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Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT : DIRECTORS : FALL EDITION Eden
Director Eden Diebel, a U.K. native who is represented in the U.S. by bicoastal Headquarters, loves good storytelling. One of the reasons the director—who is known simply as Eden—joined Headquarters in January of this year was Tom Mooney, partner/head of sales at the company."[He's] one of the few...
Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
Celsius Films Rises With Dir. Kagan
Director Peter Kagan has joined bicoastal Celsius Films. The signing fortifies the shop's West Hollywood office, which is home to helmers Kagan and Heavy International (a.k.a. Jonas Morganstein). Working out of Celsius' New York operation are directors Greg Ramsey, Bobby Sheehan, Mark Tiedemann and...
Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
L.A. Spot Location Shoots Up In Sept.
TV spot location shoot days in Greater Los Angeles numbered 517 in September, a 33 percent increase over the tally for the same month last year, according to figures released by the Entertainment Industry Development Corporation (EIDC), which oversees the joint Los Angeles City/ County Film Office...
Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS/10 YEARS
OCTOBER 17, 1997/Director Frank Budgen has joined London-based Gorgeous, the two-year-old production company owned by director Chris Palmer. The change ends Budgen's six-year tenure at The Paul Weiland Film Co., London….Steve "Spaz" Williams—perhaps best known for his nine years at Industrial Light...
Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
Notorious Links With Cohn+Co. For Spots
In partnership with bicoastal Cohn+Company, music video house Notorious Pictures, also bicoastal, has launched a commercial division that has signed British director Tim Hope for spot representation in North America. The commercial unit operates under the Notorious moniker and is owned by Notorious...
Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
Art Meets Commerce At The Bowery Poetry Club
Ted Eyes, executive VP/executive creative director at Draft Worldwide, New York, admits he isn't necessarily a regular at downtown poetry readings. "It doesn't feel like something I should be going to if I'm not wearing a black turtleneck," he cracked. But when the folks at New York production...
Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
Harley's And Primal Scream Enter Into Creative Alliance
Commercial editorial company Harley's House and music/sound design shop Primal Scream have forged an artistic alliance to provide advertising agencies with a full slate of creative postproduction services from a common location. As part of the arrangement, Primal Scream has moved into new...
Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
Area 51 Films And Launchpad Productions Form Strategic Alliance
Area 51 Films has forged a strategic alliance with Launchpad Productions, producer David W. Higgins' newly formed feature film production company. Under the terms of the deal, Launchpad will develop feature projects for Area 51 Films' staff of commercial directors. In the first such project,...
Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
Post/VFX, Music/Sound Design and Equipment Briefs
SHORT CUTS New York-based Beehive completed the opening title sequence for the independent feature film Glissando . Directed by Chip Hourihan and based on a story by Robert Boswell, Glissando tells the story of 15-year-old Jimmy and his father as they try to make the best of lives spent drifting...
Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Arlo Oviatt has rejoined Bernstein-Rein Advertising , Kansas City, Mo. Oviatt, who will serve as senior VP/executive creative director, had worked at Bernstein-Rein for two and a half years in the late 1990s. He has also had stints with Leo Burnett USA, Chicago, and D'Arcy, St. Louis, which has...