The Toledo Blade has an interview with Senior VFX Supervisor Dennis Muren where he discusses his work on Equinox.

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The 9th VES eDIT Filmmaker's Festival, which will take place September 24-26 2006, will feature a session on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Additionally VFXWorld is reporting that the film contains about 1,000 VFX shots courtesy of ILM.

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Variety has a short article on the use of visual effects in smaller dramatic and non-VFX driven Summer films. ILM VFX Supervisor Ed Hirsh comments a bit about the work in M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water.

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ILM CTO Cliff Plumer made a few comments regarding the release of Apple's Shake 4.1 which includes a huge price drop for the OSX version and a Universal binary that can run on Intel-based Macs.

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Patricia Rose Duignan, who worked on the original Star Wars an was Production Supervisor and Operations Manager at ILM, became a co-owner of the Dinner Source, a "dinner-assembly" company, while in the middle of her MBA at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

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Variety has a small article about the VFX work from the 2006 Summer sequels and remakes. It includes a few comments from VFX Supervisors John Knoll, who worked on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, and Kim Libreri, who worked on Poseidon.

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Taylor Saugstad, a 19 year old from Los Osos, California diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, interned for a whole day at ILM as part of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

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Digital Compositor Todd Vaziri will talk about the invisible effects in Mission: Impossible III at the Silicon Valley SIGGRAPH Chapter, this Thursday June 22, 2006 8pm.

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Wired has an interview with ILM Senior VFX Supervisor Dennis Muren where he discusses Equinox, the B-movie he directed as a teenager, and the digital revolution in Visual Effects.

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VFXWorld has a small article on the VFX work Rhythm and Hues did for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, although it does mention the number of shots all companies involved, including ILM, did for the film.

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Acopia Networks, a company specializing in network switches for file vitualization solutions, listed ILM as a customer when it announced that it received $20 million in funding.

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ILM has provided some VFX work for Justin Lin's The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. The VFX work is also being provided by Hammerhead, Rhythm and Hues, CIS, Cafe FX, Pacific Title and Art Studio, Perpetual Motion Pictures, Hatch, Illusion Arts and ILM, under the overall supervision of Mike Wassel.

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The Los Angeles Times has an extensive profile of Ed Catmull, Pixar's President, from the early days at Utah Univesity, NYIT and the Lucasfilm CG Group, to the creation of Pixar and now his challenges being part of Disney.

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Variety is reporting that Lucasfilm is planning to sell ILM's Model Shop to Mark Anderson, who was a modelmaker there and also served as Director of Physical Production. While the deal is not yet finalized, it would be named Kerner Optical and become a preferred subcontractor for ILM.

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The Toronto Metro News has a small profile of Digital Modeler Giovanni Nakpil, who has worked on such projects as Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith and War of the Worlds.

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ILM Senior Systems Engineer Michael Thompson has brief comments about the release of the Data ONTAP GX operating system from Network Appliances and used in their HPC (high-performance computing) storage solutions.

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VFXTalk.com has interviews with ILM CG Supervisor Philippe Rebours and Mental Image cofounder Rolf Herken about the VFX work in Wolfgang Petersen's Poseidon.

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Fangoria magazine recently posted a review of the Criterion DVD of Equinox, the 16mm film directed by Dennis Muren around 1967-1968. It includes VFX work by Dave Allen, Jim Danforth and Dennis Muren.

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ILM has standardized on IRIDAS FrameCycler Professional 3.5 for uncompressed frame-based playback and is also being used at Lucasfilm Animation Singapore and Skywalker Ranch.

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Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, VFXWorld and other are sadly reporting that CG pioneer Bill Kovacs has passed away at the age of 56. Bill Kovacs was a programmer at Abel's for the production of Tron, one of the cofounders of Wavefront in 1984 and in 1997 received a SciTech Award for the development of Advanced Visualizer.

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