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Friday, Nov. 29, 2002
Holding Company Liberty Livewire Renamed Ascent Media Group
Liberty Livewire, the Santa Monica-based international holding company—which provides video and audio postproduction, media management and distribution services to the advertising, feature film and television industries in North America, Europe and Asia—has changed its corporate moniker to Ascent...
Friday, Nov. 29, 2002
Fearless Music Adds Michael Bacon To Mix
Bicoastal Fearless Music has signed composer Michael Bacon for commercial representation. Though Bacon has scored assorted film and television projects, joining Fearless marks his first official foray into the spotworld. Bacon will continue to maintain his eponymous New York shop—Michael Bacon...
Friday, Nov. 29, 2002
Superior Assembly Editing Alumni Go Grape
Three former staffers of the recently shuttered Superior Assembly Editing Company—managing director/executive producer of music videos Valerie Schadt, head of sales and marketing Dillard Sholes and editor Jeff Grippe—have joined Sliced Grape, the newly-formed editorial division of West Los Angeles-...
Friday, Nov. 29, 2002
Director Daniel Kaufman Finds Public Domain
Comedy/dialogue director Daniel Kaufman has signed with Public Domain—the New York-headquartered house headed by executive producer Steve Shore—for exclusive commercial representation in the U.S. The director joins the shop after a brief stint at now defunct Elsewhere Films, his first spot roost...
Friday, Nov. 29, 2002
Blink.fx Makes Room For Gary's Chop Shop
Veteran audio engineer/composer Gary Arnold, together with New York-head quartered MTI/The Image Group—a corporate parent to several video/audio production and postproduction companies—have launched Gary's Chop Shop/Dyn-O-Mix, New York, an audio facility offering sound design, audio mixing/...
Friday, Nov. 29, 2002
Hornet And Flux Enter Into Reciprocal Pact
Bicoastal design/ animation company Hornet Inc. and animation facility Flux, Auckland, New Zealand, have formed an alliance with the mutual goals of gaining inroads into new markets, increasing respective talent rosters and offering possible cost-saving options to clients. The exclusive agreement...
Friday, Nov. 29, 2002
Steers Goes Independent For Spots
Burr Steers, who made his feature filmmaking debut earlier this year with the release of the critically acclaimed Igby Goes Down, has signed with Independent Media, the Santa Monica-based shop headed by executive producer Susanne Preissler, for exclusive representation as a spot director. Steers...
Friday, Nov. 29, 2002
Temp Talk: Copyright Issues And Legal Liabilities
The pitfalls of using temp music tracks for commercials were delineated and discussed during an educational/ informational seminar hosted last month (10/29) by the Association of Music Producers (AMP). Held in the Nye Center at Young & Rubicam, New York, the session—entitled "Temp Tracks:...
Friday, Nov. 29, 2002
A New Start For Price, Schaeffer
Veteran visual effects supervisor/artist Craig Price has teamed up with Jack Schaeffer, president of postproduction house The Finish Line, to launch Start. The new visual effects studio is housed in The Finish Line's Santa Monica complex, but operates as a separate entity. Start will be autonomous...
Friday, Nov. 29, 2002
FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS/10 YEARS
NOVEMBER 28, 1997/(Colossal) Pictures, San Francisco, is scheduled to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, effective Dec. 1. The shop has been reorganizing under backruptcy protection for the past year and a half…. John Palestrini, CEO of Palestrini Post Production, New York, has been named the first...