Street Talk
Director Andrews Jenkins, formerly of Food Chain Films, Portland, Ore., has joined bicoastal Go Film. In early 2003, Robert Wherry and Jonathan Weinstein, partners/executive producers in Go Film, became partners in Food Chain along with its executive producer David Cress. (Gary Rose has since joined Go as a partner/executive producer.) Per the partnership, Go Film handled the Food Chain roster of directors nationally. Now Wherry, Weinstein and Cress have disbanded their partnership. Cress will maintain Food Chain with directors Marc Greenfield and Vance Malone. The company will continue to pursue commercial projects, as well as diversify more meaningfully into the direct market….RSA and Blackdog Films–both bicoastal and in London–have signed noted Swedish directors Jonas Akerlund and Johan Renck for spot and music clip representation in the U.S. and the U.K. RSA will handle commercials while its sister shop Blackdog takes on music video assignments for the directors who work individually but are business partners at Renck Akerlund Films (RAF), Stockholm. Previously, RAF was repped stateside via bicoastal HSI Productions and in the U.K. through Exposure Films, London….Crossroads Films, bicoastal and Chicago–via its ongoing reciprocal relationship with Cowboy Films, London–has secured stateside spot representation for director Roger Michell, whose feature helming credits include Enduring Love, Notting Hill and Changing Lanes. Cowboy handles U.K. representation for Michell….DNA, Hollywood, has secured music video and commercial representation for directors Thom Oliphant and Steven Goldmann. Oliphant and Goldmann recently shuttered their production company, The Collective, LLC, to focus on directing, with DNA handling production and repping….Actor/director John Leguizamo, who’s currently starring in Assault on Precinct 13, is again available to helm commercials through CFM International, New York….Category:Street Talk
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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