Kara Swisher in News on March 26 at 10:43 am PT
His love of the sea goes on (and deep this time).
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on January 8 at 5:26 pm PT
More new blood for Yahoo, this time in the form of a Hollywood star: Tom Hanks and his Playtone productions are creating an animated series for the Web giant. Hanks will also star in “Electric City,” which Yahoo is describing as an “action-packed sci-fi adventure series,” which will run for a total of 90 minutes — across 20 three- to five-minute episodes — and will kick off this spring. Yahoo says the show will feature all sorts of cross-platform interactive bells and whistles.
Kara Swisher in News on October 6, 2011 at 6:17 am PT
Can anyone in Silicon Valley fill the outsized shoes of Steve Jobs? Not likely.
Walt Mossberg in Mossblog on August 24, 2011 at 6:18 pm PT
Why the day Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple isn’t like the day a typical CEO resigns.
Kara Swisher in Media on June 17, 2011 at 12:25 am PT
When its computers get hacked, this time Next Media Animation might regret going too far — it always goes too far, by the way — in this CGI news animation of the tech-raiding gang, LulzSec.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 11, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
The man who runs Microsoft’s cloud explains how it’s different from other clouds out there, and how companies are using it not only to save on IT costs, but to do things they couldn’t do before.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 28, 2011 at 3:30 pm PT
How does a movie director accustomed to working with real actors on physical sets set up scenes that take place in a town that doesn’t exist? You invent a way to visit that place in person, which is exactly what Industrial Light and Magic did for director Gore Verbinski on the animated film “Rango.”
Voices
Ellen Gamerman, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 11, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Last fall, television actor Richard Ruccolo sat down to make an animated movie about life in Hollywood. Twenty minutes later, a frustrated actor and a clueless talent agent, played by two cuddly-looking stuffed animals, strolled across his computer screen.
Within two days, people were watching Mr. Ruccolo’s cartoon at talent agencies, management firms and TV studios around Los Angeles.
Kara Swisher in News on September 21, 2010 at 12:43 am PT
If you want to see some more impressive leaps in animation, here’s a trailer from the upcoming Disney movie, “Tangled.”
It’s a revisiting of the let-down-your-hair Rapunzel fairy tale, coming out at the end of November.
And while there is innovation all over the tech scene, it’s most clear what’s happened in this genre is really impressive.
