Author Archives: Bryant Frazer

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Centre NAD Reassures Montrealers: No Danger of Being Snatched by a Royal Eagle

The “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” video, uploaded to YouTube on the evening of December 18, was made by Normand Archambault, Loïc Mireault and Félix Marquis-Poulin, students at Centre NAD, in the production simulation workshop class of the Bachelors degree in … more »

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The Glitch

Spend much time playing video games? Heck, if you spend any time playing them, you'll recognize the kind of existential crisis facing the characters in "The Glitch," which imagines gameplay bugs from the other side of the screen. The folks … more »

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ASC Announces Television Nominees for Best Cinematography

Fox shows led the pack with three nominations from the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for television programming, including the "Guitar Face" episode of Ben and Kate (pictured, top). The cable trio of Cinemax, HBO, … more »

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Bully Doc Wins Stanley Kramer Award from PGA

The controversial documentary Bully has received official plaudits from the Producers Guild of America.  Writer-producer-director-cinematographer Lee Hirsch and writer-producer Cynthia Lowen will receive the 2013 Stanley Kramer Award award at the PGA Awards ceremony on January 26. Harvey and Bob Weinstein … more »

Assimilate Starts Scratch and Scratch Lab Direct Rentals

Assimilate announced this week that it would begin offering a rental option for its Scratch and Scratch Lab products via its website. Customers can use a credit card or PaylPal account to rent Scratch or Scratch Lab for anywhere from … more »

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Wallace & Gromit: Google+ Hangout

Aardman Animations went all out for Google+, with director Merlin Crossingham bringing together Aardman's best-known creations, Wallace and Gromit, along with a supporting cast of secondary players. Trixie and Captain Cuddlepuss (from Creature Comforts), Shaun the Sheep, and Ginger (from … more »

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Filmography 2012

Did you miss any 2012 releases that you wanted to see? Odds are you'll find them excerpted, ever-so-briefly, somewhere in this video montage. Exhaustively compiled and edited by Gen Ip, who has now done this for three years running. The … more »

Nielsen and Twitter Establish Social TV Rating

Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, and Twitter today announced an exclusive multi-year agreement to create the “Nielsen Twitter TV Rating” for the US market. Under this agreement, Nielsen and Twitter … more »

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Autodesk Ships Smoke 2013

Following more than six months of pre-release trials, in which the company sought input from working editors on sweeping changes to one of its flagship software programs, Autodesk said it started shipping Smoke 2013 this morning. The new version of … more »

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The Killers: Here With Me

Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Winona Ryder. Need we say more?