By Kathy DeSalvo
Revolver Film Company, a Toronto and Los Angeles-based spot and music video company that is a division of Toronto-based The Partners’ Film Company, has officially separated its commercial unit, which will now be a Toronto-based satellite called Trailer Park Films.
Executive producers at Trailer Park are Dan Ford and Tom McLean, who had previously worked under the Revolver aegis. Executive producer Allen Weinrib continues at Revolver in Toronto, which will now concentrate solely on music video production. The Los Angeles-based branch of Revolver is headed by executive producer Kelly Norris.
Director sales rep Tracy Ternan joined Trailer Park Films a month ago to head sales. Before this, she spent the past two and a half years as a post producer at Toronto-based The Post Group, preceded by a two-year stint as a scheduler at Soho Post & Graphics, Toronto.
Ternan said that forming a separate spot division allows for a greater focus on commercial production. "Over the years, there’s been a lot of people who’ve worked with Revolver in both the commercial and music video areas," said Ternan. "But music videos are taking off in their own direction, and commercials need to be focused in their own direction."
Trailer Park provides exclusive Canadian commercial representation for directors Phillip Dixon, Liz Friedlander, Francis Lawrence and Rocky Schenck of Hollywood-based DNA. The shop also reps directors Neil Abramson, Nick Brandt, Buddy Cone, Breck Eisner, Melodie McDaniel, Ramaa Mosley, co-directors Chris Riess and Amy Hill (a.k.a. Riess/Hill), Dan Rush, Ben Stiller and Wyatt Troll of Palomar Pictures, Los Angeles.
Trailer Park also provides non-exclusive Canadian representation for U.S.-based directors Kyle Bergersen, who maintains his stateside affiliation with Santa Monica-based November Films; director Randy Spear, who recently signed with Hollywood-based Dublin Productions; and Tony Balderrama and Michael Maher, who are repped in the U.S. by ProductionWorks, Houston.
Canadian directors Jeffrey Siberry, Andrew MacNaughtan, David O’Brien and Jordan Toms are represented by Trailer Park in Canada and the U.S.
Judge Upholds Dismissal Of Involuntary Manslaughter Charge Against Alec Baldwin In “Rust” Shooting
A New Mexico judge has upheld her decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie.
In a ruling Thursday, state District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer stood by her July decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against Baldwin. She said prosecutors did not raise any factual or legal arguments that would justify reversing her decision.
"Because the state's amended motion raises arguments previously made, and arguments that the state elected not to raise earlier, the court does not find the amended motion well taken," the judge wrote, adding that the request was also untimely.
A spokesperson for Baldwin's lawyers said Friday that they had no immediate reaction to teh decision.
The case was thrown out halfway through trial on allegations that police and prosecutors withheld evidence from the defense in the 2021 death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust."
Baldwin's trial was upended by revelations that ammunition was brought into the Santa Fe County sheriff's office in March by a man who said it could be related to Hutchins' killing. Prosecutors said they deemed the ammo unrelated and unimportant, while Baldwin's lawyers say investigators "buried" the evidence in a separate case file and filed a successful motion to dismiss.
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey can now decide whether to appeal to a higher court.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer for "Rust," was pointing a gun at Hutchins during a rehearsal on a movie set outside Santa Fe in October 2021 when the revolver went off, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer —... Read More