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Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
Area 51 Films Forms Feature Division
Area 51 Films, the Santa Monica-based commercial production house launched in 1996, has formed a division to develop and produce feature films and other longform entertainment projects for its directors. Rachel Griffin, Area 51's head of production, will oversee the new venture. Griffin has a track...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
John Moore And Alex Blum Cross Behind Enemy Lines
The hero of the Fox Films Christmas release Behind Enemy Lines, played by Owen Wilson, is a pilot whose plane is shot down in hostile territory. He survives the crash but must navigate his way across uncharted terrain, best his enemies, find allies and overcome unfavorable odds to return to safety...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
Green Dot Films Signs Director Duncan Sharp
Director Duncan Sharp joined Green Dot Films, Santa Monica, for commercial representation. He's been freelance directing and editing for the past year, following tenures with production companies Life of Riley, Los Angeles, and prior to that, Valiant Pictures, San Francisco. Growing up in Seattle,...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
Charlie Willis Passes Away At Age 51
Family, friends and industry professionals are mourning the loss of visual effects veteran Charlie Willis, 51, who died Nov. 30 after battling cancer. For nearly 30 years, Willis was a pioneer in the business, leading a team of artists that revolutionized the nature of visual effects in commercials...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
Dir. Jeffrey Fleisig Joins Biscuit Filmworks
Director Jeffrey Fleisig has signed with Biscuit Filmworks, the Los Angeles-based production house launched just over a year ago by executive producer Shawn Lacy Tessaro and director Noam Murro. Fleisig had been briefly represented by now defunct Prop-aganda Films, which went out of business two...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
Director David Carson On The Menu
Director David Carson has entered into an exclusive agreement with broadcast graphics and design/production shop Digital Kitchen, Bellevue, Wash., Venice, Calif., and Chicago. The deal secures Carson as a director for Digital Kitchen's film, commercial, new media and Web projects. Carson...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
Bassinson Opens InterPost
Oscar Bassinson, a freelance spot director perhaps best known for his work in the food/tabletop and comedy arenas, has opened InterPost, an Encino-based digital editing facility. InterPost maintains what's billed as a broadcast-quality NTSC format network, featuring the G4 system with 533 Dual...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: ANIMATION_ New Models
"I've always loved animation," says Jon Parkinson, senior creative director on the Ford account at J. Walter Thompson, Detroit. "But it's not used that much with cars. I suppose it's because people want to see sheet metal." Recently, Parkinson and his team scrapped the sheet metal and enlisted the...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: ANIMATION_ Calling Plans
We've all seen Cingular Wireless' four-pronged, orange character—the guy who's about two prongs short of an actual phone jack. In past campaigns, this CG-generated spokesfigure (appropriately named "Jack") bounced around the television screen communicating via a cartoon bubble. But recently,...
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
NEWSBRIEFS
Doug Johnson has been promoted to audio engineer at Cool Beans Digital Audio, New York. He had been serving as audio assistant at the facility, where he worked with such clients as CBS News, Sci-Fi Channel, Food Network, Kids Footlocker, AT&T and Garnier Lumia. Since his promotion, he's worked...

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