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Directors Jeffrey Fleisig and Timothy White have joined bicoastal production house Villains, headed by exec. producer Robin Benson. White is being handled for spots and music videos, while Fleisigs representation is in the commercial arena.
Both directors have already wrapped or are...
If Ave Butensky has learned one thing from President Clinton, it hasnt been how to score cheap sex at work; its how to reach people on a market-by-market basis. When Clinton beat Bush in 1992, the bulk of Clintons money was spent market by market, whereas the bulk of Bushs money was spent...
Veteran producer Mark Leemkuil has been hired as head of production and Michelle Weller has come on board as head of production/ Prague for Milk & Honey Production Services, a Los Angeles-headquartered division of Milk & Honey Films.
Leemkuil will oversee all commercial, feature...
Veteran commercial producer Dodonna Bicknell, formerly head of production/producer at bicoastal Epoch Films, has opened her own production company, Vamp Films, on the Hollywood Center Studios lot. The new venture opens with a directorial roster consisting of Dale Heslip, Len Peltier, Frank...
Bicoastal production house The A+R Group has launched Monkeyshine, a graphic design company headquartered in Los Angeles. Co-executive producers Gower Frost and Roberto Cecchini, who is also president/executive producer of both The A+R Group and bicoastal/international The Artists Company, will...
5 Years Ago
JANUARY 7, 1994
Jim Hensons Creature Shop, known for its work in animatronics, art direction, modelmaking and puppetmaking, has announced it will open a base of operation in Burbank, Calif., partly to do more work for advertising. The company also has offices in London...
Two-year-old production house Superior Street, with bases in Chicago and Los Angeles, has added directors Larry August and Tim Roarke and has renamed itself Spoke Film in order to differentiate its live-action division from its postproduction/graphics and effects unit (which will remain known as...
Red Car, a commercial editorial company with offices in Chicago, New York and Santa Monica (Red Car Los Angeles), has acquired the assets of Yellow Rose Editorial, Dallas, for an undisclosed price. Effective Jan. 1, Yellow Rose assumed the name Red Car Dallas.
Yellow Rose was a privately...
A SAG-COMMISSIONED STUDY conducted by George Gerbner, professor of telecommunications at Temple University, has concluded that Americas poor and underprivileged are practically nonexistent on primetime dramas and daytime soaps, while foreigners and mentally ill characters are more likely to be...
THERES SOMETHING ABOUT a year that ends with a nine. Whether its a birthday or the end of a decade, its just a big deal, a signal of the end of one thing and the beginning of something else. Theres trauma attached to turning 30 or 40 or 50 or whatever else we get to. So, in 1999, we start to...