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Friday, Mar. 26, 2004
STREET TALK
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
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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
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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...
Friday, Feb. 6, 2004
STREET TALK
Director Henning Winklemann has signed with bicoastal MacGuffin Films for spot representation….Director Phil Harder has joined bicoastal Bob Industries….CreoCollective, Santa Monica, has opened a New York office headed by executive producer Jennifer Sofio….The Blue Rock Editing Company, New York,...
Friday, Jan. 30, 2004
STREET TALK
In a cash deal valued at about $44 million, Tewksbury, Mass.-headquartered Avid Technology has acquired Munich, Germany-based NXN Software, a provider of asset and production management systems for the entertainment and computer graphics industries. The acquisition will afford Avid's film and video...
Friday, Jan. 23, 2004
STREET TALK
Don Wahlberg, senior editor of Launch, New York, passed away after a sudden heart attack on Jan. 16 while building an ice rink for kids in his neighborhood. Wahlberg, 52, was an editor at Charlex, New York, since May 1990, and joined its recently spun-off Launch division last year. He is survived...