US property developer Hackman Capital Partners, which owns The Culver Studios in Los Angeles and Silvercup Studios in New York, has stepped in to build Dagenham Studios in East London after the original backers pulled out citing concerns over Brexit. £300m will be spent on developing the site over the next three years. Filming at […]
A new cinema trailer for Fortnite has been published by NVIDIA GeForce to shows off the power of ray tracing in the game. There’s lots of scenery and architecture on show. and players are promised beautifully rendered foliage, buildings, character models, and textures, together with global illumination, ray-traced shadows and ambient occlusion. Players are reminded […]
SAUCE (Smart-Asset ReUse in Creative Environments) is a three-year multi-company EU Research and Innovation project focused on the re-use of existing digital assets for future productions. Content creators regularly overlook opportunities to reuse existing media assets on new productions, particularly virtual productions, to reduce costs, speed up production and, into the bargain, earn some residual revenue for the asset […]
With the support of $160m in funding from the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), HPE is building supercomputer LUMI in Kajaani, Finland with a theoretical performance capability of over 550 petaflops, which will make it the fastest in the world. LUMI, which is due to be available for use from the middle of […]
When Pinewood Studios opened its production facility just outside Atlanta in 2014 it wasn’t originally envisaged as a fully integrated community where film industry people could work, live and socialise. Pinewood’s partners did see the opportunity to build a town whose residents would collaborate on film projects from start to finish, and that’s how we got […]
Cinema projector maker has announced another innovation to help theatre owners get their businesses back on track while ensuring audiences remain safe; a line of commercial UV disinfection products with patented far-UVC light technology. CounterAct, which is due to go into production in January 2021, uses Care222 excimer lamps from Christie’s parent company Ushio that […]