News
Displaying 20281 - 20290 of 24705
Friday, Oct. 4, 2002
AMP Seeks Permanent Solution To Temp Tracks
NEW YORK—Looking to address what's generally regarded as a steadily, if not exponentially, growing number of copyright infringement claims by record labels and publishers against music in commercials, the Association of Music Producers (AMP) is bringing together leading musicologists for a seminar...
Friday, Oct. 4, 2002
Post/VFX, Music/Sound Design and Equipment Briefs
SHORT CUTS Edgeworx UK , London, joined forces with production shop Loose Moose, London, to perform compositing and finishing work on a spot for Oscar Meyer Lunchables and J.Walter Thompson, Chicago. Directed by Ken Lidster of Loose Moose, the commercial combines stop motion animation with CGI. In...
Friday, Oct. 4, 2002
For The Record
Due to inaccurate information provided to SHOOT for "Headquarters Names Townsend Mnging. Dir." (9/27, p. 7), a credit for Headquarters director David Cornell was misidentified. It should have stated that Cornell recently shot a Lexus spot out of Team One Advertising, El Segundo, Calif., rather than...
Friday, Oct. 4, 2002
NEWSBRIEFS
Brian J. Kelly has been appointed a VP at Henninger Media Services, Arlington, Va. He will also retain his previous positions of executive producer and general manager at Henninger Productions, Arlington. During Kelly's eight years at Henninger, he has been involved in a number of film projects,...
Friday, Oct. 4, 2002
Good Mix
Audio post houses have long groused that their position at the end of the commercial production cycle means that, even in good times, most of the ad budget is spent by the time the job gets to them. These days, when agencies and advertisers cut budgets, many audio post houses are having to develop...
Friday, Oct. 4, 2002
Blink.fx Hires Mark Tyler
After working at now defunct Post Perfect for 13 years, the last 11 consecutively, editor/visual effects artist Mark Tyler has joined post facility Blink.fx, New York. With commercial, TV and music video clients, Tyler was looking for a facility that could accommodate his diverse projects and...
Friday, Oct. 4, 2002
Big Trout Pictures Hooks Director Marcus Stokes
Director Marcus Stokes has joined Big Trout Pictures, the San Francisco production house headed by executive producer Griff Marshall. Stokes comes over from Industrial Light+Magic (ILM), San Rafael, Calif., where he started his career as an intern and moved up the ladder to technical animator, then...
Friday, Oct. 4, 2002
A Band Apart Signs Billy Bob Thornton
Actor/writer/ director Billy Bob Thornton, an Academy Award winner, has inked a deal to direct commercials and music videos via A Band Apart .35mm, according to executive producer Jeff Armstrong. A Band Apart .35mm is a division that represents feature filmmakers—including Quentin Tarantino, John...
Friday, Oct. 4, 2002
3 Dirs. + 3 Exec Prods= Trio Films
Partners/executive producers Taylor Ferguson, Annie Hanlon and Erin Tauscher have set up Trio Films, a Venice-based production house that will pursue commercials and music videos as well as feature, television and other media projects. At this juncture, Trio represents directors Steve Fong and Mike...
Friday, Oct. 4, 2002
Draft Cold, But Sports Hot In DTV
A much publicized draft of legislation (SHOOT, 9/27, p. 1)—which includes a mandate that broadcasters stop sending conventional analog TV signals by Dec. 31, 2006—has received a cold reception from lawmakers and consumer groups. Word at press time was that the controversial provision will likely...