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Friday, Dec. 10, 1999
STREET TALK
A Band Apart Commercials, Los Angeles, has filed a petition in Los Angeles Superior Court against director Nico Beyer, alleging breach of contract. As earlier reported, Beyer's U.S. representation had been the subject of a dispute between A Band Apart and New York-based Compass Films (SHOOT, 10/1/...
Friday, Dec. 3, 1999
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Director Lloyd Stein has joined bicoastal Headquarters. Stein comes over from bicoastal Epoch Films, where he spent the past year. Prior to that, he was at bicoastal/international Propaganda Films….Access Film, a bicoastal house headed by executive producers Jonathan Gilson and Alan Pierce, has...
Friday, Nov. 26, 1999
STREET TALK
Luke Thornton and Liz Silver, co-founders of bicoastal The End, resigned from the company last week. Silver was president of The End and Thornton served as its executive producer. The End is a subsidiary of public company Harmony Holdings Inc., whose majority owner is the publicly traded,...
Friday, Nov. 19, 1999
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Trail Head, the Santa Monica-based production/post house, is shifting its primary focus to the post arena, building around resident editor Patrick Fraser. Two of Trail Head's production mainstays have left the company: executive producer Gary Buonanno, who has returned to freelancing as a producer/...
Friday, Nov. 12, 1999
STREET TALK
What effect will the change in SAG's leadership have on next year's negotiations for a new spot contract with actors? That query is being bandied about in commercialmaking circles. Last week, veteran actor William Daniels upset incumbent Richard Masur in the election for SAG president. Daniels ran...
Friday, Nov. 5, 1999
STREET TALK
Word is that director Gore Verbinski of bicoastal/international Propaganda Films, and the British co-directing team known as Hammer + Tongs, last with bicoastal U Ground, are joining 8Media, the Culver City, Calif.-based production venture launched by former Propaganda chairman/cofounder Steve...
Friday, Oct. 29, 1999
STREET TALK
Bruce Martin has become president/managing partner of No Prisoners, a Los Angeles-based commercial production company launched by feature producer Todd Moyer, founder of the year-old visual effects house No Prisoners 3DFX, also in L.A. The spot shop opens with three directors: Barnaby Jackson, Nic...
Friday, Oct. 22, 1999
STREET TALK
Is former RSA USA president Bruce Martin about to resurface in the spot biz?….Former Propaganda Films VP/director of commercial development Dave Morrison is helping launch the as-yet-unnamed production and management company being started by Steve Golin, cofounder and former chairman of Propaganda...
Friday, Oct. 15, 1999
STREET TALK
Feature filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld is no longer represented by bicoastal Coppos Films for spots….Director Branson Veal, most recently affiliated with cYclops productions, New York, has joined Ace Entertainment, Los Angeles, for commercials…. Bicoastal Partizan Entertainment has signed director Paul...
Friday, Jun. 18, 1999
STREET TALK
Jonathan Miller & Co., Marina del Rey, Calif., has been merged into Dublin Productions which is based in Hollywood and Minneapolis. Executive producer Jonathan Miller brings a couple of his Miller & Co. directors into the Dublin fold for commercial representation: Tom Megalis; and feature...