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CLIENT
Mobil Speedpass.
PRODUCTION CO.
Go Film, bicoastal.
Nick Rafter, director; Max Malkin, DP; Jonathan Weinstein and Robert Wherry, partners; Preston Lee, executive producer; Mark Jaffee, producer. Shot on location in Bakersfield, Calif.
AGENCY
DDB...
FinnSaxon Represents-recently launched by Rachel Finn and Mary Saxon, who are based in Santa Monica and San Francisco, respectively-has been named to handle the West Coast and Texas for Los Angeles-based Squeak Pictures....Schaffer & Co., New York, has added animation, design and effects...
September 15, 1995/Hollywood-based A Band Apart Commercials, launched in July by writer/director Quentin Tarantino and executive producers Lawrence Bender and Michael Bodnarchek, has signed its first director, Osbert Parker....After four years as president of Editel/Chicago, Richard Mandeberg...
During a time when runaway production has been exacerbated by the actors' strike against the advertising industry, there's some light—both real and hoped for—at the proverbial end of the tunnel.
For the optimist, there's the heartfelt wish that the negotiations between SAG/AFTRA and the...
This week's "Your Shot" is excerpted from a keynote address delivered at the Myers Conference, a two-day gathering to discuss new media, held recently in New York .
We expect a future where iTV will start small, and then flood across the planet. It will change television, the Internet,...
Bicoastal Bedford Falls has signed feature director Adam Shankman for worldwide commercial representation. An established choreographer, Shankman helmed the upcoming The Wedding Planner, starring Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey. Shankman's shortform directing credits include promos for...
Independent rep firm Reber Covington, San Francisco and Pacific Palisades, Calif., has been named to cover the West Coast and Texas for Santa Monica-based HUM Music+Sound Design. Reber Covington will also be responsible for handling Fallon, Minneapolis, on behalf of HUM, which continues to be...
This week's "Your Shot" is excerpted from a keynote address delivered at the Myers Conference, a two-day gathering to discuss new media, held recently in New York .
We expect a future where iTV will start small, and then flood across the planet. It will change television, the Internet,...
- 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...
Spot production expenditures generated $59.8 million for the Chicago metro economy in 1999. And so-called secondary benefitsasuch as revenue generated for hotels, restaurants and local merchantsaaccounted for another $79.5 million. The grand total economic impact: $139.3 million.
Those...