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Friday, Jan. 29, 1999
Yeech-Sour Lemons! Special Interest Groups Trash 10 Irresponsible Ads.
WASHINGTON, D.C.- It has become evident that the idea of "tongue in cheek" has eluded some special interest groups in Washington. The D.C.-based Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) recently held its 14th Annual Harlan Page Hubbard Lemon Awards, doling out gold lemons for the 10 most...
Friday, Jan. 29, 1999
Duck Soup Drops Pun, Signs Directors Cornell, Cottle, Joritz
LOS ANGELES-Duck Soup Produckions has changed its company shingle to Duck Soup Studios, reflecting what exec. producer Mark Medernach described as a broadening of the Los Angeles shop-long known for its traditional cel animation-into other areas such as 2-D/3-D computer animation, film titles and...
Friday, Jan. 29, 1999
FLASHBACK
5 Years Ago JANUARY 28, 1994 Veteran feature director/DP Barry Sonnenfeld has signed with bicoastal production company BFCS for commercial representation....Director Jesse Dylan, formerly with GLG, Los Angeles, has joined Hollywood-based HKM Productions....Jim Blashfield, who had been directing...
Friday, Jan. 29, 1999
Directing Duo Joe Public Super-"Sizes" Cracker Jack
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners' :30 Touts "Really Big Bag" With Dry Humor. CLIENT Frito-Lay/Cracker Jack. PRODUCTION CO. Headquarters, bicoastal. Joe Public (Adam Cameron and Simon Cole), directors; Marc Plummer, DP; Alex Blum, executive producer; Kati Haberstock, producer. Shot on location...
Friday, Jan. 29, 1999
Banking Firm To Purchase 51% Of 4MC
Investment banking firm Warburg Pincus Equity Partners reached an agreement in principle Jan. 19 to acquire 51% of Four Media Company (4MC), a Burbank-headquartered publicly traded postproduction holding corporation, in a deal valued at $80 million. The same day, Jeffrey J. Marcketta, former...
Friday, Jan. 29, 1999
NBA Ads Try To Woo Viewers: Post-Lockout Spots Use Humor, Soft Sell.
The NBA is back, but the same cant be said of all the fans, the group most hurt by this seasons prolonged lockout. So, in an effort to win back viewers turned off by the players/owners standoff, the NBA and teams are scrambling to get ads on the air. Even during the lockout, viewers were treated to...
Friday, Jan. 29, 1999
ITS Seeks To Clarify Calif. Tax Exemption
Though the partial sales and use tax exemption on new equipment purchases made by independent postproduction and visual effects houses in California took effect Jan. 1 (SHOOT, 11/27/98, p. 1), the process of interpreting and clarifying the possible myriad applications of that new law has just begun...
Friday, Jan. 29, 1999
U.S. Spot Shops Ponder Future In Eurozone: Its A Coin Toss - Producers Say New Currency Will Make Shoots Easier, But The Shakeout Is Still Anybodys Guess.
On the first of the year, the world started electronically trading in euros, the new monetary unit set to replace the local currencies of Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. Although the European Union (EU) wont put the...
Friday, Jan. 29, 1999
NYC Production Hits New Heights: Upward Trend Continues In 1998.
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Patricia Reed Scott, commissioner of the Mayors Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting, announced last week (1/20) that 1998 production expenditures in New York City hit new highs across the board for commercials, films and television. Direct expenditures for film and...
Friday, Jan. 29, 1999
Director Joe Schaak Joins Trail Head
Trail Head, a spot production house under the Michael Romersa-owned Stoney Road banner, has added director Joe Schaak. The Minneapolis-based director continues to be affiliated with Twist, Minneapolis, for local projects. Schaak was formerly repped nationally by another Stoney Road company, now...