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Friday, Apr. 16, 2004
STREET TALK
Ambience Entertainment, Crows Nest, Australia, has opened up a New York office in conjunction with Jeff Devlin's New York company, Media Logic. Devlin will serve as Ambience's U.S. executive producer. Ambience is a commercial production and animation company headed by managing director Matthew...
Friday, Apr. 9, 2004
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London-based production company Blink now has a U.S. presence. The company has set up an office in Venice, Calif., headed up by executive producers Elizabeth Newton and Jeremy Smith, and has signed its first U.S.-based director—Sam Jones. A director and still photographer, Jones helmed the well-...
Friday, Apr. 2, 2004
STREET TALK
Editor Chuck Willis is no longer with Crew Cuts, the bicoastal company in which he was a partner and co-founder….Santa Monica-based Cielo Films is closing. The production company's founder Joanna Bongiovanni passed away in October (SHOOT, 10/31/03, p. 1) and was succeeded as executive producer by...
Friday, Mar. 26, 2004
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Director Michael Patterson, formerly with Hollywood-based Visitor, has joined Green Dot Films, Santa Monica….Director Tim Hamilton has signed with bicoastal Go Film….Bicoastal Celsius Films has added director Christian Charles….Director George Mays has joined Detour, a Santa Monica shop headed by...
Friday, Mar. 19, 2004
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The directing team of Amy Hill and Chris Riess, a.k.a. Riess/ Hill, has joined bicoastal GARTNER. Hill and Riess come over from bicoastal Anonymous Content, where they had been since summer 2002….Director Mike Bigelow has joined Biscuit Filmworks, Los Angeles.…Speaking of Biscuit, that company's co...
Friday, Mar. 12, 2004
STREET TALK
Bicoastal commercial/music video house HSI Productions has teamed with video game creative shop Immaterial, Los Angeles, to form medium, a Culver City, Calif.-headquartered venture specializing in the development of interactive entertainment. The key players in medium include creative director...
Friday, Mar. 5, 2004
STREET TALK
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a chance to put his mark on state filming issues, including runaway production, by appointing a new director of the California Film Commission (CFC) now that Karen Constine has stepped down from that post. At press time, there was no exact timetable for the...
Friday, Feb. 27, 2004
STREET TALK
Directors Richard Sears and Alain Gourrier have signed with Tate USA, Santa Monica for exclusive U.S. spot representation. Sears had been at bicoastal Coppos while Gourrier is perhaps best known for his tenure at Bruce Dowad Associates, Los Angeles…. Backyard Productions, Venice, Calif., has signed...
Friday, Feb. 20, 2004
STREET TALK
Advertisers are paying a record high $1.5 million on average for 30 seconds of commercial time during the Feb. 29 Academy Awards telecast on ABC. This surpasses the previous high of $1.4 million, which was set last year….Director Nelson Cabrera has come aboard bicoastal HKM Productions….Director...
Friday, Feb. 13, 2004
STREET TALK
Director Eric Steinman, formerly of bicoastal Headquarters, has come aboard Trio Films, Venice, Calif….A Band Apart has signed director Thomas Krygier. The Los Angeles-based production company will represent Krygier for spotwork in the U.S.… Director Jb Carlin has joined Metro Pictures USA, the...