Foundation Content has signed director Cristina Anderlini whose credits include projects for Sega, Marvel, THQ, DreamWorks, Disney, and Mattel.
Most recently, she directed the trailer for Disney’s “Disney Universe” video game which screened before all the major 2011 holiday releases including War Horse, We Bought A Zoo, The Muppets, The Adventures of Tintin, Happy Feet 2, Chipwrecked and Puss in Boots.
She also directed the marketing campaigns for the video game trailers of Sega’s “Iron Man 2”, “Thor”, “Captain America” and “Shinobi,” generating millions of hits on major gaming and entertainment sites worldwide. The Captain America trailer alone skyrocketed past 2.5 million hits within the first couple of weeks of release on Metacafe.com alone.
For THQ/Dreamworks’ highly anticipated “Kung Fu Panda 2”, Anderlini directed both the :30 TV spot and interactive videos.
Anderlini developed her directing skills working on “making of” Videos, EPKs, music videos, TV spots, TV episodes, promos, as well as DVD and new media content for major labels, advertisers, TV networks and corporate clients including Mattel, MTV, BET, VH1, Atlantic Records, Universal Music, Nokia, TMobile, Intel, Disney, Buena Vista Games, THQ and Media Arts Lab (MAL). She has worked with artists across many genres in music, film and TV, including Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Katy Perry, Jamie Foxx, Missy Elliott, Diddy, Pitbull, Panic At The Disco, TI, Toni Braxton, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Lamb Of God.
Samantha Hart, president of Foundation, noted that the company was looking for a director experienced in the theatrical and gaming worlds, further citing Anderlini’s penchant for celebrity talent and track record in music videos. “We’re excited to see how she can apply her high-octane energy to the commercial and digital content world,” said Hart of Anderlini.
Linda Lavin, Tony-Winning Actor Who Starred In The Sitcom “Alice,” Dies At 87
Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom "Alice," has died. She was 87.
Lavin died in Los Angeles on Sunday of complications from recently discovered lung cancer, her representative, Bill Veloric, told The Associated Press in an email.
A success on Broadway, Lavin tried her luck in Hollywood in the mid-1970s. She was chosen to star in a new CBS sitcom based on "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," the Martin Scorsese-directed film that won Ellen Burstyn an Oscar for playing the title waitress.
The title was shortened to "Alice" and Lavin become a role model for working moms as Alice Hyatt, a widowed mother with a 12-year-old son working in a roadside diner outside Phoenix. The show, with Lavin singing the theme song "There's a New Girl in Town," ran from 1976 to 1985.
The show turned "Kiss my grits" into a catchphrase and co-starred Polly Holliday as waitress Flo and Vic Tayback as the gruff owner and head chef of Mel's Diner.
The series bounced around the CBS schedule during its first two seasons but became a hit leading into "All in the Family" on Sunday nights in October 1977. It was among primetime's top 10 series in four of the next five seasons. Variety magazine listed it among the all-time best workplace comedies.
Lavin soon went on to win a Tony for best actress in a play for Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound" in 1987.
She was working as recently as this month promoting a new Netflix series in which she appears, "No Good Deed," and filming a forthcoming Hulu series, "Mid-Century Modern," according to Deadline, which first reported her death.
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