Prime Focus Software, the R&D arm of Prime Focus, announces the release of Deadline 4.1, the latest version of its popular easy-to-use administration and rendering toolkit for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX-based render farms.
Global visual entertainment services group Prime Focus has completed visual effects shots for the Summit Entertainment release "THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE," the latest movie in the blockbuster Twilight franchise.
Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry (www.thefoundry.co.uk), today announced that Global Visual Entertainment Services group, Prime Focus, has purchased a site license of Nuke to revamp their in-house pipeline.
Prime Focus, a global visual entertainment services group, has completed visual effects shots for the summer movie event “THE A-TEAM” for Twentieth Century Fox.
HIT Entertainment, one of the world's leading independent children's producers and rights owners, today announced an internal realignment of its business units to increase its brand focus.
Prime Focus, one of the world's largest visual entertainment services groups, has completed work on Universal Pictures' epic action-adventure Robin Hood, from acclaimed director Ridley Scott.
Prime Focus, the global visual entertainment services group, today announced a significant capital investment and expansion of its global Stereoscopic 3D (S3D) pipeline.
Prime Focus Software, the R&D arm of Prime Focus, is seeking visual effects companies to participate in the Beta Testing program for Deadline 4.1.
Prime Focus Software, the R&D and software development arm of Prime Focus, today announced the release of Deadline 4.0, the company's easy-to-use administration and rendering toolkit for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX-based render farms.
Prime Focus, a global visual entertainment services group, has contributed a number of shots to James Cameron's stereoscopic 3D feature film "Avatar."
Focus Features Intl. has picked up the rights to Matthew Vaughn's KICK-ASS, reports VARIETY.
Prime Focus Software, the R&D arm of Prime Focus VFX, is actively recruiting visual effects facilities to participate in the Beta Testing program for Deadline 4.0.
SMPTE is making 3-D a main focus at its annual conference on Oct. 27-29 at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood, Calif.
Prime Focus announced today that industry veteran O.D. Welch has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer for North America.
Prime Focus, one of the world’s largest visual entertainment services groups, today announced the transformation of its global facilities - Prime Focus London, blue and Machine (UK), Post Logic and Frantic Films VFX (USA) and Prime Focus Group in India - into a single global company under a new Prime Focus brand.
Press Release from Focus Features
NEW YORK, September 4, 2009 - Student Academy Award winner Shane Acker, whose first feature film, the animated fantasy epic 9, opens nationwide from Focus Features on Sept. 9th, has curated an animation showcase of short films, presented by Kodak.
May 26, 2009 -- Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), a subsidiary of Prime Focus Group, announced the appointment of Michael Schunk as VP, business development, digital asset management. Schunk will be based out of Prime Focus' North American headquarters in Hollywood, CA, and will report to North American CEO Larry Birstock and PFT President and CEO Ramki Sankaranarayanan. Schunk's role will be focused on developing sales strategy for Digital Asset Management services globally, and driving sales throughout North America.
Prime Focus won the prestigious Filmfare award for Best Visual Effects for its work on Bollywood sci-fi movie LOVE STORY 2050. The award was given to Merzin Tavaria, creative head for VFX/Animation at Prime Focus and vfx supervisor on LOVE STORY 2050 at the 54th Filmfare awards night held in Mumbai on February 28, 2009.
Prime Focus, India's integrated post production and visual effects services company has delivered an array of post services and more than 1,000 visual effects shots for Bollywood film CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA (CC2C). Co-produced by Warner Bros, CC2C is the biggest internationally exposed film in the history of Indian cinema, the first Bollywood film to be distributed by Warner Bros and the first Indian production to be shot in China.
Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging and Prime Focus have entered into a strategic alliance that will allow both companies to expand their abilities to offer their state-of-the-art digital post-production capabilities to filmmakers on a global scale. It also allows both companies to manage their workflows more efficiently between Warner Bros. MPI in Burbank and Prime Focus' facilities throughout multiple locations in India and London as well as in New York, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Los Angeles.
India-based Prime Focus Group has expanded its reach into North America with the acquisitions of Post Logic Studios and Frantic Films VFX. Terms were not disclosed and the structure of these acquisitions is yet to be finalized.
Frantic Films also operates live-action production/post-production facilities and a television commercial division that will not be a part of this acquisition, and will continue to operate independently out of Winnipeg and Toronto, Canada.
Focus Features is accepting the NC-17 rating issued to Ang Lee's LUST, CAUTION by the MPAA, reports the trades. The erotic spy thriller will make its debut at the Toronto Film Festival, before hitting New York theaters on Sept. 28, then expanding on Oct. 5.
Adapted by Focus CEO James Schamus and Wang Hui Ling from Eileen Chang's short story, the film follows a shy Chinese drama student who is pulled into plot to assassinate a Japanese collaborator during WWII. Mr. X is handling the visual effects on the project.
An all-star cast headed by Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer and John C. Reilly are providing voice work in Shane Acker's animated sci-fi, fairy tale, 9. Adapted from his Academy Award nominated short, the 3D-animated feature is currently in production at Attitude Studio and LuxAnimation in Luxembourg for Focus Features.
The CMP Game Group has turned its focus to the topic of outsourcing and off-shoring with its GDC FOCUS ON: Game Outsourcing Summit, taking place at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott. The one-day conference, the second GDC FOCUS ON event, is the only summit in the gaming space entirely dedicated to outsourcing games-related work.
Ang Lee has pacted with Focus Features to direct LUST, CAUTION, an espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai. Bill Kong, who previously produced Lee's CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, will produce. Focus Features ceo James Schamus will exec produce.
