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Uncharted Territory Production Team Rides Shotgun to White House

Fri, 07/19/2013 - 12:57 -- Nick Dager

White House Down co-producers Marc Weigert and Volker Engel set up their management platform Uncharted Territory in 1999 to serve as the production and visual effects hub on films they’ve been involved with including 2012, Anonymous and others. Due to the very tight, 12-month delivery schedule for White House Down, Weigert and Engel, who also served as co-VFX supervisors on the film, recruited ten visual effects vendors around the world—all using Shotgun software to push and pull shots.

White House Down

Thu, 07/18/2013 - 14:59 -- Bob Gibbons

This film is getting lost in the summer box office and while it’s not a great film, it’s better than the box office results suggest. The major factor that’s hurting it: it’s the second telling of essentially the same story this year. Just a few months ago, Gerald Butler saved the President and the White House from terrorists in Olympus Has Fallen; now it’s Channing Tatum’s turn.

Art House Convergence to Hold Regional Seminar August 22-23 in New York

Mon, 07/15/2013 - 17:30 -- Nick Dager

The Art House Convergence will hold its first-ever regional seminar, Thursday and Friday August 22-23 at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, New York. The seminar will cover topics from fundraising to repertory programming to digital cinema.

Accomplice’s Hans Petter Moland Wins Gold Lion at Cannes for No Means No

Mon, 07/15/2013 - 17:22 -- Nick Dager

Women in Norway now have the same protections against unwanted sexual advances enjoyed by women in most other Western countries thanks to an award-winning public service advertising campaign conducted by Amnesty International.

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