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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-...
5 Years Ago
MAY 6, 1994
Limelight, which has bases of operation in the U.S. and the U.K., has closed its bicoastal U.S. commercial production division. The move was announced as part of a restructuring of the company, which will concentrate more on television and feature...
Executive producers Allison Nunn and Bob Samuel have resigned from bicoastal Coppos Films to pursue their own vision of a directorial and production management company. Samuel, Nunn and Coppos Films' owners, director Mark Coppos and exec. producer Bill Bratkowski, described the parting of ways...
Executive producers Jim Evans, Alan Haines and Jason Taragan have launched bicoastal production company Gas, Food, and Lodging.....Lovinger Mahoney Adelson is the new moniker for the New York-based production company whose partners are director Jeff Lovinger, producer Sheila Mahoney and...
ONE COLD SNOWY EVENING, not too long ago, seven advertising agency executive producers and producers trudged over to Photomag and recorded a round table discussion on commercial production problems. Recently I listened to that tape. Many of the same problems that existed then are still around....
5 Years Ago
APRIL 29, 1994
Dan Rosen, the former president of the New York divisions of Unitel Video, has been named president of Manhattan Transfer/Edit (MT/E), also in New York. Rosen was also made VP of International Post Limited, the parent company of MT/E....The Los Angeles...
less nights at NAB last week; not because of the conference being in Las Vegas, the other city that doesn't sleep. Nor was this lack of slumber brought on by my trying to make sense of the NAB deluge of technological innovations and their implications. Instead what left me bleary and teary-eyed...