beep Gallery artist Jen Ditchick's popular photographic series “It’s A Ducks Life” will be hitting the art circuit...
GET:ART
In February 2007, GET: ART will
once again bring together an interested public with curated
works by stellar artists
of eclectic talents via a unique format: all artworks will be
grouped into 6 price points between $100 and $2,500.
All sales benefit Project Angel Food’s free meal-delivery program with the mission to
nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDs and other
serious illnesses. Over 1,300 meals are delivered every day to clients ranging in age
from 8-101
FRIDAY 02.16.2007 7pm-10pm Opening reception & sale Hors d’oeuvers & no host bar
SATURDAY 02.17.2007 10am-5pm Open house sale
At the main galleries of Bonhams & Butterfields. 7601 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90046
Universal Pictures – Holly Bario has been named executive vp production.
HBO Films – Julie Goldstein has come aboard as senior vp.
20th Century Fox – Chris Petrikin has joined as senior vp corporate communications.
Paramount Pictures – Nancy Kirkpatrick is leaving her post as executive vp worldwide publicity to start her own company; plans to handle film publicity from preproduction through DVD release on a project-by-project basis and will maintain a relationship with Paramount, working on their titles.
Paramount Pictures - Eric Kops is leaving his post as senior vp publicity to start his own company; has worked in marketing at Sony Pictures and MGM and has 16 projects in development for his new shingle.
Fangoria Entertainment – established a feature division and tapped studio exec Brian Witten to head up the banner; will focus on original horror-genre projects and forge alliances with studios and indies for production and distribution.
Unnamed - Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey are forming a new performance capture film company based at Walt Disney Studios; the company will perform all of the technique’s labor-intensive functions in-house; Disney will distribute and market its films worldwide.
New Movies:
“Nottingham” – Universal Pictures; Imagine Entertainment, Brian Grazer; no dir. attached yet; Russell Crowe to star.
“Nights in Rodanthe” – Warner Bros.; Village Roadshow Pictures; no dir. attached yet; Richard Gere and Diane Lane to star; shooting to begin in late May.
“Invaders” – Warner Bros. Pictures; Thunder Road; Pierce/Williams Entertainment; spec script purchased from scribe Jayson Rothwell.
“Christmas in Connecticut” remake – Warner Bros. Pictures; no writer assigned yet; Jennifer Garner set to topline the pic.
Okay we’re off to the start of hopefully a beautiful 2007. Here are a few of my favs to kick off the new year!
FAVORITE MOVIE:
DREAMGIRLS (I know this came out in 2006 – but it’s still playing in 2007 – had to discuss)
Based on the 1981 Broadway musical comes Dreamgirls (which I was so fortunate to see as a little girl), a story of greed, tough hate, and romance. Three young women Deena Jones (Knowles), Effie White (Hudson), and Lorrell Robinson (Rose) desire to become pop stars and get their wish when they're picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early (Murphy). Then they're set free for leads, but Curtis Taylor (Foxx) and Effie's brother C.C. (Robinson) decide for Deena to be lead which upsets Effie.
This movie contains both original Broadway and new songs and it's one movie that the whole family will enjoy! With Beyonce Knowles, Jennifer Hudson, Anika Noni Rose, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx, Keith Robinson, and Danny Glover!
Bill Condon's glitzy adaptation of the '80s Broadway hit reaches a very high peak with its centrepiece. As Effie, the most talented but least svelte member of a Supremes-like group named the Dreams, Jennifer Hudson sings "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going" with such desperate fury and unbridled chutzpah.
It's also got a refreshingly cynical take on the clash between entrepreneurial drive and artistic fulfillment, the former quality being embodied by the Dreams' slick manager Curtis Taylor Jr. (Jamie Foxx). He wants to get black talent on the white pop charts without losing control to The Man. With great success comes ever greater compromises and he betrays Effie when he makes the more crossover-friendly Deena (Beyoncé Knowles) the Dreams' lead singer. R&B star James "Thunder" Early (Eddie Murphy) also bucks at Curtis' control.
Go see this in the theaters before it goes to DVD – LOVE LOVE LOVE.
FAVORITE TV SHOW:
THE OFFICE
Based on the popular British series of the same name, this faster-paced American version follows the daily interactions of a group of idiosyncratic office employees via a documentary film crew's cameras.
If youve ever worked in a modern office youll like this show. Hilarious and emotional............
Filled with so many ups and downs. The branch is closed, the branch is saved, Jim is back, Jim doesn't want to go back, Jim is back!_Between the sheer hilarity of the stupidity of Dwight and Michael esp. at the end.."We did it! We did it" and the roller coaster of happiness YEA!! Jim and Pam will see each other again.
SO FUNNY – great way to spend a Thursday night! NBC @ 8pm
Wishing all of you a fabulous new year – looking forward to all the faves in 2007.
Love,
Jen D
ps - here is a mushy clip of Pam & Jim moments just for fun :)
Universal Pictures – Lawrence Grey is finalizing an agreement to join as vp production; was most recently vp at Fox Atomic.
BermanBraun – production venture, currently in formative stage, formed by former Paramount Pictures president Gail Berman and former Yahoo! Media Group chief Lloyd Braun; company aims to focus primarily on TV and film production at the outset but will delve into original content for Internet and emerging media platforms.
20th Century Fox – Hutch Parker has been upped to vice chairman of 20th Century Fox Film Group and will now be overseeing both 20th Century Fox and Fox Animation; Vanessa Morrison has been upped to president of Fox Animation; Emma Watts and Alex Young to serve as co-prexies of production at 20th Century Fox; Debbie Liebling is moving from exec VP of production at 20th Century Fox to president of production at Fox Atomic.
DreamWorks Animation – Aardman, the British claymation giant, has officially terminated its five-picture deal with DreamWorks.
New Movies:
“Australia” – 20th Century Fox; dir. by Baz Luhrmann; David Wenham to appear opposite Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman; shooting begins in April in northern Australia.
“NowhereLand” – Paramount Pictures, Lorenzo di Bonaventura; scripted by Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson; no dir. attached yet; starring vehicle for Eddie Murphy; studio has greenlit the film for a summer start.
“Alvin and the Chipmunks” – Fox 2000 and Fox Animation; Bagdasarian Prods., Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and Janice Karman; Tim Hill in negotiations to direct.
“Lions for Lambs” – United Artists; dir. by Robert Redford; Derek Luke set to star joining cast that includes Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Redford and Michael Pena.
Paramount Pictures – Gail Berman stepped down as president and Allison Shearmur will also step down as co-president of production as chairman and CEO Brad Grey restructures the studio into four labels: DreamWorks, headed by co-chairman Stacey Snider; MTV Films/Nickelodeon Movies, led by president Scott Aversano; Paramount Pictures, run by president of production Brad Weston; and Paramount Vantage, headed by president John Lesher.
DreamWorks – marketing head Terry Press is stepping down to form her own, as-yet-unnamed marketing company.
Sony Pictures – Adrian Alperovich named senior executive vp and general manager of acquisitions; Lara Thompson named senior vp acquisitions; Scott Shooman upped to executive director of acquisitions; Lia Buman named director of acquisitions; Fritz Friedman to manage the publicity and corporate communication for acquisitions team.
DreamWorks – Sony’s Christine Birch to serve as president of marketing.
New Movies:
“Mamma Mia!” – Universal Pictures; Playtone; Phyllida Lloyd in negotiations to make feature directorial debut; Meryl Streep set to star.
“Synecdoche, New York” – Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, William Horbert; Likely Story, Anthony Bregman; directorial debut of Charlie Kaufman; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams, Samantha Morton and Tilda Swinton in negotiations to star.
“Special Topics in Calamity Physics” – Miramax Films, Scott Rudin; novel hit bestseller lists last summer.
Now that the holiday madness is over, I'm finally able to schedule semi-productive work days, which means catching up on a lot of loose ends and to-do's that are still lingering from 2006.
One such over-due update is a big THANK YOU to my new friends at The Winning Pitch, who wrote the nicest things about Aunt Beep & all the changes going on around here in their super-fabulous blog:
Yes, it's true. As of February, Aunt Beep is getting an overhaul. Like the woman who inspired the site, Aunt Beep
is constantly reinventing itself and evolving as need times and desires
change. The creative, unpredictable blog we've come to love will be
expanding its horizons (and its reader base, I'll venture to bet) in
'07.
What (or who) is Aunt Beep? Imagine having your best pal save you
the trouble of surfing the web and sorting out life's discoveries - and
then telling you her findings so you don't have to discover those
answers on your own. It's a bit like the with equal doses of style,
design and technology thrown in for good measure... [read more]
I'm so thrilled the savvy professionals like The Winning Pitch are catching on to what we're doing here. If you haven't been getting our new and improved newsletters, then you've probably missed that Beep has merged with Delight.com, and we're launching a whole new ecommerce experience very very soon. Go over to Delight.com and sign up for our gorgeous weekly newsletter and see what all the fuss is about.
Beep isn't going anywhere...just getting better, thanks to all of you!
So back in October, I blogged on ThisNext about the big trend we were seeing of modernized takes on the classic stuffed deer head trophy wall piece. Which I thereby coined, Faux Trophy.
That was back in October: http://blog.thisnext.com/blog/its-hunting-season.html
This past week it came to my attention that the trend has all but dissipated - and in fact, may be going stronger than ever.
For me, I love it.
I love a good deer head for many reasons, least of all - it's not a real deer, they have a grand, opulent presence about them, and all these new materials that are being used to re-create the classic masculine icon are simply fabulous. Kitschy, obnoxious and fabulous.
The topic is slowly spidering it's way through the blogosphere, and, as I haven't posted anything in a while, I figured what could be more random that starting the new year off on the Beep Blog than with a post about Faux Trophy?
See more of my Faux Trophy discoveries at ThisNext, and let me know what you think.
After 3 years, we're changing things up a bit and bringing you a whole new Beep. We are currently exploring / expanding / inventing. And it's gonna be fabulous. Look for a whole new Aunt
Beep experience February 1, 2007.
In the meantime, please bookmark our blog and be sure to join our mailing list to receive updates (and prizes!) about our new launch, as well as the infamous Beep In A Week newsletter...a must for your Friday reading pleasure.
Also, be sure to check out Aunt Beep's posts on the ThisNext.com blog - I'll be scouring the web to report all the coolest discoveries in art, design, media, literature, parenting/kids and travel.
If you have any questions about AuntBeep.com
represented designers and artists, please feel free to email us at
mail[at]auntbeep[dot]com.
New Line Cinema – Richard Brener has been promoted to senior executive vp and chief operating officer of New Line Prods.
Mandalay Pictures – Oscar-winning producer Cathy Schulman has been named president of Mandalay Pictures.
Mekhi Phifer is launching a production company to be based at John Wells’ production shingle on the Warners lot.
New Movies:
“The Tingler” – Columbia Pictures; Original Film, Neal Moritz; Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan to pen a rewrite of the horror remake.
“Passengers” – Columbia Pictures; Mandate Pictures, Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane (exec. prods.); Mockingbird Pictures, Julie Lynn; Intuition Prods., Keri Selig; Persistent Entertainment, Judd Payne and Matthew Rhods; dir. by Rodrigo Garcia; Patrick Wilson has signed on to star joining Anne Hathaway.
“The Tourist” – Seed Prods., Arnold Rifkin and Christopher Eberts; dir. by Marcel Langenegger; stars Natasha Henstridge, alongside Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor.
Indiana Jones IV – Paramount Pictures; Lucasfilm Ltd., Frank Marshall, George Lucas and Kathy Kennedy; dir. by Steven Spielberg; written by David Koepp; starring George Harrison; title of new film as well as its story line are currently under wraps; production to begin in June and release date has been set for May 2008.
“21” – Columbia Pictures, Elizabeth Cantillon and DeVon Franklin; dir. by Robert Luketic; starring Jim Sturgess; shooting to begin in February; Masi Oka (“Heroes”) has been cast.
“Stardust” – Paramount Pictures, Brad Weston and Dan Levine; dir. by Matthew Vaughn; cast includes Claire Danes, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Charlie Cox; Ian McKellen signed on to voice narrator; currently in post production to be released July 2007.
“Outsourced” – Columbia Pictures, Jonathan Kadin and Doug Belgrad; directorial debut of Hank Azaria; pitch was bought as a starring vehicle for Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, however, no cast is currently attached.
I don't know what Vogue says about her (I can only really speak French while drinking wine heavily), but she looks great, and Kristopher Dukes has for a long time been my go-to girl for all things fabulous.
But don't let her waify good looks fool ya...KD blasts Jay Z louder than anyone, and she can strut for miles in 6 inch heels only women of a questionable profession would dream of wearing.
20th Century Fox – Jeffrey Godsick named president of marketing at new joint
venture between Fox and Walden Media.
Warner Independent Pictures – Erin O’Neil upped to senior VP of creative
advertising; has been with WIP since inception.
Sony Pictures Entertainment – Mitch Singer named to the newly created post
of chief technology office; has been head of SPE’s digital policy group
since 2001.
The Weinstein Co. is forming a faith-based distribution label and inking a
first-look production deal with Christian shingle Impact Entertainment. TWC
will finance, co-produce and distribute the theatrical pics under the
multiyear deal. Goal is eventually to release six theatrical titles per
year.
New Movies:
“The Express” – Universal Pictures, Peter Cramer and Erik Baiers; dir. by
Gary Fleder; stars Dennis Quaid; latest draft of script by Charles Leavitt
(“Blood Diamond”); shooting scheduled to begin in March.
“In the Valley of Elah” – new additions to cast: James Franco, Frances
Fisher, Tim McGraw, Jason Patric and Mehcad Brooks.
beep Gallery artist Jen Ditchick's popular photographic series “It’s A Ducks Life” will be hitting the art circuit...
