Installation includes three Baselight EIGHT systems for new 4K DI grading theatres

LONDON— FilmLight today announces delivery of seven Baselight colour grading systems to Sony Pictures Entertainment. The systems will be installed at its newly-built digital intermediate facilities on the Sony Studios lot in Culver City, California, and connected to the studio’s Digital Backbone. The package includes three Baselight EIGHT systems that have been installed in state-of-the-art 4K digital intermediate grading theatres designed for both standard and 3D stereoscopic feature film work. The installation also includes two Baselight FOURs for use in suites designed primarily for television projects and two Baselight Assists, for pre-grading and other preparatory work. more

CHICAGO—Hybrid production studio Vitamin applied its distinctive touch to The Story, the latest music video from Maroon 5 and director Bob Carmichael, which uses hundreds of still photographs and a blaze of animated graphics to tell the tale of the band’s recent world tour. more

Author Darrell Van Citters will also appear at events in San Francisco and Portland

GLENDALE, Calif. —Special screenings of the holiday classic Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol will be presented at the Paley Center for Media in New York on December 1st and at American Cinematheque (Aero Theatre) in Los Angeles on December 19th to mark the publication of Darrell Van Citters’ new book on the making of the first animated Christmas special. The screenings will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Van Citters and members of the original cast and production team, as well as screening of rare video. Van Citters will also sign copies of his book, Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol: The Making of the First Animated Christmas Special (available here). more

Director Known for Visual Storytelling Begins New Affiliation with a Shoot for Sunny D

Award-winning director/cameraman Blair Hayes has signed with STORY for exclusive representation for commercials. Hayes, well known for the his fresh, uplifting style of visual storytelling, has already booked two projects with STORY, a campaign for Sunny D out of New York agency Carrafiello Diehl & Associates, a reprise of an earlier campaign he directed for the beverage maker, and a campaign for AARP. Several other projects are in the bid stage. more

HOLLYWOOD–The Hollywood Edge has released two sound effects collections designed to provide sound professionals with new tools to create that perfect moment or take audiences on a journey into the great unknown. more

OAK PARK, Mich. – RingSide Creative has unveiled a newly-built digital intermediate (DI) color grading suite, providing the production and film community with a powerful resource whose video and audio features far exceed anything else in Michigan. The investment in the suite is a clear statement of the company’s support for the film and advertising industries, bringing a Hollywood-style post production experience to Detroit. more

Studio Mixing Promos for Football Series “RedZone,” “GameDay” “Replay” and “Total Access” SANTA MONICA, Calif.— Margarita Mix is currently providing sound design, voice recording and audio mixing services to the NFL Network for on-air promotions for its new NFL RedZone Channel, and its shows NFL GameDay, NFL Replay and NFL Total Access. The studio is completing more than a dozen promos each week in a project that will continue through the remainder of the NFL season. more

LOS ANGELES—Cinegy (www.cinegy.com) will showcase the latest version of its award-winning media asset management and archive solution cinegy workflow at the SMPTE Annual Tech Conference & Expo, October 27-29 at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Hollywood.

Cinegy will be exhibiting at booth 101, demonstrating cinegy workflow version 8 and distributing free trial DVDs containing this latest release. The trial DVDs allow users to test cinegy workflow for 30 days, the entire end-to-end solution for production, broadcast automation, playout and distribution. Cinegy’s new products for advanced IP-based infrastructure, cinegy gateway and cinegy monitor, are also included on this DVD release. more

CHICAGO—Hybrid production studio Vitamin has teamed with DDB Chicago, on a multimedia campaign promoting the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF) in which the power of cinema is symbolized by the fleeting movements of a single human eye.

The unusual and highly affecting film consists almost entirely of a close-up of a woman’s eye as she gazes at a movie screen. The eye is shot in time-lapse and undergoes a panoply of emotions from laughter to tears while bathed in the projector’s reflected light. The festival’s logo—a stylized drawing of a female eye—appears at the end along with the tag, “take a deeper look.” more

Groundbreaking Sound Format Due for Theatrical Rollout Next Year

HOLLYWOOD –Iosono today announces that Todd-AO has become the first sound facility in the United States to acquire the ability to mix feature films in its revolutionary “3-D sound” format. Proprietary Iosono technology has been added to Stage 2 at Todd-AO’s Burbank facility allowing mixers to create three-dimensional film soundtracks. more