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Fantastic Mr. Fox is a stop motion animated film based on Roald Dahl’s book of the same name, which will be released on November 13, 2009 by 20th Century Fox Animation. It stars the voices of Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Jason Schwartzman, and Bill Murray. It is the first animated film directed by Wes Anderson. Development began in 2004 as collaboration between Anderson and Henry Selick (who worked with Anderson on the 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) under Revolution Studios. Revolution folded, Selick left to direct Coraline, …

Intel is sponsoring the development and promotion of a Facebook* page where animators will be able to access a collaboration application built on the Facebook Platform, and will work together to create the animated short film. Starting this fall, artists around the world will be able to contribute by animating small pieces of a 5-minute, professional-quality animated short film. The start date will be announced soon.

What’s new in this release: Direct3D improvements, including driver version emulation; Beginnings of support for OLE objects in Richedit; Several fixes to the animation control; A bunch of fixes for regression test failures; Lots of bug fixes.
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