January 6, 1995/Director Marco Brambilla—who recently departed bicoastal RSA USA, his commercial roost for nearly seven years—has joined HKM Productions, Hollywood, for exclusive spot representation….Progressive Image Group (P.I.G.), the New York postproduction house, has added offline editor Andrea Newhouse. She comes from Ian Mackenzie Editorial, New York….Jay Ignaszewski, who most recently worked as an executive producer at Santa Monica-based Pacific Ocean Post, has joined Editel/ New York as head of production….Fashion and beauty director Andrew Meyers, who most recently directed commercials and music videos as a freelancer, and also via Rick Levine Productions, New York, died Wednesday Dec. 14 from an asthma attack. He was 35….
JANUARY 5, 1990/The Ventura Entertainment Group, Orem, Utah, has signed an agreement to acquire spot production house Harmony Pictures, Burbank, Calif., for a combination of cash and Ventura stock….Powerhouse Entertainment, Washington, D.C., acquired spot postproduction facility Groupe Andre Perry, Washington, D.C., last month. The facility will be renamed Powerhouse Studios….Director Jean-Michel Ravon, formerly with the now defunct Bianchi Films, has signed with Cherry Mellon Ibbetson & Associates, New York….
Tim Burton Discusses His Dread Of AI As An Exhibition of His Work Opens In London
The imagination of Tim Burton has produced ghosts and ghouls, Martians, monsters and misfits — all on display at an exhibition that is opening in London just in time for Halloween.
But you know what really scares him? Artificial intelligence.
Burton said Wednesday that seeing a website that had used AI to blend his drawings with Disney characters "really disturbed me."
"It wasn't an intellectual thought — it was just an internal, visceral feeling," Burton told reporters during a preview of "The World of Tim Burton" exhibition at London's Design Museum. "I looked at those things and I thought, 'Some of these are pretty good.' … (But) it gave me a weird sort of scary feeling inside."
Burton said he thinks AI is unstoppable, because "once you can do it, people will do it." But he scoffed when asked if he'd use the technology in this work.
"To take over the world?" he laughed.
The exhibition reveals Burton to be an analogue artist, who started off as a child in the 1960s experimenting with paints and colored pencils in his suburban Californian home.
"I wasn't, early on, a very verbal person," Burton said. "Drawing was a way of expressing myself."
Decades later, after films including "Edward Scissorhands," "Batman," "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Beetlejuice," his ideas still begin with drawing. The exhibition includes 600 items from movie studio collections and Burton's personal archive, and traces those ideas as they advance from sketches through collaboration with set, production and costume designers on the way to the big screen.
London is the exhibition's final stop on a decade-long tour of 14 cities in 11 countries. It has been reconfigured and expanded with 90 new objects for its run in... Read More