After 10 years as a partner to Robert Campbell at Outsider, London, executive producer Toby Courlander has left the company to focus on writing a feature film project…Studio Center Total Production, headquartered in Virginia Beach, VA, has acquired New York-based audio post house Tonic Studios. The purchase price was not disclosed. Tonic’s services span spot, promo and long-form mixing, feature film scores and sound design. Studio Center now has studios in six cities–New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Memphis, Nashville and Virginia Beach. Studio Center Total Production produces audio for radio and TV commercials, documentaries, computer games, toys, websites, corporate training programs and government training films…Joe Glass, a former senior producer at JWT, New York, has joined creative production/design studio Thornberg & Forester, New York, as a producer. Most recently, he worked as a freelance producer for Blue Barn Pictures, New York. Earlier he spent four years at J. Walter Thompson and JWT2, where he oversaw broadcast and interactive projects for such clients as Cadbury, Kimberly Clark, Helene Curtis and Diageo (Smirnoff)….Entries are now being accepted for the 2008 AICP Show, which debuts on June 3 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. For the first time in its 17-year history, the Show has two entry deadlines: February 15th (for work airing February 5, 2007-February 3, 2008), and February 29 (for work airing February 4, 2008-February 24, 2008). Traditionally the Show entries spanned Super Bowl to Super Bowl. That has been extended to include the Academy Awards in late February which have increasingly become a high-profile showcase for advertising. Entries may be submitted online at http://www.aicp.com….
Ron Cicero and Bo Clancey Launch Production House 34North
Executive producers Ron Cicero and Bo Clancey have teamed to launch 34North. The shop opens with a roster which includes accomplished directors Jan Wentz, Ben Nakamura Whitehouse, David Edwards and Mario Feil, as well as such up-and-coming filmmakers as Glenn Stewart and Chris Fowles. Nakamura Whitehouse, Edwards, Feil and Fowles come over from CoMPANY Films, the production company for which Cicero served as an EP for the past nearly five years. Director Wentz had most recently been with production house Skunk while Stewart now gains his first U.S. representation. EP Clancey was freelance producing prior to the formation of 34North. He and Cicero have known each other for some 25 years, recently reconnecting on a job directed by Fowles. Cicero said that he and Clancey “want to keep a highly focused roster where talent management can be one on one--where we all share in the directors’ success together.” Clancey also brings an agency pedigree to the new venture. “I started at Campbell Ewald in accounts, no less,” said Clancey. “I saw firsthand how much work agencies put in before we even see a script. You have to respect that investment. These agency experiences really shaped my approach to production--it’s about empathy, listening between the lines, and ultimately making the process seamless.” 34North represents a meeting point--both literally and creatively. Named after the latitude of Malibu, Calif., where the idea for the company was born, it also embraces the power of storytelling. “34North118West was the first GPS-enabled narrative,” Cicero explained. “That blend of art and technology, to captivate an audience, mirrors what we do here--create compelling work, with talented people, harnessing state-of-the-art... Read More