By MILLIE TAKAKI
Election results are in for three chapters of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP). Brian Donnelly, Los Angeles-based executive producer of bicoastal OneSuch Films, has become president of AICP/West. Bob Fisher, principal/executive producer at Celsius Films, New York, has been elected AICP/ East president. And Alan Sadler, executive producer of Big Deahl Productions, Chicago, assumes the AICP/Midwest presidency.
Donnelly and Fisher are set to serve one-year terms. Sadler was elected to a two-year term.
Fisher succeeds Nancy Early of eo productions, New York, at the AICP/East helm. Donnelly assumes the reins previously held by Pam Tarr of Ace Entertainment, Los Angeles. And Sadler takes over from Nicole Taghert of Bergstrom Taghert Films, Chicago. The immediate past presidents continue to serve on their respective chapter boards.
Rounding out the slate of officers at AICP/West are: VP Gary Rose of bicoastal Moxie Pictures, and secretary/treasurer Denise Gilmartin of Gas.Food & Lodging, Culver City, Calif. Rose and Gilmartin begin one-year terms. Six new members have been elected to serve two-year terms on the AICP/West board: Michael Bodnarchek of Los Angeles-headquartered A Band Apart Commercials; John Denis of Industrial Light+Magic Commercial Productions, Los Angeles and San Rafael, Calif.; Kerstin Emhoff from bicoastal HSI Productions; Oliver Fuselier of bicoastal Reactor Films; Joni Sighvatsson of Palomar Pictures, Los Angeles; and Andy Traines of bicoastal Omaha Pictures.
For AICP/East, serving under Fisher is president-elect/treasurer Sally Antonacchio of bicoastal The Artists Company, who begins a one-year term. There are four new AICP/East board members: Julie Atherton of bicoastal Atherton; Tim Clawson of New York-headquartered Shooting Gallery Productions; Jerry Solomon from bicoastal Epoch Films; and associate member representative Carl Zucker of bicoastal Media Services. Clawson and Zucker each start new two-year terms. Atherton and Solomon are serving for one year, taking over in the middle of two-year terms on recently vacated board seats.
The other Midwest chapter officers are: VP Dan Lundmark of Manarchy Films, Chicago; and secretary/treasurer Joanne Bittman of Crossroads, bicoastal and Chicago. Lundmark and Bittman begin two-year terms. AICP/Midwest also elected a new board member to a one-year term: Larry Byrne of Ebel 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 — 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