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Bicoastal/international production house hungry man has opened a Canadian outpost, Toronto-based frozen man. Since its launch last month, frozen man has produced Simon Properties' "Five Items," "...

Director Gerald V. Casale has joined Picture Park, the production company with bases in Boston and Santa Monica.

Casale comes over after a year and a half at San Francisco-based Pandemonium...

Director Phelim Dolan has joined New York-based TAG Pictures, coming over from Zero 2 Sixty Productions, New York. His credits there included Checks.com's "Blue," through Doner Direct, Baltimore,...

Editorial house TuKi Edit has opened in Santa Monica, with a staff of four editors under the aegis of executive producer Jeff Beverly. The resident cutters are William Bullen, Richard Clark, Jeff...

Mills/James Productions, Columbus, Ohio, has added online editor Stuart Smith to its staff. Smith has spent the last 10 years editing for such Atlanta-based companies as Turner Broadcasting and...

In "Coppos Signs Turturro To Direct Spots" (5/11, p. 1), director John Turturro was referred to as having worked closely with an artist on designing the set of his feature film Illuminata. That...

The judges for this year's Cannes International Advertising Festival (6/18-23) have been named. As earlier reported, Bob Isherwood, New York-based worldwide creative director of Saatchi &...

SHORT CUTS

Pandemonium, San Francisco, completed work on a pair of :30s for Blockbuster and Doner, Southfield, Mich. "Fall Guy" and "Stuff It" utilize a combination of humor,...

There was an article in The New York Times (6/22) about whether or not the escalating violence in the much-lauded HBO series The Sopranos was justified. It argued that the life of...

Tis the awards season—as evidenced by the front-page stories this week on the Clio and Belding competitions.

So now we have just what the industry needs: another award. But that thinly...