“I have been officially notified by The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences that I have been nominated for an Emmy Award for my sound recording work on the DreamWorks/ TNT mega miniseries Into the West (2005). The sound for Into the West was recorded on a DEVA II and backed up on a HHb Portadat. I start another miniseries for Lions Gate on July 19 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, tentatively called Motel Man. The sound will be recorded on a DEVA and a Sound Devices 744T.” Bayard Carey CAS “I am spending the summer working on the action film Shooter with Mark Wahlberg. The shoot takes us from glaciers to the African deserts.” Rob Young CAS (production mixer), Mike Hibberson (boom) and Karen Schell (assistant). “I’m excited about getting a primetime Emmy nomination for Sleeper Cell. I am currently mixing Dexter for Showtime with Kraig Kishi and Russell MacAbee. Wife Andrea is remodeling the bathroom. Lots of dust!” Roger Pietschmann CAS
Lori Dovi CAS finished mixing on Carriers for Paramount in New Mexico with Matthew Halbert booming and Misty Conn as utility/second boom. “Hi to all. I have been lucky enough to be working on these films lately: Bobby, Smiley Face, and Sex and Death 101. Hope you are all doing well.” Coleman Metts CAS “I have finished Music & Lyrics By in New York starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore, followed by some additional days on Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. I’m off to Austin, Texas, to work on Kimberly Peirce’s film which is as yet untitled. Hope everyone’s having a good year.” Danny Michael CAS
Sony-Feature Films: Kevin O’Connell and Greg Russell CAS have just completed Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby in the Cary Grant Theatre. They are currently temping Deja Vu for director Tony Scott and will be finalizing right after. Gary Bourgeois CAS and Greg Orloff CAS are currently mixing All the King’s Men in the Anthony Quinn Theatre. Television: On Stage 6, Rusty Smith CAS and Bill Freesh are mixing HBO’s Deadwood. Jeff Haboush CAS and Bill Benton CAS are working on a new DVD version of The Natural. Haboush recently finished Click and is preparing for Nancy Meyers’ new film The Holiday. In the Kim Novak Theater, Steve Maslow and Tateum Kohut CAS are wrapping up the final mix of Rocky Balboa.
Paul Vik Marshall CAS is working on a Suzuki commercial in Utah, Oregon and Washington for Aero Film with boom operator Mitch Cohn.
Frank Morrone CAS has just finished dubbing the film Partition and is getting ready to mix the third season of Lost on the newly installed ICON at Buena Vista Post.
Peter Kurland CAS is just finishing No Country for Old Men with Randy Johnson on boom and Cole Gittinger as utility with a guest appearance by Joe Brennan on boom. Yes it’s all in the deserts of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Marfa, Texas, but the dust and cacti are pleasantly cool as we’re shooting mostly at night.
mixer Dave Humphries CAS has been back in
Brian Simmons CAS is currently
the theatre at Future Post in London, mixing Shadow Man starring Steven Seagal with director Michael Keusch, and The Detonator starring Wesley Snipes for director Po-Chih Leong.
shooting 1408 at Elstree Studios, London, with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson. Director Mikael Hafström. Colin Wood—boom and Cecilia Lanzi—cableperson. Deva rocks!
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Wearing his other hat, Humphries has been shooting location ADR for Alfonso Cuarón’s film Children of Men in Thailand, and he’s also been Foley editing on Broken Thread starring Linus Roache, Saffron Burrows and Andrea Corr, directed by Mahesh Mathai and on Nobody the Great directed by Kara Miller.
SUMMER 2006
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Ken S. Polk CAS and Ezra Dweck have recently completed two more film projects back-to-back: Crank for Lionsgate/Lakeshore, opens September 1, and The Music Within will be opening at the Toronto Film Festival this fall. Ken had just completed the mix on Jake Paltrow’s The Good Night before starting the Crank mix, and is now taking a bit of a break to complete a CD/record project he is producing and engineering before starting the next film. “I have finished the final mix of the movie Beauty in the Troubles from director Jan Hrebejk. Before that I spent a short time with second unit on Casino Royale and now I am recording (with boom operator Jan Skala) location sound for the new Czech movie Small Bear.” Sincerely, Michal Holubec CAS During hiatus, Nicholas Allen CAS and his crew, Ron Wright (boom operator) and Chuck Homyak (utility), finished up the West Coast portion of The Savages, an indie feature starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney, Directed by Tamara Jenkins. Currently, Nicholas and the team are working away on Bruckheimer Television/Warner Brothers new series, Justice. Slick sets, tons of dialogue, two camera’s wide and tight and HD, so let’s get the wireless out. It’s all OK because we embrace the challenge and “keep ’em sounding sweet!”
Jay Meagher CAS (sound mixer) and crew, Randy Pease (boom operator) and Chris Jones (cable), completed this summer Jim Carrey’s movie The Number 23 for New Line. I am currently on Paramount Pictures Resurrecting the Champ, a Samuel L. Jackson and Josh Hartnett picture in Calgary with Peter Melnychuk (boom operator) and Mike Markiw (cable).
Dave Fluhr CAS and Kevin Carpenter completed Paramount’s Black Snake Moan with director Craig Brewer, due out in February 2007. David and his new partner, Myron Nettinga, mixed their first film together, Barnyard, for Steve