ILM's work on Minority Report and Gangs of New York has been nominated for Best Visual Effects for the 7th Annual Golden Satellite Awards. Scott Farrar (supervisor of Minority Report), and Michael Owens, Ed Hirsh and Jon Alexander (Supervisor, Associate Supervisor and Compositing Supervisor respectively for Gangs of New York) along Bruce Steinheimer (special effects coordinator for Gangs of New York) get the nods. The other nominees are Spider Man, with John Dykstra getting the nod, Road to Perdition, Michael J. McAlister getting the nomination, and the team from Weta Digital for the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, which includes Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randal William Cook and Alex Funke. Additionally, George Lucas will receive a special achievement award for his achievements in digital technologies and sound.

The Marin Independent Journal has posted a few more details about Lucas Digital's recent reorganization, which affected both ILM and Skywalker Sound.

The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Jenn Emberly will be the Animation Supervisor for Peter Pan, to be directed by P.J. Hogan with VFX supervised by Scott Farrar.

CGChannel.com reported last Friday that Habib Zargarpour, Associate VFX Supervisor at ILM, has left ILM and joined game maker Electronic Arts in Vancouver.

The official ILM website has now improved its jobs section, now you can submit your resumes online.

The official ILM website has now posted information for their plans for the Letterman Digital Arts Center, to be constructed at the Presidio. The new facility will consolidate many Lucas' companies operations, in particular ILM and LucasArts.

An article on 3D animated films at the San Francisco Chronicle website has a tidbit which is a bombshell. According to the article ILM will soon announce that they will work on their first CG animated film.

The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that new plans are in place to begin the Letterman Digital Complex at the Presidio, where ILM will eventually move. Gordon Radley, Lucasfilm's President, and recently featured in the Portrait series, announced that construction could begin in 2 months.

The official ILM website has just put online a new portrait video, this time interviewing Lucasfilm's President Gordon Radley. Many quick glimpses of ILM are shown.

The Hollywood Reporter posted an article yesterday announcing that ILM has gone through a major restructuring at the executive level to face the tough economic times.

Fangoria magazine recently published a small interview with Pablo Helman, VFX Supervisor of Episode 2 and the upcoming Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. In it he discusses in general terms the shot count and a few of the things we can expect.

The official Star Wars website and newsletter are reporting that work at ILM for Star Wars Episode III is ramping up. At the moment the main emphasis is on getting a rough cut while ILM starts building assets and building up the VFX teams.

The official Star Wars website has posted an update of the ramping up of the Star Wars Episode 3 pre-production. Producer Rick McCallum details that the Art Department is starting work, while Lucas writes the script, and ILM will expand it's matte painting department.

The official ILM website has just posted an announcement that they will go to Los Angeles for recruiting purposes, September 26 and 27.

The upcoming films sections of the Cinefex website was recently updated and now lists a few more details on ILM's upcoming projects. Daniel Jeannette has moved from supervising animation for Dreamcatcher to Van Helsing. Hal Hickel, fresh from his duties on Episode 2 will be the Animation Supervisor from Dreamcatcher now.

The latest official Star Wars newsletter contains a story about the CG Jedi Trebor, named after Animation Director Rob Coleman.

In an avalanche of news, it was just announced that ILM will work on Joe Johnston's Hidalgo, to be supervised by Tim Alexander, on Stephen Sommer's Van Helsing, to be supervised by Scott Squires and Ben Snow, Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch Drunk Love and Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean, to be supervised by John Knoll.

The Hollywood Reporter reported (and also announced on VFXPro) that Scott Farrar will be the VFX Supervisor for Tears of the Sun.

ILM is slated to provide VFX for two upcoming projects: Clint Eastwood's Blood Work, to open August 9, 2002, and Antoine Fuqua's Tears of the Sun (aka Hostile Rescue), to be released sometime in 2003 (March 7, 2003 is the new tentative date).

The official Star Wars site has an article about ILM artist Philip Metschan, who besides designing the many display graphics of Episode 2 also helped design the of the ILM and Skywalker websites.