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...

Friday, Jul. 21, 2000

- JULY 21, 1995/Writer/director Quentin Tarantino has partnered with producer Lawrence Bender and freelance spot producer Michael Bodnarchek to launch A Band Apart Commercials, Hollywood....Director Robert Black has signed with bicoastal Headquarters for exclusive spot representation. He had...

Friday, Jul. 21, 2000

Those ITS facilities that derive a significant portion of their business from the spot industry have on average lost nearly 20 percent of their gross revenue due to the actors' strike.

Los Angeles County estimates that the strike has hit the local economy to the tune of $2.5 million each...

Friday, Jul. 21, 2000

Bicoastal Cylo and Dallas-based Concrete Productions have ended their affiliation for production and sales. Concrete president Lisa Cobb intends to announce forthcoming changes for her company within the next couple of months....Independent reps John Naitove in New York and Jack Reed, Dallas,...

Friday, Jul. 14, 2000

Bicoastal RSA USA has signed Chicago-based rep firm Nikki Weiss & Company to handle the shop's Midwest sales, and Santa Monica-based Stacey & Annie to cover the West Coast and Texas....After a six year run with the company, Chicago-based rep Donna Daguanno is no longer repping bicoastal...

Friday, Jul. 14, 2000

Feature director Andrzej Bartkowiak (Romeo Must Die) has joined Copper Media-the Los Angeles shop launched last year by longform producer Joel Silver and veteran spot executive Mel Gragido-for spot representation. Bartkowiak first established himself as a noted feature cinematographer with such...

Friday, Jul. 14, 2000

2000" is not just the year, it's the number of people who tried to fit into the Martinez Bar at 3:00 a.m. More entries, more people, more drinking, more begging, more winners, more losers, less sleep ... why do we do this to ourselves? I guess it's because it's fun, stupid. Where else can you...

Friday, Jul. 14, 2000

- JULY 14, 1995/Bicoastal/international Propaganda has launched London-based production company Federation. The new company is in the process of searching for an executive producer....Bicoastal Giraldi Suarez Productions has signed director Will van der Vlugt for U.S. spot representation. He...

Friday, Jul. 14, 2000

As reported in this week's issue (see "CA To Enact Anti-Runaway Program" by Millie Takaki), funding for the Film California First initiative has been included in the 2000-'01 state budget recently signed by Gov. Gray Davis (D-Calif.). Per the anti-runaway program, $15 million will be set aside...

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