Friday, Sep. 8, 2000

CLIENT

Cedar Point Amusement Park/ Millennium Force.

PRODUCTION CO.

Cornerstone Pictures,

Haverford, Penn.

Larry Gebhardt, director/DP; Bill German, executive producer; Stacey Roberts, producer. Shot on location in Sandusky, Ohio.

AGENCY

Liggett-...

Friday, Sep. 8, 2000

Horses. Horses with swimmers, gymnasts, runners, judo experts—horses with everyone except ... riders.

In a sunny arena, the assembled athletes pursue and gesture vainly to their equine counterparts, urging them to cooperate. Amid the confusion, a voiceover announces, "In Sydney, adidas...

Friday, Sep. 8, 2000

September 8, 1995/Bicoastal OneSuch Films has launched satellite production company WildLife Management, also bicoastal. The new entity opens with three directors: Mark Celentano, Brian Belefant and Jeff Mishler....Following the closing of Digipix last month, the company's entire six-person crew...

Friday, Sep. 8, 2000

Spot production expenditures generated $59.8 million for the Chicago metro economy in 1999. And so-called secondary benefits—such as revenue generated for hotels, restaurants and local merchants—accounted for another $79.5 million. The grand total economic impact: $139.3 million.

Those...

Friday, Sep. 1, 2000

It's been a thrilling ride, this last decade or so, in terms of the sweeping changes in our industry. And yet, as far as we've come, we can see the future beckoning with even more changes—changes that will be even more influential in terms of where we're going and how we're going to get there...

Friday, Sep. 1, 2000

Despite a devastating fire which gutted its Canoga Park, Calif., headquarters last week (8/23), special effects firm The Character Shop—which specializes in animatronics, makeup effects, puppets and robotics—is back up and running, having secured temporary quarters. According to its Web site,...

Friday, Sep. 1, 2000

Jon Francis Films, San Francisco, has named New York-based rep Michael Sitzer to cover the East Coast. The production house continues to be repped by Gigante Moore And Associates in the Midwest, and Noonan & Associates on the West Coast….Henry Hagerty of The ThinkBank, New York, has been...

Friday, Sep. 1, 2000

It's been a thrilling ride, this last decade or so, in terms of the sweeping changes in our industry. And yet, as far as we've come, we can see the future beckoning with even more changesachanges that will be even more influential in terms of where we're going and how we're going to get there...

Friday, Sep. 1, 2000

- SEPTEMBER 1, 1995/Director Jason Harrington has joined Tony Kaye Films, West Hollywood, for exclusive spot representation....General partner Jack Schaeffer has launched The Finish Line, a Santa Monica-based visual effects and production facility. Schaeffer last served as president of design/...

Friday, Sep. 1, 2000

In November, SHOOT is scheduled to publish a Special Report on the best of this year's "The Best Work You May Never See" gallery. Though we've just begun to sift through many noteworthy entries, one came to my mind before we even had the chance to re-screen it: "Becoming a Man," a public service...

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