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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...
Friday, Jan. 16, 2004
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Director Ringan Ledwidge of Small Family Business (SFB), London, will be represented in the U.S. via Park Pictures, New York. Additionally, SFB will represent the Park Pictures roster—director/DP Lance Acord, and directors Neil Abramson, Alison MacLean, Ramaa Mosley, and Carter Smith—in the U.K...
Friday, Jan. 9, 2004
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Steve Caplan, senior VP, external affairs for the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP), has been elected to the executive committee of the Entertainment Industry Development Corp. (EIDC), which oversees the joint Los Angeles City/County Film Office. Caplan gives the spotmaking...
Friday, Dec. 12, 2003
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Executive producer Gabrielle Yuro and director Chuck Bennett have teamed to launch Big Lawn Films, a company slated to move into permanent Santa Monica digs next month. Yuro's résumé includes having served as exec producer at bicoastal Reactor Films. Bennett comes over from Crossroads, bicoastal...
Friday, Dec. 5, 2003
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Word is that Michael Bodnarchek, co-president/CEO of A Band Apart, Los Angeles, has departed the production company. In a related development, Jeff Armstrong, who previously held the title of executive producer at A Band Apart, has been promoted to managing director of music videos and commercials...
Friday, Nov. 28, 2003
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The directorial team Berman+Pulcini—a.k.a. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, who helmed American Splendor, the movie that won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and the Film Critics Award at the Cannes International Film Festival—has signed with bicoastal Moxie Pictures for exclusive...
Friday, Nov. 21, 2003
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Director Henry Lu has signed with bicoastal Moxie Pictures for exclusive representation in the U.S. Lu first established himself on the agency side of the business, most notably as a producer at Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, Ore….The Film Company, New York, has opened as a satellite of EUE Screen Gems...
Friday, Nov. 14, 2003
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A substitution and an addition mark the field of directors reported on last week (SHOOT, 11/7, p. 1) as participating in this year's series of "Dreams" short films, presented by Sony and Young & Rubicam, New York. Tim Godsall of Biscuit Filmworks, Los Angeles, replaces Biscuit founding partner...
Friday, Nov. 7, 2003
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Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK), headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., has completed its acquisition of LaserPacific Media Corp. (Nasdaq NM: LPAC), a leading Hollywood post company, in a transaction valued at $30.5 million. The original deal was agreed upon in August (SHOOT, 8/15-29, p. 7). LaserPacific will...
Friday, Oct. 31, 2003
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Tom Atkin, founding executive director of the Visual Effects Society (VES), has decided to step down at the end of his current contract, which expires on July 31, 2004. Atkin founded VES in '93 and helped guide its growth to some 900 global members, nine festivals worldwide and an annual awards...