One of the most anticipated dramatic features of 2012 Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master has received critical acclaim and film festival honors including a Silver Lion at the recent Venice Film Festival and broke a box office record for per-theater-average its first weekend in limited release. Produced by Annapurna Pictures the film is being distributed by The Weinstein Company.
Visual effects software developer The Foundry has announced its merger with Luxology. The two companies see the merger as a great fit in terms of technology and markets and say the combined portfolio will open doors to new ways of working providing artists and designers with increased creative choice. Bill Collis CEO of The Foundry said “We were impressed by modo's strong roots in a variety of markets including VFX design and games and by Luxology’s focus on creating artist friendly highly advanced technologies. Both companies are a great match for each other.
GDC Technology has announced that its new Integrated Media Block with digital cinema servers including SX-3000A SX-2000AR and SX-2000TR models are now compliant with the Digital Cinema Initiatives digital cinema system specifications pursuant to compliance testing as conducted by Keio University an entity licensed for compliance testing by DCI.
The Göteborg International Film Festival's short film competition Dragon Award New Talent is now open for submission. It is the 4th year the festival has arranged the online competition; last year more than 120 films were submitted. Jury members are from the Göteborg International Film Festival and also include the film directors Johannes Nyholm and Sascha Fülscher.
UK based color management specialist Light Illusion has developed a new application for its MatchLight Image Matching System to maintain the viability of long-term film based archiving for digital images. With the explosion in digital cinematography capture and the associated difficulty in providing guaranteed long-term archiving of the images Light Illusion was asked by a number of clients to look at possible long-term archive solutions based on the use of standard film stocks as film has unquestionably the best long-term archiving qualities of any storage medium presently in use.
Cinedigm Digital Cinema has announced a long-term virtual print fee deployment agreement with Metropolitan Theatres Corporation. This Cinedigm-financed conversion will deploy 82 Cinedigm Certified screens with installation should be completed later this fall. Metropolitan will utilize systems from Barco. Metropolitan currently operates 16 theatres in California Colorado Idaho Utah and British Columbia.
The Korean combat film R2B: Return to the Base features striking aerial fight action scenes putting every viewer in the center of the action visually and acoustically thanks in part to being mixed in Iosono's 3D movie sound format. It marks the third movie to be mixed in the format. The others were Tarsem Sighn's Immortals and war drama My Way. I experienced a world of sound that I never experienced before says director Dong-won Kim. It feels like the movie characters and the scenes are coming alive with the sound. I would love to have Iosono 3D sound on my next movie again.
A stereoscopic 3D training program supported for the last three years by the European MEDIA program will be held November 19-28. The S3D Campus offers an exceptional learning frame in terms of means and opportunities to build or reinforce the professional network of the participants. The S3D Campus will offer an eight-day training program on producing an S3D film from conception to screen. Divided into groups of five to seven people the participants will produce a S3D sequence.
Arts Alliance Media and Neva Film have announced a partnership to sell AAM’s digital cinema software to exhibitors across Russia. The agreement was announced at the Kino Expo conference in St Petersburg where Neva Film was demonstrating AAM’s Theatre Management System to attendees.
Sony has announced that Autodesk is the latest member of the production community to adopt its SRMaster format. Autodesk 2013 extension versions of Autodesk Flame Premium Autodesk Flame Autodesk Smoke Advanced Autodesk Flare and Autodesk Lustre software will be capable of SRMaster format processing to support 4K workflows for creative 3D finishing and color grading. Sony’s SRMaster format is an open-platform technology for high-quality motion picture content and the recording format of Sony’s CineAlta F65 digital motion picture camera system.
