Trevor King and Kira Gourguechon have launched Kingdom, a national repping firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. The new entity will handle East Coast representation for Mad River Post, which has offices in New York, Detroit, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco; East and West Coast representation for Reginaldo, a division of Reginald Pike, Toronto, that handles directors Brian Lee Hughes and Lena Beug in the U.S.; and national representation for music company Robot Repair, New York….M80 Films, Los Angeles, has secured independent reps Donna D’Aguanno to handle the Midwest, and Jolie Miller and Randi Arnold of Miller/Arnold to cover the East Coast….Nikki Weiss & Co., Chicago, has signed Big Lawn Films, Santa Monica, for Midwest representation. Big Lawn features director Chuck Bennett……New York-based The Blue Rock Editing Company has added Emilianne Slaydon as an in-house sales rep. She will work alongside Blue Rock’s rep Samantha Tuttlebee in representing the company nationally…..Nancy Charade has been named head of marketing at Rex Edit, Venice, Calif. She is working in-house at Rex while continuing to represent La Fabrique, Montreal, to U.S. houses looking to shoot in Canada….Hillary Pitcher, formerly on the sales team at Steam Films, Toronto, has become head of sales at Fever Films North America, also in Toronto….DPs David Boyd and Jamie Barber are again available for spots via The Montana Artists Agency, Los Angeles, after wrapping their respective TV series assignments. Boyd just completed the second season of Without A Trace. Meanwhile Barber finished season two of the hit show The OC….
Gene Hackman Died Of Heart Disease; Hantavirus Claimed His Wife’s Life About One Week Prior
Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease a full week after his wife died from hantavirus in their New Mexico hillside home, likely unaware that she was dead because he was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease, authorities revealed Friday. Both deaths were ruled to be from natural causes, chief medical examiner Dr. Heather Jarrell said alongside state fire and health officials at a news conference. "Mr. Hackman showed evidence of advanced Alzheimer's disease," Jarrell said. "He was in a very poor state of health. He had significant heart disease, and I think ultimately that's what resulted in his death." Authorities didn't suspect foul play after the bodies of Hackman, 95, and Betsy Arakawa, 65, were discovered Feb 26. Immediate tests for carbon monoxide poisoning were negative. Investigators found that the last known communication and activity from Arakawa was Feb. 11 when she visited a pharmacy, pet store and grocery before returning to their gated neighborhood that afternoon, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said Friday. Hackman's pacemaker last showed signs of activity a week later and that he had an abnormal heart rhythm Feb. 18, the day he likely died, Jarrell said. Although there was no reliable way to determine the date and time when both died, all signs point to their deaths coming a week apart, Jarrell said. "It's quite possible he was not aware she was deceased," Jarrell said. Dr. Michael Baden, a former New York City medical examiner, said he believes Hackman was severely impaired due to Alzheimer's disease and unable to deal with his wife's death in the last week of his life. "You are talking about very severe Alzheimer's disease that normal people would be in a nursing home or have a nurse, but she was taking care... Read More