Congratulations are in order to the 2020 Prime Time Emmy Awards: nominees for Outstanding Special Visual Effects: Lost In Space (Netflix) The Mandalorian (Lucasfilm) Stranger Things (Netflix) Watchmen (HBO) Westworld (HBO) Click here for a full list of all this year’s Emmy nominations. We wish those who worked on all the nominated shows in all categories […]
In an historic move, the time a Universal or Focus Features movie can be seen only at a cinema has been reduced from nearly three months to a skinny three weeks In the US, AMC Theatres and Universal have signed a deal that will allow Universal and Focus Features releases to be made available on […]
AWS and NVIDIA are collaborating to provide media and entertainment businesses with virtual workstations running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) G4 instances with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs in an initiative they call Rethink Creativity. Users also have access to Quadro vWS at no additional cost Target markets Visual effects, animation and real-time, interactive rendering […]
As Covid-19 continues to rage in the US, forcing studios to continually revise their plans, cinema owners hope Europe holds the key to reopening The Los Angeles Times reports that AMC, the world’s largest cinema owner, will remain closed for business while it waits for new films to be released.. In the UK, the doors […]
To make up for the dramatic loss of revenue caused by the Covid-19 lockdown, the Utilita Arena in the centre of Birmingham and the Resorts World Arena on the NEC campus on the Eastern outskirts of the city are being transformed into a film and television production complex, reports Broadcast. The news will be welcomed […]
Back in December 2019 – and how long ago does that feel now? – Robert Downey Jnr. fronted a series of YouTube Originals videos, ”The Age of A.I’., on the origins and development of artificial intelligence and its applications. Episode 1; How Far Is Too Far? The first episode in the series begins in the […]