Ken from Chicago wrote:
>>Imagemotion is able to bring photo-realistic human characters to life
>>in a wide range of fantasy environments. "The projects will range from
>>photo-real to stylized," said Sony Pictures president of digital
>>entertainment Yair Landau. "We can use this technology in the service
>>of many different stories."
>>
>>Producer Avi Arad has optioned film rights to James Patterson's young-
>>adult bestseller "Maximum Rise" with hopes of turning the property
>>into a major franchise. (There are 12 books in the series.)
>> Patterson has written 17 No. 1 bestsellers
(And, in the case of his flying-kid spinoffs, has written one bestseller
eight times...)
>>Two other projects are being developed for Sony Pictures Animation.
>>Director Jon Favreau and Jay Redd are developing the caveman comedy
>>"Neanderthals," while
Jeffrey Katzenberg, OTOH, is developing "Crood Awakening" for Dreamworks.
(Okay, time to play Madagascar vs. Wild "Who Thought Of It First", Round
2...Or 7, I've lost count.)
>>"The core of our business is imagination," said Tim Sarnoff, prexy of
>>Sony Pictures Imageworks. "Developing Imagemotion was a lengthy and
>>complex process, and we couldn't be happier with the results of our
>>efforts as filmmakers embrace its possibilities."
>>
>>Sony Imageworks worked closely with Zemeckis on the innovative "Polar
>>Express," "Monster House" and "Beowulf." Now Zemeckis is making
>>performance-capture movies exclusively for Disney.
>>
> Why would they be touting THE POLAR EXPRESS so much given the audience
> backlash against its "dead eyes" of the animated characters?
How many times--no, really, give us a ballpark number--do we have to
explain Final Fantasy Syndrome?:
Really, really OLD and 90's-stuck tech-illiterate people over 30 (like
studio executives) *don't use Playstations*, like most of the audience
does...This stuff's all new and neato to them.
CGI production is still seeing the Hollywood equivalent of making
themselves gods of South Pacific islanders by flicking their lighter...
Derek Janssen
ejanss@
comcast.net
