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THE NOUN "AMP" IS SHORT for "ampere," a term defined in Webster's Dictionary as "a unit of electric current." For some, "amp" can also be slang for "amplify," a verb defined as "to make larger or more powerful." Both these definitions apply in a sense to the upper case AMP which stands for the...
David Naylor & Associates (DNA), Hollywood, has signed Keri Weber and Traci Meyer of Superglue, Los Angeles and San Francisco, for exclusive West Coast representation....Nancy Workman of New York-based Workman has taken on East Coast representation for Fuel, Santa Monica.....Metro Pictures,...
Novick & Associates, San Francisco and Los Angeles, has signed A Band Apart Commercials, bicoastal and Minneapolis, for spot representation on the West Coast and in Texas....Smith. Gosnell.Nicholson, Pacific Palisades, Calif., has inked DPs Daniel Stoloff for commercials and features, and...
Word at press time was that bicoastal HSI Productions had won its court case against F.M. Rocks, Santa Monica. A Los Angeles Superior Court jury ruled that HSI did not intentionally engage in acts designed to interfere with a contract between F.M. Rocks and director Paul Hunter. As earlier...
vices, NAB has really become more of a research exercise than an equipment purchasing binge. In that light, NAB '99 was a great success for us.
There were ample server technology, asset management, DVD authoring, video streaming and Internet video distribution solutions to research as we...
5 Years Ago
MAY 13, 1994
Director/cameraman Ian Leech, formerly with Ian Macdonald Productions (IMP), Santa Monica, has joined bicoastal OneSuch Films for exclusive commercial representation....Colossal Pictures, a live action/animation/effects house in San Francisco, has inked a...
umn last week, the commercial production community is at a curious stage of development. On one hand, there's increasing evidence of Wall Street interest in our industry (i.e.-Paradise Music & Entertainment's acquisition of spot shop Straw Dogs-SHOOT, 5/7, p. 1), underscored by buzzwords...
Bicoastal Moxie Pictures and its sister shop The Industry have amicably parted ways with East Coast rep Wendy Jacobson. Sarah Holbrook will now be repping both companies on the East Coast....Independent rep Andrew Halpern has been named to handle the West Coast for Tony K., Santa Monica....Ellen...
THIS WEEK's FRONT PAGE represents an exercise in numbers. And in this case, exercise is crucial to your health. Our lead story reports on a study that measured the economic impact TV commercial production domestically has on equipment and stage rental companies throughout the U.S. The...
THERE WE SAT, MYSELF and a collection of some of the best minds from both the agency creative and production sides, and from New York's top production companies, waiting to judge what has become in most of the industry's eyes the prestigious advertising showcase-the AICP Show and its highly-...