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Friday, Jan. 26, 2001
Anti-Runaway Progams Take Effect In California
With runaway production an ongoing industry issue, U.S. filming advocates are keeping a watchful eye on a pair of programs unfolding in California that offer incentives to shoot in the Golden State. The primary initiative, Film California First, has formally taken effect, offering reimbursement of...
Friday, Jan. 26, 2001
TRW Launches Picture PipeLine
Aerospace and defense technology firm TRW (NYSE: TRW) has taken aim at Hollywood with the launch of Picture PipeLine, a secure broadband solutions company based in Carson. Picture PipeLine will offer digital dailies, real time postproduction collaboration and file transfer services to the film,...
Friday, Jan. 26, 2001
Colleagues Remember Director Allan Van Rijn
Their shock not yet subsided over Allan Van Rijn's sudden death in his sleep on Dec. 19 (SHOOT, 1/5, p. 1), friends and colleagues paused to reflect on the life and work of the 52-year-old director, who had been with bicoastal RSA USA since 1996. Emerging from the remembrances was an act of heroism...
Friday, Jan. 26, 2001
Slo.Graffiti Tags Director Robert B. Martin Jr.
Slo.Graffiti, a satellite of Los Angeles-based Palomar Pictures, has added director Robert B. Martin Jr., whom the company will market for commercial, music video and short film projects. Martin has already been awarded a job under the Slo. Graffiti banner for urban clothing line Ecko. He'll be...
Friday, Jan. 26, 2001
Smalheiser Sells First Edition
President Bobby Smalheiser has sold the First Edition group of companies that he co-founded in 1973. As a result the group, which had three separate entities—editorial, audio and postproduction/visual effects—has been split into three separate companies with separate owners. A group of four...
Friday, Jan. 26, 2001
Greene & Grand Launches
Editor Ken Stadt has shuttered the New York-based editing company KranMar's Mystery Editorial (KranMar's), which he started in 1994, and has launched an editorial boutique called Greene & Grand (G&G). The new company officially opened the doors to its new facility in downtown Manhattan on...
Friday, Jan. 26, 2001
Crew Cuts Adds Herman
Editor David Herman has come aboard Crew Cuts, San Francisco. He is also available to cut projects at the Crew Cut facilities in Santa Monica and New York. The San Francisco operation is headed by editor Erik "E.J." Johnson and executive producer Amy Burlaga. Herman joins Crew Cuts after two years...
Friday, Jan. 26, 2001
Skibba, Rosenthal Partner In Spot Music House V-72s
Former agency copywriter Steve Skibba and commercial/television composer Phil Rosenthal have launched V-72s, a spot music and sound design house based in Los Angeles. Skibba and Rosenthal share creative director, composer and sound designer duties at the new venture. Before relocating to Southern...
Friday, Jan. 26, 2001
SportsCenter Strikes Again
Over at ESPN's SportsCenter, the newscasters are always looking for interesting angles. There was the time that sportscaster John Anderson ushered New Jersey Devil defense player Ken Daneyko into the New Jersey Day party, which boasted a performance by Jersey boys Bon Jovi. Or when SportsCenter,...
Friday, Jan. 26, 2001
Flashback
January 26, 1996/Revenue generated by production for New York City reached $2 billion last year, up from $1.75 billion in 1994, announced Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, at City Hall....Director/DP Clint Clemens, best known for his automotive advertising, has joined bicoastal Johns+ Gorman Films for...