Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham have been nominated for a Producers Guild of America Award. Peter was previously…
Continue ReadingPeter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham have been nominated for a Producers Guild of America Award. Peter was previously nominated in 2003 for ‘The Two Towers’, and eventually won in 2004 for ‘Return of the King’. He is up against: “Avatar”, “An Education”, “The Hurt Locker”, “Inglourious Basterds”, “Invictus”, “Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire”, “Star Trek”, “Up” & “Up in the Air”.
See the whole list on GeekWeek.com, with a dashing new contributor…me. More..
Todd writes: Here’s a link to a PJ interview in Post Magazine about the Lovely Bones. Post Magazine focuses on the post production end of the film and video industries. More..
Nvidia and Weta Digital have developed an advanced ray-tracing system that is capable of quickly and accurately processing billions of polygons. The engine, dubbed PantaRay, was designed to accelerate pre-computation of scene occlusion data and dynamic image-based lighting in James Cameron’s Avatar.
“The complexity of Avatar motivated us to think about rendering differently. We do our final beauty-pass renders with RenderMan, but to optimize artistic iterations on Avatar’s huge data sets, we moved the bulk of the calculation to a pre-computation step,” explained Sebastian Sylwan, Weta’s head of research and development. More..
SpoilerTV.com just alerted us to a list they posted today of major roles being cast for “The Hobbit.” The complete list of roles can be found on the Spoiler TV.com website . Be sure to share your thoughts about these roles on our Hobbit Discussion board or Barliman’s Chat.
Update: After touching base with more of our contacts, we’ve been notified that this is not a valid list of lead roles and, in fact, some of the roles listed in the links are not relevant. Stay tuned here for more casting information as we get it, and rest assured we will follow every new story to confirm whether or not it is legit.
Tom and the folks at dvdactive.com send along updated info on the LOTR Animated DVDs hitting the shelves in April: Warner Home Video has revealed details on DVD ($19.98) and Blu-ray ($29.99) releases of Lord of the Rings Animated which will arrive in stores from the 6th April. Extras will include a Forging Through The Darkness: The Ralph Bakshi Vision for The Lord of the Rings featurette, and a digital copy. More..
Ataahua sends this in: A New Zealand cartoonist has a great commentary on Peter Jackson’s knighthood.
