Journals By Industry - Movie & Video Production

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HEADNOTE With Moonbot Studios, a children's animation star remakes the cinematic experience. And that's just his first trick. William Joyce once helped design Woody and Buzz Lightyear. But now he's taking on giants...

Byline: Robert Nott Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire is coming to New Mexico -- for at least 10 episodes, anyway. The New Mexico Film Office announced Monday that the A&E cable television network's new...

Greek acquisitions at EFM could be impacted by financial woes in the country. The Greek financial crisis has not left the local film industry unscathed. The 2011 admissions were 10.9m, registering a loss...

Ofcom has delivered a damning verdict of the blunder that led ITV1 to include video game footage in a hard-hitting documentary about the IRA. The media regulator investigated 26 complaints over footage in...

Gross box office in Australia in 2011 was $1,147.5 million (A$1,093.7m), three per cent down on the previous year, while cinema admissions were down 7.7 per cent to 85 million. Mike Selwyn, chair...

The makers of Wallace and Gromit, Peppa Pig and In the Night Garden have written to chancellor George Osborne urging him to create a "level playing field" for UK animators to compete on...

Sherlock Holmes stayed top of the international charts for the third weekend in a row through Warner Bros Pictures International as it soared past $260m. The action sequel grossed an estimated $18.1m from...

Dir: Asger Leth. US. 2012. 102mins A thriller of two halves, Man On A Ledge starts out intriguing and ends up formulaic. But with Sam Worthington leading a strong and diverse cast, the...

Dirs: Richard Stanley, Buddy Giovinazzo, Tom Savini, Douglas Buck, Karim Hussain, David Gregory, Jeremy Kasten. US-France-Canada. 2012. 114mins Horror anthology The Theatre Bizarre is made up of six quirky, Grand Guignol-esque shorts from...

Public outcry over two controversial Internet piracy bills in Congress seems to have reached Washington. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released a statement this morning saying he would be postponing a vote scheduled...

After 20 years at a corporate advertising firm, Pete Sussi was ready for a more animated career. Freelancing in designing 3-D animation, Sussi took the plunge and opened his own firm, Northport-based Platinum...

On-Boards Industry Experts to Head-Up New Facility and Service Growing Clientele NEEDHAM, Mass. -- Extreme Reach, Inc.,a leading provider of video advertising management, ad distribution and ad serving solutions, today announced its expansion...

First-Ever Online "Audience Award" Enables Fans to Vote for Best Short Film on Yahoo! Screen Yahoo! Movies & omg! NOW Feature Behind-The-Scenes Content Straight from Park City SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO),...

Crowdsourced ad directed by possibly the youngest professional in the history of Super Bowl ads WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- The Dannon Company announced today that the first-ever Super Bowl yogurt commercial will feature...

DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/58e669/european_animation) has announced the addition of the "European Animation Industry: Strategies Trends & Opportunities 2012" report to their offering. Animation studios in European countries such as France and...

Super Hero Adventures, Based On the Hit 'Super Hero Squad' Cartoon Coming to The Hub, Will Debut New Action Figures, Playsets and Plush at New York Toy Fair PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Hasbro, Inc....

From managing exotic dancers to catching online counterfeiters, TrackVia highlights most unique user-developed business applications DENVER -- The U.S. economy may be struggling, but America's ingenuity is thriving. TrackVia, makers of a highly...

Manhattan vacancy rates declined steadily into the fourth quarter of 2011 as a continued wave of new age companies solidified Midtown South as the least vacant central business district in the nation. [ILLUSTRATION...