Disney is Developing a Live-Action Adaptation of ‘The Aristocats’
Early reports indicate that the forthcoming feature will have a similar look to Disney’s 2019 revamp of ‘Lady and the Tramp.’
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Neil Gaman’s ‘The Sandman’ May Add Taron Egerton
The ‘Kingsman’ star has reportedly joined Netflix’s adaptation of the groundbreaking graphic novel, with many speculating he will portray John Constantine.
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Industrial Brothers Finishes ‘Remy & Boo’ Episodes in the Cloud
Having already turned to Amazon Web Services, the studio easily moved to full remote production in the cloud this March; company quickly scaled artistic and computing capacity without disruption to delivery schedule.
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Milk Visual Effects Weathers the Rendering Storm on ‘Adrift’
Studio scales up 10x over onsite render capacity by leveraging AWS Cloud and Thinkbox’s Deadline.
Encore Evolves Deadline Implementation for High Volume Episodic VFX
Studio eyes cloud resources to meet growing compute needs.
Warner to Animate George R.R. Martin’s ‘The Ice Dragon’
Feature will be based on the author’s 1980 children’s book, which is not connected to the Game of Thrones saga.
WB, Imagine, Animal Logic Form Production Pact
Companies agree to five-year deal to co-produce and co-finance animated and hybrid features for family audiences.
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Bento Box to Make Short Digital Projects for Comedy Central
Company will have first right to animate and executive produce any projects that go to series.
‘Pets 2’ Voice Role the First for Harrison Ford
Patton Oswalt reportedly taking over lead role of Max from Louis C.K.; Tiffany Haddish, Nick Kroll and Pete Holmes are also new additions.
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Jackie Chan Leads Voice Cast of ‘Wish Dragon’
Constance Wu, Natasha Liu Bordizzo and more join the animated feature based on ‘1001 Nights’ from Sony, Beijing Sparkle Roll Media and Base Animation.
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Bouchard's 'Central Park' Lands at Apple
Fox passed on ‘Bob’s Burgers’ creator’s pitch, leading to a bidding war between streaming services for the project.
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‘Garden Party’ Leads to an Oscar Nom for French Students
A team of graduating students from MoPA garner accolades for hyper-realistic animated short with a noir twist.
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Fox Likes 'Lil Kev' Series Pitch from Comic Kevin Hart
Show based on the comedian’s stand-up act is one of several animated projects Fox has in the works under new entertainment chief Michael Thorn.
Citing Misconduct, Paramount Fires 'Amusement Park' Director
First-time director Dylan Brown, a former Pixar animator, disputes allegations.
McCartney’s ‘High in the Clouds’ Lands Writer
Jon Croker will script the long-in-development feature, based on a book the former Beatle wrote with children’s author Philip Ardagh.
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SUPERTOON 2018 Wants Animated Films
International competition in Croatia seeks entries in five categories for the festival, scheduled for July 22-17 in Croatia.
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Magnopus Powers VR/AR Rendering with Deadline
Thinkbox app forms the backbone of the award-winning company’s pipeline.
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Disney Resumes Talks to Acquire Fox Assets
Deal is reportedly back on the cable, with Comcast also expressing interest.
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Thinkbox Releases Deadline 10
New edition of compute management software leverages Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to reduce costs and improve flexibility of visual effects rendering.
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Tendril Optimizes with Thinkbox’s Deadline and Redshift On-Demand
To create the five-minute animated “Coming to America“ sequence for STARZ’s ‘American Gods’ episode five, animation and design studio Tendril transitioned to a GPU pipeline ahead of the project, leveraging Thinkbox’s Deadline for compute management and tapping Redshift with per-minute licensing via the Thinkbox Marketplace.
Drive Studios Enhances Render Pipeline with Deadline
Boutique VFX house Drive Studios turns to Thinkbox Software’s Deadline to manage their render farm and workstations.
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Nexus Leverages Deadline Python Scripting for Enhanced 2D Animation Pipeline
Maximizing on-site render resources for 2D animation, London-based multidisciplinary storytelling studio customizes its render pipeline to allow artists using CelAction2D to work inside of Deadline.
Cartoon Saloon Optimizes 2D Animation Pipeline with Thinkbox Software’s Deadline
Irish animation studio delivers 2D animation projects like Netflix series ‘Puffin Rock’ and forthcoming feature ‘The Breadwinner’ using Thinkbox Software’s render management tool.
Thinkbox Store Helps Straightface Studios Streamline Production
Straightface Studios employs Thinkbox Software’s Deadline coupled with on-demand licensing for The Foundry’s NUKE to manage the facility’s compute resources.
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Thinkbox Software Store Adds Next Limit RealFlow and Maxwell On-Demand
Additional third-party applications available on demand via Thinkbox include The Foundry’s NUKE and KATANA, Chaos Group V-Ray, NVIDIA Iray and Mental Ray, Redshift, and Peregrine Labs’ Yeti.
