APRIL 12, 1996/Visual effects and animation house Colossal Pictures, San Francisco, essentially is shutting its traditional commercial production arm to focus on content development for TV, feature films, and new media, plus design work for TV, Web sites, and others….San Francisco-based live-action/visual effects house Complete Pandemonium has signed directors Robin Steele, Heidi Holman and Gordon Clark. Leading Pandemonium are executive producer Stelio Kitrilakis and head of production Arthur Lang, who co-founded the firm after departing Colossal Pictures last May….
APRIL 12, 1991/Director David Kung has signed with Creative Partners, New York, having been left rep-less by last month’s closing of Santandrea Productions, New York. Kung directs through Nash, Morris, Messenger in London….Bill Rabin & Associates, Chicago, has added production com-pany Elite Films, with offices in Santa Monica and New York, to a spot-repping roster that already boasts New York production companies Johns+Gorman Films and Griner/Cuesta & Schrom…. Goodby, Berlin & Silverstein, San Francisco, dominated the television portion of the fifth-annual San Francisco Show. The firm copped five gold awards in TV and earned Best of Show distinction….