Venice, Calif.-headquartered commercial production house Cucoloris Films has entered into an alliance with DoRo, a longstanding music video company in Berlin. The deal gives DoRo—which also maintains Berlin-based clips shop Department M—a stateside foothold while Cucoloris gains the infrastructure to move into both domestic and international music video production. Department M’s head of production Nicola Wiseman and director Markus Engel are slated to join Cucoloris’ Venice operation this month…..Seven-year-old Boston-based broadcast design firm LoConte Goldman Design has closed as its partners, president/general manager Patrice Goldman and VP/senior creative director Maria LoConte, have decided to pursue their own ventures. Goldman has launched One80 Visual Communications, Boston, while LoConte has formed another Boston shop, LoConte.2….Asche & Spencer, a music/sound design house in Minneapolis and Venice, has hired Mark Gordon—a.k.a. "Señor Amor"—as its executive producer on the West Coast. He succeeds Hugh Barton who is expected to launch his own firm….Creative director/general manager Paul Agid, producer Evan Sanyour and sales rep Annie Cotton have parted ways with Blink.fx, New York, a subsidiary of New York-based MTI/The Image Group….
“Captain America: Brave New World” Tops Weak Weekend At The Box Office
"Captain America: Brave New World" kept falling but still hovered above all others at a weak weekend box office.
The latest Disney-Marvel offering brought in another $15 million according to studio estimates Sunday, when most of Hollywood's attention was on the Oscars.
The Anthony Mackie-led "Captain America: Brave New World" opened strong at about $120 million on a three-day weekend last month, but plunged to $28.2 million last week in one of the most significant second-week drops for a Marvel movie. It's earned $163.7 since its release.
It was slammed by many critics and audiences, failing to bring the Marvel reset some had hoped for. That task now falls to May's "Thunderbolts" and July's "Fantastic Four: First Steps." But "Captain America" will face little competition through March, and could remain at No. 1 for a while.
The weekend's only significant new release, Focus Features' "Last Breath," earned just $7.8 million. The based-on-a-true-story adventure starring Woody Harrelson, Simi Liu and Chris Lemons is about a routine deep-sea diving mission that goes terribly wrong when a young diver is stranded some 300 feet below the surface.
It got strong reviews, with Lindsey Bahr of The Associated Press praising the "white-knuckle experience" and "pure suspense and anxiety" it brings.
At No. 3 was Oz Perkins' "The Monkey," which brought in $6.4 million for a two-week total of $24.6 million. It's among the strongest openings for indie distributor Neon, whose film "Anora," and its director Sean Baker could make a major mark at the Oscars later Sunday.
"The Monkey" marks another successful low-budget collaboration between Perkins and Neon, whose "Longlegs" brought in $126.9 million globally last year.
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