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Friday, Mar. 24, 2000
STREET TALK
At press time (3/21), the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) had stopped accepting applications for new H-1B visas this current fiscal year. That's because the INS reached the annual allotment of 115,000 such visas. The allocation was supposed to last a full year, from October 1999...
Friday, Mar. 17, 2000
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Director Martin Canellakis has joined bicoastal/international hungry man. He comes over from bicoastal Coppos Films, where he had been represented first as part of the Marty+Brian directorial duo, and then as an individual helmer after he and Brian Aldrich each decided to go solo late last year (...
Friday, Mar. 10, 2000
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Bicoastal Partizan has signed director Dominic Murphy…. Ritts/Hayden, Los Angeles, has added director Daniel Kleinman for stateside representation….Stephanie Apt, former director of broadcast production at J. Walter Thompson, New York, has been named managing director for the soon-to-be-launched...
Friday, Mar. 3, 2000
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SAG and AFTRA are scheduled to send out strike authorization ballots to union rank and file on March 7. SAG and AFTRA members will be asked to give their negotiating team the authority to call a strike against the advertising industry if ongoing talks for a new commercials contract fail to produce...
Friday, Feb. 25, 2000
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Bicoastal production house 8Media, the shop launched by Steve Golin, has officially changed its name to Anonymous. The company has also added director Jeffery Plansker, formerly of bicoastal/international Propaganda Films, and West Coast rep Charlie McBrearty...Feature filmmaker Tim Burton (Sleepy...
Friday, Feb. 18, 2000
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Director Marius Holtz has signed with bicoastal RSA USA…. Director Patricia Murphy, best known for her spot work in the U.K., has come aboard Bravo Zulu, Santa Monica, for stateside representation….Word is that director James Dalthorp, formerly of now defunct 1/33 Productions, is headed for Santa...
Friday, Feb. 11, 2000
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Director Malcolm Venville is said to have departed bicoastal/international Propaganda Films to join bicoastal 8Media....New York-based executive producer Bill Perna has exited bicoastal M-80....Laura Howard, formerly head of sales and client-direct business at bicoastal Tool of North America, is...
Friday, Feb. 4, 2000
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Word is that director David Kellogg has exited bicoastal/international Propaganda Films and joined 8Media, the bicoastal shop formed by Propaganda founder/former chairman Steve Golin.... Bicoastal Cohn+Company is now representing directors Olivier Venturini, Martin Bell and Mark Raymon Bennett;...
Friday, Jan. 28, 2000
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Word is that director Andrew Douglas is joining 8Media, the bicoastal company launched by Steve Golin, founder and former chairman of bicoastal/international Propaganda Films. Douglas comes over from bicoastal/international Satellite....Bicoastal/international Hungry Man has signed director Marc...
Friday, Jan. 21, 2000
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Director Oliver Stone is shooting a three-spot Heineken campaign via Bates China Limited, Hong Kong, for the Asian market. Production is being done through Shooting Stars Productions, New York....Feature director Barry Sonnenfeld is being marketed for commercial work by bicoastal Straw Dogs, which...