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SHOOT Magazine, the leading publication for commercial and entertainment production, announced today that Wieden+Kennedy has been selected as its 2010 Advertising Agency of the Year. A Feature article on Wieden+Kennedy will be a vital part of SHOOT's high-visibility special Year-End Issue to be...
Santa Monica-based advertising and design agency Standard Time has launched the new online look book for DC Shoes' most recent campaign for the women's...
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The ImageNation Cinema Foundation will honor actress Ruby Dee and other trailblazing members of the entertainment, business and political worlds at its 2010 Revolution Awards Gala Reception on December 2. Georgia Congressman and civil rights hero John Lewis; BET Chairman and CEO Debra Lee;...
Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, announced nominations this morning for the 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Eva Mendes and Jeremy Renner served as presenters and 2011 Spirit Awards host Joel McHale was...
Bully Pictures Director Craig Tanimoto has directed a new spot for Panda Express in which a bears pulls off a heist worthy of the gang from "Ocean's Eleven." Conceived by Siltanen & Partners Advertising, the spot promotes the restaurant's new Kobari beef...
LIMEY director Adam Cameron turns the tables on Lebron James in a new :60 "Audition" for American Signature, Inc.'s Home Court furniture brand out of Mullen, Winston Salem, NC. The spot features LeBron James auditioning for one tough kid—Nolan Gould from ABC's...
SHOOT® kicks off 2011 with two issues that will provide a glimpse of the future—both for the immediate awards season ahead as well as much further down the road. SHOOT's January 21st and February 18th issues are all about previews and predictions.
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Footage.net, the stock, archival and news footage search engine, announced today that over 60,000 screening clips from UK-based Skyworks, an independent TV production company and world leader in aerial HD filming, are now available...
This month the editors of SHOOT will select the "Top Spot of the Year." But first, we'd like to get your opinion. We have culled through some 50 pieces of work that earned SHOOT "Top Spot of the Week" status throughout 2010, narrowing the field down to 15 finalists from which to choose.
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Creative concept studio Solid is pleased to announce the addition of Drew Bourneuf as Executive Producer. He brings over 15 years of experience in commercial and broadcast media production, design, animation, and visual effects, having held staff positions at...
Cinesite, one of the world's leading film visual effects houses, has completed visual effects on the new Twentieth Century Fox/Walden Media film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which wasreleased in cinemas on December 9. For the third installment in the Narnia film...
International, content creation and brand communications company Gravity has launched a West Coast office to be spearheaded by Karin Levinson, Vice President of Features and Television. The new office, based in Santa Monica, will be fully integrated with Gravity's New York, Connecticut, and Tel...
Global creative agency ATTIK (www.attik.com) and Scion are very proud to announce that the recently launched Augmented Reality (AR) game component of the Scion "Take On the Machine" campaign is being...
Later this month the editors of SHOOT will select the "Best" entry from this year's collection of work in our "The Best Work You May Never See" gallery. But first, we'd like to get your opinion. We have culled through some 100 pieces of work that earned a place each week in "The Best Work You...
As we reported last week, "claims that 2010 is the most negative election to date may be premature. In an analysis of close to 900,000 airings from January 1 to October 5, 2010, the Wesleyan Media Project finds that the distribution of positive, negative and contrast ads is comparable to 2008 in...
Bicoastal commercial visual effects studio Animal recently delivered a massive worldwide campaign for BlackBerry's newest smart phone, the Torch. "Love What You Do" was directed by Henrik Hansen and Laban...
Fifteen features have been accepted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 83rd Academy Awards®.
The 15 features are:
* "Alpha and Omega"
* "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore"
* "Despicable Me"
* "The Dreams of...
Saints LA, a full-service visual effects house, specializing in the creation of visual imagery for feature films, TV commercials, television programs, promos, web content, and music videos, has announced its latest projects.
Saints LA has created and delivered dozens of digital VFX to...
Geo Film Group, and Kerner 3D Technologies, a division of the Marin, CA-based Kerner Group, announce that Geo Film will make the Kernercam KC7000 3D camera rig available for rental to the LA production community starting in November.
Geo Film Group and Kerner 3D Technologies will be...