Commercial and music video production company MTh (Motion Theory) has signed with Barrie Isaacson Management for East Coast representation. The rep firm’s focus will be to bring in live-action spot projects for MTh from the East Coast market. MTh’s directorial roster includes Mathew Cullen, Jesus de Francisco, Guillaume de Fontenay, Guillermo del Toro, Steven Diller, Grady Hall, Mark Kudsi, Christopher Leone, Mårlind & Stein, Chris Riehl, and Syyn Labs….Aaron King has joined rep firm Be The Creative Source as partner/executive producer. He extends the company’s reach into New York as he’s a veteran of the Big Apple media scene. King most recently was creative director for Joyride Creative. Earlier he was executive creative director at commercial VFX and entertainment design company PURE. Be The Creative Source handle a roster that includes Denver-based creative production company Impossible TV, international creative network United Senses and digital creative boutique Neo-Pangea…..Sparks, Toronto, has taken on representation in Canada for MK Films, Chicago, which has a lineup of directors which includes tabletop helmer/company founder Mark Klein as well as Darren Weninger, Ky Dickens, Mike Nakamura and Michael Ognisanti…..
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.
In Eric Lax's book "Woody... Read More