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Laika Studios is one of the world’s foremost production houses dedicated to the art of stop motion animation. The Portland animation house is also a pioneer in using “replacement animation” and combining it with 3D printing.

Austria may be a small country but it sure has a booming film industry. Think Haneke, Waltz, Ruzowitzky and the four Oscars – and many Golden Globes – they won.

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He was the glory of Mexican film and created a style of humor that no one has been able to replicate. Although it has been 32 years since the release of El barrendero, the last of the 38 films in which he starred in Mexico, his movies still leave Sony millions annually in royalties.

Since its release 4 weeks ago, Transformers: Age of Extinction, has racked up over $850 million in the global box office, breaking the record in China where it grossed over $280 million - 65 million more than in the US, where it drew $215 million. This is not the first time that the Chinese box office has beaten the North American one.

Ireland’s leading film festival is held every year in July in the picturesque tiny town of Galway. In its 26th iteration, the Galway Film Fleadh (is it pronounced Flea? Fleed? No, it’s actually Fla, go figure) brings together film buffs, filmmakers, film students, producers, wannabes, actors, Oscar winners, producers and film students in a six day festival, film market and of course pub crawl.

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Tyrant, a new dramatic series premiering on FX is a reworking of an Israeli format (the country which has already brought us In Treatment and Homeland). A group of HFPA journalists recently traveled to Israel to visit with the production of the show.

Ale Abreu’s The Boy and the World won the top awards at the 38th Annecy International Animation Film Festival that concluded Sunday in France. Considered the Cannes of the Animation Industry the two awards bestowed upon the Brazilian toon only underlines the strength of that country’s animation industry.

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