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Groove Addicts, West Los Angeles, has unveiled Full Tilt, a composer scoring series specifically designed for major motion pictures, trailers, DVDs, and TV marketing programs. The Full Tilt music inventory of stylized music scores has been released in 5.1 Surround as well as stereo and can be licensed exclusively for a specific film or TV campaign, according to Groove Addicts VP, general manager Cindy Rosmann. Full Tilt is a musical collaboration between film/TV composer Kaveh Cohen and TV sitcom theme composer Michael Nielsen….Composer Chris Mann and executive producer Becky Blasband have formed music/sound design house The Collective in Los Angeles. Mann, who earlier had been at Machine Head, Venice, Calif., is creative director of The Collective. Blasband’s past affiliations include Machine Head and bicoastal Elias Arts….Composers Marta Victoria and Eddie Freeman of Icarus Music, Lakewood, Calif., demonstrated how to score to picture during a session at the recently concluded 2005 Santa Barbara Film Festival. The Icarus principals used their work on The Octopus Show–a National Geographic films that aired on PBS–as a case study. Best known for scoring TV series, Icarus is diversifying into the spot arena….Sound Lounge Radio, New York, is sponsoring a new contest honoring the best writing in radio advertising. Dubbed The Olives, the competition is designed to recognize new, unproduced radio scripts. The contest is open to writers and art directors working at ad agencies. Spot entries can be for any product and in any genre, but they must be previously unproduced. Scripts can either be written for The Olives or for client work that, for whatever reason, hasn’t been produced. Judging will be done by a panel of agency creatives and media critics. Winners will be announced in June, receive cash prizes up to $3,000–and have their scripts produced by Sound Lounge Radio and exhibited at an awards ceremony in New York. Complete details and entry forms are available at theolivesawards.com; entry deadline is March 31…..
Alec Baldwin Urges Judge To Stand By Dismissal Of Involuntary Manslaughter Case In “Rust” Shooting
Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge on Friday to stand by her decision to skuttle his trial and dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie.
State District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case against Baldwin halfway through a trial in July based on the withholding of evidence by police and prosecutors from the defense in the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust."
The charge against Baldwin was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't be revived once any appeals of the decision are exhausted.
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey recently asked the judge to reconsider, arguing that there were insufficient facts and that Baldwin's due process rights had not been violated.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer on "Rust," was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when it went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired.
The case-ending evidence was ammunition that was brought into the sheriff's office in March by a man who said it could be related to Hutchins' killing. Prosecutors said they deemed the ammunition unrelated and unimportant, while Baldwin's lawyers alleged that they "buried" it and filed a successful motion to dismiss the case.
In her decision to dismiss the Baldwin case, Marlowe Sommer described "egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct" by law enforcement and prosecutors, as well as false testimony about physical evidence by a witness during the trial.
Defense counsel says that prosecutors tried to establish a link... Read More