There’s no script yet, Michael Bay has not signed on to direct, nor has Shia LaBeouf inked a deal to star, but Paramount and DreamWorks have a release date for TRANSFORMERS 2. Hoping to sign the director and star, as well as lock down a script, soon, the studios is eying June 26, 2009 as the release date for the sequel to this summer’s blockbuster. Click the image to read more about it at VFXWorld

Yesterday started the 8th edition of ANIMADRID, which is taking place in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid (Spain) until october the 5th, 2007. Also, the 15 first people to enter Espacio Cultural MIRA, this saturday 29 at 21:30h. dressed like a Star Wars chraracter will be awarded with a special pack from the festival including t-shirts, books, dvd’s and free passes for all sessions.

Here is the new trailer (#4) for ‘Bee Movie’, the new 3D movie from Dreamworks, produced and starred by comedian Jerry Seinfeld.

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I’ve just seen at Tron-Sector that according to the Hollywood Reporter, commercial director Joseph Kosinski is in final negotiations to develop and direct “Tron,” described as “the next chapter” of Disney’s 1982 cult classic. Sean Bailey is producing via the Live Planet banner, as is Steven Lisberger, who co-wrote and directed the original film.

Kosinski, who last month signed on to helm the remake of “Logan’s Run” for Warner Bros. Pictures, will oversee the visual development of the project and have input on the script, which is being written by “Lost” scribes Eddie Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. Story details are being kept secret.

finalRender Stage-2 will soon be available for MAC OS X for Intel and Power PC.

finalRender Stage-2 on OS X is the full blown rendering system that has been production proven over the past two years on the market. finalRender is highly integrated in both C4D and Maya, with a wide range of features and blazing speed. Follow the link on the image above to see a demo video and some Q&A about this upcoming release.

At 3DTotal they’ve got a new interview, this time with Fred Bastide. Read the full interview at 3dTotal.com

Ubisoft has released a new trailer for the videogame ‘Assassin’s Creed’. Most of the trailer is rendered cinematics, but it also features some in-game scenes.

At TDT3D they’ve got a comparison table with cons. and pro. for the most know today top industries 3D applications. The table isn’t intended to be complete with all softwares features available but try to surround the common today 3D cg artist tasks.

All softwares listed in the table were deeply tested during a total of about 12 months, trying to make the same work with all of them

The people at XSI Base interview Ben Procter, Lead Robot Illustrator in Transformers. Click the image to read the full interview.