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Friday, May. 31, 2002
STREET TALK
Reflecting the sluggish economy's impact on the ad business, entries in the Film portion of this year's Cannes International Advertising Festival are down a little more than 17 percent as compared to the number of entries in 2001. The Film competition has drawn 5,059 entries in '02; last year's...
Friday, May. 24, 2002
STREET TALK
Composer Robert Miller has exited Amber Music, New York and London, and is launching his own as-of-yet-unnamed music studio in New York with executive producer Vera Pandolfo. She was formerly producing at New York agency Amster Yard….West Hollywood-based production house Copper Media and executive...
Friday, May. 17, 2002
STREET TALK
Director Frank Ockenfels 3 and bicoastal Go Film have parted ways. At press time, Ockenfels future plans were not known…. Leo Burnett Worldwide announced the formation of a new agency, Made, London, which will specialize in lifestyle and fashion brands. The new shop will be headed up by creative...
Friday, May. 10, 2002
STREET TALK
Director Michael Haussman has signed with bicoastal HSI Productions for stateside commercial representation. He continues to maintain Serious Pictures, London, as his U.K. roost…. Director Ray Lawrence has come aboard bicoastal Bedford Falls for commercial representation. He was most recently with...
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
STREET TALK
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
STREET TALK
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
STREET TALK
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
STREET TALK
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...

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