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Miracle at St. Anna
 Tom Fleischman w/ Spike Lee in New York
Amazingly, Tom Fleischman is working on his 11th feature film for Spike Lee: Miracle At St. Anna, based on the best selling novel by James McBride. The film is due out in the second half of '08, and it's always a pleasure to have Spike and his crew in the shop.
  Beth Gimbrone w/ William H. Macy Andrea & Reuter w/ Tim Cawley
The Soundtrack Group was very proud to support the Nantucket Film Festival this year. Soundtrack and Finish worked alongside Brand Content, including producer Melanie Walsh and Chief Creative Director Doug Gladstone, to create a video for the festival's Screenwriting and Storytelling Award. This year the honoree was Judd Apatow, the screenwriter credited with such films as Knocked Up and 40 Year Old Virgin. Among the films screened at the festival was Well Founded Concerns directed by Tim Cawley of Hill Holliday. Finish's own Reuter edited the film and Mike Secher did the sound design and audio mixing. The festival was packed with unbelievable films, talented filmmakers and plenty of celebrity sightings. Congratulations to all the participants!
Finish at the A.I.C.E. Awards 
It's been a fantastic quarter for Finish! We were very excited when we found out that not one, but TWO of our editors were nominated for the "Best of Boston" award at the 7th Annual A.I.C.E. Awards Show, held at the Gotham Hall in New York City. The Soundtrack Group would like to congratulate Reuter for being nominated and Toar Winter for taking home the award (pictured above - Toar was camera shy). He was nominated for his work on "Mr. Breakfast," a :60 McDonald's spot for Dollar Menu Breakfast Food. You can check out "Mr.Breakfast," along with the other award-winning spots, on A.I.C.E.'s website. You can bet that we are already hard at work trying to make it two years in a row! Finish is busy cutting spots for Mullen, Hill Holliday and Arnold. Andrea Papazoglou, Executive Producer for Finish Editorial, said "The event was a blast and honored the work of editors, colorists and vfx artists from across the country. We were proud enough to have both Reuter and Toar nominated, but were overjoyed when Toar Winter was named the winner in the category."
To book Toar or Reuter, contact Andrea at Finish. Stage G Coming Soon To Boston  Soundtrack Boston is currently building a film style ADR room that will be fully equipped with a Panasonic video projector and a 90" Stewart projection screen, much like the ADR stage pictured above at Soundtrack Film & Television in New York. Thanks to the tax incentives in Massachusetts, Boston has been thriving with film work. Since 2006, Massachusetts has realized $545 million in direct new film-based revenue compared to $6 million the year before the tax credit was approved, according to the state’s Department of Revenue. We are all very excited about "Stage G," especially Kevin Jette, who will be running the room.
   Soundtrack New York recently added 4,000 square feet of production office/cutting room space near our mixing stages at Broadway and 21st Street. The space includes 10 rooms, lounge and kitchen space, plus a small outdoor platform for those who are 'nicotine challenged.' Some of the big assets are 3 Avid systems with unity storage, as well as on-site tech/assistant editor help, wi-fi, phones, fax, copiers and printers. "The space will help us be more of a complete resource from pre-production, to picture cutting, to sound prep and mixing," remarks COO Christopher Rich. "Combined with our space on 22nd street (another 8,000 square foot floor), we've got the capacity to be the defacto home for several productions at once." The history of the space is significant, it was Soundtrack's only presence in NYC in 1982, when the NY studios first opened. At the time, 3 recording studios serviced the growing advertising and record business.
  Soundtrack Boston also has production space available in Boston, which is pictured above. We have 1500 square feet of fully customizable space now available at 162 Columbus Ave. The rooms are fully furnished, with phone lines and wireless internet hooked up; it's ready for a group to make themselves at home for everything from pre-production, to extras holding, to editing suite rentals.
For more information go to,  A Note from RobFor over 30 years we've been steering The Soundtrack Group to a place where it has the size and capability to handle the largest national ad campaigns and mixing of A-list Hollywood features, yet small enough to know that you like your mocha lattes with just a dash of sugar. This newsletter is our way of keeping you in touch with the things that The Soundtrack Group is doing to use developing technology, a terrific staff and a little chutzpah to handle your projects.
  Howard Carle, Beth Gimbrone, & Sarah Rabdau w/ Sir Ben Kingsley, who stopped by to work on some ADR for The Love Guru in Boston  w/ Kevin McLaughlin & owater's company founder Tom First  Soundtrack Boston's Howard Carle w/ Mark Rufallo
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Summer 2008 | Vol. 19
Features: Miracle at St. Anna Nantucket Film Festival Toar At A.I.C.E. Stage G Coming To Boston New Production Space Photo Ops Soundbytes: Ads-Up - New York Ads-Up - Boston At The Movies Hot Wax The Finish Line AirCraft Music Library Ads-Up! - New York This quarter, Scott Cannizzaro worked on the Capitol One “Build Your Own Card” campaign and Gardasil web spots with Amy Teter from Rapp Collins. Marjorie Clark from Uniworld was back in with Burger King to record and mix "Crispy Chicken" and "News Alert" radio. Scott also worked with Andy Lerner from Rocket Surgery on a new radio campaign for Sylvan Learning Center, and completed three spots for Banfi Wines produced by Doug Gorannson. He has also been continuing to work with Luckie & Co., DDB, No Soap, Marquardt & Roche and Partners, Brand Architecture, Toth Brand Imaging, Decker Advertising and Uproar. Marjorie Clarke from Uniworld has been keeping Dan Brennan busy as well, working with American History for Time Warner and Colgate. He has also worked on several spots for Trahan, Burden & Charles, including Smart Balance, Hair Cuttery, Barron’s and Wall Street Journal. In addition, he has done several projects with Bose, Toth Brand Imaging, DDB and Uproar. Ads-Up! - Boston Summer is here and Kevin Jette is ready to move over to the new ADR stage we're building by working on film projects like My Best Friend's Girl with Kate Hudson and director Howard Deutch, The Box with Director Richard Kelly for Utopia Planitia Films, and Real Men Cry with director Brian Goodman, Mark Ruffalo and other supporting cast for Yari Film Group. Mike Letourneau has spent a lot of time this quarter working with Disney Theme Parks on Descriptive Video Services with Renee Ruthel from WGBH. He also recorded and mixed Twisted Tea Radio Testimonials for Boston Beer Company with Peter Gladstone, and JEA TV with Chris Perry from Arnold. Kevin McLaughlin is getting comfortable in his new home in Studio E while recording and mixing owater spots with Jacoby Ellsbury from the Red Sox, Tom First (former Juice Guy) and Kim Stewart from obeverages. Paul Steven Stone also came in to work on 11 new TV spots for WB Mason and Gearon Hoffman's Chris Castagnola, not to mention Sara O'Reilly stopped by to record and mix Museum of Science's "Baseball As America" radio. In addition to rediscovering his love for the pan-flute, Brian McKeever has been busy juggling projects like the ServiceMaster TV campaign with John Markham and John Cruz from Archer Malmo, and the New England Toyota Summer Sales Event with Sherry McLenon and Marty Klar. He also worked with Viewpoint Creative on the Tru TV promos with Dana Isenberg. Howard Carle recorded, mixed and sound designed 5 TV spots for Stop & Shop and Giant with Jen McKenzie, Rachel Guay and Jess Manning from Mullen, as well as recorded and mixed 4 TV spots for Comcast with Peter Pappas from 8 Beacon Partners and Paul Gattusso from Paul's Place. He also did ADR with Sir Ben Kingsley for Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment's The Love Guru. Brian Heidebrecht recorded and mixed the "Mr. Breakfast" TV spot with Sean Vernaglia, Chris Edwards, Bob Pye, Pete Harvey and Pam Coatti from Arnold, and the "Annika Storenstam" and "Billie Jean King" Merrill Lynch TV spots for Gail Schoenbraun and Kim Daniels at Boathouse. He also worked with Jim Buckley and Dan Jordan from Hill Holliday on a Chili's radio spot called "Fajita/Shoes." Mike Secher composed the music for Dunkin Donuts "Uphill Battle" spots with Brad Powell from Hill Holliday, as well as created sound design and orignial music for the Orbitz New TV campaign with Zeke Bowman from Mullen. He also mixed and sound designed the Progressive "Superstore - Motorcycle" spots with Sarah Spitz from Arnold. At The Movies As well as hosting talent for a litany of network shows, Soundtrack FT is fast becoming the ADR hub in NY for feature film work. A sampling of the talent rolling through our doors now includes Abigail Breslin, Bill Hader, Susan Sarandon, Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman, Ethan Hawke, Christopher Walken, Sarah Jessica Parker and John Cleese, just to name a few. On the documentary side, Mark DeSimone recently completed all sound post work for the highly acclaimed HBO doc Hard Times At Douglas High, which is also making the festival rounds. Mark did the sound prep, narration work and mix for the show over the course of several months. And if you have a child under the age of 12 you're probably well aware of Nickelodeon's Naked Brothers Band, which was edited by Louis Bertini and mixed by Colin Weeks. Just as Season 2 has wrapped, we are already gearing up for Season 3, which should prove to be another musical / comedy tour-de-force. Hot Wax 2008 continues to boom in the music department. With the highly anticipated release of Coldplay's Viva La Vida which included the mixes of engineers Andy Wallace, John O’Mahony and Jan Petrov. Our amazing engineers were also involved in a song mix for the super group 3 Doors Down that will be featured in this year's 2008 Summer Olympics. Soundtrack contributed their talents to the mixing of several other upcoming releases including the bands Dashboard Confessional, Good Charlotte, Guns N Roses, Plain White T's and Clarke Sisters featuring Robert Randolph. Finish has been busy! Toar Winter has been working with Greg Roman and Magic Box on some Bank of America projects. Reuter and Tim Montgomery have done several Stop & Shop spots with Jen McKenzie and others from Mullen. Mechanica and Alyson Singer have been keeping Tim Kane busy working on Fallon Community Health Plan. Kat Baker has edited various Dunkin Donuts spots with Hill Holliday and Jillian Ring, as well as some spots with Picture Park and Mark Hankey. Bruce Bolden has been working on Subway with MMB and Sara Ventetuolo. AirCraft Music Library AirCraft just released 4 new albums: Alternative Rock Vol.2, Hip-Hop POP, Urban Hip-Hop and Tex-Mex, not to mention they have some Election News, Acoustic Guitar Rock, News Bumpers & Stings and Sports music in the works. They also just finished remixing a collection of pieces from recent albums in 5.1 surround. Click here to download samples of these surround mixes. AirCraft is always available to do free music searches, write custom music, and provide you with flexible licensing options. Start by searching and previewing the entire library to date at, productionmusicnow.com. |
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