- Film industry strikes back: DVD market boosts biz at
post houses.
When business started dropping at Visual Concept Engineering in Sylmar, Pete Kuran realized his post production company needed to find revenue somewhere else. The answer came in what is perhaps the fastest growing sector of the entertainment industry. Skyrocketing growth in DVD sales has created a brisk demand for film ......
- Baton Rouge gains new movie studio
Brendan O'Connor, chairman and CEO of The Celtic Group LLC, a Baton Rouge-based transportation logistics, financial services and real estate company, announced today the acquisition of a partially completed recording studio abandoned by rapper Master P seven years ago.The Celtic Group purchased the facility for $950,000 shortly after Hurricane Katrina.The ......
- POST PRODUCTION ; Nice pipes and great asset management; Getting a tvc from a post-production house to a broadcaster is getting easier, thanks to advances in digital communications. Steven Shaw reports...
Three NZ post-production houses - Oktobor, Sauce and Digital Post - recently bought into eBUS, a new integrated digital delivery and asset management service. "We're closing the loop," says David Plummer, ceo of Silverscreen and Oktobor. "We move all of the filmed material to digital once it leaves the film ......
- Starz Born Again as Movie Producer
Starz is significantly ramping up production of original series and movies for network and theatrical distribution, following parent Liberty Media Corp.'s acquisition of IDT Entertainment. IDT — owner of Film Roman, the animation house behind The Simpsons and King of the Hill — was sold by IDT Corp. for $186 ......
- Making Motion
Here's the good news. Soon, producing a TV promo will be extremely affordable. But that's a hidden threat for production houses. Motion, a motion-graphics package from Apple, will be available later this year for $299. That price point is a mixed blessing. On one hand, it makes it cheaper for ......
- She makes the cut(s).
Name: Nika Hunter Age: 32 Occupation: Commercial and music video editor Location: Santa Monica, California Duties: Dissects images, transforms film into the finished product seen on television. After a year or so at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Brooklyn native Nika Hunter changed her career aspirations from fashion to film ......
- Equipping Hollywood.
New Media Hollywood keeps post-production companies on the cutting edge with the latest in computer technology For seven years, Chris Speer worked out of a spare bedroom crammed with memory chips and mother boards. When an order came into his fledgling computer company - New Media Hollywood - he'd request ......