and fight giant lava monsters. Another attraction lets people suit up as Ghostbusters and battle the paranormal.”
“The power of ‘The Void’ allows guests to step into worlds that were beyond their reach until now.
- 6/6/2018
- by Stefanie Fogel
- Variety Film + TV
Tickets for The Void’s “Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire” virtual reality (Vr) experience in Las Vegas went on sale this week, as the location-based Vr attraction is preparing to open its doors at the Venetian Grand Canal Shoppes on April 27.
“Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire” is the latest multi-player Vr experience by The Void, which pioneered these kids of location-based Vr attractions over the past few years. In the new experience, up to 4 players get to roam freely across a stage with real props, outfitted with special Vr helmets that incorporate an Oculus Rift Vr headset, backpacks with mobile PCs for a untethered Vr experience, vests for tactile feedback and Vr guns to fight against the empire.
The experience was produced together with ILMxLab, Disney’s R&D lab for immersive media. Both companies first brought the experience to Void locations at Disneyland Florida and Anaheim, as...
“Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire” is the latest multi-player Vr experience by The Void, which pioneered these kids of location-based Vr attractions over the past few years. In the new experience, up to 4 players get to roam freely across a stage with real props, outfitted with special Vr helmets that incorporate an Oculus Rift Vr headset, backpacks with mobile PCs for a untethered Vr experience, vests for tactile feedback and Vr guns to fight against the empire.
The experience was produced together with ILMxLab, Disney’s R&D lab for immersive media. Both companies first brought the experience to Void locations at Disneyland Florida and Anaheim, as...
- 4/11/2018
- by Janko Roettgers
- Variety Film + TV
This year's Tribeca Film Festival has hosted projects involving Tom Hanks, photographer Mick Rock, Ricky Gervais, Kevin Spacey — and, oh yes, the Grateful Dead. Premiering at the downtown New York film fest this week, Grateful Dead: Truckin' is a slice of concert footage from one of the reunited band's "Fare Thee Well" shows last summer.
Starting with 1977's The Grateful Dead Movie, the Dead are hardly newcomers to the performance-movie world, but Truckin' adds a new twist: It was shot in virtual reality. "You're not just looking at a screen,...
Starting with 1977's The Grateful Dead Movie, the Dead are hardly newcomers to the performance-movie world, but Truckin' adds a new twist: It was shot in virtual reality. "You're not just looking at a screen,...
- 4/20/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Australian artist Lynette Wallworthy is leading the way in virtual reality filmmaking as first chosen in a new Sundance residency program..
It is part of the Sundance Insititute's New Frontier program which focuses on cutting edge art forms.
The six-month virtual reality program is supporting four artists initially with the financial backing of virtual reality company Jaunt.
The aim is to merge virtual reality filmmakers into Story Labs - the Sundance incubator - while developing cinematic Vr.
Wallworth will present her film Collisions at Sundance 2016.
Collisions takes the viewer on a journey to a remote desert in western Australia that is home to indigenous leader Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe..
Nyarri's first contact with western culture was in the 1950s via a dramatic collision between his traditional world view and the cutting edge of modern technology..
The cast includes Nyarri Nyarri Morgan, Curtis Taylor.
Wallworth is known for her...
It is part of the Sundance Insititute's New Frontier program which focuses on cutting edge art forms.
The six-month virtual reality program is supporting four artists initially with the financial backing of virtual reality company Jaunt.
The aim is to merge virtual reality filmmakers into Story Labs - the Sundance incubator - while developing cinematic Vr.
Wallworth will present her film Collisions at Sundance 2016.
Collisions takes the viewer on a journey to a remote desert in western Australia that is home to indigenous leader Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe..
Nyarri's first contact with western culture was in the 1950s via a dramatic collision between his traditional world view and the cutting edge of modern technology..
The cast includes Nyarri Nyarri Morgan, Curtis Taylor.
Wallworth is known for her...
- 12/8/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Lynette Wallworth is the first of four artists selected for the collaboration between Sundance Institute and Jaunt Studios on a virtual reality residency programme.
The six-month Sundance Institute New Frontier | Jaunt Vr Residency will support resident artists pioneer new ways of delivering narrative through cinematic virtual reality.
Residents will receive a grant to make their virtual reality short films with resources from Jaunt, particularly the Jaunt One – Jaunt’s professional-grade Vr camera.
Wallworth, a Sundance Institute New Frontier alumnus, will participate with her project Collisions, a story about an aboriginal elder whose archaic lifestyle is suddenly impacted by Western science and technology.
The Australian artist’s immersive installations and films have shown at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Lincoln Center For Performing Arts, the Smithsonian, Brighton Festival Vienna Festival, London Film Festival and Sydney Film Festival, among others.
Three additional artists will be selected to participate in the coming months.
“Virtual reality...
The six-month Sundance Institute New Frontier | Jaunt Vr Residency will support resident artists pioneer new ways of delivering narrative through cinematic virtual reality.
Residents will receive a grant to make their virtual reality short films with resources from Jaunt, particularly the Jaunt One – Jaunt’s professional-grade Vr camera.
Wallworth, a Sundance Institute New Frontier alumnus, will participate with her project Collisions, a story about an aboriginal elder whose archaic lifestyle is suddenly impacted by Western science and technology.
The Australian artist’s immersive installations and films have shown at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Lincoln Center For Performing Arts, the Smithsonian, Brighton Festival Vienna Festival, London Film Festival and Sydney Film Festival, among others.
Three additional artists will be selected to participate in the coming months.
“Virtual reality...
- 11/3/2015
- ScreenDaily
Lynette Wallworth is the first of four artists selected for the collaboration between Sundance Institute and Jaunt Studios on a virtual reality residency programme.
The six-month Sundance Institute New Frontier | Jaunt Vr Residency will support resident artists pioneer new ways of delivering narrative through cinematic virtual reality.
Residents will receive a grant to make their virtual reality short films with resources from Jaunt, particularly the Jaunt One – Jaunt’s professional-grade Vr camera.
Wallworth, a Sundance Institute New Frontier alumnus, will participate with her project Collisions, a story about an aboriginal elder whose archaic lifestyle is suddenly impacted by Western science and technology.
The Australian artist’s immersive installations and films have shown at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Lincoln Center For Performing Arts, the Smithsonian, Brighton Festival Vienna Festival, London Film Festival and Sydney Film Festival, among others.
Three additional artists will be selected to participate in the coming months.
“Virtual reality...
The six-month Sundance Institute New Frontier | Jaunt Vr Residency will support resident artists pioneer new ways of delivering narrative through cinematic virtual reality.
Residents will receive a grant to make their virtual reality short films with resources from Jaunt, particularly the Jaunt One – Jaunt’s professional-grade Vr camera.
Wallworth, a Sundance Institute New Frontier alumnus, will participate with her project Collisions, a story about an aboriginal elder whose archaic lifestyle is suddenly impacted by Western science and technology.
The Australian artist’s immersive installations and films have shown at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Lincoln Center For Performing Arts, the Smithsonian, Brighton Festival Vienna Festival, London Film Festival and Sydney Film Festival, among others.
Three additional artists will be selected to participate in the coming months.
“Virtual reality...
- 11/3/2015
- ScreenDaily
Lionsgate will co-finance and handle Us distribution for a big screen adaptation of "Ender's Game", based on the science fiction novel by author Orson Scott Card.
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman will produce via their K/O Paper Products banner, with Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough producing via OddLot Entertainment. Executive producers are OddLot's Bill Lischak, K/O's Mandy Safavi and Digital Domain's Cliff Plumer/Ed Ulbrich.
"Ender's Game" originated as a short story published in the August 1977 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine. Published as a full novel in 1985, Card later wrote additional books to form the "Ender's Game" series.
"...Set in Earth's future, 'Ender's Game' presents an imperiled humankind who have barely survived two conflicts with the 'Formics', an insectoid alien race aka the 'Buggers'.
"In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, an international fleet maintains a school to find and train future fleet commanders.
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman will produce via their K/O Paper Products banner, with Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough producing via OddLot Entertainment. Executive producers are OddLot's Bill Lischak, K/O's Mandy Safavi and Digital Domain's Cliff Plumer/Ed Ulbrich.
"Ender's Game" originated as a short story published in the August 1977 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine. Published as a full novel in 1985, Card later wrote additional books to form the "Ender's Game" series.
"...Set in Earth's future, 'Ender's Game' presents an imperiled humankind who have barely survived two conflicts with the 'Formics', an insectoid alien race aka the 'Buggers'.
"In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, an international fleet maintains a school to find and train future fleet commanders.
- 1/19/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Gavin Hood's Ender's Game adds first movie image We have a new image in from Summit Entertainment's Ender's Game, adapted from the Orson Scott Novel by director Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Tsotsi). Starring are Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Abigail Breslin, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Aramis Knight, Jimmy 'Jax' Pinchak, Moises Arias, Andrea Powell and Han Soto. The story set 70 years after a horrific alien war, follows an unusually gifted child who is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion. Lynn Hendee, Linda McDonough, Robert Chartoff, John Textor, Gigi Pritzker and Orson Scott Card Produce. The science fiction film's executive produced by David Coatsworth, Bill Lischak, Cliff Plumer and Ed Ulbrich.
- 12/13/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Gavin Hood's Ender's Game adds first movie image We have a new image in from Summit Entertainment's Ender's Game, adapted from the Orson Scott Novel by director Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Tsotsi). Starring are Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Abigail Breslin, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Aramis Knight, Jimmy 'Jax' Pinchak, Moises Arias, Andrea Powell and Han Soto. The story set 70 years after a horrific alien war, follows an unusually gifted child who is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion. Lynn Hendee, Linda McDonough, Robert Chartoff, John Textor, Gigi Pritzker and Orson Scott Card Produce. The science fiction film's executive produced by David Coatsworth, Bill Lischak, Cliff Plumer and Ed Ulbrich.
- 12/13/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Lionsgate continues negotiations, started by Summit Entertainment, to co-finance and handle Us distribution rights for "Ender's Game", based on the science fiction novel written by author Orson Scott Card.
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are producing via their K/O Paper Products banner, along with Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough producing via OddLot Entertainment.
Executive producers are OddLot's Bill Lischak, K/O's Mandy Safavi and Digital Domain's Cliff Plumer/Ed Ulbrich.
Published in 1985, "Ender's Game" originated as the short story "Ender's Game", published in the August 1977 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine.
Elaborating on characters and plot lines depicted in the novel, Card later wrote additional books to form the "Ender's Game" series, releasing an updated version of the book in 1991, changing some political facts to accurately reflect the times.
"...Set in Earth's future, 'Ender's Game' presents an imperiled humankind who have barely survived two conflicts with the 'Formics',...
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are producing via their K/O Paper Products banner, along with Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough producing via OddLot Entertainment.
Executive producers are OddLot's Bill Lischak, K/O's Mandy Safavi and Digital Domain's Cliff Plumer/Ed Ulbrich.
Published in 1985, "Ender's Game" originated as the short story "Ender's Game", published in the August 1977 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine.
Elaborating on characters and plot lines depicted in the novel, Card later wrote additional books to form the "Ender's Game" series, releasing an updated version of the book in 1991, changing some political facts to accurately reflect the times.
"...Set in Earth's future, 'Ender's Game' presents an imperiled humankind who have barely survived two conflicts with the 'Formics',...
- 9/8/2012
- by M. Stevens
- SneakPeek
Harrison Ford and Abigail Breslin have been cast in Ender’s Game. Harrison Ford and Abigail Breslin joining Gavin Hood‘s Ender’s Game (2013) answers the questions of who will play Valentine Wiggin (Abigail Breslin) and who will play Colonel Hyram Graff (Harrison Ford).
Regarding both characters, Valentine Wiggin is “Ender’s older sister” and Colonel Hyram Graff is “who’s in charge of training young military recruits.” A more thorough break down of these characters and the other characters in Ender’s Game can be found here: Ender’s Game Movie is Casting Characters / Casting Call.
Ender’s Game plot synopsis: “70 years after a horrific alien war, an unusually gifted child is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.”
On the film’s history and production:
Ender’s Game came out of a long confinement in development hell when Gavin Hood’s...
Regarding both characters, Valentine Wiggin is “Ender’s older sister” and Colonel Hyram Graff is “who’s in charge of training young military recruits.” A more thorough break down of these characters and the other characters in Ender’s Game can be found here: Ender’s Game Movie is Casting Characters / Casting Call.
Ender’s Game plot synopsis: “70 years after a horrific alien war, an unusually gifted child is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.”
On the film’s history and production:
Ender’s Game came out of a long confinement in development hell when Gavin Hood’s...
- 12/22/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
Indian entertainment company Reliance MediaWorks.and Los Angeles-based studio Digital Domain Productions plan to launch joint visual effects and 3D stereo production services studios in Mumbai and London. The new studio in Navi Mumbai will employ up to 650 artists while Digital Domain will co-locate a visual effects team within Reliance MediaWork's existing London facility. The Mumbai and London studios will both be connected to Digital Domain's L.A. facility through a high-speed fibre-optic network. "Filmmaking has become a global enterprise," Digital Domain Productions chief executive Cliff Plumer said in a statement,."and a partnership with Reliance MediaWorks will allow our clients to realise the benefits of a digital production pipeline that...
- 7/12/2011
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Summit Entertainment reports it is in talks to co-finance and handle U.S. distribution rights for "Ender's Game", based on the science fiction novel written by author Orson Scott Card.
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are producing via their K/O Paper Products banner, along with Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough producing via OddLot Entertainment.
Executive producers are OddLot's Bill Lischak, K/O's Mandy Safavi and Digital Domain's Cliff Plumer/Ed Ulbrich.
Published in 1985, "Ender's Game" originated as the short story "Ender's Game", published in the August 1977 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine.
Elaborating on characters and plot lines depicted in the novel, Card later wrote additional books to form the "Ender's Game" series, releasing an updated version of the book in 1991, changing some political facts to accurately reflect the times.
"...Set in Earth's future, 'Ender's Game' presents an imperiled humankind who have barely survived two conflicts with the 'Formics',...
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are producing via their K/O Paper Products banner, along with Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough producing via OddLot Entertainment.
Executive producers are OddLot's Bill Lischak, K/O's Mandy Safavi and Digital Domain's Cliff Plumer/Ed Ulbrich.
Published in 1985, "Ender's Game" originated as the short story "Ender's Game", published in the August 1977 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine.
Elaborating on characters and plot lines depicted in the novel, Card later wrote additional books to form the "Ender's Game" series, releasing an updated version of the book in 1991, changing some political facts to accurately reflect the times.
"...Set in Earth's future, 'Ender's Game' presents an imperiled humankind who have barely survived two conflicts with the 'Formics',...
- 5/2/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Summit Entertainment is in talks to co-finance and handle U.S. distribution rights for Ender's Game . Sierra / Affinity will launch international sales of the live action, science-fiction Ender's Game at this year's Cannes Film Market. The movie is based on the award-winning novel written by Orson Scott Card with the filmed adaptation directed by Gavin Hood. K/O Paper Products, OddLot Entertainment and Digital Domain are production partners on the film, with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman producing via their K/O Paper Products banner, Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough producing via OddLot Entertainment, along with Orson Scott Card and Lynn Hendee. The film will be executive produced by OddLot's Bill Lischak, K/O's Mandy Safavi, and Digital Domain's Cliff Plumer and Ed...
- 4/28/2011
- Comingsoon.net
By Pete Hammond
hollywoodnews.com: For the first time two 3D movies opened against each other on the same weekend grabbing a combined total of an estimated $60 million at the box office just one week after the debut of another 3D family epic, The Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader which held pretty well from a soft opening, and only one week before yet another 3Der, Jack Black’s Gulliver’s Travels. Both of those movies plus both of this week’s flicks, Tron: Legacy and Yogi Bear are blasts from the past rebooted with new technological advances to make their dormant characters hot again. The future is here, movie-wise, and the studios are clearly stating their aim with this kind of holiday programming.
As for Tron: Legacy its $43.6 million dollar start plus B+ Cinemascore bodes well for a sci-fi reinvention based on a 28 year old Disney movie...
hollywoodnews.com: For the first time two 3D movies opened against each other on the same weekend grabbing a combined total of an estimated $60 million at the box office just one week after the debut of another 3D family epic, The Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader which held pretty well from a soft opening, and only one week before yet another 3Der, Jack Black’s Gulliver’s Travels. Both of those movies plus both of this week’s flicks, Tron: Legacy and Yogi Bear are blasts from the past rebooted with new technological advances to make their dormant characters hot again. The future is here, movie-wise, and the studios are clearly stating their aim with this kind of holiday programming.
As for Tron: Legacy its $43.6 million dollar start plus B+ Cinemascore bodes well for a sci-fi reinvention based on a 28 year old Disney movie...
- 12/20/2010
- by Pete Hammond
- Hollywoodnews.com
Venice, California-based Digital Domain, noted for VFX on the Oscar-winning films Titanic and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, will open a 20,000-square-foot studio in Vancouver. The studio will open in early 2010, planning to hire 50-60 Canadian digital artists, eventually staffing 100 employees. The first VFX project for the new studio is the Vancouver-lensed Disney sequel Tron: Legacy. .By expanding our talent and resources across multiple locations we are able to to offer solutions to production challenges, whether they.re economic, creative or technical,. said Digital Domain CEO Cliff Plumer. Gloria Borders, formerly with DreamWorks Animation will oversee studio production in both Venice and Vancouver. Established in 1993, Digital Domain, owned by Wyndcrest Holdings, has completed digital effects for 70 features including GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Transformers, X-Men, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and BC-lensed 2012 and I, Robot...
- 10/6/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
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