Friday, Mar. 31, 2000

In a fleeting moment of advertising consciousness, a fugitive might view himself as the Energizer Bunny, having to constantly keep "going and going and going" in order to stay one step ahead of the law. But in this spec spot directed by Tim Cronenweth of Hollywood-based production house Event...

Friday, Mar. 31, 2000

This :30, conceived by San Francisco agency Goldberg Moser O'Neill (GMO) for software/communications company Sybase, opens with a woman's voice that asks: "Do your internal and external information systems talk to each other?"

A male voice responds: "I can without any problem whatsoever...

Friday, Mar. 31, 2000

While times change, some things stay the same. Such is the philosophy behind "Cityscape," a new campaign for financial services firm New York Life which debuted on the Academy Awards on March 26. The commercials were created by Berlin, Cameron & Partners (BC&P), New York, and directed by...

Friday, Mar. 31, 2000

DreamWorks SKG, Los Angeles, has entered into an agreement to acquire the majority interest in Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer animation studio Pacific Data Images (PDI). DreamWorks has owned 40 percent of PDI for several years, but now doubles that stake with a deal to acquire Carl Rosendahl's...

Friday, Mar. 31, 2000

Having recently been elected president of the Georgia Production Partnership (GPP), I'm excited about the united efforts of our production community and its renewed commitment to keep Georgia at the forefront of feature film and commercial production. Much of my feelings regarding this group and...

Friday, Mar. 31, 2000

It was a special evening for Ken Yagoda, executive VP/ director of broadcast production at Young & Rubicam, New York. TV Cares, a committee of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), held its annual Ribbon of Hope celebration earlier this month (3/11) at the Leonard Goldenson...

Friday, Mar. 24, 2000

I know the whole concept of commercial production is supposed to change dramatically very soon, but I don't really care. I don't mean to sound ignorant and unprepared (although I probably am). It's just that it doesn't matter.

With the inevitable advent of broadband delivery, TiVo-like...

Friday, Mar. 24, 2000

Different applications of the Web continue to emerge vis vis the advertising industry. In this week's issue, reporter Sarah Woodward explores the prospects for discovering up-and-coming directors via Web entertainment sites. Her page one story notes the potential for ad agency and production...

Friday, Mar. 24, 2000

At press time (3/21), the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) had stopped accepting applications for new H-1B visas this current fiscal year. That's because the INS reached the annual allotment of 115,000 such visas. The allocation was supposed to last a full year, from October 1999...

Friday, Mar. 24, 2000

March 24, 1995/International Post Ltd. (IPL), New York, the parent company of New York-based Manhattan Transfer/Edit and Northvale, N.J.-based Audio Plus Video International (APVI), has signed a letter of intent to acquire Post Edge, which has operations in Boca Raton, Miami Beach and Hollywood...

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