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Exclusive: The last big piece of the Todd-Soundelux bankruptcy has fallen into place with the sale of the company’s massive sound effects library, which has been purchased at auction by Sounddogs.com for $600,000. The library contains millions of sound effects from thousands of films the company worked on over the past 30 years, including films that won more than 20 Oscars for best sound effects. Soundelux, which for many years was one of Hollywood’s leading postproduction facilities, declared bankruptcy in May.

Now that the Soundelux library has been sold, there’s not much left of the company, which only recently employed more than 200 people. “With the sale of the library, there’s very little remaining of the company and we’re moving forward with the liquidation,” said Leslie Cohen, the company’s bankruptcy attorney.

“I am very fortunate to have acquired the greatest sound effects library on the planet, and...

Crowds cheering, people screaming, metal crunching and pistons pumping. Sounds in Shawn Levy's new film Real Steel are incredibly intricate. The film, which stars Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo and Evangeline Lilly, is set in a near future where the most popular sport in the world is robot boxing. If you think about normal boxing, the sounds are already complicated: heavy breathing, feet shuffling on the mat, leather pounding skin. Putting mechanical robots into the ring then creates a whole new set of problems. What do electronics sound like when they're fighting? After the jump, check out the latest video [1] from the Soundworks Collection about how the sounds of Real Steel were captured. For more information on this video and the film, head over to Soundworks [2]. SoundWorks Collection - The Sound of Real Steel [3] from Michael Coleman [4] on Vimeo [5]. Here's the description: Who says robot boxing won’t happen in...