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APRIL 5, 1996/The principals of editorial company Fleet Street Pictures, San Francisco, have dissolved their seven-year partnership into two independently owned and operated companies: editor...

BBDO New York has announced several management appointments at the agency's North America operation. Andrew Robertson, CEO ofAMV BBDO, London, will assume the position of president/...

San Francisco-based independent rep Mary Vandamme and bicoastal/international Chelsea Pictures are parting ways. During an interim stretch through April 30, she will continue to handle West Coast...

MARCH 29, 1996/Director Tarsem is joining bicoastal @radical.media, leaving the ebbing multinational Spots Films, which formerly repped him worldwide. @radical will represent Tarsem in the U.S.,...

Jim Gosney, who spent the past nearly 22 years in advertising production with Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble (P&G), has joined MRA Advertising/Production Support Services as a...

The recent closure of bicoastal The End (SHOOT, 2/23), a subsidiary of Harmony Holdings, took a $900,000 bite from the bottom line of publicly traded, Minneapolis-headquartered iNTELEFILM,...

Stiefel+ Co., Santa Monica, has signed director Andrew Becker, who was most recently affiliated with Boxer Films, Los Angeles.

Formed by executive producer John Clark in late 1999, Boxer...

After actress Nancy Marchand died last year following a long battle with cancer, the producers of the popular HBO drama The Sopranos wanted her character, Livia Soprano, to reach closure on air....

Director Francine McDougall has joined bicoastal/international Production League of America (PLA), a commercial/music video division of Chelsea Pictures, which has offices in New York, Los Angeles...

Arizona Governor Jane Dee Hull spent a day in Southern California last week (3/21) to promote her state to the film industry. Noting that the thrust of her visit was the commercialmaking business...