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Design/visual effects boutique SOL designfx, Venice, Calif. and Chicago, has retained Ellen Knable and Associates, Santa Monica, for West Coast representation….Spank! Music and Sound Design,...

New York-headquartered Teatown Communications Group, a full service postproduction/ production facility, has added senior editor Mark Oberthaler to its staff. The move reunites Oberthaler with...

Accounting has some basic rules: An operating loss ought to be placed in the minus column of the balance sheet, for instance. And documents should always be filed for later reference, not shredded...

Riddle: How and when can failure be construed as success?

Answer: The "when" is that relatively rare occasion when a cinema commercial fails to elicit boos and hisses from a theater...

This California Utilities spot opens with views of what appear to be birds flying in a "V" formation, high overhead above scenic landscapes. As we see this flock in flight, a voiceover offers a...

The relationship between Los Angeles-based production company A Band Apart and Minneapolis' Harder/ Fuller Films is over. Exactly which party ended the association, though, is a point of...

Steve Neely, longtime head of production at Foote, Cone & Belding (FCB), San Francisco, has been promoted to a newly created position at the agency: head of production for all of FCB's North...

The Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Film Commission has ceased operations due to a lack of funding, according to executive director Roger Burke. Burke and his two staffers—assistant director Ellen...

Downtown Composer Collective (DCC), a New York-based music and sound design company specializing in representing established recording artists, has added turntable specialist DJ Logic (neé Jason...

Rhinoceros Editorial, New York, has added senior editor Claudia Reda-Walker to its roster of seven editors, which also consists of Terence Ziegler, John Starace, Ciro DeNettis, Stu Eisenberg, Jim...