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6 items from 2012
Academy Explores “The Development of the Digital Animator” On May 21
2 May 2012 3:16 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Computer-generated motion picture animation from “Vertigo” to “Toy Story” to the 3D spectacles of today will be explored during “The Development of the Digital Animator,” the latest installment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Marc Davis Celebration of Animation, on Monday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Several pioneers of digital animation will revisit the long path from laboratory to cineplex during a panel moderated by animator and historian Tom Sito.
When “Toy Story” burst onto the scene in 1995, computer-generated imagery was, for many, a bold new technique in animation. However, its lengthy and meticulous development can be traced back to its first public exposure with the mesmerizing title sequence for “Vertigo” (1958). Of equal importance to the technical developments were the influential animators and designers who devised artistic uses for engineering advances.
Scheduled panelists include:
Rebecca Allen, an experimental filmmaker »
- Michelle McCue
Close up: Is Ashton Kutcher the right man for the Jobs?
5 April 2012 8:32 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
Name the computer nerd who has had the biggest effect on all our lives? Yes, well, they already made a film about Mark Zuckerberg, so let's all look forward to Jobs – the forthcoming film about the late Apple supremo Steve Jobs, pioneer of the iPod, the iPad, the iMac, the iPhone and scores of other fancy-looking techware beginning with a little "i". And who in all Hollywood has been picked to impersonate one of the greatest brains ever to walk the earth? A shoo-in for that intellectual giant Ashton Kutcher, owner of the world's biggest Twitter account (or something), and veteran of such deathless cinematic masterworks as Dude, Where's My Car? ("Sweet!"). The film that will now be called The Kutcher Job is in fact one of two duelling biogs of the Apple CEO. Sony »
‘Horrible Bosses’ Writer & ‘Cars 2’ Co-Director Team For Animated Feature
9 March 2012 7:30 AM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Mike Markowitz made it big on the writing front last year with the ridiculously funny Horrible Bosses and after a long career of writing various TV shows, Markowitz is joining the animated realm of cinema, as Deadline reports he has been hired to write the second animated feature for Tradition Studios.
Brad Lewis (Cars 2), the former Pixar Pdi/Dreamworks filmmaker-producer-actor, has been set to direct the feature, which is being kept under wraps while being in development at the studio’s San Francisco facility. However, we do know that this project will be the follow-up to the company’s first animated feature, The Legend of Tembo, which was directed by Aaron Blaise and Chuck Williams and penned by William Schneider.
Lewis most recently directed the underwhelming Cars 2, and he also produced Pixar’s Ratatouille and Dreamworks’ Antz. With their past work taken into account, I think that Markowitz »
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Class act: do you prefer Woody Allen to deliver his own lines?
8 March 2012 4:02 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Nero Fiddled and Fading Gigolo will see Allen back in front of the camera again. And no one plays Woody better than he does
Woody Allen's on-screen appearances are getting rarer and rarer. The last time he appeared in a film was in 2006, when he starred alongside Scarlett Johansson in his own film Scoop. The last time he appeared in someone else's film was back in 2000, when he turned up in Alfonso Arau's Picking Up the Pieces.
However, there are signs that this period of hiding is coming to an end. His next film Nero Fiddled might seem like a by-the-numbers latter-period Allen piece – featuring a classical conceit (it's apparently based on Boccaccio's The Decameron), Penélope Cruz and a nervy young Allen analogue (Jesse Eisenberg) – but its biggest selling point is that Woody Allen himself will appear in it. What's more, this week it was announced that »
- Stuart Heritage
Woody Allen Joins Fading Gigolo
8 March 2012 12:25 AM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
It's very rare these days that Woody Allen turns out as an actor in a film he isn't directing. So John Turturro must be feeling very privileged (or very pleased with his powers of persuasion) that Allen has agreed to appear in Fading Gigolo.Turturro wrote, and will direct and star in the film, which sees him playing the titular escort, with Allen as his pimp. No, really! According to Variety's synopsis, the pair are "cash-strapped best friends" who decide the gigolo business is their way forward, but attract the ire of their local Hasidic Jewish community in the process. They operate under the pseudonyms Virgil and Bongo, and there's a further complication when Turturro falls in love with a Jewish widow.That's "Virgil" and "Bongo".The widow hasn't been cast yet, but Sharon Stone and Sofia Vergara are both confirmed for unspecified supporting roles.Allen's last major role in »
About A Boy Scribe Hired To Rewrite Live-Action Cinderella Script
29 February 2012 8:30 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Chris Weitz has had one ridiculously strange movie career. Beginning in the late 90s, Weitz's writing/directing filmmography is one of the most eclectic you'll find, working in various genres like R-rated comedy (American Pie), teen romance (The Twilight Saga: New Moon), Oscar-nominated dramedy (About A Boy), animation (Antz), adventure (The Golden Compass), and Oscar-nominated drama (last year's A Better Life). The filmmaker has made a career out of keeping audiences guessing, so his latest project really shouldn't come as any sort of a surprise. Weitz has been hired to rewrite the script for Disney's upcoming live-action Cinderella film, reports THR. The project has been in development for years now, and Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo, Never Let Me Go) is attached to direct. The idea was born when Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland became an international sensation at the box office and studios began developing as many fairy »
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