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Friday, Jan. 8, 1999
Monkeyshine Opens Its Doors: The A+R Group Launches Graphic Design Co.
Bicoastal production house The A+R Group has launched Monkeyshine, a graphic design company headquartered in Los Angeles. Co-executive producers Gower Frost and Roberto Cecchini, who is also president/executive producer of both The A+R Group and bicoastal/international The Artists Company, will...
Friday, Jan. 8, 1999
FLASHBACK
5 Years Ago JANUARY 7, 1994 Jim Hensons Creature Shop, known for its work in animatronics, art direction, modelmaking and puppetmaking, has announced it will open a base of operation in Burbank, Calif., partly to do more work for advertising. The company also has offices in London and New York......
Friday, Jan. 8, 1999
Spoke-n For: Directors Larry August, Tim Roarke: Renamed Prodn. Co., Formerly Known As Superior Street, Seeks A Heightened Natl. Profile.
Two-year-old production house Superior Street, with bases in Chicago and Los Angeles, has added directors Larry August and Tim Roarke and has renamed itself Spoke Film in order to differentiate its live-action division from its postproduction/graphics and effects unit (which will remain known as...
Friday, Jan. 8, 1999
Red Car Acquires Yellow Rose
Red Car, a commercial editorial company with offices in Chicago, New York and Santa Monica (Red Car Los Angeles), has acquired the assets of Yellow Rose Editorial, Dallas, for an undisclosed price. Effective Jan. 1, Yellow Rose assumed the name Red Car Dallas. Yellow Rose was a privately held...
Friday, Jan. 8, 1999
SPOT.COM.MENTARY: Reality Check
A SAG-COMMISSIONED STUDY conducted by George Gerbner, professor of telecommunications at Temple University, has concluded that Americas poor and underprivileged are practically nonexistent on primetime dramas and daytime soaps, while foreigners and mentally ill characters are more likely to be...
Friday, Jan. 8, 1999
YOUR SHOT: Whats Next?
THERES SOMETHING ABOUT a year that ends with a nine. Whether its a birthday or the end of a decade, its just a big deal, a signal of the end of one thing and the beginning of something else. Theres trauma attached to turning 30 or 40 or 50 or whatever else we get to. So, in 1999, we start to...
Friday, Jan. 8, 1999
Spoke-n For: Directors Larry August, Tim Roarke: Renamed Prodn. Co., Formerly Known As Superior Street, Seeks A Heightened Nat'l. Profile.
CHICAGO-Two-year-old production house Superior Street, with bases in Chicago and Los Angeles, has added directors Larry August and Tim Roarke and has renamed itself Spoke Film in order to differentiate its live-action division from its postproduction/graphics and effects unit (which will remain...
Friday, Jan. 8, 1999
The Industry Gets "Weird" With Director Al Yankovic: Music Parodist Extraordinaire Throws His Hat Into The Spot Ring.
HOLLYWOOD-The Industry, the division of bicoastal Moxie Pictures that features an ensemble of filmmakers from other disciplines, has signed director Al Yankovic (a.k.a. "Weird Al") for commercial representation. Since the early 1980s, Yankovic has established himself as a comedic musical artist and...
Friday, Jan. 8, 1999
Carnal Knowledge DP To Get A.S.C. Intl. Achievement Award
Giuseppe Rotunno, A.S.C., A.I.C., will receive the International Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers at the 13th Annual A.S.C. Outstanding Achievement Awards, to be held here Feb. 21 at the Century Plaza Hotel. Over the past 40-plus years, Rotunno has worked with some of...
Friday, Jan. 8, 1999
POP Sound Hears Bells For MCI 5¢
CLIENT MCI WorldCom/MCI 5¢ Sundays. PRODUCTION CO. Live action by PYTKA, Venice, Calif. Joe Pytka, director/DP; Suellen Wagner, executive producer; Lisa Winston, producer. Animation by Warner Bros. Classic Animation, Sherman Oaks, Calif. Frank Molieri, director; Kathleen Helppie, senior producer;...