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Obituaries now available at Diesel Books

Sun, 02/13/2011 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

Obituaries a mystery novel by Nick Dager is now available at Diesel Books. The Valentine’s Day discovery of a young Asian woman’s body found frozen in the trunk of her abandoned car is the first of a series of seemingly random deaths that shock rural Dutchess County Ohio. On sale for a limited time for just $.99. Grady Sloan editor of the county’s leading newspaper must solve the mystery before he and the woman he loves become the next victims.

Reinventing Cinema now available at Diesel Books

Sun, 02/13/2011 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

Reinventing Cinema: The First Decade of Digital Cinema by Nick Dager is now available at Diesel Books. In May 1999 Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace opened with digital screenings in a handful of movie theatres in and around New York and Los Angeles: digital cinema’s first decade was underway. Now on sale for only $1.99. Those screenings generated widespread visibility and publicity and developments began to occur on a more regular basis. The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers began work on standards for digital cinema in 2001.

Omnilab Media Signs VPF Deal with Paramount

Sun, 02/13/2011 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

Omnilab Media Cinema Services has signed a virtual print fee deal with Paramount Pictures to partially fund the digital upgrade for independent cinema owners. The deal expected to be the first of six agreements between the major studios and OMCS was employed by the Independent Cinema Owners of Australia last September to assist their members to convert to digital equipment from 35mm projectors.

Rezn8 Hired to Create Mysteria Title Sequence

Sun, 02/13/2011 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

Rezn8 a subsidiary of Stereo Vision Entertainment was retained by Tunnel Post to create the title sequence for the murder mystery thriller Mysteria starring Billy Zane Danny Glover and Martin Landau. Being chosen to work with Tunnel Post on this film further demonstrates Rezn8's leading position in the entertainment industry and the opportunities for Stereo Vision to generate an increased volume of profitable business in the coming year says Stereo Vision Entertainment CEO Jack Honour.

Screenvision Carries Be the One PSA in Preshow

Sun, 02/13/2011 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

Screenvision is running Women of the Storm’s Be the One PSA within its cinematic preshow touting the importance of the Gulf Coast region in the wake of the BP oil spill. Be the One has run on more 6 400 screens nationwide since January 28th and continues through February 24th. The Be the One PSA features celebrities including John Goodman Wendell Pierce Alfre Woodard Bryan Batt Drew Brees Peyton and Eli Manning James Carville and Harry Shearer.

Southern Theatres begins 283-Screen Rollout

Sun, 02/13/2011 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

Southern Theatres is installing 283 Cinedigm screens across 20 existing locations in Alabama Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina and Texas. Southern is financing the deployment through NEC Financial. The installations are anticipated to begin in March and be completed by the end of the year. “Upgrading our theatres with state-of-the-art digital cinemas continues Southern’s tradition of delivering the best movie-going experience possible ” says George Solomon president of Southern Theatres.

On the Road with Napoleon

Sun, 01/30/2011 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

Jim Carbonetti stereoscopic supervisor and compositor for 3D Blast in Los Angeles was recently tapped to guide the stereoscopic production for Napoleon 3D a new comedy starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Russian actress Anna Semenovich that brings an entirely new perspective to this legendary historic military conqueror. Using the latest version of Iridas Speedgrade 2010 on location during filming of Napoleon 3D in Kiev and Yalta Ukraine Carbonetti was able to quickly make adjustments and corrections to stereo footage.

RAAM Irish Cinema Industry Awards Nominees Announced

Sun, 01/30/2011 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

Nominations have been announced for the 2011 RAAM UK and Irish Cinema Industry Awards. In what has become the first awards show in the UK and Irish cinema awards season the winners will be presented with their awards at a dinner at the Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square London on February 9th. Tony Meehan chairman of RAAM management creators of the awards says “2010 was a good year for the UK and Irish cinemas. This years’ nominations reflect the broad range of excellent films which were released during 2010.

Rising Sun Pictures Finishes Red Dog The Dragon Pearl

Sun, 01/30/2011 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

Australian digital production facility Rising Sun Pictures has used Nucoda Film Master to grade and finish two major feature films Red Dog and The Dragon Pearl both due for release this year. The facility also used Digital Vision's new entry-level system Nucoda Compose for VFX dailies to review high-resolution shots in a color-accurate environment for iterative feedback. Rising Sun Pictures has a vast portfolio including the Harry Potter series X-Men Origins: Wolverine Australia and Superman Returns to name but a few.

Linux Color Correction Added Grit to The Fighter

Sun, 01/30/2011 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

Colorist Tony Dustin of Hollywood-based Technicolor used the DaVinci Resolve Linux non-linear color correction system for color grading work done on Paramount Pictures/Relativity Media’s critically acclaimed feature film The Fighter directed by David O. Russell. The film stars actor/producer Mark Wahlberg Amy Adams and recent Golden Globe winners Christian Bale and Melissa Leo and is currently in theatres nationwide.

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