DECEMBER 2, 1994
Director Andy Jenkins, whose spot-making career spanned some 25 years, died of pneumonia at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, on Nov. 16. He was 63….AFI/Filmworks, Miami, has promoted Michael Garrett to COO, replacing Ron Fenster, who left the company. Garrett spent the past year as business manager for AFI….Derek Van Lint & Associates (DVLA), a company with bases in Toronto, New York, and South Beach, Fla., has signed director Robert Maya, who will be based in Florida…. Marci Selsberg, who has handled East Coast repping duties for Curious Pictures, New York, has departed that company to launch her own independent repping firm, Peek-A-Boo Productions, New York….
DECEMBER 1, 1989
Noxell has pulled $50 million of billings from Lintas: Worldwide, assigning its $42 million Cover Girl makeup line to Grey Advertising, New York, and its $8 million Noxzema skin cream brand to Leo Burnett, Chicago. Additionally, tire manufacturer Goodyear removed its $40 million domestic account from Young & Rubicam/ Detroit and placed it with J. Walter Thompson USA, New York….Iris Films was busy on two coasts last week, adding director Bernard Spencer at its New York office, and announcing plans to open a Los Angeles office…. Director Joe Shelesky, one-half of now defunct Shelesky/Reynolds Productions, New York, has signed on with Sant’Andrea Productions, New York….
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 — 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 — 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.' … (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