Four Consumer-Created Doritos Ads Crash The Super Bowl, Now Face The Pros In Attempt To Win $5 Million Prize
Top-Voted “Casket,” “House Rules,” “Snack Attack Samurai” and “Underdog” Contending for Top-Three Sweep in USA TODAY Ad Meter In Order to Take Home Big Bucks Doritos tortilla chips – the bold, intense snack brand within PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay division – put four of its talented fans in the limelight tonight when it aired four consumer-created Doritos licensing [...]
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Four Consumer-Created Doritos Ads Crash The Super Bowl, Now Face The Pros In Attempt To Win $5 Million Prize
Top-Voted “Casket,” “House Rules,” “Snack Attack Samurai” and “Underdog” Contending for Top-Three Sweep in USA TODAY Ad Meter In Order to Take Home Big Bucks Doritos tortilla chips – the bold, intense snack brand within PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay division – put four of its talented fans in the limelight tonight when it aired four consumer-created Doritos licensing [...]
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Digital-Tutors Launches Latest Round of Training for Cinema 4D, Nuke & Softimage
Digital-Tutors, a leader in solution-based training for media and entertainment software, today continues to add to their award-winning online learning library with three highly-requested titles that aid in the creation of movies, video games and 3D animation design including ‘Modeling for Product Visualization in Cinema 4D,’ ‘Introduction to 3D in Nuke’ and ‘mental ray Rendering [...]
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Atari Adds New Titles to Stardock’s Impulse Platform
Star Trek(TM) Online, Ghostbusters(R): The Video Game, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena and More Available Now - Stardock announced today that Atari, Inc., one of the world’s most recognized videogame publishers, has added several PC games to Stardock’s digital distribution platform, Impulse. In addition to the critically acclaimed Ghostbusters: The Video Game and [...]
Continue reading...6. February 2010
The Who Super Bowl S-mashup Explodes Onto Rock Band Music Video Game
Special Recording From Legendary Band to Be Available Immediately For Purchase and Download to Rock Band Following The Super Bowl MTV Games and Harmonix, the world’s leading developer of music-based video games and a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks ( VIA, VIA.B), today announced that a special recording of the performance The Who plans to play [...]
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Bioshock 2 Soundtrack Now Released
Legacy Recordings Introduces Timeless Jazz & Pop Music to 21st-Century Gaming Fans With the Release of BioShock 2 BioShock 2 is the eagerly awaited sequel to BioShock, an enormously popular video game franchise that has won more than 50 Game of the Year Awards and shipped over three million units worldwide. As in the first BioShock, music [...]
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New Deal Studios Launches Commercial Division With Subway & Halo 3 Spots
Best known for dazzling 3D animation work on blockbuster films, New Deal Studios has officially launched its full-service commercial division. First up is a director’s cut of a Halo 3 spot quickly followed by two cutting edge commercials for Subway starring Michael Phelps that premiered during the NFL Playoffs. Shannon Gans, Executive Producer and CEO, helmed [...]
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Zombieland on Blu-ray and DVD, Planet Hulk on Blu-ray and DVD, Plus More
And now a warning from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment: on February 2, 2010, this land officially becomes ZOMBIELAND as the number one grossing 3d animation zombie movie in history takes over the nation on Blu-ray, DVD and PSP. Woody Harrelson (2012, Natural Born Killers), Jesse Eisenberg (Adventureland, The Village), Emma Stone (The House Bunny, Superbad) [...]
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James Cameron’s Avatar Passes $150 Million Milestone in IMAX Theatres
IMAX Corporation and Twentieth Century Fox today announced that James Cameron’s 3D animation wonder Avatar, which has received Golden Globe(R) awards for Best Picture and Best Director, has passed the $150 million mark at IMAX(R) theatres worldwide during the weekend from Friday, January 29, 2010 through Sunday, January 31, 2010. During its seventh weekend, the [...]
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EA Readies First Super Bowl Commercial Play With Dante’s Inferno
As the New Orleans Saints make their Super Bowl debut, so does Electronic Arts. On Super Bowl Sunday, two days before the video game hits store shelves, EA will introduce football fans to Dante’s Inferno, a third-person action-adventure videogame, with the company’s first-ever Super Bowl commercial. The hellish 30-second spot features Dante’s Inferno, a stunning [...]
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IBM Works with Walt Disney Imagineering to Create a New Smarter Planet Exhibit
Exhibit powered by new energy-efficient IBM Smarter Data Center IBM ( IBM) today unveiled a new experiential exhibit at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot® at the animation mogul Walt Disney World® Resort, which invites guests to discover the possibilities of building a smarter planet. The exhibit is powered by a new Smarter Data Center, providing a real-life [...]
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New Musical ‘Cell Side Story’ Puts Science on Stage
Meet Kenny Twist and the DNA girl. They are the stars of a new animation film, “Cell Side Story,” developed by students at Atkins Academic and Technology High School in cooperation with Wake Forest University and other community partners. “Cell Side Story” is a love story featuring male and female animated characters that dramatize what happens [...]
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Warner Brothers Strikes a Chord with Bugs Bunny at the Symphony
Beloved Bugs Bunny on Broadway Concert Series Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary with Global Premiere of New Sequel Warner Bros. Consumer Products announced today that Bugs Bunny on Broadway, the record-setting orchestra-and-film concert that reinvented a new genre of symphony orchestra concert when it debuted in 1990, will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2010 with a rechristened [...]
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Ubisoft and 20th Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising Integrate Stereoscopic RealD Format Into James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game
Technology from World’s Leading 3D Entertainment Brand Promises Plug-and-Play 3D animation Console Gaming Experience RealD, the world’s leading 3D technology provider for cinema and professional applications, announced today that Ubisoft, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising (Fox Licensing), has licensed and integrated the company’s proprietary stereoscopic RealD Format into James Cameron’s Avatar™: The [...]
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‘No Animals Were Harmed’ in ‘Puppy Bowl VI’
Playful Pups, Bunny Cheerleaders and Hamsters Flying a Blimp For the sixth consecutive year, Animal Planet’s “Puppy Bowl” television animation program — started in 2005 as an alternative to the Super Bowl — has earned the American Humane Association’s “No Animals Were Harmed”® end-credit disclaimer. This year’s “players” include 43 puppies and 20 kittens providing halftime entertainment. [...]
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Guitar Hero’s February Downloadable Content Lineup Packs a Powerful Punch With Fresh Music From Top Bands
Heavy Metal Powerhouse Black Sabbath Debuts Master Tracks as Compatible Guitar Hero(R) 5 and Band Hero Downloadable Songs Guitar Hero Music Library Further Expands with Hit Songs and New Music from 30 Seconds To Mars, Breaking Benjamin and Third Eye Blind Guitar Hero® cranks up the heat in February with a strong lineup of weekly downloadable songs [...]
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Marvel Studios and Columbia Records Power Up AC/DC Music Promotion for ‘IRON MAN 2′ Motion Picture Soundtrack
Worldwide Video Premiere of ‘Shoot To Thrill’ Today, January 26, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. EST AC/DC’s Music to be featured in ‘IRON MAN 2′; Band to Release AC/DC: Iron Man 2 Album on Monday April 19, 2010 Through a unique collaboration between Marvel Studios and Columbia Records, AC/DC’s music will be featured in Marvel Studios’ “IRON MAN [...]
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Marvel Studios and Columbia Records Power Up AC/DC Music Promotion for ‘IRON MAN 2′ Motion Picture Soundtrack
Worldwide Video Premiere of ‘Shoot To Thrill’ Today, January 26, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. EST AC/DC’s Music to be featured in ‘IRON MAN 2′; Band to Release AC/DC: Iron Man 2 Album on Monday April 19, 2010 Through a unique collaboration between Marvel Studios and Columbia Records, AC/DC’s music will be featured in Marvel Studios’ “IRON MAN [...]
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Record-Breaking Collection of Pokemon Memorabilia Appears in Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer’s Edition
12,000-PIECE COLLECTION FILLS COLLECTOR’S FAMILY’S ENTIRE HOUSE! Twenty one year-old Lisa Courtney from Hertfordshire, England is celebrating this week after being officially recognised as the individual with the largest Pokemon animation memorabilia collection in the world, having accumulated 12,113 different items over 13 years. Her incredible record-breaking collection, which is still growing in size, has [...]
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Surrogates Comes to Blu-ray and DVD, Atonement on Blu-ray, Plus More
“Vfx were really in a supporting role on this and we focused a lot on Bruce Willis’ surrogate character and finding his look and making him consistent through the movie, which took a long time,” concedes Mark Stetson, vfx animation supervisor. “They assigned the work to Synthespian Studios, Jeff Kleiser’s company, where they scanned a digital [...]
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