Spontaneous, a New York-based design/visual effects company, has added Amy Zale as its director of sales, and Dino Rinaldi as sales executive. Rinaldi will also lead the sales effort at partner company, creative editorial house BlueRock. Zale joins BlueRock following four years as sales associate in the New York office of production company @radical.media. Rinaldi was most recently with N.Y. post house Nice Shoes and its sister company design/visual effects house Freestyle Collective….Rep firm Hurrah! Marketing has signed design and production studio METAphrenie (which means “beyond the mind”) for representation in the U.S. and across Western Europe. With offices in Berlin and Dubai, METAphrenie, founded by creative and managing director Andrea Dionisio, is the first global client to be represented by Hurrah! Marketing, which is headed by president/head of global business development Carol Eisenrauch. Julie Sweetwood, VP, business development for Hurrah!, will serve as METAphrenie’s primary representative….Editor Cory Livingston is now being represented in Texas by editorial house charlieuniformtango. He continues to be handled in the rest of the U.S. through hybrid, the Santa Monica-based creative editorial, finishing, visual effects and motion graphics house launched earlier this year. Earlier in his career, Livingston was with Filmcore and prior to that, The Whitehouse. Charlieuniformtango gains an editor in Livingston who is experienced in the Texas market where he has worked mostly with Austin agencies GSD&M and SandersWingo…
Disney Pledges $15 million In L.A. Fire Aid As More Celebs Learn They’ve Lost Their Homes
The Pacific Palisades wildfires torched the home of "This Is Us" star Milo Ventimiglia, perhaps most poignantly destroying the father-to-be's newly installed crib.
CBS cameras caught the actor walking through his charred house for the first time, standing in what was once his kitchen and looking at a neighborhood in ruin. "Your heart just breaks."
He and his pregnant wife, Jarah Mariano, evacuated Tuesday with their dog and they watched on security cameras as the flames ripped through the house, destroying everything, including a new crib.
"There's a kind of shock moment where you're going, 'Oh, this is real. This is happening.' What good is it to continue watching?' And then at a certain point we just turned it off, like 'What good is it to continue watching?'"
Firefighters sought to make gains Friday during a respite in the heavy winds that fanned the flames as numerous groups pledged aid to help victims and rebuild, including a $15 million donation pledge from the Walt Disney Co.
More stars learn their homes are gone
While seeing the remains of his home, Ventimiglia was struck by a connection to his "This Is Us" character, Jack Pearson, who died after inhaling smoke in a house fire. "It's not lost on me life imitating art."
Mandy Moore, who played Ventimiglia's wife on "This Is Us," nearly lost her home in the Eaton fire, which scorched large areas of the Altadena neighborhood. She said Thursday that part of her house is standing but is unlivable, and her husband lost his music studio and all his instruments.
Mel Gibson's home is "completely gone," his publicist Alan Nierob confirmed Friday. The Oscar winner revealed the loss of his home earlier Friday while appearing on Joe Rogan's... Read More