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    Native Pictures Adds Directors Rob Cohen, Gary McKendry, EP Chris Messiter

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    NEW YORK --

    Native Pictures has added directors Rob Cohen and Gary McKendry to its roster and partner/exec producer Chris Messiter to its management team. Messiter will head Native’s newly opened NY office, making the company bicoastal.

    Cohen joins Native on the heels of shooting his latest epic action-adventure commercial for Mountain Dew, and is currently in pre-production for a European car spot.  McKendry has just completed his first project for Native and Match.com’s delightful.com, a funny and relatable campaign for the new dating site featuring Steve Harvey.

    Cohen’s body of work spans features, TV and commercials. He earned a DGA Award nomination in 1999 for the TV movie The Rat Pack (HBO). His feature film The Boy Next Door is currently in theaters. Cohen has helmed 30-plus films and over the past year has shot in six different countries directing spots for Mercedes-Benz, Coca-Cola, Kohl’s and Verizon FIOS.

    McKendry, a former advertising art director, has directed award-winning spots for such brands as IKEA, Porsche and Heineken, and an Academy Award-nominated short film, Everything in This Country Must.

    Messiter will work directly with Native’s founding partner/EP Tomer DeVito and partner/EP Susan Rued Anderson. A veteran sales exec and producer, Messiter has had a hand in building various top production companies and directors. He had a hand in helping to develop shops such as MJZ, Tool and Hungry Man. Cohen, McKendry and Messiter were most recently with Assembly Films.

    Native’s pair of director signings and hiring of Messiter follow January’s announcement of Anderson joining as partner/EP based in L.A., and the launch last fall of Native’s film division COTA, led by veteran feature film producer Michael Costigan (Brokeback Mountain, Prometheus, Out of the Furnace).

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    A Closer Look At Proposed Measures Designed To Curb Google’s Search Monopoly

    Thursday, November 21, 2024

    U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled Google maintained an illegal monopoly for the last decade.

    The sweeping set of recommendations filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice could radically alter Google's business, including possibly spinning off the Chrome web browser and syndicating its search data to competitors. Even if the courts adopt the blueprint, Google isn't likely to make any significant changes until 2026 at the earliest, because of the legal system's slow-moving wheels.

    Here's what it all means:

    What is the Justice Department's goal?
    Federal prosecutors are cracking down on Google in a case originally filed during near the end of then-President Donald Trump's first term. Officials say the main goal of these proposals is to get Google to stop leveraging its dominant search engine to illegally squelch competition and stifle innovation.

    "The playing field is not level because of Google's conduct, and Google's quality reflects the ill-gotten gains of an advantage illegally acquired," the Justice Department asserted in its recommendations. "The remedy must close this gap and deprive Google of these advantages."

    Not surprisingly, Google sees things much differently. The Justice Department's "wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision," Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer, asserted in a blog post. "It would break a range of Google products — even beyond search — that people love and find helpful in their everyday lives."

    It's still possible that the Justice Department could ease off on its attempts to break up Google, especially if President-elect Donald Trump... Read More

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