Director Steve Beck, formerly of Industrial Light + Magic Commercial Productions, San Rafael and Los Angeles, has joined bicoastal Reactor Films. Word is that Reactor is also about to add director/designer Linzi Knight, who continues to be partnered in Toronto house Red Rover….In an effort to satisfy the debts of New York-headquartered Shooting Gallery Inc. (SGI), its Toronto-based parent, itemus, has issued a preliminary base shelf prospectus that—if approved—would permit itemus to issue shares of itemus stock to SGI creditors; itemus is liable for up to $10 million of SGI debt. Meanwhile, a group of SGI investors has filed suit against SGI, itemus and former SGI president/CFO Stephen Carlis, alleging that SGI failed to pay investment returns and accusing Carlis of fraud and deliberate misuse of funds. As earlier reported (SHOOT, 7/6, p. 1) SGI’s financial problems undermined its profitable commercial and music video shop, Shooting Gallery Productions, which closed in late June…..Director Tryan George has come aboard bicoastal M-80 Films. George was most recently with now defunct The End….Director Eric E. Fitzpatrick and bicoastal Cohn+Company have parted ways….89 Greene, New York, is adding editor Paul Kelly who comes over from BUG Editorial, New York. Kelly’s official 89 Greene start date is Sept. 1….Larry Pecorella, partner/composer at Chameleon Music, Chicago, has signed with Com/track, Chicago, where he joins composers Bryan Rheude, Dave Hutten and Justin Hori; the Chameleon Music staff—including in-house rep Marya Fletcher—will merge into Com/ track….In other Windy City news, Chicago-headquartered post shop The Filmworkers Club has acquired Astro Color Laboratories, Chicago. Filmworkers also owns Chicago-based sister shop, Sanitary Lab….Creative ad boutique Elvis & Bonaparte, Portland, Ore., has shuttered. Several of the shop’s personnel are expected to launch a new venture, according to Dave Helfrey, the agency’s former VP/creative director …Caroline Jones, a creative director/copywriter who founded, among other ad shops, Mingo, Jones, Guilmenot—now the Chisholm/Mingo Group, New York—and Caroline Jones Inc., also New York, died of cancer on June 28 at the Calvary Hospital, Bronx, N.Y. She was 59….Ronald Monchak, a longtime creative executive in the Detroit advertising community passed away June 26 of leukemia. Monchak retired as chairman of D’Arcy Detroit, Troy, Mich., in 1993…
Oscar Nominees Delve Into The Art Of Editing At ACE Session
You couldn’t miss Sean Baker at this past Sunday’s Oscar ceremony where he won for Best Picture, Directing, Original Screenplay and Editing on the strength of Anora. However, earlier that weekend he was in transit from the Cesar Awards in Paris and thus couldn’t attend the American Cinema Editors (ACE) 25th annual panel of Academy Award-nominated film editors held at the Regal LA Live Auditorium on Saturday (3/1) in Los Angeles. While the eventual Oscar winner in the editing category was missed by those who turned out for the ACE “Invisible Art, Visible Artists” session, three of Baker’s fellow nominees were on hand--Dávid Jancsó, HSE for The Brutalist; Nick Emerson for Conclave; and Myron Kerstein, ACE for Wicked. Additionally, Juliette Welfling, who couldn’t appear in person due to the Cesar Awards, was present via an earlier recorded video interview to discuss her work on Emilia Pérez. The interview was conducted by ACE president and editor Sabrina Plisco, ACE who also moderated the live panel discussion. Kerstein said that he was the beneficiary of brilliant and generous collaborators, citing, among others, director Jon M. Chu, cinematographer Alice Brooks, and visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman. The editor added it always helps to have stellar acting performances, noting that hearing Cynthia Erivo, for example, sing live was a revelation. Kerstein recalled meeting Chu some eight years ago on a “blind Skype date” and it was an instant “bromance”--which began on Crazy Rich Asians, and then continued on such projects as the streaming series Home Before Dark and the feature In The Heights. Kerstein observed that Chu is expert in providing collaborators with... Read More