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Indican Pictures’ will release the final film by Academy Award winner Ernest Borgnine The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez and it will open December 7th in Los Angeles. In the film Borgnine delivers a memorable starring performance as a retired radio DJ who has always dreamed of being a Western movie cowboy star.  While recovering from a back injury at a Latino-staffed nursing home he finally has an opportunity to act out his dreams of being a hero. The movie stars Borgnine and features Barry Corbin Arturo Del Puerto and Audrey P. Scott. Elia Petridis wrote and directed.

Hotel Transylvania Sony Pictures Animation’s monster hit comedy that has broken records at the U.S. box office went through final color grading and stereo finishing in full 3D at Colorworks Sony Pictures Entertainment’s digital intermediate facility. DI Colorist John Persichetti used a FilmLight Baselight to apply the finishing touches to the film prior to its worldwide release. It was the second stereo 3D animated feature that Persichetti has graded on Baselight.

Dolby has announced the pre-sale availability of the Dolby Atmos Cinema Processor CP850 which includes the Dolby Atmos Commissioning Service with purchase. The technology will be featured in Life of Pi which is being released later this month. The new Dolby CP850 offers a complete audio solution to today’s digital cinema theatres. In addition to Dolby Atmos playback the Dolby CP850 offers support for 64 speaker feeds and is configurable between 16 analog outputs and a Dolby Atmos Connect output Dolby Surround 7.1 and 5.1 digital playback (PCM as part of DCI movies).

John Agalsoff Jr. has been in charge of sound for many major television series features and commercials. At present he’s working on the hit ABC series Castle. “The show presents some unique challenges for sound in that a lot of our locations are quite noisy ” he says. “Sometimes that requires us to get creative with our microphone placement techniques.” “Some of the downtown apartment buildings in Los Angeles will double for New York ” he says. “The camera is usually at the back of the hallway with our actors approaching it.