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Friday, Mar. 29, 2002
Green Dot Hits Spot For Thom Higgins
Director Thom Higgins has joined Green Dot Films for exclusive spot representation. The move to the Santa Monica shop reunites him with executive producer Rick Fishbein, who freelance line produced regularly for Higgins from 1996 to '98. Higgins comes over to Green Dot from bicoastal Bedford Falls...
Friday, Mar. 29, 2002
Big TV! Links With CMP And DNA
Commercial rep firm Creative Management Partners (CMP), bicoastal and Chicago, and Hollywood-based commercial and music video house David Naylor & Associates (DNA), have linked with the directing duo Big TV! and its London-based production company, Studio. Per the arrangement, CMP will rep the...
Friday, Mar. 29, 2002
The Mill Opens Satellite In New York
London-headquartered visual effects and postproduction facility The Mill is opening a satellite office in New York in mid-May that will service visual effects for commercials. According to Robin Shenfield, CEO of The Mill and Mill Film, the firm's feature film division, the shop will start out...
Friday, Mar. 29, 2002
"March Madness" II: Volvo Unveils Integrated Campaign
It's déjà vu all over again—but with some key revisions and additions based on the first experience—for Volvo Cars of North America. The company has unveiled a fully integrated promotion entailing traditional broadcast commercialmaking, interactive television (iTV), the Internet, wireless...
Friday, Mar. 29, 2002
FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS/10 YEARS
MARCH 28, 1997/San Rafael-headquartered Industrial Light+Magic Commercial Productions (ILMCP) has signed directors Bill Werts and Robert Caruso, and has formalized an exclusive spot representation agreement with feature director Joe Johnston as well. Werts is closing his 10-year-old WertsFilms, Los...
Friday, Mar. 29, 2002
Dir. Jones To The Joneses
The Joneses has signed director Adam Jones for exclusive representation, and has hired Pam Rohs as executive producer. The production company has also relocated from Southern California to New York, where Jones and Rohs are based, and has secured Mary Ford to serve as its rep on the East Coast...
Friday, Mar. 29, 2002
Moving Images Adds Colorist Milan Boncich
After 18 years with The Tape House family of companies, New York—most recently housed primarily at its downtown operation, The Anx—colorist Milan Boncich has left to join postproduction facility Moving Images, New York. Tony Fiordalisi, president of Moving Images, described Boncich as "one of the...
Friday, Mar. 29, 2002
Postproduction/Visual Effects Veterans Form The Syndicate
Executive producer Ken Solomon, colorist Beau Leon and director of new business Leslie Sorrentino have partnered with the two principals at CG/visual effects house Computer Café—CEO/executive producer Jeff Barnes and creative director/visual effects supervisor David Ebner—to launch visual effects/...
Friday, Mar. 29, 2002
Busching And Gillen Team On New Shop
Executive producer Tony Busching has launched Gillen Films for director/cinematographer Scott Gillen. At this juncture, the Marina del Rey-based spot shop is a boutique operation comprising the exec producer and the director, who is best known for his prowess in automotive advertising. Gillen was...
Friday, Mar. 29, 2002
TBWA/Chiat/Day Shifts Tunes Into Sixth Speed
They're easy to spot, the so-called tuner crowd, cruising down the street in their souped-up cars, stereos on high. But in targeting this fast-growing segment of the automotive marketplace, Nissan and its agency, TBWA/Chiat/Day, Los Angeles, took the road less traveled. First, the carmaker designed...