Mumbai-based animation studio Crest Animation and US-based Lionsgate Family Entertainment Thursday announced here their second 3D animation movie, as part of a three-film deal.

Titled 'Norm of the North', the movie will be the two companies' second outing after 'Alpha and Omega' that is to be released October this year.

'Our partnership with Crest has gotten off to a terrific start with 'Alpha and Omega,' and 'Norm of the North' is an ideal follow-up,' said Ken Katsumoto, executive vice president of Lionsgate. Family Entertainment, US.

Seemha Ramanna, managing director of Crest Animation Studios, said: 'We are delighted to be producing 'Norm of the North' with our friends at Lionsgate. This is a wonderful story, full of humor and heart, and stereoscopic 3D technology will bring it vividly to life.'

Written by Steven and Daniel Altiere, 'Norm of the North' is expected to release in the first quarter of 2012.

'Alpha and Omega' is an animated comedy about two mismatched wolves and features the voices of well-known artistes like Justin Long, Hayden Panetierre, Christina Ricci, Danny Glover, Dennis Hopper and Larry Miller.

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When '3 Idiots' held a celebration for it's stupendous success at a suburban Mumbai hotel, invitees noticed that he was indeed high on spirits… but Aamir Khan had not touched a droplet of alcohol! Earlier on, the bubbly was uncorked at nephew Imran Khan's engagement party, but there too Aamir totally refrained from sipping any champagne.

As per reliable sources, Aamir Khan made a firm resolve on the first day of 2010. He vowed to stay off alcohol and cigarettes. This time, for life!!

But it's not as if he won't serve booze at his residence. Khan clarifies in a tabloid chat that he's likely to offer beer to visitors, while he'll settle for a healthy high of fresh lime juice.

Admits the frank actor, "I put on 10 kgs in the past few months. Besides, I tended to overdo the drinking bit and hated it when I felt unhealthy. So I decided to quit drinking booze for life. As for cigarettes, I was never a regular smoker, so I decided to give it up too."

Commenting on media speculation that his spouse Kiran Rao goaded him into making the decision, Khan asserts, "I just felt like doing it from within. There is no specific reason."

Healthy 'Idiot', what say?

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A new research has analyzed what are the things in the movie Avatar that comply with science and can exist in reality and what are the things that are implausible.

According to a report in Discovery News, one of the plausible stuff shown in the movie is the concept of moons that can host life.

Inhabitable moons are probably the most common place to find life in the Milky Way galaxy, simply because large moons outnumber planets by at least a factor of 10.

For example, Saturn's giant moon Titan could be the archetype of inhabitable moons. It is as geologically and meteorologically diverse as Earth.

Another likely concept shown in the film is that biological evolution on other habitable worlds can take a different road than Earth.

In Avatar, the biosphere of Pandora supports and extraterrestrial Serengeti of diverse creatures.

The respiratory systems of many of the species appear to operate differently from ours. Bioluminescence also plays a big role in communication among organisms.

Another plausible stuff shown in the movie is that the atmosphere on other habitable worlds might be breathable for organisms of that planet, but not for human beings.

In the flick, it's hard for humans to breath Pandora's atmosphere and they must wear filtering apparatus.

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