Veteran animation executives Penney Finkelman Cox and Sandra Rabins to lead the Chinese animation company’s expansion into Hollywood with three features currently in production and an ambitious plan to complete a new feature every 18 months.
After being rejected by critics and audiences alike, 20th Century Fox's ‘Fantastic Four’ sees one of the lowest openings of all time for a big-budget studio super hero movie.
Directed by Tim Miller with VFX from Blur Studio, 20th Century Fox’s ‘Deadpool’ arrives in theaters on February 12, 2016.
Previs supervisor Jim Baker walks us through The Third Floor’s key previs and postvis efforts on the latest Marvel feature.
Variety abounds in the animated and VFX-focused films headed our way this fall.
Paul Feig's ‘Ghostbusters’ remake is moved up one week to July 15, 2016; Stephen King adaptation ‘The Dark Tower’ is set for January 13, 2017.
Pixar Animation Studios licenses a suite of image rendering NVIDIA technologies to accelerate production of the studio’s computer-animated feature films and short film content.
Animation historian John Culhane -- the inspiration for Mr. Snoops in ‘The Rescuers’ and Flying John in ‘Fantasia/2000’ -- dies in his home in Dobbs Ferry, NY at the age of 81.
MPC Film heads to SIGGRAPH 2015 to present crowd, fur, digi-doubles and destruction technology, presenting the company’s visual effects work on movies including ‘Terminator Genisys,’ ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings,’ ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ and ‘Cinderella.’
Prime Focus World’s senior stereo supervisor Richard Baker reveals how the team worked with miniature scale in Marvel’s latest superhero blockbuster “Ant-Man,’ starring Paul Rudd.
DWA head Jeffrey Katzenberg calls the studio’s second quarter financial results “solid,” bolstered by the theatrical release of ‘Home’ and expansion of the company’s television and new media businesses.
Sony Imageworks VFX supervisor Dan Kramer helps bring iconic low-res 1980s arcade game characters into the CG world of 2015 in the new Adam Sandler film.
Directed by Trevor Wall for Splash Entertainment, ‘Norm of the North’ features a voice cast including featuring Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Gabriel Iglesias, Loretta Devine, Michael McElhatton, Colm Meaney and Bill Nighy.
Production is underway on Lupus Films’ animated film from Cloth Cat Animation based on Raymond Briggs’ classic graphic novel, ‘Ethel & Ernest.’
Dneg VFX supervisor Alex Wuttke talks lighting, camera arrays and macro photography on Marvel’s latest superhero movie.
German animation and VFX studio embarks on its first CG animated feature, 'Manou the Swift,' with a pipeline that includes Autodesk 3ds Max, The Foundry’s NUKE, Pixologic ZBrush, and Chaos Group’s V-Ray.
Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions’ $150 million tentpole feature launches to $65 million overseas for an early total of $121 million worldwide.
‘The Collected Works of Hayao Miyazaki,’ including all 11 of Miyazaki’s feature-length masterpieces in one spectacular 12-disc collection, is available on Blu-ray via Amazon.com on November 17, 2015.
The 2016 festival takes place on May 9-15 in Portland; entries can be made for free through September 1, 2015.
Action/adventure comic book adaptation, based on the hit graphic novel from Eisner award-winner Paul Pope, is written by David Gordon Green and Josh Parkinson.
‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ concept art reveals the hidden panda village as seen at the end of the 2011 movie.
VFX supervisor Greg Steele talks about bringing ants, wasps and a tiny superhero to the big screen in Marvel’s new action adventure.
‘Welcome to Showside’ animated pilot featuring Henry Rollins and a feature film adaptation of Paul Pope’s ‘One Trick Rip-Off’ in preproduction phase.
The Visual Effects Society to present master visual futurist and iconic artist Syd Mead with the professional honorary society’s Visionary Award at the 14th Annual VES Awards on February 2, 2016.
VIZ Media and Eleven Arts debut ‘Boruto: Naruto The Movie’ in over 80 major U.S. CITIES this October; Action-filled new anime adventure features the rebellious son of the legendary ninja Naruto who seeks to become an even greater ninja.
