Deluxe has signed an agreement to acquire visual effects company Atomic Fiction, which has studios in Montreal and San Francisco.
The company will join Method Studios, Deluxe’s vfx brand, as part of a strategy to deepen the company’s talent base and capacity to take on the biggest and most challenging visual effects projects for features, episodic TV, advertising and brands.
Founded in 2010 by Kevin Baillie and Ryan Tudhope, Atomic Fiction has collaborated with director Robert Zemeckis on a number of projects, including “The Walk,” Allied” and the upcoming “Welcome to Marwen.”
The company also worked on the Oscar-winning effects of “Blade Runner 2049” (pictured); on Paramount’s “Star Trek Beyond”; Fox’s “Deadpool”; HBO’s “Games of Thrones”; and season 3 of Netflix’s “Stranger Things.”
“Throughout my career, I’ve always felt that it’s important to surround myself with the best of the best in their craft,...
The company will join Method Studios, Deluxe’s vfx brand, as part of a strategy to deepen the company’s talent base and capacity to take on the biggest and most challenging visual effects projects for features, episodic TV, advertising and brands.
Founded in 2010 by Kevin Baillie and Ryan Tudhope, Atomic Fiction has collaborated with director Robert Zemeckis on a number of projects, including “The Walk,” Allied” and the upcoming “Welcome to Marwen.”
The company also worked on the Oscar-winning effects of “Blade Runner 2049” (pictured); on Paramount’s “Star Trek Beyond”; Fox’s “Deadpool”; HBO’s “Games of Thrones”; and season 3 of Netflix’s “Stranger Things.”
“Throughout my career, I’ve always felt that it’s important to surround myself with the best of the best in their craft,...
- 7/26/2018
- by Peter Caranicas
- Variety Film + TV
As co-producer of "Ender's Game," the rebooted Digital Domain 3.0 has a lot more at stake than cool zero-g and simulated battles in space. One of La's few remaining VFX studios (now under the post-bankruptcy ownership of Sun Innovation and Reliance MediaWorks), Dd is also experimenting with content creation as a new business model, and the rest of the industry is watching closely. So far, so good, if not spectacular: "Ender's Game" led the box office last weekend with an opening take of $27 million. And while former Dd CEO Ed Ulbrich suggested at the recent Visual Effects Society Summit that content creation is a worthwhile concept, he cautioned that you obviously have to mitigate the risk to offset it. As expected, the VFX is noteworthy and deserving of an Oscar nomination. Director Gavin Hood wanted an immersive, holographic-like depiction of the zero-g Battle Room, and Dd (under the supervision of Matthew Butler...
- 11/8/2013
- by Bill Desowitz
- Thompson on Hollywood
Ender’s Game VFX Featurette. Ender’s Game (2013) ‘Building Ender’s World’ movie featurette stars Gavin Hood, Harrison Ford, Roberto Orci, Gigi Pritzker, and Ed Ulbrich. VFX artists spent three years and over 3000 man hours on the effects of the film. The featurette details that a single shot in the film has over [...]
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Continue reading: Ender’S Game (2013) Movie Featurette: Building Ender’s World with VFX...
- 10/22/2013
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Not only is this featurette an amazing in-depth look at what went into creating some amazing CGI in Ender’s Game, but it’s also host to some additional footage from the movie. And we always love more footage. This video features interviews with Harrison Ford (Colonel Graff), producer Roberto Orci, screenwriter and director Gavin Hood, producer Gigi Pritzker, and producer Ed Ulbrich.
Featurette: Ender’s Game – VFX
So cool.
Ender’s Game, starring Asa Butterfield, Abigail Breslin, Harrison Ford, Viola Davis, Ben Kingsley and Hailee Steinfeld, is slated to hit theaters and IMAX on November 1st, 2013.
Featurette: Ender’s Game – VFX
So cool.
Ender’s Game, starring Asa Butterfield, Abigail Breslin, Harrison Ford, Viola Davis, Ben Kingsley and Hailee Steinfeld, is slated to hit theaters and IMAX on November 1st, 2013.
- 10/21/2013
- by Jess Orso
- ScifiMafia
Big changes at Digital Domain after Hong Kong-based holding company Sun Innovation paid $50.5M for the parent of Galloping Horse, a film and TV firm that owned 70% of the VFX house. Ed Ulbrich, who has been at Digital Domain since director James Cameron helped to found it in 1993, has stepped down as CEO to become a creative consultant. He will continue working as a producer on Lionsgate’s Ender’s Game. Replacing him in the top job is Sun’s Daniel Seah who has managed projects in entertainment, media, energy, and environmental protection and technology, the compnay says. The changes follow Sun’s acquisition of Galloping Horse Us, the Beijing company that partnered with Reliance MediaWorks to purchase Digital Domain out of bankruptcy in 2012. Reliance will continue to own a minority stake in the company, now dubbed “Digital Domain 3.0.” It has shaped effects for Titanic, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,...
- 7/27/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
The visual-effects industry is in tumult. Shrinking profit margins and studios' thirst for foreign subsidies have decimated the business, particularly in Southern California, and pushed more than a half-dozen companies into financial ruin in the last few years. Last month, the Oscar-winning visual-effects company Rhythm & Hues became the latest victim of this fierce competition and was forced to file for Chapter 11 protection. Its failure has set off a period of intense soul-searching across the visual-effects community. The sad saga of Rhythm & Hues is a story Ed Ulbrich (left) knows all...
- 3/19/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Summit Entertainment's sent along a brand new image as well as army logos from Battle School (Salamander, Dragon, Rat and Asp) from Gavin Hood's Ender's Game, starring Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Abigail Breslin and Harrison Ford. As you can see, it's Hailee Steinfeld and Asa Butterfield in the photo from the sci-fi adventure film scripted by Hood based on Orson Scott Card's best-selling and award-winning novel of the same title, is produced by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Gigi Pritzker, Linda McDonough, Robert Chartoff, Lynn Hendee, Ed Ulbrich and Card. Here, in the near future, a hostile alien race (called the Formics) have attacked Earth. If not for the legendary heroics of International Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley), all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, the highly esteemed Colonel Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) and the International Military are training...
- 2/20/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Summit Entertainment's sent along a brand new image as well as army logos from Battle School (Salamander, Dragon, Rat and Asp) from Gavin Hood's Ender's Game, starring Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Abigail Breslin and Harrison Ford. As you can see, it's Hailee Steinfeld and Asa Butterfield in the photo from the sci-fi adventure film scripted by Hood based on Orson Scott Card's best-selling and award-winning novel of the same title, is produced by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Gigi Pritzker, Linda McDonough, Robert Chartoff, Lynn Hendee, Ed Ulbrich and Card. Here, in the near future, a hostile alien race (called the Formics) have attacked Earth. If not for the legendary heroics of International Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley), all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, the highly esteemed Colonel Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) and the International Military are training...
- 2/20/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Lionsgate will co-finance and handle Us distribution for a big screen adaptation of "Ender's Game", based on the science fiction novel by author Orson Scott Card.
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman will produce via their K/O Paper Products banner, with Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough producing via OddLot Entertainment. Executive producers are OddLot's Bill Lischak, K/O's Mandy Safavi and Digital Domain's Cliff Plumer/Ed Ulbrich.
"Ender's Game" originated as a short story published in the August 1977 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine. Published as a full novel in 1985, Card later wrote additional books to form the "Ender's Game" series.
"...Set in Earth's future, 'Ender's Game' presents an imperiled humankind who have barely survived two conflicts with the 'Formics', an insectoid alien race aka the 'Buggers'.
"In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, an international fleet maintains a school to find and train future fleet commanders.
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman will produce via their K/O Paper Products banner, with Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough producing via OddLot Entertainment. Executive producers are OddLot's Bill Lischak, K/O's Mandy Safavi and Digital Domain's Cliff Plumer/Ed Ulbrich.
"Ender's Game" originated as a short story published in the August 1977 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine. Published as a full novel in 1985, Card later wrote additional books to form the "Ender's Game" series.
"...Set in Earth's future, 'Ender's Game' presents an imperiled humankind who have barely survived two conflicts with the 'Formics', an insectoid alien race aka the 'Buggers'.
"In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, an international fleet maintains a school to find and train future fleet commanders.
- 1/19/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Gavin Hood's Ender's Game adds first movie image We have a new image in from Summit Entertainment's Ender's Game, adapted from the Orson Scott Novel by director Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Tsotsi). Starring are Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Abigail Breslin, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Aramis Knight, Jimmy 'Jax' Pinchak, Moises Arias, Andrea Powell and Han Soto. The story set 70 years after a horrific alien war, follows an unusually gifted child who is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion. Lynn Hendee, Linda McDonough, Robert Chartoff, John Textor, Gigi Pritzker and Orson Scott Card Produce. The science fiction film's executive produced by David Coatsworth, Bill Lischak, Cliff Plumer and Ed Ulbrich.
- 12/13/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Gavin Hood's Ender's Game adds first movie image We have a new image in from Summit Entertainment's Ender's Game, adapted from the Orson Scott Novel by director Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Tsotsi). Starring are Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Abigail Breslin, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Aramis Knight, Jimmy 'Jax' Pinchak, Moises Arias, Andrea Powell and Han Soto. The story set 70 years after a horrific alien war, follows an unusually gifted child who is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion. Lynn Hendee, Linda McDonough, Robert Chartoff, John Textor, Gigi Pritzker and Orson Scott Card Produce. The science fiction film's executive produced by David Coatsworth, Bill Lischak, Cliff Plumer and Ed Ulbrich.
- 12/13/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Digital Domain has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday, temporarily holding off creditors who have threatened to take over the company based on past debts and losses that are measured in the tens of millions of dollars. The special effects house, founded by "Avatar" director James Cameron in 1993, closed its Florida location over the weekend putting 300 people out of work, and now will sell off the remaining pieces of the company. That includes a proposed $15 million sale to Searchlight Capital Partners, which is interested in Digital Domain Productions -- one of the few financially viable arms of the company. "We're excited to begin this new chapter in our history and look forward to partnering with Searchlight," said Ed Ulbrich, who just took over as chief executive ...
- 9/11/2012
- GeekNation.com
Debt-laden digital effects firm Digital Domain Media Group said Tuesday that it has formally filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It also said it has reached a purchase agreement with Searchlight Capital Partners, which will acquire Digital Domain Productions and its digital visual effects operating units in the U.S. and Canada for $15 million. "The sale will be the subject of a public auction, and Ddmg is required to engage in a process of seeking the highest and best bid for these assets," Digital Domain said. Recently promoted CEO Ed Ulbrich said: "We’re excited to begin
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- 9/11/2012
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Private investment firm Searchlight Capital Partners has agreed to pay $15M for Digital Domain Productions — the key operation at Digital Domain Media Group — although the special effects company will have to put itself up for auction following its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. Creditors threatened last month to foreclose; Digital Domain’s been losing cash which put it in default of its loan agreements. But Hudson Bay Master Fund and other senior note holders like the deal with Searchlight: They’re putting up as much as $20M in debtor-in-possession financing. Chief Restructuring Officer Michael Katzenstein says that Digital Domain is “grateful for the cooperative assistance of our lenders, our customers and employees as we work to seamlessly transition these important businesses and other assets to financially strong and committed buyers. Their ongoing support ensures the success of these matters.” CEO Ed Ulbrich adds that the company is “on track to deliver all...
- 9/11/2012
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
- Deadline TV
Lionsgate continues negotiations, started by Summit Entertainment, to co-finance and handle Us distribution rights for "Ender's Game", based on the science fiction novel written by author Orson Scott Card.
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are producing via their K/O Paper Products banner, along with Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough producing via OddLot Entertainment.
Executive producers are OddLot's Bill Lischak, K/O's Mandy Safavi and Digital Domain's Cliff Plumer/Ed Ulbrich.
Published in 1985, "Ender's Game" originated as the short story "Ender's Game", published in the August 1977 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine.
Elaborating on characters and plot lines depicted in the novel, Card later wrote additional books to form the "Ender's Game" series, releasing an updated version of the book in 1991, changing some political facts to accurately reflect the times.
"...Set in Earth's future, 'Ender's Game' presents an imperiled humankind who have barely survived two conflicts with the 'Formics',...
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are producing via their K/O Paper Products banner, along with Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough producing via OddLot Entertainment.
Executive producers are OddLot's Bill Lischak, K/O's Mandy Safavi and Digital Domain's Cliff Plumer/Ed Ulbrich.
Published in 1985, "Ender's Game" originated as the short story "Ender's Game", published in the August 1977 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine.
Elaborating on characters and plot lines depicted in the novel, Card later wrote additional books to form the "Ender's Game" series, releasing an updated version of the book in 1991, changing some political facts to accurately reflect the times.
"...Set in Earth's future, 'Ender's Game' presents an imperiled humankind who have barely survived two conflicts with the 'Formics',...
- 9/8/2012
- by M. Stevens
- SneakPeek
Los Angeles — When Tupac Shakur rose from the stage in the California desert earlier this year, it was not only a jaw-dropping resurrection, but also the beginning of a new form of live entertainment.
"Come with me," the digital Shakur called out, not just to tens of thousands of screaming fans but seemingly to other artists.
Follow, they will. Elvis Presley's estate announced it has authorized holograms of the King of Rock, Marilyn Monroe's estate has expressed interest and there's no shortage of other beloved stars whose fans would die to see them perform again.
Advances in digital artistry make it all possible, presenting celebrity estates with new commercial and creative opportunities, but also some ethical quandaries.
"I think we've scratched the surface with Tupac," said Dylan Brown, a filmmaker who along with director Philip Atwell and effects studio Digital Domain helped bring the Shakur hologram to life.
"Come with me," the digital Shakur called out, not just to tens of thousands of screaming fans but seemingly to other artists.
Follow, they will. Elvis Presley's estate announced it has authorized holograms of the King of Rock, Marilyn Monroe's estate has expressed interest and there's no shortage of other beloved stars whose fans would die to see them perform again.
Advances in digital artistry make it all possible, presenting celebrity estates with new commercial and creative opportunities, but also some ethical quandaries.
"I think we've scratched the surface with Tupac," said Dylan Brown, a filmmaker who along with director Philip Atwell and effects studio Digital Domain helped bring the Shakur hologram to life.
- 8/21/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Digital Domain Media Group is working on a 'virtual' Elvis for a series of film and TV projects.
By Gil Kaufman
Elvis Presley
Photo: Getty Images
We may not be getting those Left Eye, Michael Jackson or Notorious B.I.G. holograms we were hoping for anytime soon, but one of rock's royal court will be digitally resurrected.
Digital Domain Media Group, the company behind the earthshaking Tupac Shakur hologram that created a global sensation at this year's Coachella festival announced this week that it is planning to create a virtual Elvis Presley. Working with the Core Media Group — which owns the rights to Elvis' estate — Digital Domain said it is working on a series of "virtual" Elvis likenesses for a wide range of entertainment projects that could include everything from film and TV to "multi-platform productions throughout the world."
Ddmg, the Oscar-winning folks behind the special effects in films such as...
By Gil Kaufman
Elvis Presley
Photo: Getty Images
We may not be getting those Left Eye, Michael Jackson or Notorious B.I.G. holograms we were hoping for anytime soon, but one of rock's royal court will be digitally resurrected.
Digital Domain Media Group, the company behind the earthshaking Tupac Shakur hologram that created a global sensation at this year's Coachella festival announced this week that it is planning to create a virtual Elvis Presley. Working with the Core Media Group — which owns the rights to Elvis' estate — Digital Domain said it is working on a series of "virtual" Elvis likenesses for a wide range of entertainment projects that could include everything from film and TV to "multi-platform productions throughout the world."
Ddmg, the Oscar-winning folks behind the special effects in films such as...
- 6/6/2012
- MTV Music News
Sixteen years after his death, rapper Tupac Shakur performed alongside Snoop Dogg at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. And that may just be the beginning for the hologram version of the late rapper.
"This is just the beginning," Digital Domain's chief creative officer Ed Ulbrich tells the Wall Street Journal. "[Dr.] Dre has a massive vision for this."
Although it hasn't been officially stated, the assumption is that virtual Tupac may mount a stadium tour in the near future. The hologram likely would be backed up by fellow rappers like Eminem, Wiz Khalifa and 50 Cent.
"To create a completely synthetic human being is the most complicated thing that can be done," Ulbrich says. "This is not found footage. This is not archival footage. This is an illusion."
What do you think? Would you pay to see a non-live Tupac live?...
"This is just the beginning," Digital Domain's chief creative officer Ed Ulbrich tells the Wall Street Journal. "[Dr.] Dre has a massive vision for this."
Although it hasn't been officially stated, the assumption is that virtual Tupac may mount a stadium tour in the near future. The hologram likely would be backed up by fellow rappers like Eminem, Wiz Khalifa and 50 Cent.
"To create a completely synthetic human being is the most complicated thing that can be done," Ulbrich says. "This is not found footage. This is not archival footage. This is an illusion."
What do you think? Would you pay to see a non-live Tupac live?...
- 4/17/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Los Angeles, California (X17online) - The Tupac hologram that "performed" onstage at the Coachella Music Festival might make more appearances with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre on a Tupac Revivalist Roadshow. The unbelievably lifelike depiction of the late rapper stole the show Sunday by performing two songs for the captivated crowd. The computer imaging was done by Digital Domain Image Group, who has hinted that they intend to make the hologram a large part of Dr. Dre's tour. "This is just the beginning," Ed Ulbrich, the company creative director, told the Wall Street Journal. "Dre has a massive vision for this." Although it costs an estimated $100,000 - 400,000 for digital recreations, that amount is far cheaper than the amount of money it would cost to contract with an entertainer. The technology has the ability to put a musician in every venue in the country.
- 4/17/2012
- x17online.com
The biggest name to cause a fuss at Coachella was the late rapper Tupac Shakur. Shakur was murdered in 1996 at age 25. The rapper was resurrected by digital wizardry at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival alongside Snoop Dogg this weekend, and his holographic performance has become an Internet sensation. The impressive imagery was created by Digital Domain Media Group, Inc., which provided details to the Wall Street Journal on what's next for Tupac and the technology. "This is just the beginning," Digital Domain's chief creative officer, Ed Ulbrich, told the Journal Monday. "[Dr.] Dre has a massive vision for this." Dr. Dre's production team first approached Digital Domain a year ago about creating a virtual Tupac. The...
- 4/17/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Don't call it a comeback! Well, because Tupac Shakur is just a hologram. But despite being dead since 1996, Shakur, who was 25 at the time of his fatal shooting, appeared at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival alongside Snoop Dogg this weekend, and his image's performance has become an Internet sensation. The impressive visual is not actually a hologram, but rather a 2-D image created by Digital Domain Media Group, Inc., which provided details to the Wall Street Journal on what's next for Tupac and the technology. Related: Tupac Shakur Wows Coachella in Hologram Form"This is just the beginning," Digital Domain's chief creative officer,...
- 4/17/2012
- by Kristin Boehm
- PEOPLE.com
What the f— is up, Quad Cities? If seeing the Tupac hologram perform at Coachella wasn’t enough for you (Why wasn’t it enough? What gaping emotional hole are you trying to fill?), the people behind Tupac’s ghostly avatar are now suggesting that he…it…a computer and some screens might go on tour. “This is just the beginning. Dre has a massive vision for this,” Digital Domain Image Group creative director Ed Ulbrich told the Wall Street Journal. He also told MTV, “I can’t say how much that event cost, but I can say it’s affordable in the sense that if we had to bring entertainers around world and create concerts across the country, we could put [artists] in every venue in the country.” Ulbrich explained that normal digital recreations (for example, having a deceased rapper explode into tiny balls of light and ascend back into Heaven) cost between $100, 000 and $4000,000. Hmmm,...
- 4/17/2012
- by Halle Kiefer
- BestWeekEver
Visual-effects house behind the 2-D image tells Wall Street Journal that Dr. Dre has a vision beyond Coachella for his virtual friend.
By Kara Warner
Tupac's hologram at Coachella
Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images
Tupac Shakur has made quite an impact on pop culture since his death in 1996, so we shouldn't be too surprised that his eye-popping and downright magical materialization at the Coachella music festival on Sunday night alongside Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre is dominating the headlines.
The spectacular surprise has caused such a stir that there's a chance we might be seeing a lot more of this "new" Tupac very soon. According to a Wall Street Journal interview with Ed Ulbrich of Digital Domain Media Group Inc., the visual-effects house responsible for making the rapper's image (as well as the virtual versions of Brad Pitt in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"), there are plans to take the 2-D image on tour.
By Kara Warner
Tupac's hologram at Coachella
Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images
Tupac Shakur has made quite an impact on pop culture since his death in 1996, so we shouldn't be too surprised that his eye-popping and downright magical materialization at the Coachella music festival on Sunday night alongside Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre is dominating the headlines.
The spectacular surprise has caused such a stir that there's a chance we might be seeing a lot more of this "new" Tupac very soon. According to a Wall Street Journal interview with Ed Ulbrich of Digital Domain Media Group Inc., the visual-effects house responsible for making the rapper's image (as well as the virtual versions of Brad Pitt in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"), there are plans to take the 2-D image on tour.
- 4/16/2012
- MTV Music News
Harrison Ford and Abigail Breslin have been cast in Ender’s Game. Harrison Ford and Abigail Breslin joining Gavin Hood‘s Ender’s Game (2013) answers the questions of who will play Valentine Wiggin (Abigail Breslin) and who will play Colonel Hyram Graff (Harrison Ford).
Regarding both characters, Valentine Wiggin is “Ender’s older sister” and Colonel Hyram Graff is “who’s in charge of training young military recruits.” A more thorough break down of these characters and the other characters in Ender’s Game can be found here: Ender’s Game Movie is Casting Characters / Casting Call.
Ender’s Game plot synopsis: “70 years after a horrific alien war, an unusually gifted child is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.”
On the film’s history and production:
Ender’s Game came out of a long confinement in development hell when Gavin Hood’s...
Regarding both characters, Valentine Wiggin is “Ender’s older sister” and Colonel Hyram Graff is “who’s in charge of training young military recruits.” A more thorough break down of these characters and the other characters in Ender’s Game can be found here: Ender’s Game Movie is Casting Characters / Casting Call.
Ender’s Game plot synopsis: “70 years after a horrific alien war, an unusually gifted child is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.”
On the film’s history and production:
Ender’s Game came out of a long confinement in development hell when Gavin Hood’s...
- 12/22/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
Summit Entertainment reports it is in talks to co-finance and handle U.S. distribution rights for "Ender's Game", based on the science fiction novel written by author Orson Scott Card.
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are producing via their K/O Paper Products banner, along with Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough producing via OddLot Entertainment.
Executive producers are OddLot's Bill Lischak, K/O's Mandy Safavi and Digital Domain's Cliff Plumer/Ed Ulbrich.
Published in 1985, "Ender's Game" originated as the short story "Ender's Game", published in the August 1977 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine.
Elaborating on characters and plot lines depicted in the novel, Card later wrote additional books to form the "Ender's Game" series, releasing an updated version of the book in 1991, changing some political facts to accurately reflect the times.
"...Set in Earth's future, 'Ender's Game' presents an imperiled humankind who have barely survived two conflicts with the 'Formics',...
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are producing via their K/O Paper Products banner, along with Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough producing via OddLot Entertainment.
Executive producers are OddLot's Bill Lischak, K/O's Mandy Safavi and Digital Domain's Cliff Plumer/Ed Ulbrich.
Published in 1985, "Ender's Game" originated as the short story "Ender's Game", published in the August 1977 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine.
Elaborating on characters and plot lines depicted in the novel, Card later wrote additional books to form the "Ender's Game" series, releasing an updated version of the book in 1991, changing some political facts to accurately reflect the times.
"...Set in Earth's future, 'Ender's Game' presents an imperiled humankind who have barely survived two conflicts with the 'Formics',...
- 5/2/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Here's the latest trailer for the August 5th release of Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, the second attempt to reboot the beloved simian franchise. What do you think of the CGI ape...?
The movie looks like an interesting take on the franchise, drawing more on the 'present-day' atmosphere of Escape From The Planet Of The Apes and Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes than the more familiar rustic apery of the much-derided Tim Burton 2001 reboot. But the first thing that stands out about the digital ape in the trailer is that the eyes do not convince. I got that Terminator Salvation feeling again.
Here's the great irony: in the original Apes movies, it was the eyes of the interned human actors which brought the often (inevitably) unanimated prosthetic make-up of John Chambers to life; but on the basis of what is on show in the trailer for Rise,...
The movie looks like an interesting take on the franchise, drawing more on the 'present-day' atmosphere of Escape From The Planet Of The Apes and Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes than the more familiar rustic apery of the much-derided Tim Burton 2001 reboot. But the first thing that stands out about the digital ape in the trailer is that the eyes do not convince. I got that Terminator Salvation feeling again.
Here's the great irony: in the original Apes movies, it was the eyes of the interned human actors which brought the often (inevitably) unanimated prosthetic make-up of John Chambers to life; but on the basis of what is on show in the trailer for Rise,...
- 4/14/2011
- Shadowlocked
By Pete Hammond
hollywoodnews.com: For the first time two 3D movies opened against each other on the same weekend grabbing a combined total of an estimated $60 million at the box office just one week after the debut of another 3D family epic, The Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader which held pretty well from a soft opening, and only one week before yet another 3Der, Jack Black’s Gulliver’s Travels. Both of those movies plus both of this week’s flicks, Tron: Legacy and Yogi Bear are blasts from the past rebooted with new technological advances to make their dormant characters hot again. The future is here, movie-wise, and the studios are clearly stating their aim with this kind of holiday programming.
As for Tron: Legacy its $43.6 million dollar start plus B+ Cinemascore bodes well for a sci-fi reinvention based on a 28 year old Disney movie...
hollywoodnews.com: For the first time two 3D movies opened against each other on the same weekend grabbing a combined total of an estimated $60 million at the box office just one week after the debut of another 3D family epic, The Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader which held pretty well from a soft opening, and only one week before yet another 3Der, Jack Black’s Gulliver’s Travels. Both of those movies plus both of this week’s flicks, Tron: Legacy and Yogi Bear are blasts from the past rebooted with new technological advances to make their dormant characters hot again. The future is here, movie-wise, and the studios are clearly stating their aim with this kind of holiday programming.
As for Tron: Legacy its $43.6 million dollar start plus B+ Cinemascore bodes well for a sci-fi reinvention based on a 28 year old Disney movie...
- 12/20/2010
- by Pete Hammond
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Visual Effects Society has announced the results of its board of directors elections for the 2008-09 term. Its newly elected board members are Jeff Barnes, Colin Campbell, Mike Chambers, Valerie Delahaye, Richard Edlund, Rob Engle, Sandra Joy Lee, Van Ling, Robert Nicoll, Marianne O'Reilly, Gene Rizzardi, Stuart Robertson, Carl Rosendahl, Sande Scoredos and Scott Squires. The alternates are Toni Pace Carstense, Terry Clotiaux, Doug Cooper and Ed Ulbrich.
- 11/9/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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