Cutting Room, NY has added veteran agency producer Lisa Petroni as managing director, where she will oversee all things editorial including business development and client relations. Petroni comes to Cutting Room from BBDO where she moved up from assistant producer to VP/executive producer in her 11-and-half years at the agency…Chad Walker has joined Victors & Spoils, Boulder, Colo., as a creative director, He comes over from Arnold N.Y., where he served in the same capacity. Previously, Walker was a creative director at mcgarrybowen….Director/DP Patrick Donnelly has launched Cinema Five Films, a New York-based production company/post house hybrid which will also feature the talents of director Tim Pumphrey and editor Mark Breese. Donnelly, Pumphrey and Breese all have roots in MTV's On-Air Promo department. Donnelly got his start in commercial production as a p.a. for Rick Levine Productions; and worked as a camera operator and DP at Peter Corbett & Company. Cinema Five is already working on a series of integrated marketing campaigns for MTV and Sobe, Chevy and Neutrogena….
FireAid Concert Features Major Music Stars, Shares Stories Of Loss To Raise Money For L.A. Wildfire Relief
Pop stars, first responders, rock stars and those who've lost everything in the devastating LA-area wildfires came together for FireAid, a massive benefit concert Thursday that combined spectacular performances with moving storytelling from survivors and reminders of the destruction.
In a night full of surprises, a reunion of Nirvana — fronted by St. Vincent, Kim Gordon and Joan Jett in the place of the late Kurt Cobain — tops the list. They launched into "Breed," "School" and "Territorial Pissings" respectively, inspired and unexpected choices.
Drummer Dave Grohl's daughter, Violet, then emerged on stage for "All Apologies."
Closer Lady Gaga, after powering through the Oscar-award winning "Shallow" and "Always Remember Us This Way" from "A Star Is Born," played a new song on the piano. "It's just for tonight, it's just for you," she said of the song she wrote with fiancé businessman Michael Polansky. "Time is a healer."
"All I need is time," she sang in the folk-y pop chorus. "To heal my broken wings and then I'll soar."
Green Day kicked off the massive show by launching into "Last Night on Earth" at the Kia Forum and were soon joined by Billie Eilish for the first surprise of the night. The lyrics are surprisingly astute: "If I lose everything in the fire / I'm sending all my love to you."
After their set, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong hugged actor Billy Crystal, who was there to welcome to the crowd at the Kia Forum.
"Our goal is simple tonight, to spend more money than the Dodgers spent on free agents," he joked. He told the audience U2 offered the first big donation of the night: $1 million dollars.
Crystal said he was wearing the clothes he had on when he evacuated. He lost his home in... Read More