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Friday, Nov. 2, 2001
STREET TALK
The directing duo of Spooner/French—Nick and Andrew, respectively—has signed with bicoastal/international The Artists Company….Roe Bressan has been named managing director of The Whitehouse, New York. She comes over from New York-based Spontaneous Combustion. Prior to that, she had a long tenure as...
Friday, Oct. 26, 2001
STREET TALK
The Association of National Advertisers' and the American Association of Advertising Agencies' Joint Policy Committee on Talent Union Relations has reached an agreement on a new three-year collective bargaining contract with the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) covering the production of...
Friday, Oct. 19, 2001
STREET TALK
Bicoastal Cohn+Company has added director Harry Patramanis for spots….Director Danny Boyle is joining Hollywood-based SunSpots….Tombo, the Hollywood-headquartered production house founded by executive producer Fred Porter, has signed director Branson Veal….Swedish director Johan Tappert has signed...
Friday, Oct. 12, 2001
STREET TALK
Chicago-based post house Optimus has inked a deal to buy offline editorial shop Edit Sweet, Chicago. Plans call for Edit Sweet staffers—including partner/editor Jan Maitland, editors Katie Wrobel, Craig Lewandowski, Tim Kloehn and Steve Mach—to work out of the Optimus facility. Optimus president...
Friday, Oct. 5, 2001
STREET TALK
As SHOOT went to press, New York-headquartered, publicly held Paradise Music & Entertainment announced that its bicoastal Shelter Films subsidiary has ceased all operations. The Paradise release read that discussions are underway with Shelter Films' president Steve Shore to resolve outstanding...
Friday, Sep. 28, 2001
STREET TALK
Word is that the Super Bowl could be pushed back a week as a result of NFL regular season games being rescheduled in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. Preliminary reports are that the price tag for 30 seconds worth of time on the big game has dropped to just below $2...
Friday, Sep. 21, 2001
STREET TALK
Bicoastal M-80 Films is now a one-director shop—the resident helmer being Tenney Fairchild, who will continue to team with M-80 executive producer Gregg Stern. M-80 remains part of the Stoney Road family of companies. Stern explained that he and Fairchild wanted to run as a leaner operation...
Friday, Sep. 14, 2001
STREET TALK
Piper Productions has named Thomas Robbins as its president, a new position at the bicoastal shop. He comes over from Foote, Cone & Belding on the West Coast where he served as senior VP, director of communications. Robbins will work out of Piper's Santa Monica office, while managing director...
Friday, Sep. 7, 2001
STREET TALK
Word is that a new series of BMW short films is in the works, again with bicoastal Anonymous Content securing feature helmers for the projects, which will run on bmwfilms.com. The initial series of shorts—helmed by Ang Lee, John Frankenheimer, Guy Ritchie, Wong Kar-Wai and Alejandro Gonzalez...
Friday, Aug. 31, 2001
STREET TALK
Director Scott Vincent has signed with bicoastal/international hungry man. Vincent is still a creative director at Fallon, Minneapolis…..Director Olivier Venturini has signed with Los Angeles-headquartered A Band Apart for commercial representation…. Shares of common stock in Minneapolis-...