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Director Spike Jonze will be staying put at bicoastal/international Satellite, where his most recent spot endeavors include Nike's "Morning After," a tongue-in-cheek take on a Y2K catastrophe scenario, out of Wieden & Kennedy, Portland, Ore. His feature film, Being John Malkovich, tied with...
Bicoastal Moxie Pictures and The Industry have signed Monkarsh & Associates, Santa Monica, and Renee Case And Co., Chicago, for West Coast and Midwest representation, respectively....Dan Watson, an independent rep recently named to handle the East Coast for Random/Order Information and...
Things are getting easier as we approach the new millennium for animation production. Today's digital compositing systems, married with digital editing systems, make the optical days seem cumbersome and archaic. Those of us who have been around a while know that studio-based digital systems only...
Benz's "Artists" took best of show honors at the International Automotive Advertising Awards in Royal Oak, Mich. (see story, p. 1). Revealing the faces of art visionaries on a Mercedes assembly line, the spot itself is an artistic tour de force. Ironically, it was also the last Mercedes ad done...
JANUARY 13, 1995/Spot production house Atlas Pictures, Santa Monica, has opened under the aegis of executive producer Allison Nunn. Peter Lauer, most recently at Zooma Zooma, New York, serves as the shop's first director....Greg Lane, formerly director of broadcast production at Tracy-Locke/DDB...
Venice, Calif.-headquartered commercial production house Cucoloris Films has entered into an alliance with DoRo, a longstanding music video company in Berlin. The deal gives DoRo—which also maintains Berlin-based clips shop Department M—a stateside foothold while Cucoloris gains the...
The fast-paced world of express mail leaves little margin for error. In BBDO New York's latest Federal Express spot entitled "Action Figures," directed by Bryan Buckley of bicoastal/international Hungry Man, we see what happens when a shipping mistake leads to a cross-dressing fiasco.
The...
By the time you are reading this, all Y2K fears and issues will be a part of history. And probably one of the biggest jokes of the new millennium is the hype and buzz about the gigantic glitches that were going to engulf us and lead to a worldwide state of chaos.
This is not to say that...
Jay Friedman, a researcher at HKM Productions, is a member of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers' new technologies committee, which is chaired by AICP/Minnesota president Kirk Hokanson, executive producer of Voodoo Films.
Friedman heads a subcommittee that's examining the...
January 6, 1995/Director Marco Brambilla—who recently departed bicoastal RSA USA, his commercial roost for nearly seven years—has joined HKM Productions, Hollywood, for exclusive spot representation....Progressive Image Group (P.I.G.), the New York postproduction house, has added offline editor...