Friday, Nov. 22, 2002

TV spot location shoot days in Greater Los Angeles numbered 440 in October, a 13 percent increase over the tally for the same month last year, according to figures released by the Entertainment Industry Development Corporation (EIDC), which oversees the joint Los Angeles City/County Film Office...

Friday, Nov. 22, 2002

NOVEMBER 21, 1997/Partners/directors Bryan Buckley and Hank Perlman, and partner/executive producer Stephen Orent, have launched Hungry Man, a New York-based production house. Buckley had been freelancing; Perlman was most recently a copywriter at Wieden & Kennedy, Portland, Ore.; and Orent...

Friday, Nov. 22, 2002

Food Chain Films, the Portland production house under the aegis of executive producer David Cress, has entered into an agreement with bicoastal Go Film, headed by exec producers/co-founders Robert Wherry and Jonathan Weinstein. Per the deal, Food Chain—which maintains its identity and creative...

Friday, Nov. 22, 2002

Director Michael Patterson, formerly of Rhythm & Hues Studios, Los Angeles, has joined Visitor, the Hollywood-based production house headed by founder/director James Wahlberg and executive producer Lisa Hollingshead. Additionally, Visitor has hired Paul Biddle as its head of production....

Friday, Nov. 22, 2002

How's commercial production and post faring in Florida during these tough economic times? When George O'Neill, VP/co-founder of post house BVI-Miami, says that his shop's business has been "better than last year, so it's headed in the right direction," he seems to sum up the state of things in...

Friday, Nov. 15, 2002

HOLLYWOOD—Both high-profile and lesser known spots gained recognition at the second annual Association of Independent Creative Editors (AICE) Editing Awards ceremony held this week (11/14) in Hollywood. This mix was reflected on several fronts, including in the work of the two editors who topped...

Friday, Nov. 15, 2002

Adams joins a Form directorial roster that also includes Dylan, Charles Wittenmeier, Bill Timmer, Chris Woods, Paul Boyd and the recently signed David Denneen (SHOOT, 11/1, p. 1). Form additionally reps feature filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black, Get Shorty) for commercials. Rounding out...

Friday, Nov. 15, 2002

In certain respects, industry standards have been systematically lowered. Keeping the doors open and turning a decent profit are enough to qualify in today's era for being a commercial production house worthy of recognition. The recession, shrinking margins, slow payment from agencies and...

Friday, Nov. 15, 2002

American midterm elections are like the Goodwill Games: They both come around every four years, and that's about all you can say for them. Sure, both events are an important, high-level test of—respectively—negative campaigning and athleticism, but both pale in prestige and recognition when...

Friday, Nov. 15, 2002

Executive producer Lisa Margulis has joined bicoastal Anonymous Content. In her new role, she becomes one of three executive producers who jointly head the company's commercial division—the other two being Andy Traines and Dave Morrison. For the past three years, Margulis was executive producer...

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