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If Ave Butensky has learned one thing from President Clinton, it hasnt been how to score cheap sex at work; its how to reach people on a market-by-market basis. When Clinton beat Bush in 1992, the bulk of Clintons money was spent market by market, whereas the bulk of Bushs money was spent...
Veteran producer Mark Leemkuil has been hired as head of production and Michelle Weller has come on board as head of production/ Prague for Milk & Honey Production Services, a Los Angeles-headquartered division of Milk & Honey Films.
Leemkuil will oversee all commercial, feature...
Veteran commercial producer Dodonna Bicknell, formerly head of production/producer at bicoastal Epoch Films, has opened her own production company, Vamp Films, on the Hollywood Center Studios lot. The new venture opens with a directorial roster consisting of Dale Heslip, Len Peltier, Frank...
Bicoastal production house The A+R Group has launched Monkeyshine, a graphic design company headquartered in Los Angeles. Co-executive producers Gower Frost and Roberto Cecchini, who is also president/executive producer of both The A+R Group and bicoastal/international The Artists Company, will...
Two-year-old production house Superior Street, with bases in Chicago and Los Angeles, has added directors Larry August and Tim Roarke and has renamed itself Spoke Film in order to differentiate its live-action division from its postproduction/graphics and effects unit (which will remain known as...
Red Car, a commercial editorial company with offices in Chicago, New York and Santa Monica (Red Car Los Angeles), has acquired the assets of Yellow Rose Editorial, Dallas, for an undisclosed price. Effective Jan. 1, Yellow Rose assumed the name Red Car Dallas.
Yellow Rose was a privately...
CHICAGO-Two-year-old production house Superior Street, with bases in Chicago and Los Angeles, has added directors Larry August and Tim Roarke and has renamed itself Spoke Film in order to differentiate its live-action division from its postproduction/graphics and effects unit (...
HOLLYWOOD-The Industry, the division of bicoastal Moxie Pictures that features an ensemble of filmmakers from other disciplines, has signed director Al Yankovic (a.k.a. "Weird Al") for commercial representation.
Since the early 1980s, Yankovic has established himself as...
Giuseppe Rotunno, A.S.C., A.I.C., will receive the International Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers at the 13th Annual A.S.C. Outstanding Achievement Awards, to be held here Feb. 21 at the Century Plaza Hotel.
Over the past 40-plus years, Rotunno has worked...
Jan. 12/New York: Freelance Producers Network Meeting at Hungry Man. Contact Reg Oberlag, (212) 673-6908....Jan. 14-17/New York: The Best of the 1998 Hamptons International Film Festival at the DGA Theater. Info, tickets, (516) 324-4600....Jan. 15/New York: The New York Festivals 1998...