News

Doug Cheek, president/CEO of GTN —one of the largest postproduction houses in the Detroit area—has orchestrated a management buyout that was completed last week. Cheek is now the company's...

Over the years, many installments of this column have been dedicated to the importance of arts education. For one, it is key in the effort to groom the next generation of talent for our industry...

The commercial director has always been The Big Kahuna in the commercial production world. Le Grand Fromage. The Big Enchilada. The 800-Pound Gorilla. And for good reason. Commercial directors are...

Director/cinematographer Miles Goodall has joined bicoastal/international @radical. media for commercial representation worldwide. He will continue to maintain his production company, Suburban...

Klasky Csupo Animation Studios, Hollywood, has unveiled the Web site for its Global Tantrum division, providing what Klasky Csupo principal Gabor Csupo and company CEO Terry Thoren called a...

Former Entertainment Industry Development Corp. (EIDC) president Cody Cluff pleaded no contest last week to embezzling public funds, and agreed to repay the Los Angeles film permitting agency $80,...

NEW FACES

Brian Kroening is joining Olson + Co., Minneapolis, as executive creative director. He was previously a group creative director at Carmichael Lynch,...

SHORT CUTS

London-based Passion Pictures completed a Reese's Pieces ad for DDB, New York. "Superdog" (:30) is narrated from the point of view of an 11-year-old boy who...

McDonald's

said it is no longer in the business of marketing entertainment or doing stand-alone promotions and is instead pursuing a new strategy of creating "entertaining marketing" such...

CLIENT

Mars Inc./M&M's.

PRODUCTION CO.

Duck, Los Angeles.

Lane Nakamura, director/animator; Mark Medernach, executive producer; Sandra Oda, producer; Jiannjyh Chen...