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Sound pros Rick Ash and Ron Eng have joined Chicago-headquartered Periscope Post & Audio’s recently launched Hollywood facility.

Ash, a rerecording mixer who won has Emmy Awards for his work on the miniseries Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Warm Springs and Live From Bagdad, brings more than 200 credits across independent features, television and documentaries.

Eng, a supervising sound editor, sound designer and rerecording mixer, earned two Emmy Award nominations last year for Twin Peaks. His credits also include the animated feature Coraline and the David Lynch classic Mulholland Drive.

In their first project for Periscope, Ash and Eng are ...

If you're a fan of Michael Plumides' Ghost Trek web series and have always wanted to see its characters and horror comedy style in feature film form, you can now help that longing become a reality, as an Indiegogo campaign for Ghost Trek: Confederate Ghouls is now underway. We also have exciting From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series news for Juan of the Dead fans, as well as theatrical release details for the hostage thriller, The Badger Game.

Ghost Trek: Confederate Ghouls: Press Release - "From the Executive Producer of Clive Barker's Nightbreed: Director's Cut comes the supernatural- horror-comedy, Ghost Trek: Confederate Ghouls.

My name is Michael G. Plumides, Jr. and I am a second generation filmmaker. My dad produced the first independent film in North Carolina, the Southern sexploitation cult classic entitled, Night of the Cat, released in 1973 (available on Something Weird Video). Some of you...

"True Grit" shot down "Black Swan," "Inception," "Shutter Island," and "The Social Network" to win Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing at the 47th annual Cas Awards given by the Cinema Audio Society.

Here's the full list of winners (highlighted) and nominees. Check out Awards Avenue for your complete winners/nominees of all the award-giving bodies leading up to the Oscars!

47Th Annual Cinema Audio Society Awards

Motion Pictures:

Black Swan

Production Mixer Ken Ishii, Cas

Re-recording Mixers Dominick Tavella, Cas Craig Henighan

Inception

Production Mixer Ed Novick

Re-recording Mixers Lora Hirschberg Gary A. Rizzo

Shutter Island

Production Mixer Petur Hliddal

Re-recording Mixers Tom Fleishman, Cas

The Social Network

Production Mixer Mark Weingarten, Cas

Re-recording Mixers Ren Klyce David Parker Michael Semanick, Cas

*** True Grit

Production Mixer Peter F. Kurland, Cas

Re-recording Mixers Skip Lievsay, Cas Craig Berkey, Cas Greg Orloff, Cas

Television Movies and Mini-Series:

The Pacific Part 2

Production Mixer...

The American Cinema Editors handed out their “Eddie Awards” and with no surprise The Social Network was named the best edited feature-length drama. Alice in Wonderland won in the comedy/musical category, Toy Story 3 in the animated category and finally Exit Through the Gift Shop won in the documentary category. Modern Family, The Walking Dead, Treme, and Temple Grandin were awarded as the best edited programs on television last year.

The Cinema Audio Society gave their top film award to True Grit while Boardwalk Empire came out the big winner in television.

Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):

The Social Network

Angus Wall, A.C.E. & Kirk Baxter

Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy or Musical):

Alice in Wonderland

Chris Lebenzon, A.C.E.

Best Edited Animated Feature Film:

Toy Story 3

Ken Schretzmann & Lee Unkrich, A.C.E.

Best Edited Documentary:

Exit Through the Gift Shop

Tom Fulford & Chris King...

HollywoodNews.com: The Millennium Biltmore Hotel was the site for the 47th Annual Cas Awards Dinner this evening as the organization bestowed the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Motion Picture to True Grit and the Sound Mixing Team of Production Mixer Peter F. Kurland, Cas and Re-recording Mixers Skip Lievsay, Cas, Craig Berkey, Cas and Greg Orloff, Cas. This is the third Cas win for Kurland who previously won for No Country for Old Men and Walk the Line. This is the second Cas win for Lievsay, Berkey and Orloff who won previously for No Country for Old Men.

During the ceremony, Jeffrey S. Wexler, Cas, was honored with the Cas Career Achievement Award presented by Tomlinson Holman, Cas, the developer of the Thx system and Oscar® winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler, Asc. During the presentation Holman remarked than nearly 40 years ago he served as Wexler’s boom operator,...

Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn in Joel Coen and Ethan Coen's True Grit Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures: True Grit Production Mixer Peter F. Kurland, Cas Re-recording Mixers Skip Lievsay, Cas Craig Berkey, Cas Greg Orloff, Cas Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Movies and Mini-Series: Temple Grandin Production Mixer Ethan Andrus Re-recording Mixer Rick Ash Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Series: Boardwalk Empire (A Return to Normalcy-Episode 12) Production Mixer Franklin D. Stettner, Cas Re-recording Mixers Tom Fleischman, Cas Oustanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television – Non-Fiction, Variety or Music – Series or Specials: Deadliest Catch: Redemption Day Re-recording Mixer Bob Bronow, Cas Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for DVD Original Programming: 30 Days of Night: Dark Days Production Mixer Michael Williamson, Cas Re-recording Mixers Eric Lalicata, Cas 7th Annual Cas Technical Achievement Awards: Production: Schoeps Super Cmit 2U Post Production Izotope...

The Cinema Audio Society consisting of Sound Mixers and Associates from the film and television industries handed out its 47th Annual Cas Award Winners Saturday. The Society was founded to create a proper channel of communication between the related sound crafts and between those instrumental to the production and distribution of film and television soundtracks: Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures: True Grit Production Mixer Peter F. Kurland, Cas Re-recording Mixers Skip Lievsay, Cas Craig Berkey, Cas Greg Orloff, Cas Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Movies and Mini-Series: Temple Grandin Production Mixer Ethan Andrus Re-recording Mixer Rick Ash Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Series: Boardwalk Empire (A Return to Normalcy-Episode 12) Production Mixer Franklin D. Stettner, Cas Re-recording Mixers Tom Fleischman, Cas Oustanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television - Non-Fiction, Variety or Music - Series or Specials: Deadliest Catch: Redemption Day Re-recording Mixer Bob Bronow,...

"Black Swan," "Inception," "Shutter Island," "The Social Network," and "True Grit" are competing under the Motion Pictures Category for the 47th Annual Cas (Cinema Audio Society) Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2010.

Winners will be announced at their Awards gala on February 19th.

Here's the complete list of nominees (Check our Awards Avenue for complete winners/nominees for all award-giving bodies):

Motion Pictures:

Black Swan

Production Mixer Ken Ishii, Cas

Re-recording Mixers Dominick Tavella, Cas Craig Henighan

Inception

Production Mixer Ed Novick

Re-recording Mixers Lora Hirschberg Gary A. Rizzo

Shutter Island

Production Mixer Petur Hliddal

Re-recording Mixers Tom Fleishman, Cas

The Social Network

Production Mixer Mark Weingarten, Cas

Re-recording Mixers Ren Klyce David Parker Michael Semanick, Cas

True Grit

Production Mixer Peter F. Kurland, Cas

Re-recording Mixers Skip Lievsay, Cas Craig Berkey, Cas Greg Orloff, Cas

Television Movies and Mini-Series:

The Pacific Part 2

Production Mixer Andrew Ramage

Re-recording Mixers Michael Minkler,...

Summit's "The Hurt Locker" made more awards season noise at the Cinema Audio Society's 46th annual CAS Awards, where it took the prize for outstanding sound mixing in a motion picture.

The award's recipients were production mixer Ray Beckett and re-recording mixer Paul N.J. Ottosson.

At the event, which took place Saturday at the Millenium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, HBO's "Grey Gardens" added one more laurel to its crowded trophy shelf as it claimed the prize for television movies/mini-series, with production mixer Henry Embry and re-recording mixer Rick Ash taking the bows.

The episode of AMC's "Mad Men" titled "Guy Walks into an Advertising Agency," took the award in the TV series category, with the trophy going to production mixer Peter Bently and re-recording mixers Ken Teaney and Todd Orr.

In the TV, variety or music category, the winner was re-recording mixer Bob Bronow for the "Stay Focused...