Accomplice, a transmedia house active in commercials, branded entertainment for the web, mobile and social media, and feature films, has signed comedy director Trevor Cornish whose spot credits include McDonald’s, Budweiser and Comcast. Cornish had previously been repped by TWC, Santa Monica, and prior to that Twist, Minneapolis and New York.
Cornish broke into spot directing in his native Canada and then successfully extended his reach stateside. Back in 2006, his One Show Gold Pencil-winning spot, “Vending Machine” for Canadian football team The BC Lions Via Vancouver, B.C. agency Rethink, garnered him considerable attention from the American ad market. That same year he came aboard TWC.
At Accomplice, Cornish joins a directorial roster that includes Nicholaus Goossen, Jasper Gray, David Jellison, K+P, Guy Sagy, and Jamin Winans. With offices in Los Angeles, Chicago and Denver. Accomplice–which is under the aegis of founder/executive producer Jeff Snyder–also maintains a strategic partnership with Futuristic Films, a sister shop specializing in digital advertising and branded content.
Snyder was key in Cornish’s decision to join Accomplice. “Jeff has built Accomplice from the ground up to accommodate a new way of working,” said Cornish. “It’s not just about commercials, or even me being a commercial director. It’s about media from the traditional, to digital, to feature films; and how, in the end, we’re trying to tell a story or translate an idea to capture the audience’s attention, no matter what the medium is.”
Keeping true to this ethos, Cornish is currently in the midst of shooting an episode of Air Crash Investigation, a top-rated TV series for the National Geographic/UK and Discovery Channel. This fall, he will shoot his short film called Roland, which will hit the festival circuit next year.
Alec Baldwin Urges Judge To Stand By Dismissal Of Involuntary Manslaughter Case In “Rust” Shooting
Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge on Friday to stand by her decision to skuttle his trial and dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie.
State District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case against Baldwin halfway through a trial in July based on the withholding of evidence by police and prosecutors from the defense in the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust."
The charge against Baldwin was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't be revived once any appeals of the decision are exhausted.
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey recently asked the judge to reconsider, arguing that there were insufficient facts and that Baldwin's due process rights had not been violated.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer on "Rust," was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when it went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired.
The case-ending evidence was ammunition that was brought into the sheriff's office in March by a man who said it could be related to Hutchins' killing. Prosecutors said they deemed the ammunition unrelated and unimportant, while Baldwin's lawyers alleged that they "buried" it and filed a successful motion to dismiss the case.
In her decision to dismiss the Baldwin case, Marlowe Sommer described "egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct" by law enforcement and prosecutors, as well as false testimony about physical evidence by a witness during the trial.
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