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As reported in the L.A. Times: In a cost-savings move, Walt Disney Studios is shutting down director and producer Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers Digital studio in Marin County, which employs 450 people. Those employees will be phased out over the course of the year until the facility closes by January 2011. Given today's economic realities, we need to find alternative ways to bring creative content to audiences and IMD no longer fits into our business model," Disney Studios President Alan Bergman said in a statement. Ever since ousting Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook and overhauling the movie operation under his successor, Rich Ross, the Burbank studio has …
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I've always been interested in where people are moving too.. Are more people coming to California?? I found this kind of interesting.. http://www.citylab.com/work/2014/06/high-school-dropouts-and-college-grads-are-moving-to-very-different-places/372065/ A vast number of uneducated people are coming to California.. huh.. -Richard
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I just read about this today, and thought some of you might find it interesting: http://vimeo.com/musicstore It's a new service from Vimeo that makes it easier for video makers to find music for their productions. They're offering two kinds of license options: 1) Music from the "Free Music Archive," which has tracks that all have a Creative Commons license. 2) Music from "Audiosocket," which features up-and-coming artists and composers who offer tracks for either $2 each (for personal, non-commercial work), and $98 for commercial stuff. Kind of interesting, eh?
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If you read this post earlier, it's too late.
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Our old incentives program from the 1980s ran out and was pretty out of date. Is this too little too late? David * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Arkansas Governor Beebe Signs Film Production Incentives Bill By Arkansas Business Staff - 4/3/2009 11:11:01 AM Gov. Mike Beebe on Friday signed HB1939 into law, creating incentives for digital product and motion picture productions. The Digital Product and Motion Picture Industry Development Act creates a 15 percent rebate on all qualified production expenditures in Arkansas. An additional payroll rebate of 10 percent will be granted for certain cast members and technical crew in t…
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-horner-dead-titanic-composer-804365 The two-time Oscar winner, 61, worked on three James Cameron films, two 'Star Trek' movies and classics like 'A Beautiful Mind,' 'Field of Dreams' and 'Apollo 13.' James Horner, the consummate film composer known for his heart-tugging scores for Field of Dreams, Braveheart and Titanic, for which he won two Academy Awards, died Monday in a plane crash near Santa Barbara. He was 61. His death was confirmed by Sylvia Patrycja, who is identified on Horner's film music page as his assistant. "We have lost an amazing person with a huge heart and unbelievable talent," Patrycja wrote on Facebo…
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Daily Variety: Budget cuts threaten Italo state film entity By NICK VIVARELLI ROME -- Italian state film entity Cinecitta-Luce has announced it is on the brink of closure due to draconian arts funding cuts, prompting cries of consternation both within the local industry and from the international film community. Cinecitta-Luce, which is located on the historic Cinecitta studios lot, comprises promotional, production and distribution activities, plus the vast Istituto Luce archives, a historical treasure trove, as part of its mission. After withstanding previous cuts in recent years, the vast entity is now set to suffer a 60% budget slash from the Silvio Berlusconi-…
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Happy July 4th to all! I just heard from Scott Wood of Digidesign, in Beijing who tells me: "I've been the principle workflow designer and will be on site testing and training their staff on "camera to digital cinema master" workflow training at the massive new 1.3M square foot China Film Group facility North of Beijing, which opens later this month. Think “digital filmâ€� meets “Chinese manufacturingâ€� meets “massive funding.â€� It is likely now the largest media workflow center in the world, designed to put out 80 feature films and 200 TV movies each year. These guys seriously invested in file based workflow, from acquisition to delivery." Here is what C…
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100% Recyclable Plastic is made from Old Tires Used tires, despite being quite notorious as a waste material, are actually not that hard to collect and recycle. You can for example, simply reuse it as raw material for road construction. Other concepts for recycling tires may even be more efficient, such as this old concept that might provide a more “flexible” tire recycling solution.
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http://www.theshowbizexpo.com Coffey Sound will be proudly exhibiting at the social event of the year - The 2009 Film, Stage & Showbiz Expo (Booth 611) on Saturday October 17, 2009 at The Los Angeles Convention Center. Click Here for Free Visitor Registration: (Limited to first 5000 attendees) https://register.rcsreg.com/regos-1.0/showbiz2009/ga/clear.html
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Daily Variety's Dave McNary writes: Guild, AMPTP remain at loggerheads for now With the town remaining unsettled over a potential strike, the stalemate between SAG and the major studios will stay in place until next week. The two sides met for four hours Wednesday afternoon in a session set up for SAG to ask questions about the congloms' final offer, two days after the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers pulled the plug on further negotiations. "SAG asked for more time to study our final offer and indicated it will contact the producers on Monday." the AMPTP said. "We remain hopeful that SAG will advise that it is accepting our final offer. No fur…
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Hello All, Don't forget to sign the letter to our legislators in support of CA tax credits. It's on the 695 website.
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I've decided to make two of my apps: Open Callsheet and Timecard Buddy completely free to use until December. Both of them are meant to cut down on paper use, so maybe they'll play a small part in keeping people safe. opencallsheet.com timecardbuddy.com Video demonstrations: OpenCS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3NosM6ZO3I TCBuddy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxkxMsfPSAU (My apologies for excluding those outside of the US. These apps are designed specifically for film production members in the US and Canada)
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Regarding the order of posts displayed, I apologize for messing around with this and affecting everyone's settings. To clarify at this point, any member here, once logged in, can set things the way they want it to be by selecting "Profile" and changing some settings. When you have the settings for your Profile displayed, in the sidebar go to "Look and Layout", UN-check "Show most recent posts at top" (if it is checked), click on "Change Profile" button in lower right corner and you should now have posts in proper order. Regards, Jeff Wexler
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My guess is that most folks that read n post at Jeffs site read n post at RAMPS as well, but for those that didn't catch the good news, the theives that ripped off Coffey Sound have been caught. Every once and a while the system works. Congrats to all involved in solving the case. CrewC
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Variety gives an excellent one year review of the effects of the WGA strike. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117999957.html?categoryid=2821&cs=1 RL
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Local 52/AMPTP Feature/TV Contract Vote Count: Results are as follows: (Commencing May 16, 2009) Ballots Mailed: 3329 Ballots Received: 939 Ineligible/Void: 18 Tally: Yes- 692 No- 229 I guess we all really are in solidarity (except local 829). http://www.jwsound.net/SMF/index.php?topic=3915.0
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"Actor Justin Mentell, best known for his role in the popular television series Boston Legal, was killed in a car crash near Madison, Wisconsin on Monday, February 1, 2010. The 27-year-old was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown from his 2005 Jeep after it careened down an embankment and struck several trees. Iowa County Coroner William Finley pronounced Mentell dead at 9:00 a.m., at the scene of the crash on Highway 39 near Mineral Point. The actor appeared in 10 episodes as lawyer Garrett Wells on Boston Legal from 2005-2006. He received a Screen Actors Guild nomination in the category of Best Ensemble Cast in a Comedy Series in January 2006. His last body of …
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Published on Dec 16, 2015 by ESPN Hosted by Mark Hamil backstory: http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2015/12/mark-hamill-to-host-star-wars-special-connecting-sports-and-lightsaber-duels/
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Who doesn't like JJ Cale ?
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Kirk, a fellow Sound Mixer based out of Los Angeles, Ca, passed away Saturday morning. I was a close friend of his, and his friends and family (and clients!) are all very sad to see him go. He's mixing with the angels now, better hope the DPs up there dont shoot all wides, or they'll hear it from him!
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He has some good and interesting points in this speech however I think it's ultimately self serving and unrealistic to think major movies would premier on netflix under it's current TV licensing model.
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A less sanguine look at the Variety story on the possible SAG/AMPTP break through from Jonathan Handel's "Digital Media Law" SAG and the Studios: The Next Roadblocks http://digitalmedialaw.blogspot.com/2009/04/sag-and-studios-next-roadblocks.html RL Note: I had to correct my own words re: "sanguine" from "more sanguine" to "less". Sanguine means "cheerfully optimistic", which Handel's post is not.
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The latest edition of the 695 Quarterly is available on line. http://www.local695.com/Quarterly/
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New Panasonic AG-HPX300 Camcorder with dual-channel Unislot Video of unit
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