In This Issue Thomson becomes Technicolor FilmLight Wins Four AMPAS Awards Colorfront Team wins Scientific & Engineering Academy Award RED buys Ren Mar Studios in Hollywood Nuke 6.0 and NukeX 6.0 Now Shipping XDT Announces Catapult Server V2 Final Frame Post Helps Four Films Make the Grade for 2010 Sundance Tom Johnson joins Rushes Quick Links   Send us your NEWS   List your COMPANY   Visit POST PRODUCTION BUYERS GUIDE Sponsored By     Upcoming Events     The 60th Annual ACE Eddie Awards, presented by American Cinema Editors, recognizes outstanding editing in nine categories of film, television and documentaries.       2010 HPA Tech Retreat™     Join our list January 28, 2010   Thomson becomes Technicolor - Shareholders approve restructuring plan Shareholders of Thomson have approved all resolutions, including those pertaining to the Restructuring Plan made public by Thomson on 9 December 2009 - Thomson sought protection from the French government last year in an effort to fend off creditors it was unable to pay.   In addition, the shareholders approved the change of name of the Group to "Technicolor". As of Monday, February 1st, the Company will trade on NYSE Euronext Paris under the Technicolor symbol (TCH). Read on... FilmLight Wins Four AMPAS Scientific and Technical Awards The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Sci-Tech awards has recognized the achievements of ten of FilmLight's founding engineers in their three main product lines - Truelight, Baselight, and Northlight. Read on... Colorfront Team wins Scientific & Engineering Academy Award® for Development of Autodesk Lustre Colofront's Mark Jaszberenyi, along with software engineers Gyula Priskin and Tamas Perlaki, met in high school where they studied advanced mathematics and have worked together for a decade.   They will receive the Academy Award for the design and development of the Lustre colour correction system. Read on... RED buys Ren Mar Studios in Hollywood At an event introducing the new Epic sensor, RED executives announced that the company had purchased Ren Mar Studios, on Cahuenga in Hollywood. The name will be changed to RED Studios Hollywood. Read on... Nuke 6.0 and NukeX 6.0 Now Shipping Nuke 6.0 incorporates a completely new shape rotoscope and paint toolset based on a rewritten core curve library and new RotoPaint node.   NukeX 6.0 extends the range of tools usually found in the compositing environment adding an integrated 3D camera tracker, automated and manual lens distortion tools, FurnaceCore. Read on... XDT Announces Catapult Server V2 for Post Production Workflows XDT, developer of software-based solutions for digital film, announced v2 of its revolutionary Catapult Server and Ballista software. Ballista pricing starts at only US$4,995 and offers a full server-based product with unlimited client access up to 110MB/s (MegaBytes) access. Read on... Final Frame Post Helps Four Films Make the Grade for 2010 Sundance Film Festival The films are competing in the feature documentary and NEXT categories and include: The Pat Tillman Story, Joan Rivers - A Piece of Work, My Perestroika, and Bass Ackwards.   Will Cox, Final Frame Post co-founder and colorist, along with his talented team, conformed, graded and digitally color corrected the material on their Digital Vision Nucoda Film Master system.   Final Frame Post also provided the Digital Cinema Packaging (DCP) services for Howl, a Sundance dramatic entry. Read on... Tom Johnson, Senior Producer has joined Rushes Tom joins Rushes as Senior Producer from Grey where he gained experience dealing with large scale productions for global brands and record labels while independently producing smaller scale, live action and animation productions. Read on... Cheers,   Post Production Buyers Guide News Team   Email: news@postproductionbuyersguide.com Phone: +1 917-675-6050 or + 1 310-469-8190 Web: http://www.postproductionbuyersguide.com