Cinelicious, based in Hollywood, has opened a leading edge broadcast and DI theater housed at production and design studio Big Block in Santa Monica to provide a convenient solution for Westside clients. Working in collaboration with Big Block’s design and VFX team, the new venture will broaden Cinelicious’ reach in DI and short form telecine and provide a high-level color and finishing solution for both companies. As a key part of the expansion, Cinelicious has signed short-form colorist Robert Curreri.
Cinelicious principal Paul Korver related that the Santa Monica foothold provides clients on the Westside with a convenient geographical alternative to tap into his company’s talent and resources.
Kenny Solomon, managing director of Big Block, related, “Installing the DI Theater at Big Block is a unique opportunity for both companies. For Cinelicious’ Westside clients it means freedom from the constraints of time and traffic. And having superb color grading capabilities in-house provides a completely holistic production environment for our clients.”
The new theater is designed to achieve rec709 colorspace for broadcast finishing, as well as P3 for digital cinema feature film deliverables. The collaboration with Big Block also marks a reunion for Big Block’s Solomon and EP Leslie Sorrentino with Cinelicious operations producer Reggie Diaz and colorist Curreri, all of whom spent years together working side-by-side at The Syndicate, which was founded by Solomon and Sorrentino. It was this longstanding relationship that inspired the expansion and collaboration.
Colorist Curreri’s spot credits span such clients as Honda, Toyota, Ford, JCPenney, Reebok, Wachovia, Bud Light, Yahoo, Target, and Volkswagen. He has been an independent talent since 2008 and was previously a colorist at Riot/CO3 (2006-2008 and 1999-2002) and The Syndicate (2002 – 2006). On the music video front, his projects include Beyonce, Lady Gaga, My Chemical Romance (2006 MVPA Best Colorist Award Winner), The Killers, All American Rejects, and Queens of the Stone Age for directors Marc Webb, Nick Night, Marcos Siega, Ruben Fleischer, Brett Simon and many others. Curreri’s feature projects include the Grammy Award-winning Tom Petty documentary Running Down a Dream directed by Peter Bogdonavich and the Sundance winner for best U.S. documentary, We Live in Public directed by Ondi Timoner.
Stage and Film Actor Tony Roberts Dies At 85
Tony Roberts, a versatile, Tony Award-nominated theater performer at home in both plays and musicals and who appeared in several Woody Allen movies — often as Allen's best friend — has died. He was 85.
Roberts' death was announced to The New York Times by his daughter, Nicole Burley.
Roberts had a genial stage personality perfect for musical comedy and he originated roles in such diverse Broadway musicals as "How Now, Dow Jones" (1967); "Sugar" (1972), an adaptation of the movie "Some Like It Hot," and "Victor/Victoria" (1995), in which he co-starred with Julie Andrews when she returned to Broadway in the stage version of her popular film. He also was in the campy, roller-disco "Xanadu" in 2007 and "The Royal Family" in 2009.
"I've never been particularly lucky at card games. I've never hit a jackpot. But I have been extremely lucky in life," he write in his memoir, "Do You Know Me?" "Unlike many of my pals, who didn't know what they wanted to become when they grew up, I knew I wanted to be an actor before I got to high school."
Roberts also appeared on Broadway in the 1966 Woody Allen comedy "Don't Drink the Water," repeating his role in the film version, and in Allen's "Play It Again, Sam" (1969), for which he also made the movie.
Other Allen films in which Roberts appeared were "Annie Hall" (1977), "Stardust Memories" (1980), "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" (1982), "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) and "Radio Days" (1987).
"Roberts' confident onscreen presence — not to mention his tall frame, broad shoulders and brown curly mane — was the perfect foil for Allen's various neurotic characters, making them more funny and enjoyable to watch," The Jewish Daily Forward wrote in 2016.
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