Principal photography has wrapped on Mom’s Night Out, the family comedy produced by Kevin Downes to be distributed by Affirm Films and Provident Films. Its creators describe it as film that celebrates real family life—where everything can go wrong and still turn out all right. "We wanted to make a film that the whole family could enjoy," said Downes, who also acts in the movie.
New Zealand-based post-production and broadcast integration company Post Lounge is now representing Cinegy in the Asia Pacific region
Athena Studios, Emeryville, California has signed CG animation production manager Brice Parker to the newly created position of producer. Parker will oversee development of the studio's forthcoming original stop motion and visual effects projects. Athena founder Jon V. Peters made the announcement.
West Coast-based production companies Accomplice Media and The Joneses have joined forces under the Accomplice name. Executive producers Jeff Snyder and Mel Gragido will co-manage the company, overseeing a roster of 16 directors that includes award-winning filmmakers Don Burgess, Jeff Gorman, Vincent Laforet, David Jellison, Rick Knief and Hans Petter Moland, as well as the dynamic young directing team Sherpas Cinema.
Digital Arts in New York City recently installed a new Meyer Sound cinema monitoring system in its new post-production theatre. The system has already been used on such projects as Woody Allen’s forthcoming film Blue Jasmine, and the recent HBO movie Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream.
The San Diego Film Festival has hired Digital Operative to handle its online promotions, scheduling and ticket sales.
"The San Diego Film Festival is an invaluable platform for promoting the fantastic work of independent film makers, actors, producers and directors. The Digital Operative team is excited to help take the festival to a new level and create a stellar digital presence to grow the event," said B.J. Cook, president and co-founder of Digital Operative.
Montreal area effects house Modus FX completed 240 visual effects shots for This Is The End, the apocalyptic comedy directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg in theatres now.
When Florida-based director/cinematographer, John Deeb isn’t shooting spots for high-profile clients such as Hard Rock Hotels or Disney, he likes to expand the limits of his creativity with music videos like a recent one for indie rocker Matt Pond. To shoot Love to Get Used, a song off Pond’s new album, The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand, Deeb got to experiment with different techniques not always viable on commercial productions.
JMR Electronics recently designed and built a high performance server and storage system for the production of the world’s first high-frame-rate 3D movie. UFOTOG, a 10-minute short that tells the story of a man’s attempt to photograph alien spacecraft, is the work of director, visual effects pioneer and filmmaking visionary Douglas Trumbull.
MTI Film has added Net Brains, a Houston-based systems integrator focused on Mexico and other Latin American markets, to its international reseller network. Net Brains will market and support MTI Film’s Cortex line of workflow solutions to broadcasters and film and television producers in its territory. It will also market Correct DRS, MTI Film’s film restoration platform.
