DECEMBER 16, 1994
Curt Dahl, who continues as a creative director/writer at agency Bonneville Communications, Salt Lake City, has entered into an association to direct commercials for non-Bonneville clients through Hagmann/Landau Films, Santa Monica….Bicoastal Harmony Pictures has signed director Gary Lankford. He will continue to be repped in Houston by Times 3 Productions, located in that city, while Harmony will take on exclusive spot representation throughout the U.S….According to a just-released study by the International Teleproduction Society (ITS), more than 2,700 facilities make up the U.S. teleproduction and postproduction industry, and the average gross revenue of these companies is $1.4 million per company….
DECEMBER 15, 1989
Director/cameraman Brian Lai of Dexter, Dryer & Lai, Hollywood, is launching, Tiny Film Unit. The venture will be in association with Dexter, Dryer & Lai….VCA Teletronics, New York, has confirmed that it will be selling its Center Stage facility. According to VCA president Tom DeMaeyer, the action comes after "determining that our production element has not been generating as much return as we expected"…. Sales rep Roy Skillicorn, and partner/executive producer Blair Stribley, formerly of Ryan/Donovan/Wood, Chicago, have opened Backyard Productions, Chicago….
Tim Burton Discusses His Dread Of AI As An Exhibition of His Work Opens In London
The imagination of Tim Burton has produced ghosts and ghouls, Martians, monsters and misfits โ all on display at an exhibition that is opening in London just in time for Halloween.
But you know what really scares him? Artificial intelligence.
Burton said Wednesday that seeing a website that had used AI to blend his drawings with Disney characters "really disturbed me."
"It wasn't an intellectual thought โ it was just an internal, visceral feeling," Burton told reporters during a preview of "The World of Tim Burton" exhibition at London's Design Museum. "I looked at those things and I thought, 'Some of these are pretty good.' โฆ (But) it gave me a weird sort of scary feeling inside."
Burton said he thinks AI is unstoppable, because "once you can do it, people will do it." But he scoffed when asked if he'd use the technology in this work.
"To take over the world?" he laughed.
The exhibition reveals Burton to be an analogue artist, who started off as a child in the 1960s experimenting with paints and colored pencils in his suburban Californian home.
"I wasn't, early on, a very verbal person," Burton said. "Drawing was a way of expressing myself."
Decades later, after films including "Edward Scissorhands," "Batman," "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Beetlejuice," his ideas still begin with drawing. The exhibition includes 600 items from movie studio collections and Burton's personal archive, and traces those ideas as they advance from sketches through collaboration with set, production and costume designers on the way to the big screen.
London is the exhibition's final stop on a decade-long tour of 14 cities in 11 countries. It has been reconfigured and expanded with 90 new objects for its run in... Read More