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Holmes Millet/HM Productions Makes Holiday Magic For Haynes and Boone 9 Foreign Language Films Advance In Oscar Race Union’s Eric Argiro Edits Jack Dishel’s ":DRYVRS" - Debut Episode with Macaulay Culkin Hits Big Adidas and ESPN Films Release Short Documentary Series Produced by Process 112 Original Scores in 2015 Oscar Race Society of Camera Operators Announces 2016 Lifetime Achievement Awards Twist Director Matt Pittroff Goes For The Win With Associated Bank & The Green Bay Packers Alkemy X Signs International Director Bernie Roux To Company's Diverse Roster of Talents Ridley Scott To Be Recognized by American Society of Cinematographers Call for Entries Issued For 2016 AICE Awards Tim Damon Directs New Campaign For Indian Motorcycles 7 Features Advance In Race For Makeup And Hairstyling Oscar Radiant Images Tripling in Size with Move to New Location in Northeast Los Angeles The 28TH European Film Awards: Winners Tour Target's Magical and Wondrous Wonderpack Factory in New Animated Brand Film From Flavor “The Comments,” Insider Satire About Online Shaming in Hollywood, Premieres on YouTube 74 Original Songs Vie For 2015 Oscar
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By Robert Goldrich |Road To Oscar Series, Part 6
Tom Hooper won an Academy Award and the DGA Award in 2011 for directing The King’s Speech which was nominated for 12 Oscars, also winning for Best Picture, Best Actor (Colin Firth) and Best Original Screenplay (David Seidler). The accolades continued for Hooper’s next movie, Les Misérables. The 2012 film earned eight Academy Award nominations, winning for Best Supporting Actress (Anne Hathaway), Best Sound, and Best Make-up and Hair Styling. Hooper also garnered a DGA nomination on the strength... more...Ad Agency of the Year: "It's What They Do" Executives at The Martin Agency reflect on the shop’s creative culture, and breaking new ground in 2015
By Robert Goldrich
Making pre-roll ad fare a creative must see is in and of itself arguably enough to justify the selection of The Martin Agency as Agency of the Year in 2015. But there’s much more to consider in that the “Unskippable” campaign for long-standing client Geico not only changed the perception of pre-roll but also in some circles Martin itself. The “Unskippable: Family” spot won The Martin Agency its first ever Cannes Grand Prix, bringing high-profile Film Lions Jury recognition to a shop that had in... more...Year In Perspective Survey: From Pre-Roll To Features The creative potential of content is being realized across varied fronts; borders continue to blur
By A SHOOT Staff Report
In a year when pre-roll ad fare became must-see creative—with The Martin Agency winning its first ever Cannes Grand Prix for Geico’s “Unskippable-Family”—the takeaway is that any platform, even one previously regarded as devoid of innovation, has the potential to be entertaining and engaging. In some respects, this underscores that 2015 has been a year when the walls figuratively came down separating television, features and all things audio-visual (even humorous, strategically savvy pre-roll... more...Tor Myhren To Depart Grey, Will Become Apple’s VP of Marketing Communications By Robert Goldrich
NEW YORK -- Tor Myhren will become VP of marketing communications at Apple early next year, overseeing its advertisements, websites and product packaging. He is stepping down from Grey at the end of the month, ending a successful eight-year tenure, first as chief creative officer and later president of Grey New York, and for the past two years as worldwide chief creative officer. In a memo to agency staffers, Jim Heekin, chairman and CEO of Grey Group, wrote, “Tor will be joining Apple Inc. and moving to... more...Spike Lee Kicks Off Amazon's Movie Slate With "Chi-Raq" Poignant satire/drama released on heels of filmmaker receiving honorary Oscar
By Robert Goldrich
Spike Lee made his initial industry splash in 1983 when he won a Student Academy Award for his thesis film Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads. Fast forward to last month and Lee again earned special distinction from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), receiving an Oscar at the 7th annual Governors Awards for exceptional contributions to motion pictures. AMPAS president Cheryl Boone Isaacs cited his indelible impact on the independent filmmaking world and positive... more...2015’s Best Creative Content Seen Through SHOOT’s Lens From a pre-roll revelation to social media initiatives, Super Bowl and Oscar ads, and PSA fare
By A SHOOT Staff Report
As 2015 draws to a close, it’s time for reflection on assorted industry fronts, including assessing what work was among the year’s most worthwhile creatively. Determining any year’s “best” is a highly subjective proposition so SHOOT staffers looked to narrow the field by first culling through two bodies of work, our weekly Top Spots as well as our “The Best Work You May Never See” gallery entries in 2015. We also added to the field other ScreenWork section fare from throughout the year as well... more...A Magical Score For Macy's Tops Quarterly Music Chart Yessian's music and sound design makes "The Wish Writer" come true
By A SHOOT Staff Report
Just when a young girl is finding it hard to believe in the spirit of the holidays, she and her brother discover a pen with magical wish-granting powers. The siblings then spread the magic of giving and generosity throughout town—one wish at a time. That’s the Xmas story captured in this short film for Macy’s directed by Filip Engstrom of Smuggler for J. Walter Thompson New York. Titled The Wish Writer, this centerpiece short leads to the story continuing digitally with a Santa letter-writing... more...Winter Top Ten Music Tracks
Here are SHOOT 's picks for the Winter Top Ten Tracks Chart. The quarterly chart's #1 and #2 entries have a decidedly holiday season bent with Macy's "The Wish Writer" and Microsoft's Xmas carol serenading of Apple competitors. more... "Alexis’s Wish" Tops List Of Quarter's Top VFX/Animation Work 6-year-old girl, World Famous studio create animated tale
By A SHOOT Staff Report
Seattle-based production studio World Famous has partnered with Make-A-Wish Alaska and Washington to grant an unprecedented wish for six-year-old Alexis, who recently battled acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Alexis wanted to create a cartoon that would tell her own story in a way her friends could understand and bring awareness to pediatric cancer. That cartoon topped SHOOT’s quarterly Visual Effects/Animation Chart, delivering an uplifting message apropos of the spirit of this holiday season. The... more...Winter Top Ten VFX/Animation Chart
Here are SHOOT 's selections for its Winter Top Ten VFX/Animation Chart. The #1 entry on this quarterly chart is Make-A-Wish Alaska and Washington's "Alexis's Wish." Alexis, a 6-year-old girl who recently battled acute lymphoblastic leukemia, had a wish which was to create a cartoon that would tell her story in a way her friends could understand and to bring awareness to pediatric cancer. This piece, produced by Seattle-based studio World Famous, grants that wish. more... "The Big Short," "Carol," "Room," "Spotlight" Among AFI Selections For Year’s Best Films TV picks include "The Americans," "Empire," "Fargo," "Game of Thrones," "Mr. Robot"
LOS ANGELES -- The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the Official Selections of AFI AWARDS 2015, celebrating the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image. In addition to the 20 honorees of 2015--10 features and 10 TV programs--AFI also recognizes Mad Men with an AFI Special Award, acknowledging its landmark contributions to America’s cultural legacy across nine years. In the history of AFI Awards, no other television program has earned as many honors. The AFI Movies of the... more... "Mad Max: Fury Road" Tops Critics' Choice Nominations With 13 "Fargo" leads TV competition tally with 8 noms
LOS ANGELES -- Mad Max: Fury Road (Warner Bros.) scored 13 nominations, topping the field for the 21st Annual Critics’ Choice Awards. Leading the TV portion of the competition was Fargo (FX) with eight noms. Mad Max: Fury Road was joined in the Best Picture category by The Big Short (Paramount), Bridge of Spies (Disney-DreamWorks), Brooklyn (Fox Searchlight), Carol (The Weinstein Company), The Martian (Fox), The Revenant (20th Century Fox/New Regency), Room (A24), Sicario (Lionsgate) and Spotlight (Open Road... more... "Youth" Is Served At European Film Awards Paolo Sorrentino's movie garners Best Film, Director and Actor honors
BERLIN -- Director/writer Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth came away the big winner at the 28th European Film Awards in Berlin on Saturday night (12/12), earning Best European Film, Best Director and Best Actor distinction. The latter went to Michael Caine who also received the European Film Academy’s Honorary Award. Youth stars Caine as a famous orchestra conductor in his later years. He’s on an extended stay at an elegant Swiss mountain resort, along with his equally elderly friend (Harvey Keitel) who’s... more... Ad Industry Unites For "100 Pieces" Fundraiser Agencies, production and post communities rally with display of artistry to aid Safe Place For Youth
By Robert Goldrich
LOS ANGELES -- When a job is awarded, commercial producers put wheels in motion at a moment’s notice, getting a logistically complex shoot off the ground in the proverbial blink of an eye. Akin to that nimble, proactive, can-do, take-the-initiative modus operandi, the L.A. ad community spanning assorted agencies, production and post houses mobilized in short order to bring to fruition an ambitious, creatively driven fundraiser to benefit Safe Place for Youth (SPY), a homeless center in Venice, Calif., which... more...Spotmaking Vets Megan Kelly, Eli Rotholz Launch Honor Society
NEW YORK -- Bicoastal production house Honor Society has launched with Megan Kelly as EP/managing director and Eli Rotholz as EP/head of sales. Honor Society opens with a roster of directors which includes Inside Amy Schumer co-creator Daniel Powell, Cooties directors Cary & Jon, Billy on the Street and Comedy Bang Bang director Stoney Sharp, Gina & Mark who maintain NYC-based VFX, design and post boutique Hey Beautiful Jerk, Robert Boocheck, Adam Donald, KEZIA, Lara Shapiro, Simon Burrill, and... more... "Shawshank," "Top Gun," "Ghostbusters" Among 25 Films Added To National Film Registry By Ben Nuckols
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It’s a bro-centric year for movies added to the prestigious National Film Registry. Two of the most popular male-bonding movies of all time - “Top Gun” and “The Shawshank Redemption” - are being added to the collection of films preserved by the Library of Congress, the library announced Wednesday. They’ll be joined by an all-male quartet that’s about to get an all-female reboot - the gang from “Ghostbusters.” Each year, the library picks 25 movies to preserve for their cultural, historic or... more...Review: László Nemes' Holocaust Tale "Son of Saul" By Lindsey Bahr, Film Writer
"Son of Saul" doesn't just get under your skin - it goes straight to the bloodstream. There, it churns and festers as you try to make sense out of the senseless horror of the Holocaust and the plight of the Sonderkommando - Jewish prisoners forced to assist the Nazis with the genocide. This isn't a movie that's interested in the big picture, redemption or reflection, though. Understanding is not in its vocabulary. This is inhuman cinema of desperation. It is disturbing. It is immediate. It is... more...Review: J.J. Abrams' "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" By Lindsey Bahr, Film Writer
J.J. Abrams may not elevate the language of "Star Wars," but he sure is fluent in it. "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is no more and no less than the movie that made us love it in the first place. In fact, it's basically the same thing. Isn't that what we all wanted anyway? It's hard to talk rationally about "Star Wars." It is a deeply silly thing, with a genuine, undeniable hold on our culture. Chalk it up to nostalgia, collective arrested development or the ineffable. But for many, the magic... more...Ridley Scott To Receive ASC Board of Governors Award
LOS ANGELES -- The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) will honor the extraordinary achievements of director-producer Ridley Scott in advancing the art and craft of filmmaking by bestowing him with the organization’s annual Board of Governors Award. The presentation will be made during the 30th ASC Awards for Outstanding Achievement on February 14, 2016, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. Scott is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker honored with Best Director Oscar nominations for his work on Black... more... Nancy Meyers To Receive ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. -- Prolific filmmaker Nancy Meyers has been selected by the Board of Directors of American Cinema Editors (ACE) to be honored with the organization’s prestigious ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award. The award will be presented to Meyers by long-time collaborator Steve Martin at the 66th Annual ACE Eddie Awards black-tie ceremony on Friday, January 29, 2016 in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. A statement issued by the ACE Board of Directors read, “Nancy Meyers has... more... "Gods of Egypt" Raises Issue of Ethnically Inaccurate Casting By Lindsey Bahr, Film Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An unusual thing happened in Hollywood on a recent weekend: Director Alex Proyas and Lionsgate apologized for ethnically inaccurate casting in "Gods of Egypt" - a full three months before the movie is set to hit theaters. The fantasy epic stars Scottish actor Gerard Butler and Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as mythological Egyptian gods, and a recently released trailer renewed concern about Hollywood's long tradition of casting against race. In the jointly issued statements responding to... more...Box Office "Force" Isn't With "In the Heart of the Sea" By Jake Coyle, Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- The movie industry braced for the coming storm of "The Force Awakens" over a quiet weekend where "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2" notched its fourth-straight week atop the box office and Ron Howard's whaling tale "In the Heart of the Sea" capsized. With "The Force Awakens" lurking, few studios wanted to push out a new release ahead of the expected box-office behemoth. That left the final chapter of Lionsgate's "Hunger Games" saga to remain No. 1 with $11.3 million according to studio... more...Dolly Parton Movie Scores 13M Viewers For NBC; A Rundown of Last Week’s Nielsens By David Bauder, Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Family-friendly programming is doing well this holiday season for NBC, which has a rare three-week winning streak in the television ratings. The Dolly Parton movie, “Coat of Many Colors,” reached more than 13 million viewers. That landed the program in the Nielsen company’s weekly Top Ten last week, and exceeded the viewership for the live production of “The Wiz” earlier this month. Preliminary ratings show that NBC did well on Monday night with the Adele concert special. Michael Buble’s “... more...Top Spot of the Week: Cineplex's "Lily & The Snowman"
Animation studio Hornet produced this short film for Cineplex which captures the spirit of the holidays, focusing on a girl who grows up, gets a bit removed from but then returns--with her daughter--to what matters in life. Conceived by a creative team at Toronto agency Zulu Alpha Kilo, Lily & The Snowman is a touching piece that will run in Cineplex’s theatres and online. more... The Best Work You May Never See: American Indian College Fund's "One Percent"
Created to raise awareness for the underrepresentation of American Indian Students in U.S. colleges, this PSA titled “One Percent”--directed by Chel White of Bent Image Lab for Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, Ore.--is elegantly rendered in a style reflecting that of famed Choctaw artist Marcus Amerman. Showcasing the difference one person can make, the spot’s message is brought to life through a carefully executed beaded animation metaphor. Opening on a single yellow bead, the camera pans wide to... more... Deutsch Constructs Gingerbread Bank Branch For PNC
Fun and finance come together for the holidays with PNC Banks construction of the world’s first life-size bank branch made of real gingerbread. The PNC Gingerbread Branch was open to the public from December 4-6 at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia and serves as home to this year’s PNC Christmas Price Index, an annual financial report that calculates the price of each gift in the classic carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Inside the Gingerbread branch, visitors learned about the gifts and their... more... Blinkink's Parabella Duo Directs Belgian Lotto Spot For Mortierbrigade
Blinkink’s duo Parabella directed this stop motion animation tale of a snowman who’s made to feel a bit more comfortable by his wildlife friends. Promoting the Belgian National Lottery, this spot was conceived by a creative team at Brussels-based agency Mortierbrigade. more... RKCR/Y&R Creates "Pure Drama" For BBC
This :60 trailer designed to celebrate the quality, range and dramatic power of BBC Drama features Sherlock Holmes, Dr John Watson, detective superintendent Stella Gibson and detective chief inspector John Luther appearing together for the first time on screen to investigate what appears to be a murder in an eerie and derelict location. Developed by agency RKCR/Y&R using clever postproduction techniques by MPC, the trail creates the illusion of the four famous characters coming together to... more... |
Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Field Narrowed Down To 9 Candidates Universal to distribute films by Spielberg's Amblin FX says scripted shows hit record 409 in US this year Eric Pierre Named European Exec Creative Director at TBWA\G1 Call for Entries Issued For 2016 AICE Awards Chadwick Boseman to play Thurgood Marshall in new film Lawrence Kasdan on the past, present and future of Han Solo Idris Elba returns for another murder case as 'Luther' Showtime starting a weekly series on presidential campaign Samsung asks Supreme Court to throw out $399M judgment Redstone's ex-companion challenges mogul's signature on doc WORKPOINT launches media production studio
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