Friday, Aug. 4, 2000

AuGUST 4, 1995/Toy Story, the first fully computer animated film, produced by Richmond, Calif.-based Pixar Animation Studios, has been scheduled for Thanksgiving release by Walt Disney Pictures....After nine years, London-based production house Redwing Films will be shutting down....Director/...

Friday, Aug. 4, 2000

Virtual pete worldwide, Putnam Valley, N.Y., is handling East Coast sales for Corra Films, New York....Los Angeles-based Digital Artists Agency (DAA) has signed agreements to represent Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisors Volker Engel (Independence Day) and Tim McGovern (Total Recall...

Friday, Aug. 4, 2000

Director Carlton Chase has left New York-headquartered Shooting Gallery Productions and is set to join bicoastal Morton Jankel Zander....Vienna-based co-directing team rad-ish, comprised of Moritz Friedel and Christophe Chruidmak, is about to join bicoastal Go Film....Director Noam Murro and...

Friday, Jul. 28, 2000

Bicoastal shop Anonymous has added director Andrea Giacobbe, formerly of bicoastal/international Propaganda Films, and co-directors Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein, who helmed the feature On The Ropes, which won the Special Jury prize at last year's Sundance Film Festival...Director/actor/...

Friday, Jul. 28, 2000

At the end of April, as the strike began and the board flow started to slow down, I found myself coming to the office more often, seeking to share a sense of community and to commiserate with the other directors. I found myself calling industry friends to see if they had noticed how quiet things...

Friday, Jul. 28, 2000

- JULY 28, 1995/Bicoastal Chelsea Pictures has signed the director/producer team comprised of Jonathan and Adam Schell, respectively. The brothers were signed for spotwork on the basis of Picasso Would Have Made A Glorious Waiter, a short film the duo recently completed at New York University...

Friday, Jul. 28, 2000

As chronicled in SHOOT over the years, recently in our coverage of the annual H-1B visa cap being met six months ahead of schedule (SHOOT, 3/31, p. 1), the shortage of skilled high-tech workers in the U.S. has been cause for concern not only in Silicon Valley, but also in the visual effects/CGI...

Friday, Jul. 28, 2000

Los Angeles based Yvette Lubinsky is handling West Coast representation for Celsius Films, New York....Cielo Films, Santa Monica, has secured San Francisco-based Mary Saxon and Los Angeles-based Rachel Finn of newly formed independent rep firm FinnSaxon to cover the West Coast....Andrea Ruotsi...

Friday, Jul. 21, 2000

The current actors' strike, with its acrimonious debate over how talent should be compensated, is just one of many points of conflict that have or will soon arise as the media industry undergoes revolutionary change.

Over the past few decades, electronic media has slowly migrated from a...

Friday, Jul. 21, 2000

Director Peter Care, formerly of bicoastal/international Satellite, has joined bicoastal Bob Industries....Los Angeles-based Palomar Pictures has teamed with IFILM, also in Los Angeles, to create Palomar Showcase, a co-branded, IFILM-hosted Web site featuring Palomar-provided short films, music...

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