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Friday, Sep. 13, 2002
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The Los Angeles District Attorney's office is investigating the financial records of the Entertainment Industry Development Corp (EIDC), the body that oversees the joint Los Angeles City/ County Film Office. The ongoing audit went public with news that the DA's office and local law enforcement...
Friday, Sep. 6, 2002
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An anti-runaway production initiative—Assembly Bill 2747, which would have established a wage-based tax credit in California, effective July 2004—was killed by the State Senate Appropriations Committee this past weekend (8/31) in Sacramento. The bill's demise was attributed largely to California's...
Friday, Aug. 30, 2002
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Mike Goode—formerly part of the three-member helming team known as Goetz+Goode of Beverly Hills-based production house Copper—is branching out on his own as an individual director. He has signed with Great Guns USA, Santa Monica, for exclusive representation in the U.S. and Canada. Great Guns,...
Friday, Aug. 23, 2002
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Directors Adam Reed, Valerio Ventura and Kurt Burk have joined Santa Monica-based BeachHouse Films. Reed comes over from Elsewhere, Los Angeles. BeachHouse becomes Ventura's first formal roost for U.S. spot representation. And Burk is a recent Art Center graduate…..Director Enno Jacobsen has come...
Friday, Aug. 16, 2002
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The New York-based holding company for a number of video and audio postproduction houses, Creative Content Artists (CCA), is ceasing operations. Nearly all the facilities under the CCA banner have closed. At press time, SHOOT confirmed that the only shop still open for business was Lower East Side...
Friday, Aug. 9, 2002
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The directors have been set for the next three installments in BMW's "The Hire" Internet film series, which will be produced by bicoastal RSA USA. The filmmakers are Tony Scott (whose feature filmography includes Enemy of the State, Spy Game, Crimson Tide, Days of Thunder, Top Gun), John Woo (...
Friday, Aug. 2, 2002
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Director Paul Middleditch, and two of the members of Icelandic band GusGus—helmers Arni and Kinski—have signed with bicoastal HSI Productions. All three were formerly with Public Works, Santa Monica….Director Luca Maroni, well established in European commercialmaking, has joined Plum Productions,...
Friday, Jul. 26, 2002
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Mike Pandolfo, David Logan and Craig Chang have partnered to form Native, a New York-based music shop….Amber Music, London and New York—best known for its work in commercials on both sides of the Atlantic—has signed composer Michael Kamen, who has roots in feature films (i.e. X-Men, Shine) and in...
Friday, Jul. 19, 2002
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The Story Companies, headquartered in Chicago, has signed a pair of directors for exclusive national representation in commercials: Jamie Most and Brian Johnson. Most is best known for his tenure as creative director of NBA Entertainment, where he directed more than two dozen commercials for the...
Friday, Jul. 12, 2002
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Director John Frankenheimer died this past weekend (7/6) in Los Angeles due to complications from a stroke following recent spinal surgery. He was 72. Renowned for his feature (e.g.—The Manchurian Candidate, The Birdman of Alcatraz) and TV work, Frankenheimer also made his mark in the advertising...