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www.awn.com/news/disney-and-sony-ink-unprecedented-licensing-deal

www.awn.com/news/fusefx-acquires-rising-sun-pictures

FuseFX, a full-service, award-winning visual effects company with studios in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Vancouver, Montréal, Toronto, and Bogotá, is pleased to announce its acquisition of Rising Sun Pictures, a world-renowned, high-end visual effects studio headquartered in Adelaide, Australia

www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/capturing-reality-is-now-part-of-epic-games

justincone.com/posts/nft-skeptics-guide/

www.cnn.com/style/article/beeple-first-nft-artwork-at-auction-sale-buyer-intl-scli/index.html

netflixtechblog.com/remote-workstations-for-the-discerning-artists-8155a8fbd190

Netflix is poised to become the world’s most prolific producer of visual effects and original animated content. To meet that demand, we need to attract the world’s best artistic talent. Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need. To meet this need, the Studio Infrastructure team has created Netflix Workstations.

Netflix Workstations are remote workstations that allow content creators to get to work wherever they are.

https://medium.com/@ollierankin/nftease-22f095dc72d6

www.cartoonbrew.com/books/cinefex-ceases-publication-after-41-years-a-victim-of-coronavirus-202462.html

https://cinefex.com/backissues/issue172.htm

www.cnn.com/2021/01/28/media/china-box-office-coronavirus/index.html

“In 2020, China overtook the United States to become the top movie market in the world. The country, perennially the second-largest movie market, brought in $3.1 billion at the box office in 2020, according to Comscore (SCOR) — nearly $1 billion more than the United States did last year.

“If China doesn’t need US movies, Hollywood studios will have to dramatically reduce their spending on big budget blockbusters,” Aynne Kokas, the author of “Hollywood Made in China,” told CNN Business. “The current budgets are unsustainable without access to the China market. That could fundamentally change the model of the US film industry.”

“Regardless of what happens with Covid, we have at a minimum entered a world where the Chinese and US box offices are equally important,”

So where do Hollywood and China go from here? That question, like so many in the film industry right now, has no easy answer. Yet whatever the future of the film industry is, it’s likely to be one where Hollywood and China remain the two major pillars holding up the global box office.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/02/11/netflix-plans-to-open-an-office-in-canada-and-grow-its-relationship-with-its-creators.html

deadline.com/2021/02/blue-sky-studios-closing-disney-ice-age-franchise-animation-1234690310/

Blue Sky’s top grossing animation features at the worldwide box office were Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (’09, $886M), Ice Age: Continental Drift (’12, $877M), Icen Age: Meltdown (’06, $660M), Rio 2 (’14, $500M), Rio (’11, $484M), Ice Age: Collusion Course (’16, $408M), Ice Age (02, $383M), Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! (’08, $297M), Ferdinand (’17, $296M), Epic (’13, $268M), Robots (’05, $260M), and The Peanuts Movie (’15, $246M) and Spies in Disguise (’19, $171M).

www.awn.com/news/post-production-shake-streamland-media-acquire-technicolor-post

www.awn.com/news/warnermedia-release-six-superhero-films-year

www.awn.com/news/20-new-series-coming-disney-next-few-years

“In yesterday’s big Disney investor meeting, Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy revealed plans for 10 Star Wars and 10 Marvel series to stream on Disney+ in the next few years. PHEW! That’s 20 series in less than five years, which is ambitious to say the least.”

www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55232418

Fiona Bevan, who has written songs for One Direction, Steps and Lewis Capaldi, said many writers were struggling because of the way streaming services pay royalties.

Bevan revealed she had earned just £100 for co-writing a track on Kylie Minogue’s number one album, Disco.

“The most successful songwriters in the world can’t pay their rent,” she added.

www.sidefx.com/community/epic-games-invests-in-sidefx/

Epic Games is now a minority investor in SideFX

In a press release, Framestore said the acquisition and resulting scaled-up business “represents the next phase of the industry, uniquely uniting all aspects that support the making of entertainment and communications content – from concepts, through to digital and post-production.”

www.broadcastnow.co.uk/tech/framestore-acquires-company-3-/-method/5154656.article

deadline.com/2020/10/titmouse-vancouver-animation-studio-iatse-union-vote-first-canadian-studio-1234600790/

Animators at Titmouse Vancouver have unionized, voting 98% to 2% to join the Animation Guild, IATSE Local 938. IATSE says it’s the first animation studio in Canada to become unionized.

The studio’s many animated titles include Black Panther for BET, Star Trek: Lower Decks for CBS All Access, and Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures for Disney XD.

www.cartoonbrew.com/streaming/netflix-to-release-six-original-animated-features-every-year-says-co-ceo-ted-sarandos-197509.html