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Negotiations for a new Writers Guild of America (WGA) film and TV contract broke off last week, increasing the possibility that there will be a writers' strike when the WGA's current contract with producers expires May 1. A strike could have ripple effects on the spot production business...
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Pacific Data Post, Santa Monica, completed post work for Jack in the Box's "Carnivores," via the Kowloon Wholesale Seafood Company, Santa Monica. In the :30, spokesman Jack Box takes over as owner of the newest football team, the Carnivores, and proceeds to...
Director Brian Belefant and executive producer Janet Ferrari have partnered to form their own commercial production company, Belefant. The director was previously represented for spots by bicoastal Bedford Falls. Ferrari is his longtime producer.
Thus far, Belefant has secured West Coast...
Ed Decter—who teamed with John J. Strauss to write the smash hit There's Something About Mary (helmed by Peter and Bobby Farrelly)—has signed with bicoastal First Look Artists for exclusive representation as a spot director. Decter's move into commercials comes as he wraps his feature directing...
Bicoastal Reactor Films—part of the Stoney Road family of production companies owned by Michael Romersa—has entered into a reciprocal representation/production support agreement with Saint Cloud, France-based commercial house The Gang Films.
Per the deal, Reactor Films will handle...
The Whitehouse Post Productions, Ltd., London, and The Lookinglass Company, with shops in Santa Monica and Chicago, have signed a letter of intent to enter into a merger, which will result in the formation of a single international creative film editing company. The new venture will be known as...
Director Wayne Gibson, a comedy/dialogue specialist, has signed with The Story Companies for exclusive national representation. Gibson has been freelancing since last July, when he left now defunct Populuxe Pictures. He will be based out of The Story Companies' New York office. The house also...
Conspiracy Films, bicoastal and Austin, Texas, has signed director David Leach for national commercial representation. Leach continues to maintain his New York-based photography studio, David Leach Inc., for print assignments.
For the past three years, Leach has been an occasional...
Director Danny Weisberg has signed a deal for exclusive spot representation in the U.S. via Crash Films, a Santa Monica-based production house headed by executive producers Gary Ward and Bill Fortney. Weisberg comes over from Orbit Productions, Hollywood.
Weisberg's final assignment at...
While a number of its directors have turned out high profile features over the years, bicoastal/international Propaganda Films often wasn't directly involved in those endeavors. However, that is changing as a company initiative to take a lead role in longform has started to bear fruit.
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