Santa Monica, CA (November 3, 2009) – Film, television and commercial visual effects company Entity FX congratulates the makers of Michael Jackson’s This Is It on the film’s powerful worldwide debut. The documentary movie, directed by Kenny Ortega and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures, is a behind-the-scenes look at Michael Jackson as he rehearses for his final concert. It includes complex visual effects sequences originally part of a series of mini-movies directed and VFX-supervised by Bruce Jones. These mini-movies were ultimately intended to be displayed — some in stereoscopic 3D — on a giant screen behind the live performers. Entity FX helped to create a number of these moments. more

Santa Monica, CA (October 15, 2009) – Leading visual effects company Entity FX announced today that it has completed visual effects for a number of key sequences in the new motion picture Law Abiding Citizen. Directed by F. Gary Gray and distributed domestically by Overture Films, Law Abiding Citizen tells the story of an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are ruthlessly murdered when robbers break into their home. Outraged at the release of one of the killers and the failure of the justice system, he orchestrates a string of spectacular assassinations to exact his revenge. more

Cross-Disciplinary Community to Focus on the Development of Previsualization

Los Angeles, CA (October 1, 2009) — The Previsualization Society, a non-profit, interdisciplinary organization dedicated to the advancement of previsualization (”previs”), was officially announced today. Founded by previs practitioners for those who produce or use previs, the Previsualization Society will build a community to maximize the current and future capabilities and contributions of the previs medium. more

Santa Monica, CA (September 1, 2009) – Film, television and commercial visual effects company Entity FX announced today that it has completed visual effects for the final sequence of the motion picture “The Final Destination.” Directed by David R. Ellis and distributed in the U.S. by New Line Cinema, the film is the fourth movie in the popular horror-thriller franchise, which deals with the possibilities of cheating death. more

Santa Monica, CA (April 30, 2009) – Film, television and commercial visual effects company Entity FX has landed a 2009 Sports Emmy® Award for its work on the television series Sport Science. The award marks Entity FX’s second Emmy accolade for the show, which is produced by BASE Productions and airs on Fox Sports Network (FSN). more

Product Suite Bridges Post-Production Gaps with Native Editing of MXF and MP4 Files from Popular HD Cameras and Cross-Platform Viewing for Proprietary-Format QuickTime Media

Las Vegas, NV — NAB 2009 (April 21, 2009) — Calibrated Software, an innovator of applications and plug-ins for video, asset management and mobile platforms, today announced an enhanced family of cross-platform tools to streamline and speed the process of viewing and using high-definition camera and other video files within popular post-production systems and editing packages. The products, which are being demonstrated at NAB booths #C5108 (Ikegami) and #SL8307 (Square Box Systems) and during JVC’s demonstration at the FCPUG NAB SuperMeet 2009, include: more

Santa Monica, CA, and Vancouver, BC (April 15, 2009) – Award-winning visual effects company Entity FX has completed visual effects for “Harper’s Island,” a new murder-mystery-style television drama airing Thursday evenings at 10:00 PM Eastern/Pacific on CBS. Entity FX created visual effects for the show’s 13 episodes, which began airing April 9, 2009. more

New 2.0 Features Offer Accurate Color Handling for RAW Acquisition Workflows with Support for Emerging Industry-Standard LUTs

Los Angeles, CA (August 13, 2008) — Duiker Research Corp., creator of the Color Symmetry plug-in suite, announced today Color Symmetry 2.0. Version 2.0 encompasses new capabilities that make it possible to create and emulate production looks, accurately view color and correctly exchange color data across a variety of film- and emerging all-digital production pipelines in motion pictures, television, commercials and games. more

Santa Monica, CA, and Vancouver, BC (July 31, 2008) – Entity FX, an award-winning visual effects company in Santa Monica, California, and Vancouver, British Columbia, has completed visual effects for the new X-Files motion picture sequel The X-Files: I Want to Believe. Entity FX’s Mat Beck supervised all visual effects for the movie, continuing a 15-year collaboration with co-writer and co-producer Frank Spotnitz and X-Files creator Chris Carter, who co-wrote and directs the film. more

Comic-Con 2008 – San Diego, CA (July 25, 2008) — Virgin Comics, an international comics publisher, and Perspective Studios, a leading producer of digital animation, announced today a groundbreaking collaboration with acclaimed comics scribe Grant Morrison on MBX, a new intellectual property and animation franchise based on India’s iconic myth The Mahabharata. Morrison’s re-imagining of the epic tale of two families at war and the fate of the universe that hangs in the balance features an ancient world fused with incredible technology and super beings. At San Diego Comic-Con 2008, animation for the project will get its first public look. more