VFXWorld Magazine

Netflix announces first original movie, ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend,’ to be directed by Yuen Wo-Ping and produced by The Weinstein Company.

Lucas Borrás, Bo Krabbe, Daniel Reisinger, Vanessa Marzaroli and Clément Oberto join Motion Theory, each bringing their own unique aesthetic vision to the table.

Focus Features' 3D family offering ‘The Boxtrolls’ takes in $17.3 million for its North American debut, the best showing yet for animation house LAIKA; internationally the stop motion feature earns $5.1 million for a foreign total of $17.7 million and early worldwide cume of $35 million.

Fifth annual technology and new product award winners are among 19 companies from 10 countries and include SuperD, Disney, Dolby, Barco, Prime Focus World and Panasonic; Hollywood technology pioneer John Rupkalvis receives 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Southpaw Technology announces the launch of five new TACTIC apps, all of which had been announced at SIGGRAPH 2014.

Big Block Live and directorial team Josh + Vince create #ClickClean, a new campaign for Greenpeace featuring comedian and musician Reggie Watts.

Senior colorist Mark Wilkins joins Encore, working out of the Hollywood location.

With over 12 years experience grading commercials, films and music videos, colorist Matthieu Toullet joins MPC London.

An English paratrooper crash-lands in a forest, leaving him wounded. The injured soldier meets a creature that tries its best to help him, but his ordeal is just beginning.

At the After Effects World Conference, taking place September 26 – 28, MAXON will be offering sessions to explore close integration between MAXON Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects.

Team built to handle studio’s increasing number of virtual reality projects.

French television executive Pascal Breton launches Federation Entertainment, a mini-studio created to control all aspects of original straight-to-series event programming for the global marketplace.