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Progress Report
While the sample size in some cases is limited, there are signs of advancement for female directors that have emerged in recent months. For one, 9 of... more...


Coming To Terms With VR, AR, MR
The brave new world of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality has a lexicon all its own. This prompted Jason Peterson, chairman of Go... more...


Short Takes for October 2017
Venice, Calif.-based production company Rodeo Show and director Sarah Chatfield pay homage to the musical romcom La La Land in a rhythmic new spot... more...


NY Attains Post Incentives Milestone
The Governor’s Office of Motion Picture and Television Development (MPTV) has announced a milestone with 400 applications received in the state’s... more...


VFX/Animation News & Developments: Davidson Joins Brickyard VFX
Brickyard VFX Santa Monica has brought Benji Davidson on board as VFX supervisor. Davidson’s world-class creative experience includes live action... more...


Music Notes
News and developments from the worlds of music production, sound design, audio post, music licensing & publishing and music libraries. more...


People on the Move
Executive and staff hires and promotions at ad agencies, production and post-related companies, networks and studios. more...


Toolbox
Hardware & Software News, including cameras, lighting, post equipment, VFX and post software, production & digital asset management workflow... more...


Street Talk for October 27, 2017
Bicoastal production and post company Greenpoint Pictures has signed director E.J. McLeavey-Fisher for US representation. He has created documentary... more...


Rep Report for October 27, 2017
The Directors Network , talent agency for freelance directors and DPs, has further fortified its roster, adding director Benzo Theodore and taking on... more...


Flashback for October 2017
A decade since George Lucas said Star Wars was finished on the big screen, a new trilogy under new ownership is destined for theaters after The Walt... more...




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Sonic Union Expands, Launching New Bryant Park Space Led By Joe O'Connell


Motion Picture Sound Editors to Honor Kathryn Bigelow With Filmmaker Award


Enough is Enough! FIA Calls For End To Sexual Harassment in The Media, Arts and Entertainment Industry


Riptide Music Group Names Mark Ross, Son of Former Time Warner CEO Steve Ross, Partner, and Secures Multi-Million Dollar Deal To Finance Future Growth


Accomplice Media’s Stephen Pearson Directs Marcus Mariota for First Hawaiian Bank


420TV Lights Up Production on "Medical Marijuana Miracles"


The 2017 Tallgrass Film Festival Announces Filmmaker Awards


VFX Students From Rising Sun Pictures Apply Their Talents To Robot Comedy “Lucy and DiC”


Manios Digital & Film Hires Industry Vet Tom O’Neill To Lead Sales in Eastern U.S.


WCPMedia Services Provides Media Management Support to Rome’s MIA Audiovisual Market


Adidas Originals Embodies Detroit’s Creative Renaissance with Minimalist Campaign Directed by IDENTITY’s Philip Andelman via Johannes Leonardo


Something’s Awry Engages Kids As Moviemaking Peers In New StikBot Branded Shorts


Union’s Daniel Luna Helps “Mama’s Got Bump” Hit 3.9M Facebook Views


Writer/Director Romina Schwedler’s Debut Film "The Visit" Wins The U.S. Short Film Award Of Excellence At The Catalina Film Festival


The Producers Guild of America Honors Donna Langley With The 2018 Milestone Award


Frame.io Launches $60,000 Dreamstation Giveaway Campaign


Hollywood Music in Media Awards Announces Nominees in Film, TV, & Video Game Music


Amazon Greenlights Ken Block’s The Gymkhana Files, Produced by Hoonigan Media Machine, Exclusively for Prime Video


Nominations Announced For 27th Annual IFP Gotham Awards


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Insights from "The Shape of Water" DP, VFX supervisors on "War for the Planet of the Apes" and "Okja"
Part of this season’s Oscar conversation centers on creatively inspired creatures who play integral roles in telling ambitious stories. They include: • A leader of apes who faces a profound inner struggle. • A genetically engineered “pet” who’s seemingly part pig, manatee, hippo and elephant with playful dog-like traits. • And a hybrid man/sea creature in a Cold War espionage narrative and love story rolled into one. Whether from the animal kingdom or an otherworldly place, these non-human...
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Partner in the just launched W+K-backed indie agency discusses his priorities, Swedish influence
Niklas Lindström, known for his production acumen yielding breakthrough work, is a partner in the just launched CALLEN, an independent creative agency in Austin, Texas. Founded by former Wieden+Kennedy (W+K) group creative director Craig Allen with partners Lindström and business entrepreneur Holly Petitjean, CALLEN is being backed by W+K as a minority investor. CALLEN enjoys complete autonomy. The only condition W+K placed on its investment is that CALLEN can never be sold and must remain...
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SHOOT will publish a Special Directors>e.dition on Monday, October 30, that will contain the entire Directors Series section from SHOOT ’s October/November print issue (including extended versions of some stories). The mix of profiles includes several filmmakers whose work has entered this season’s Oscar conversation, including Sean Baker for The Florida Project , Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton for Battle of the Sexes , Stephen Frears for Victoria & Abdul , Craig Gillespie for I,...
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Bart Timmer-directed spot brings new meaning to "automotive performance"
Porsche is the epitome of finely tuned automotive performance—appropriately enough, also living up to that elevated bar is the vehicle’s Burmester High-End Surround Sound System. Reflecting this in a most inventive way is “High Speed Orchestra,” a spot directed by Bart Timmer via Czar Film, Berlin, for Hamburg, Germany-based agency Grabarz & Partner. We see a orchestra playing “Winter” from Antonio Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” While doing justice to the piece itself is challenging, even more...
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This quarter's Top Ten Tracks Chart is headed by an orchestra which in concert cannot stay still. The musicians move all about, to and fro, sometimes wildly, highlighting the sound system of a Porsche. Their movements correspond to the automobile as it's seen taking corners at high speed and making hairpin turns. Also in the mix are: a piece which shows us a lost stuffed panda--which is located through Tile technology; a Halloween Horror Night campaign spot for Universal Studios; and an Aussie...
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Purple monster towers over city for Monster.com, KBS
Ad agency KBS, production studio MJZ and VFX studio The Mill joined forces to create an epic, 60-foot purple monster for Monster.com’s “Opportunity Roars” in which the creature grabs a woman from a high-rise building, rescuing her from an unsatisfying job. At first she screams in horror but eventually she comes around to view the monster quite differently even as he seemingly wreaks havoc on the city. Turns out the beast is taking her to a better place of employment. The spot, directed by MJZ’s...
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This quarter's VFX/Animation Chart is topped by a Monster.com spot in which a purple monster seemingly wreaks havoc on a city--but he's actually rescuing a woman from a thankless job to a far better place of employment. Also in the mix is a visually evolutionary spot for Absolut and BBH London with effects from Framestore, a Ubisoft game promo from MPC for DDB Paris, and Roof Studio's imaginary piece to make a treatment ordeal a little easier for pediatric cancer patients. Have a look at the...
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Special industry screening on the Fox lot will be followed by in-person interviews with the filmmaker and his effects colleague who will discuss the film and their working relationship
LOS ANGELES -- The art of collaboration--in this case between a director/writer and a four-time Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor--will be among the topics of discussion during a special event on the evening of Thursday, Nov. 9, on the Fox Studios lot in Los Angeles. It starts with a screening of War for the Planet of the Apes at 7 pm followed by a live in-person interview session with the film’s director/writer Matt Reeves and sr. visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri. By turns, serious war movie and...
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Discusses mentoring, the value of varied perspectives, and proposes recommendations to help bring about positive change
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Amidst a showcase of cutting-edge technology and papers delivered on innovative breakthroughs, the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE) Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition held this week (10/23-26) in Hollywood was also marked by a mainstream issue that has become an increasing cause of concern and attention all across the business spectrum, being grappled with by different industries--namely how to best promote a culture of diversity so that the community at...
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LOS ANGELES -- The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the films that will play in the Special Screenings, Cinema’s Legacy and Shorts sections at AFI Fest 2017. This year’s Special Screenings section offers an array of engaging stories and intimate portraits of riveting individuals: Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool (DIR Paul McGuigan); I, Tonya (DIR Craig Gillespie); Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond--Featuring A Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (DIR Chris Smith); The...
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LOS ANGELES -- The American Film Institute (AFI) announced the films that will be featured in the World Cinema, Midnight and Youth and Family sections at AFI Fest 2017. The World Cinema section showcases the most celebrated international films of the year and features 30 films from 39 countries. The section includes 13 official Best Foreign Language Film Oscar® entries: A Ciambra (DIR Jonas Carpignano), A Fantastic Woman (Una Mujer Fantastica) (DIR Sebastián Lelio), Foxtrot (DIR Samuel Maoz), Happy End (DIR...
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LOS ANGELES -- The American Film Institute (AFI) announced the three Centerpiece Galas and Tribute that will take place at AFI Fest 2017. The Centerpiece Galas are: Call Me By Your Name (director Luca Guadagnino) on Friday, November 10; The Disaster Artist (director James Franco) on Sunday, November 12; and Hostiles (director Scott Cooper) on Tuesday, November 14. On Saturday, November 11, Additionally Academy Award®-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris will be honored with a Tribute following a...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- To play a blind woman for her latest film role, Blake Lively took no short cuts into the darkness. The 30-year-old actress learned to use a walking cane, wore opaque contact lenses off-camera to better understand her character and learned how to navigate the main set without her vision. "I wanted to know the experience of filling in the blanks in my head, learning it and then opening my eyes and seeing that, no matter what I had in my head, it was so different than I imagined," she says. Lively...
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TORONTO (AP) -- Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos' movies aren't the sort that typically attract a stampede of Hollywood A-listers. His films, which he writes with Efthymis Filippou, are deadpan, midnight-black comedies that carry out grim allegorical absurdities to extreme ends. Characters speak stiltedly in cliches while an intensifying menace envelopes them. Things get weird and then they get brutal. And yet Lanthimos is not only a regular on the festival circuit (his latest, "The Killing of a Sacred Deer"...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- CoverGirl executive Ukonwa Ojo was struck when the team from an ad agency entered the room to pitch ideas for revamping the cosmetic company’s image. For the first time in Ojo’s more than 20-year career in business, she found herself working with an African-American creative director. That meeting would ultimately result in a marketing campaign that challenges conventional ideas about beauty. It features celebrity women from a spectrum of races, ages and professions, including Issa Rae of HBO’s...
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LOS ANGELES -- Filmmaker and hybrid creative talent Jason Zada has joined FANCY Content for commercial representation in the U.S. An award-winning filmmaker whose first feature, the thriller The Forest , debuted last year, Zada is known for his long associations with such prior production company homes as Prettybird and Tool of North America . Most recently he was at Los York. Zada has earned multiple awards over the course of his directing career, including Cannes Lions, a D&AD Pencil, an Emmy and...
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LOS ANGELES -- Stink Films has signed director Will Mayer for global representation. He joins a company directorial roster which includes Eliot Rausch, Nicolas Winding Refn, Nacho Gayan, and Lauren Caris Cohan. Mayer’s background in documentary filmmaking imbues his work with a sense of authenticity and human connection. He shared, “What I aim for above everything is emotion and honesty.” A recent collaboration with Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, Ore., for Samsung tells the story of Russell Westbrook and the...
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Jerk Store, the directing team consisting of Ben Weinberg and Pat Andrews, has joined the roster of Santa Monica-headquartered Tool. The duo had not been handled previously in the U.S. but continues to be repped in Canada by Steam Films. Jerk Store’s first project for Tool is a spot for Mattress Firm with agency Havas that launched earlier this month. Weinberg and Andrews spent a combined 30 plus years as advertising creatives, honing their craft before making the switch to directing and...
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Bullitt has added Sasie Sealy and Jonathan Zames to its directorial roster. Both are conversant in long and short form projects, and work at the intersection of advertising and entertainment. This marks Sealy’s first official U.S. representation. Zames had previously been with Big Block. Sealy first made her mark in the commercial world of fashion and beauty with clients such as Maybelline, Tory Burch, Suave, and Sally Hansen, and her work has been featured in Glamour, Refinery29, and Teen...
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VENICE, Calif. -- Production company Slim has secured sports and action director Manes Duerr for commercials and branded content in the U.S. This marks Duerr’s first production company roost in the U.S. He has already wrapped his first project under the Slim banner, a four-spot Fitbit campaign out of Townhouse New York. Duerr is a lover of American sports and is a committed Packers fan. He also played basketball as a small forward for many years. Originally from Vienna, Duerr started his career as an editor...
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LOS ANGELES -- Branded entertainment production company Gloria Content--which maintains bases of operation in Los Angeles and Mexico City--has signed Brazilian-American director Gandja Monteiro for commercials and branded content in the U.S. She joins a directorial roster which includes company co-founder Diego Luna, Jonas Cuaron, Rodrigo Valdez and Rogelio Sikander. Gloria was launched by Luna along with executive producers Pablo Cruz and Eric Bonniot in 2015. A world traveler with a wide breadth of cultural...
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BROOKLYN, NY -- Production company 1stAveMachine, which has won multiple Cannes Lions and Clio Awards, has launched a talent management division while expanding its content production business, The new 1stAveMachine Management is a platform-agnostic hub that services existing 1stAve directors and other emerging and established talent in film and television, branded, social, VR and digital entertainment. “With 1stAveMachine Management, we want to create a vibrant roster of clients, drawing on our existing...
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ALBANY, NY (AP) -- State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a civil rights investigation on Monday into The Weinstein Co. following sexual harassment and assault allegations against its co-founder, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. As part of the investigation, the prosecutor's office issued a subpoena seeking company records on harassment complaints and legal settlements to determine whether any civil rights and anti-discrimination laws were broken. "No New Yorker should be forced to walk into a...
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LONDON (AP) -- Bill O'Reilly's sexual harassment scandal is causing more headaches for 21st Century Fox's 11.3 billion pound ($14.8 billion) bid to take full control of U.K. cable network Sky Plc. Revelations that U.S.-based Fox News renewed O'Reilly's contract after he settled a sexual harassment lawsuit for $32 million came just a month after Britain's culture secretary asked competition regulators to review the takeover. Karen Bradley said one of the reasons for her decision was that Fox News' handling of...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Writer and director James Toback, who received an Oscar nomination for writing "Bugsy," has been accused of sexual harassment by 38 women in a report published Sunday in The Los Angeles Times. In the report, many of the women allege that Toback approached them on the streets of New York City and promised stardom. His meetings would often end with sexual questions and Toback masturbating in front of them or simulating sexual intercourse with them, according to the accounts. The 72-year-old...
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"Thank You For Your Service" may be an Iraq war film. But its most harrowing scene takes place far from the battlefield: in the sterile, dingy waiting room of the Department of Veterans Affairs. There, as countless veterans, many of them wounded, sit for hours waiting to talk to someone, Adam Schumann (Miles Teller) tries to arrange treatment for himself and his buddy, both suffering from PTSD. When Schumann finally gets to the window, he's told he'll get to see a doctor — in six to nine months...
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Swedish filmmaker Ruben Ostlund's last film, "Force Majeure," began with the rumble of an alpine avalanche and the wallop of a shattered self-image. When a swelling white tide appears headed straight for an outdoor cafe, a panicked father flees with his iPhone, but not his children or wife. Their respect for him is undone in a cloud of snow. In Ostlund's follow-up, the Palme d'Or-winning "The Square," an upper-class, highly placed man is again humbled by a latent cowardice, but one that reveals...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- "The Walking Dead" aired its 100th episode for its eighth season premiere the other night, although it wasn't necessarily cause for celebration at AMC. The show had 11.4 million viewers on Sunday night, down 33 percent from last fall's seventh season premiere, which had 17 million, the Nielsen company said. AMC said there are all kinds of mitigating factors, primarily that last year's premiere was a cliffhanger that drew an unusual number of fans. Live television viewership is down across the...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It was a spooky weekend at the box office for nearly everyone but Tyler Perry. Perry's comedy sequel "Boo 2! A Madea Halloween" scared up a healthy $21.7 million in its first weekend in theaters, but the waters were rough for other new openers including the disaster epic "Geostorm," the firefighter drama "Only the Brave" and the crime thriller "The Snowman." Made for a reported $25 million, Perry's film drew a mostly older and female audience, who gave it an A- CinemaScore. "Boo 2!" did a...
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We’re taken to a business headquartered in a suburban home where a worker is rewarded for doing a stellar job with the proverbial perk of a “corner office.” The only problem is that the corner office in a residence isn’t quite the power space it is in a highrise. Titled “Corner Office,” this spot for FedEx Ground was directed by Randy Krallman of Smuggler for BBDO New York. It’s one of three spots in a package which features fictional micro-businesses and how FedEx Ground helps them.
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Brent Harris of South Africa’s Egg Films directed “For The Love Of Sport,” Sky Sports’ epic new football ad, produced by Jon Ronbeck with Mapi Brambilla and Paolo Zaninello from Akita Film in Italy for agency Grey United in Milan. When Roma’s Alessandro Florenzi goes down injured, the ad captures the way an entire country joins together to get him back in play. Look out for cameos from the likes of Juventus’ Daniele Rugani, AC Milan’s Alessio Romagnoli, Fiorentina’s Federico Chiesa and Italian...
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Last month, Foot Locker and Timberland(R) teamed up with hip-hop legend Nas to launch the 2017 Timberland Legends Collection limited-release series of boots. To promote the collection, agency Pereira & O’Dell NY turned to bicoastal production house Gentleman Scholar to turn out a campaign consisting of colorful animation ads which document pivotal moments in the rapper’s personal journey to artistic expression and success. Directed by Gentleman Scholar's Chace Hartman, William Campbell and...
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Publicis Conseil has created the first global campaign for AXA, showcasing the new brand propositioning: “Empower people to live a better life.” The campaign is inspired by the true story of an AXA client who was trapped and severely injured during the Nepal earthquake in 2015, while on a humanitarian mission. The AXA team on the ground found her, repatriated her and gave her all the medical and psychological help she needed to make a full recovery. Her story is told in the spot “Kathmandu--...
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To promote BMW’s certified pre-owned vehicles and the new unlimited mileage warranty, BMW and creative agency KBS have created a humorous campaign directed by Master of None ’s Eric Wareheim via production house PRETTYBIRD. The premise is that the warranty helps customers feel so good about their decision to buy a used BMW they will “never want to stop driving.” That even applies to this spot titled “Wedding” in which a father brings the bride down the aisle in a pre-owned BMW. The car itself...
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The odds look pretty slim for fending off an alien invasion with UFOs menacingly hovering about, causing individuals to disappear. Two scientists see the handwriting on the wall, figuring they have better odds if they exit the crisis at hand and instead play the New York Lottery’s Take 5 game which gives players a one in nine chance of winning. Tom Kuntz of MJZ directed this comedy spot conceived by McCann New York, for which a fleet of spaceships was created by Eight VFX.
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TOTO USA, the Americas division of the global plumbing manufacturer TOTO Global Group, has teamed up with advertising agency barrettSF to create a new video for its WASHLET, a high-tech bidet seat. Aimed to change America’s approach to bathroom hygiene, its message is simple: you should use water for personal cleansing. “99% of Americans don’t use bidet seats,” commented barrettSF creative director Aryan Aminzadeh, “But once you do, you realize you’ve been performing a daily activity the wrong...
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