BRB to present new series at Natpe Europe

BRB Internacional will attend the upcoming edition of Natpe Europe (Prague, 23 – 26 June) with lots of new offerings. The company will present its latest productions buoyed by the tremendous general interest provoked by the recent presentation of the series Talking Tom and Friends and the excellent reception of the series Invizimals, set to premiere in the last quarter of the year in various different countries. It will also show, for the first time at this audiovisual event in Eastern Europe, the first episodes of Filly Funtasia and Mica.

Based on the app phenomenon created by Out Fit 7, starring Talking Tom and his friends, which has millions of fans around the world, the series Talking Tom and Friends revolves around the real lives of these popular app stars. Aimed at a target audience of between 6-11 year olds, it’s all about a new cartoon sitcom that will premiere in 2015 around the world.

Meanwhile, the series Invizimals, based on a successful videogame saga from PlayStation, is preparing its premiere this autumn after the very warm welcome afforded its two TV movies –Invizimals: The Alliance and Invizimals: A Tale of Two Dimensions – which reached more than 8 million viewers around the world. The production allows viewers to access additional content, turning them into hunters of Invizimals creatures that are invisible to the human eye and who live in a parallel dimension to ours through mobile devices with a free ‘Invizimals: TV Capture’ app or PS Vita, thanks to the use of Augmented Reality.

Likewise, BRB will take to Natpe Europe the rest of its catalogue, which consists of the new Filly Funtasia, a series based on the well-known brand Filly from Dracco, and Mica, based on the very solid educational project from the Santillana Publishing House.

PFT to launch CLEAR Media ERP in SE Asia market at Broadcast Asia 2014

Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), the technology subsidiary of Prime Focus, the global leader in media and entertainment industry services, recently announced its plans for Broadcast Asia 2014 in Singapore in June. Clearly indicating the company’s new market focus, PFT will launch its flagship CLEAR Media ERP in South East Asia markets at Asia’s largest digital and multimedia tradeshow for the pro-audio, film and TV industries.

CLEAR Hybrid Cloud-enabled Media ERP platform virtualises the content supply chain and helps broadcasters, studios and brands manage not just content, but the business of content. PFT is also showcasing two solutions this year.

“As part of our global expansion strategy we are investing in new markets and South East Asia is one of them. Broadcast Asia is where we are certain to meet new regional customers looking at broadcast operations automation and new media monetization,” said Prime Focus Technologies founder and CEO Ramki Sankaranarayanan in a statement. “We are delighted to bring our world renowned media ERP technology CLEAR to the SE Asia market for the first time. Broadcasters in the region can now enjoy the business success our customers globally have had in the last five years with CLEAR.”

PFT is showcasing path-breaking solutions for Linear TV Channel Operations and TV Everywhere needs. CLEAR Media ERP for Channel Operations is an award winning innovation for the industry, leveraging the power of MAM, BPM and Hybrid Cloud, and best-in-class media tools to automate Broadcast Operations. The ever increasing demand for TV Everywhere fulfillment has led PFT to develop cutting edge content supply chain management tools which are also being showcased at Broadcast Asia.

PFT’s Broadcast Asia 2014 showcase:

Channel Operations for Linear TV

CLEAR Media ERP drives digital mediation of stakeholders within Programming, Legal, Marketing, Traffic & Ad Sales, Broadcast Operations, content supply chain and downstream partners. CLEAR can be easily integrated with existing enterprise IT systems like Broadcast Management, Rights Management and Sales Order Systems to provide a unified IT platform.

Today the biggest broadcasters and world renowned brands run their revenue critical, time sensitive media operations on CLEAR. CLEAR hosts and manages more than 350,000 hours of content and manages 200 new TV shows daily.

TV Everywhere Digital Services

PFT offers the most comprehensive suite of on-demand services to ensure VoD fulfilment for distribution to Television and TV Everywhere. Currently PFT delivers over 10 million files annually for VoD/Syndication. Enabled by CLEAR Media ERP technology platform, content packages can be created from the preset package of 400 publishing robots for delivery to Netflix, Youtube, Cable VoDs and iTunes – Upload, Transcode, Package, Quality Control & Deliver. CLEAR offers the option to pre-define publish profiles. It’s Dashboard and Reports ensure absolute visibility and control at all times.

PFT is YouTube Certified for Audience Development which makes it the expert to advise content owners on YouTube Platform and Channel Strategy, Content Strategies for Sustainable Viewership, Audience Development Strategy and Methods, Copyright, Monetization and Partner Sales, and Rights Management.

Apart from Cloud-enabled Services focused on TV Everywhere needs, PFT also has a large services bouquet covering the following:

Cloud Infrastructure Services (Archiving, Transcoding, Auto QC, Packaging & Delivery)

Content Preparation Services (Bulk Digitization, Spot & Full QC, Mastering Services, Compliance Editing, Up/Down & Standards Conversion)

Content Localization Services (Subtitling, Closed Captioning, Dubbing)

Metadata Services (New Metadata Creation and Enrichment of existing metadata; Genre-specific Cataloguing, Multi-Layered Cataloguing; Data Model Consulting)

Post Production Services (Grading, Sound, Graphics and Editorial Services)

Digital Production Services (Live Streaming and Packaging)

Content Monetization Services (Contextual Advertising, Monitoring, SEO & Analytics)

9 Story Entertainment’s ‘Fugget About It’ sails on Hulu with season 2

9 Story Entertainment recently announced that season two of the animated primetime comedy Fugget About It, will be carried as a Hulu Original series beginning 1 June. The first two episodes are available for Hulu Classic viewers while the full season is available for Hulu Plus members. Season one of the series launched in October 2013 also under the Hulu Originals banner. Episodes of both seasons can be found at here.

The popular primetime series follows mobster Jimmy Falcone and his family as they are relocated to Regina under the witness protection program. Falcone was once a feared capo in the Gambini crime family, but when his associates insisted he whack his good old Uncle Cheech, Jimmy had to draw the line. Now with the mob out to kill him, Jimmy has no choice but to turn to the dark side and become a witness for the Feds. Jimmy and his family are sent into witness protection in cold, snowy Regina, where it’s hard for a quick-tempered goodfella to live as a regular schnook among polite and friendly Canadians.

Originally developed for the TELETOON at Night Pilot Project, Fugget About It was created by Nicholas Tabarrok and Willem Wennekers, and developed by Jeff Abugov. Executive producers are Nicholas Tabarrok, Willem Wennekers, Jeff Abugov and for 9 Story, Vince Commisso and Steven Jarosz.  9 Story also handles international distribution. Series guest stars include Howie Mandell, Alan Thicke, Andrea Martin and Jason Jones (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart).

Samsung Galaxy 11 in Football Training

Samsung continues the Galaxy 11/Aliens football campaign with “Training”, a VFX-heavy commercial. The aliens have finally come to Earth, but they haven’t come in peace. They’ve come with one goal in mind: to defeat Earth’s greatest strikers in a winner-takes-all battle of football skill that will decide the fate of the world. Samsung introduced the Galaxy 11 team in 2013: Lionel Messi (captain), Alexander Kerzhakov, Lee Chung-Yong, Rooney, Mario Götze, Iker Casillas, Iker Casillas, Wu Lei, Radamel Falcao, Victor Moses, Oscar, Landon Donovan and Ronaldo. The “Training” film brings the team to a futuristic training facility where they prepare for battle using Samsung Galaxy technology along with holographic creations and hovering robot opponents. The film ends with an alien overlord looking down upon earth from his mothership, plotting the overthrow of humanity.

Samsung Galaxy 11 Spaceship

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW1yZPflIXY

The spot was shot over a period of two months in London, Barcelona, Madrid, Munich, Prague and Manchester, with meticulous attention to story and choreography. “Because of the athlete’s varying schedules we had to shoot each player separately,” comments director Laurent Ledru. “It was very important that each performance felt authentic to that athlete yet interacted seamlessly with the others.” Ledru first built a large set to plan the shoot segments and then filmed the body doubles performing the precise choreography. After building a rough edit, and extracting the shots to recreate, Ledru then met the football stars in different locales around the world, where they would execute the acrobatic stunts and moves for the real shot. “Each player was given instructions and guidance but we needed to capture them acting as naturally as possible in front of the green screen despite the CG elements that were to come later,” notes Ledru. One after another, the story came to life, the mood and look of each shot seamlessly integrated.

Training to play football against aliens takes a nontraditional approach. Psyop researched the strengths of each player, working with sports choreographer Andy Ansah to blend football stunts with parkour while keeping personal styles intact. The commanding presence of Messi nailing his targets is perfect for the role of team captain, and for Ronaldo the glory of the arena fits his larger-than-life persona.

Samsung Galaxy 11 Training Facility

Samsung Galaxy 11 Team

Samsung Galaxy 11 Bots

Samsung Galaxy 11 Football

Samsung Galaxy 11 Bot Arms

Samsung Galaxy 11 Waterproof

Samsung Galaxy 11 The Match

Credits

The Training film is part of a campaign developed at Cheil Worldwide, Seoul, by creative director Mookyo Lee, art directors Zonguk Han, Woohyun Son, Sunghoon Min, Narang Park, copywriters Simon Friederg, Adrian Sim, Yongjun Jung, Jeongmi Lee, Yoonjung Lim, producers Minwook Kang, Jung Gun Yoon, chief account director Eunsook Koh, senior account director and strategist Loeun in, account director Taekkyun Yun, Sungho Kim, Banya Kim, account manager Kippeum Ohn, Eunyoung Choi.

Filming was shot by director Laurent Ledru via Smuggler with director of photography Alex Lamarque, line producer Nick Fewtrell, executive producers Brian Carmody and Patrick Milling Smith, managing director UK Fergus Brown, COO/executive producer Lisa Rich, production designers Richard Bridgland and Kevin Phipps, costume designer Matthew Goldman.

VFX were produced at Psyop by director Laurent Pedru, art director Lilit Hayrapetyan, executive producer Luisa Murray head of production Cori Cooperider, producers Hillary Thomas and Morgan MacCuish, assistant producers Jane Lee and Nathan Lueptow, designers Oscar Cafaro, Lilit Hayrapetyan, Adam Kuczek, Ke Swaab, Georgia Tribuiani, Velwyn Yossy, Andrew Park, lead technical director Andy Jones, CG lead, modeller and lighter Cris Fudge, FX team Kiel Gnebba, Victor Grant, Richard Tepavchevich, modellers Anastasios Gionis, Rie Ito, Andrew Lema, Rafael Zabala, Jonathan Iwata, rigging team Sean Kealey, Frank Naranjo, lighting team Stephen DeLalla, Todd Herman, Isaac Irvin, Jonathan Iwata, Aldrich Torres, Andy Jones, Jason Kim, lead 3D animator Bernd Angerer, 3D animators Christopher Bishop, Joshua Cordes, Jean-Dominique Fievet and Chris Smith, 2D supervisor Lane Jolly, Kim Stevenson, Diego Vazquez, 2D animator Claudia Yi Leon, storyboard artists Vinny Dellay, Rusty Dumas, Morgan Schweitzer, matte painters Julien Brami, Gizem Ersavas, Andrew Park, compositors Sean Coonce, Sven Dreesbach, Julie Jang, Lane Jolly, Don Kim, Donna Lanasa, Matt Lavoy, Ryan Raith, Maciek Sokalski, Greg VanZyl, Ned Wilson, Flame artist Tom Leckie, Elad Offer, Sam Shiflett, Kim Stevenson, Jodi Tyne, Diego Vazquez, Thibault Debaveye, pipeline developers Alon Gibli, Fabio Piparo, Andy Jones, John Cooper.

Editors were Stephen Berger and Isaac Chen at Cut + Run with assistant editors Ben Corfield, Kendra Juul, executive producer Carr Schilling, managing director Michelle Eskin and producer Remy Foxx.

Colorist was Mark Gethin at MPC.

Sound and music were produced at EchoLab, with music by composer Gavin Little.

The Congress – US Theatrical Trailer [Drama Movie]


The Congress | 24 July 2014 |
Stars: Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Jon Hamm |
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn’t consider.

The Congress – Movie Trailer
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MY CITY AT NIGHT


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England v Peru: victory by 3 goals and a paper plane (ft. Blair Valentine)


Highlight of the last game before the World Cup?
Blair Valentine poking Peru’s Hansell Riojas square in the head mid-game with a paper plane while sitting in the furthest seat from the pitch. What a game!

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Can a pizza be delivered by a robot? #DroneDeliversPizza


Can a pizza ever be delivered by a robot? Here’s the answer.
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