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‘La La Land’, ‘Finding Dory, ‘Game of Thrones’ top CAS Award

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By AI Creative Media

“La La Land” walked away with top film win at the 53rd Cinema Audio Society Awards Saturday night, beating out other nominees Doctor Strange, Hacksaw Ridge, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Sully. Pixar’s “Finding Dory” won the award for animated film.

This further solidify La La Land’s seemingly unstoppable dominance in multiple Oscar categories that will be presented next Sunday, Feb. 26. In 11 of the last 20 years, the winner of the CAS live action feature competition went on to win the Oscar, including Gravity in 2013 and Les Miserables in 2012. The 53rd CAS Awards were presented on February 18th in the OMNI Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza.

The full list of winners (bolded) below:

MOTION PICTURE – LIVE ACTION
La La Land
Production Mixer – Steven Morrow, CAS
Re-recording Mixer – Andy Nelson, CAS
Re-recording Mixer – Ai-Ling Lee
Scoring Mixer – Nicholai Baxter
ADR Mixer – David Betancourt
Foley Mixer – James Ashwill

MOTION PICTURE—ANIMATED
Finding Dory
Original Dialogue Mixer – Doc Kane, CAS
Re-recording Mixer – Nathan Nance
Re-recording Mixer – Michael Semanick, CAS
Scoring Mixer – Thomas Vicari, CAS
Foley Mixer – Scott Curtis
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Chance the Rapper: Chicago’s Independent, Grammy Award Winning Superstar

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By: Shane Brooks

If you were watching the 59th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night then you witnessed history being made. Last year, the Recording Academy changed their rules on Grammy eligibility to allow streaming-only releases to be considered for the award.

This allowed young artist Chance the Rapper to be nominated for seven Grammys, of which he took home three in one historic night. Chance was awarded for Best Rap Album, Best New Artist, and Best Rap Performance. The 23-year-old Chicago rapper beat out artists such as Kanye West, a fellow Chicago native, and his album The Life of Pablo, Drake’s Views and De LaSoul’s and the Anonymous Nobody.

Chance punctuated his triumphant night with a highly spirited live performance of his songs “How Great” and “All We Got” from his “Coloring Book” mixtape. “Coloring Book” was released in May of last year and it became the first streaming-only album to chart on the Billboard 200, opening in the top 10.
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Interview: Steve Emerson, Visual Effects Supervisor for Kubo and the Two Strings

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An Interview with Steve Emerson, Visual Effects Supervisor for Kubo and the Two Strings
By Elizabeth Walker for Creative Media Times

(l to r) Monkey (voiced by Academy Award winner Charlize Theron), Kubo (voiced by Art Parkinson) and Beetle (voiced by Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey) are on a thrilling quest to unlock the secret of Kubo’s legacy in animation studio LAIKA’s epic action-adventure KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS, a Focus Features release.
Credit: Laika Studios/Focus Features

Some films seemed destined to land among the contenders for best visual effects – like those big-budget offerings from Marvel or the Star Wars franchise. This year, along with Dr. Strange and Rogue One, Kubo and the Two Strings has earned a nomination for Best Visual Effects.

Also nominated for Best Animated Feature, Kubo is the first animated film to be nominated for Best Visual Effects in decades, and the production has received widespread recognition for its use of stop motion animation. Steve Emerson, visual effects supervisor for the film, spoke to reporters by phone from his home base in Portland, Oregon.

This is Emerson’s first Oscar nomination, but he says he has not had a moment to think about a speech. He describes for the group the moment he found out:

It was five in the morning, woke up and was drinking coffee, watching the streaming with my wife and my son.
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New York: Couture Fashion Week – Fall 2017 Collections

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By Armando

New York, NY—February 14th, 2017 – Couture New York Fashion Week began on Friday, February 10 and run throughout the weekend. All of the shows were held on Crowne Plaza Times Square Manhattan, Broadway, NY.

The Fall 2017 Collections featured collections from around the globe including Belinda Bullshoe, Cory Tran, Laura Moss, Rose Sharifi, Farah Sugar, Paulina Canas, Luis Machicao, Diana Mahrach, Meggie Hadiyanto, Mety Choa, Olga Alicea & Hector Musse, Bella Fashion Designs, Lourdes Atencio, Vanny Tousignant, Ruchika Kabra, Alexandra Popescu, Reuden Banks, Houda El Fechka Eddiouanne, and Andres Aquino who closed the runway shows on Saturday night.

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Star Wars Land will open 2019 at Disneyland

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By AI Creative Media

During Walt Disney’s first quarter 2017 earnings call on Tuesday, Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed that the Star Wars-themed parks at Disneyland and Walt Disney World will be opening in 2019. The company also made the announcement via Disney Parks blog. Until today, the company remained quiet about the theme parks following its August 2015 D23 Expo announcement.

2019 should be a big year for Star Wars fans; Star Wars: Episode IX, the final chapter in the Star Wars “Skywalker” sequel trilogy, is scheduled for release in the same year.

“As we’ve shared, the Star Wars-themed lands are the largest-ever, single-themed land expansions at Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resorts. At each location, guests will be transported to a never-before-seen planet – a remote trading port and one of the last stops before wild space – where Star Wars characters and their stories come to life.”

But before the 14-acre parks open its gates, “Pandora – The World of Avatar” will open at Disney World’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando on May 27, eight years after James Cameron’s “Avatar” hit theaters.

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Love Cuts Deeper Than Swords In Your First Look at DEADPOOL #28!

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Part 1 of “‘Til Death Do Us…” – Available March 1st!

New York, NY—February 3rd, 2017 — There’s something amiss with Deadpool’s marital bliss! And a domestic dispute as unpredictable as Deadpool himself could spell grave consequences for the entire world! Today, Marvel is pleased to present your first look inside DEADPOOL #28 – the first chapter of ‘Til Death Do Us… Writer Gerry Duggan continues his sweeping Deadpool saga alongside artist Salva Espin for the first chapter in a blistering 6-issue crossover with Spider-Man/Deadpool and Deadpool & the Mercs for Money!


Some couples hit a rough patch from time-to-time – but only Deadpool & Shiklah’s include a full scale monster invasion of Manhattan! With Spider-Man and the Mercs for Money along for the ride! Deadpool’s whirlwind romance with Shiklah was one of the most exciting times of his life. But that was then and this is now. The honeymoon is over, and reality has set in. Shiklah is a demon succubus and Queen of a monster kingdom hidden deep below Manhattan. And problems between her and Wade continue to pile up.

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Kong: Skull Island IMAX poster pays tribute to Apocalypse Now

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By Armando


After the trailer’s release a couple of months ago, Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures doubles down in it’s reference to 70s war movies. Today, the new IMAX poster for the film pays tribute to one of the most iconic of them all: Apocalypse Now.

This only seem fitting given the Skull Island’s setting and the time period the story takes place in. Comparisons to Francis Ford Coppola’s classic Apocalypse Now have been made since the first trailer arrived and these new posters further reinforce the comparisons.

It remains to be seen how much inspiration Kong actually draws from Apocalypse Now, which is considered by many as a masterpiece.

As you may already know, Skull Island is part of a cinematic franchise that unites King Kong with Godzilla and other iconic giant monsters.

The movie’s producer Alex Garcia recently spoke with Cinema Blend and provides some new insight on how the events in Kong may connect with the events of 2014’s Godzilla. Garcia explains:

“If you can establish these characters in a way that feels compelling with the technology that we have today, with very distinct backdrops, where they’re coming from, they’re each established credibly in their own right, it should feel right for them to come together.”

Directed by Kings of Summer’s Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Kong stars Oscar-winner Brie Larson (Room) as a photojournalist, and Tom Hiddleston (Thor), as a former SAS officer and tracker accompanied by a military team led by Samuel L. Jackson that sets out to investigate the mysteries of Skull Island. Also stars John Goodman and John C. Reilly with an international cast which includes Tian Jing, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, John Ortiz, Thomas Mann, Shea Whigham, Toby Kebbell, and Eugene Cordero.

Kong: Skull Island is set to open in theaters on March 10, 2017.

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Adobe Announces Major Updates to Technical Communication Solutions

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New Technical Communication Suite, Featuring Integration With Adobe Experience Manager, Enables Great Experiences Throughout the Customer Journey

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the 2017 release of Adobe Technical Communication Suite, the next-generation of its end-to-end technical content development toolkit. Technical Communication Suite enables companies to create, manage and publish standards-compliant, multilingual content for global audiences.

The latest version of the multichannel publishing toolkit enables writers, information developers and instructional designers to deliver discoverable, consumable and socially-enabled content to users on any device.

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Book Review: The Spider and the Fly by Claudia Rowe

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The Spider and the Fly by Claudia Rowe

Prepare to be thoroughly creeped out.

By Elizabeth Stainton

In the late nineties, an African-American outcast named Kendall Francois murdered eight women, all prostitutes. This string of crimes would be heinous enough, but the truly sickening part is that he hid the bodies in the house he shared with his parents – and his family didn’t notice because of the squalid conditions of the family home.

Meanwhile, Claudia Rowe was floating through life as a reporter, then a stringer for the New York Times. While her family was more affluent than Kendall’s, it also had years of pain and secrets, which Claudia found herself trying to escape by fleeing to Poughkeepsie, New York.

The intersection of the two lives – that of the murderer and the journalist – is what sets this book apart from so many other true crime stories. Rowe does not merely recount Kendall’s crimes, she weaves his family history together with her own upbringing, comparing and contrasting the ways insecurity manifests in each. It is a book as much about herself as it is about her subject.

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FX Celebrates LEGION with Immersive Art Exhibition

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Featuring work from artists Michael Murphy, Clemens Beghr, Kumi Yamashita & David Flores

Tonight FX Networks celebrated the long-awaited launch of its new series Legion based on the Marvel Comics, with a bold and exciting immersive art exhibition, Where?House, at Villain in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Installations by artists Michael Murphy, Clemens Behr, Kumi Yamashita and David Flores challenged partygoers by bringing the unfathomable power of the series to life with a mind-bending exhibit inspired by the unpredictable world of Legion. Attendees experienced the Legion mural featuring augmented reality and life-size installations placing them deep into the mind of David Haller.

Through Sunday, January 29, the exhibit will be open to the public featuring the below art-installations inspired by the series including:

· “Suspension of Disbelief” (2017) forced perspective art piece by Michael Murphy
· “Doors” (2017) found materials installation by Clemens Behr
· “Lovers” (2010) light and shadow installation by Kumi Yamashita
· “Legion” (2017) key art mural by David Flores
· “Grassy Knoll” (2017) multimedia installation inspired by the series by artists unknown

Legion Where?House will be open Friday, January 27 and Saturday, January, 28 from 12 – 9 PM; Sunday, January 29 from 12 – 4 PM. Friday, 7 to 9 PM will feature specialty beer and music by DJ Hesta Prynn; Saturday, 7 to 9 PM will feature specialty beer and music by DJ Alex Merrell (Ages 21+).

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