Mekanism is an independent creative advertising agency with offices in New York, San Francisco and Chicago and Seattle. Recently, I had a chance to chat with Sarah DiLeo, Executive Producer & Managing Director at Mek Studios, Mekanism’s full service in-house production and post company, about them and the work they do. DiLeo is currently located […]
Technicolor Buys On Premise Company The Room
Why did it take three years for Technicolor-PostWorks to decide to buy The Room, a 4K-capable finishing team that Technicolor housed in its Leroy Street facility?
FuseFX Goes Gotham, Makes Its Broadway Debut
Burbank-based FuseFX has gone to Gotham, opening up a new shop in the city’s Soho-area. We attended the opening celebrations at Soho-based FuseFX NY, which is already busily working away on the hit NBC series ‘The Blacklist’ and POWERS, for the new Sony Playstation Network…
Burbank’s Hot VFX Shop FuseFX Sets Up in Soho
FuseFX’s New York office throws its opening party this coming week. So who is FuseFX and why should that be important? Well, the Burbank-based company is setting up shop in Gotham to get in on the rocketing call for VFX for shows like “The Blacklist” and POWERS
New Stages Made From Old Staten Island Prison
Greenpoint-based Broadway Stages will create what is said to be the second-largest film and TV production complex outside of Hollywood after it renovates the closed Arthur Kill prison on Staten Island. The company plans to create a 69-acre complex larger than the City’s most spacious production lot, Steiner Studios in the old Brooklyn Navy Yard. Broadway Stages will […]
Major New York Metro Area Lighting & Grip House THOMAS CESTARE LIGHTING Equipment Auction Set For Early-June
It’s tough to see a family-owned business like lighting and grip rental house Thomas Cesare hang up the “For Sale” shingle. Not too much of a surprise though: In business since 1972, the Mineola-based operation faced an increasingly competitive market that requires considerable investment to stay current…
NEP Studios Creates News Center for Arise Networks in New York
NEP Studios has developed a fully integrated production space for the New York news center of Arise Networks, a newly launched global television network that will deliver news, current events, and entertainment programming to audiences across the United States, Europe, and Africa…
Previs Studio First In City To Offer Inertial Motion Capture
Pre-visualization boutiqueEdit1 has become the first studio in New York to offer state-of-the-art “inertial” motion capture which provides tremendous advantages over more traditional “optical” motion capture…
Nice Shoes Adds Latest Sony OLED Monitors
Nice Shoes adds Sony’s Sony OLED BVM-F250 monitor to its line-up, further adding to its use of Sony technology, which ranges from cameras to decks to displays…
Nice Shoes Expands with New Color Suite and Baselight TWO Systems
To kick off 2013, Nice Shoes has added a pair of Baselight TWO systems, one of which will form their brand new color suite. The new suite has been added in order to take on more projects during peak hours. “We saw an opportunity to offer our clients more flexibility and convenience,” said Head of Color Lenny Mastrandrea. “We’re able to take on more long form and non-broadcast work in addition to our traditional commercial workload.”