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Friday, May. 3, 2002
STREET TALK
Director Robert Logevall is joining bicoastal Anonymous Content….Director Nick Brandt, formerly of Los Angeles-based Palomar Pictures, has come aboard bicoastal/international Believe Media….Film Roman, the independent animation studio best known for The Simpsons and King of the Hill, has acquired...
Friday, Apr. 26, 2002
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Jay Chiat, founder of Chiat/Day, now TBWA/Chiat/Day, has died after a long bout with cancer. He was 70....At press time, there seemed to be an uneasy status quo between actors and talent agents following the rejection last week (4/19) by Screen Actors Guild (SAG) members of a proposed pact between...
Friday, Apr. 19, 2002
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Michael Crapser has joined Santa Monica-based visual effects studio Moving Pixels as partner/executive producer. He will work closely with Moving Pixels' principal/creative director Tony Smoller. Crapser comes over from Rhythm & Hues Studios, Los Angeles, where he served as executive producer...
Friday, Apr. 12, 2002
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Feature filmmaker Cameron Crowe (e.g., Vanilla Sky, Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire) has wrapped a commercial for The Gap, produced by The Industry, a bicoastal house that specializes in securing select spot assignments for longform directors. The Industry is a sister shop to bicoastal Moxie Pictures...
Friday, Apr. 5, 2002
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Director Robert Black has joined bicoastal Coppos Films. He just wrapped his first job at his new roost, a three-spot State Farm campaign for DDB Chicago. At press time, Black was about to embark on filming in Spain for a Korean spot promoting the Hyundai line of automobiles; that shoot is being...
Friday, Mar. 29, 2002
STREET TALK
At press time, SHOOT received word that industry vet Sam Schapiro had passed away. He was 69. Schapiro had a hand in co-founding such production houses over the years as Johns+Gorman Films (now JGF, Hollywood), and now defunct shops DeSort & Sam and Harmony Pictures. He last served as president...
Friday, Mar. 22, 2002
STREET TALK
Director Thom Higgins, formerly of bicoastal Bedford Falls, has joined Santa Monica-based Green Dot Films….Linda Ross, who came aboard bicoastal Neue Sentimental Film USA (NSF USA) as executive producer in August, has been promoted to president of NSF USA. Helene Rohr, managing director of NSF's...
Friday, Mar. 15, 2002
STREET TALK
Melissa Gilbert officially becoming president of the Screen Actors Guild after winning the much publicized rerun election could bode well for the ultimate passage of the deal negotiated last month between SAG and the Association of Talent Agents. The proposed new SAG/ATA franchise agreement would...
Friday, Mar. 8, 2002
STREET TALK
Director Carlton Chase has signed with bicoastal Neue Sentimental Film USA (NSF-USA) for exclusive representation in the U.S. and Canada. He comes over from bicoastal Morton Jankel Zander….New York-based brand/corporate identity firm 1919, under the aegis of CEO Nick Wollner, has entered into a...
Friday, Mar. 1, 2002
STREET TALK
Word is that director Clay Williams—formerly half of the Chuck & Clay helming duo—is joining bicoastal Morton Jankel Zander for exclusive representation. As earlier reported, Chuck & Clay decided to go solo as directors—and Chuck Bennett, Williams' long-time partner, initially as an agency...