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American Idol judge Simon Cowell is an opinionated critic famous for speaking his mind. So it's hard to imagine that anyone could tell him what to think or say, but that's exactly what happens in...

There's precedent for the concept of a mosquito giving its life in the interest of breakthrough advertising—McIlhenny Tabasco Sauce's "Mosquito," directed by Dick Buckley, who at the time was with...

This understated spec spot opens on a home that is a study in high-tech/stylishly modernistic architecture. Parked in the driveway is a sharp-looking Lexus ES 300.

A neatly attired,...

Kathy DiToro, executive VP/ director of broadcast production at Campbell Mithun, Minneapolis, has been involved in her fair share of high profile, well received, creatively fulfilling commercials...

As the frenzy of the 2003 awards season begins and a flurry of call-for-entries postcards and e-mails are distributed to our colleagues industry-wide, I want to thank the Association of Music...

MARCH 20, 1998/Moxie Pictures' bicoastal satellite, The Industry, has signed two new directors in the production company's quest to brand itself as the home of off-beat filmmakers—feature director...

Albert Hughes—one half of the Hughes Brothers directing team (From Hell, Dead Presidents, Menace II Society)—has linked with @Tate, a division of Santa Monica-based Tate & Partners, for...

Fueled by a free-flowing keg of Pabst Blue Ribbon and well over a gross of White Castle sliders, the second annual Trailer Park Festival celebrated the work of nearly 40 Chicago- and Detroit-based...

Disproving the famed Thomas Wolfe adage that "You can't go home again," editor Michael Bartoli, formerly of FilmCore Santa Monica, has returned to Red Car, where he broke into the business in the...

Sony Electronics Broadcast and Professional Co. and Young & Rubicam's sponsored "Dreams" event, now in its second consecutive year (SHOOT, 3/14/03, p. 1), used the promise of creative freedom...