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Winter 2016

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for Showtime. Prior to the holidays, they completed Damien for A&E and are look- ing forward to the Lionsgate program Graves for Epix in early 2016! They wish everybody a Happy New Year! Aron Siegel CAS and crew of boom op Kurt Peterson and sound utility Chris Mills, finished 2015 with the start of Morgan Creek's Tupac Shakur biopic: All Eyez on Me, directed by Benny Boom. Earlier, Aron and Kurt completed Neighbors 2, starring Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, and Chloe Grace Moretz for Universal. Lisa Piñero CAS mixed the Los Angeles days for the feature. With the help of boom op and CAS Associate Allen Williams, Aron also mixed the Savannah, Georgia- based Amazon TV pilot Z: The Beginning of Everything, starring Christina Ricci as writer F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Fitzgerald (directed by Tim Blake Nelson). Aron and Allen, with the help of utility Chris Mills, were additionally responsible for the Atlanta unit of MGM's Creed. Thanks to mixer Damien Canelos for the bulk of the feature and some great work. Immediately before Creed, Aron Siegel, along with Allen and Chris, spent the summer months with director John Lee Hancock on the Weinstein feature The Founder, starring Oscar nominee Michael Keaton playing MacDonald's founder Ray Kroc. Post mix is being done by David Fluhr CAS. Kevin Hill CAS and the team at Studio Unknown have had a very busy summer and fall with some great new projects. Several films that we've recently mixed are receiving high ratings through various VOD and streaming outlets, including Altered Minds, starring Judd Hirsch and C.S. Lee, directed by Michael Z. Wechsler; Unbranded, a feature documentary where four young cowboys hatch an outrageous plot to adopt, train, and ride a string of wild mustangs 3,000 miles from Mexico to Canada through the wildest terrain of the American West; A Year and Change, starring Bryan Greenberg and Jamie Chung, and This Isn't Funny, a Paul Ashton film, starring Ashton, Mimi Rogers, and Anthony LaPaglia. We are now gearing up this month to mix The Force, a film by Rafael Palacio Illingworth, starring Analeigh Tipton and Ben Feldman. We are also very excited to be mixing an eight-epi- sode series called In Search of Speed, a TV special chronicling the men and women of the US ski team on their quest to conquer the Alpine World Ski Championships in Vail, Colorado, this year. Gary D. Rogers CAS and Dan Hiland CAS are mixing the sixth season of The Walking Dead for AMC, the fourth season of Arrow for The CW, and the third sea- son of Turn: Washington's Spys for AMC on Dub Stage 1 at Warner Bros. Burbank. The big news is that Lotus Post in Santa Monica has joined the Smart Post fam- ily, taking the name Smart Post West. Through the seamless transition, the facility was host to the domestic mix for the re-release of Werner Herzog's Queen of the Desert, with Michael Perricone CAS behind the console in Stage A. Also in Stage A, Perricone mixed the charming indie London Town. On Stage B, Ken Polk CAS was busy mixing The Land, while the Fox series Bones continued its run on Stage B, with Larry Benjamin CAS and Kevin Valentine at the helm. Gavin Fernandes CAS is finally cool in the eyes of his kids after being asked to mix 80 minutes of cinematics for Quantum Break at Game On Audio. After that, it's the MOW Disorderly Conduct in Toronto, then back to Montreal for two feature docs. The feature film Goon 2 is slated for April. John Pritchett CAS and his crew, Dave Roberts, boom, and Shawn Harper, util- ity, recently finished the second season of HBO's acclaimed series The Leftovers. Shot on location in and around Austin, TX, the series revolves around the aftermath of a still unexplained event when 2% of the world's population suddenly disap- pears into thin air. Under the guidance of director Mimi Leder and writer/producer Damon Lindelof, the show stars Justin Theroux, Liv Tyler, and an amazing cast. Earlier last year, John and crew did several pilots including the much anticipated new series, Westworld, also for HBO. Steve Morantz CAS had a busy 2015 with pilots, feature pickups and re-shoots, buying a new house, and a lot of day playing. He finished the year off mixing the Will Ferrell-Amy Poehler movie The House. He wants to thank ALL the mix- ers who helped him out: Beau Baker CAS, Brett Grant-Grierson CAS, Buck Karol Urban CAS MPSE is beginning the second half of Season 12 of Grey's Anatomy for ABC and Kingdom for audi- ence on DIRECTV at Westwind Media. Additionally, the sus- pense/thriller/comedy Director's Cut, a film directed by Adam Rifkin, starring Missi Pyle and Penn Gillete that she co-super- vised and mixed with Steve Urban MPSE, has sold out Slamdance and is getting additional screening days scheduled. It is slated to have its theatrical debut in February. Mark Rozett CAS returned from a month in Beijing mixing Mojin: The Lost Legend at China Film Group. He's now putting the finishing touches on two Sundance docs—We Are X and Gleason. After a well-deserved three weeks of holi- day break, Steve Nelson CAS is happy to be getting back to work on Season 3 of The Last Ship (TNT), with his fantastic crew of Knox White and John Sheridan. The break was lovely and full of family and friends and many adventures, includ- ing watching his daughter be sworn in to the bar, visiting the LACMA Rain Room twice, seeing the fully restored Orson Welles masterpiece Chimes at Midnight at Cinefamily, enjoying a night at the the- ater, eating (too) many good meals, seeing a good print (Blu-ray) of Carl Dreyer's magnificent The Passion of Joan of Arc, with a live vocal accompaniment by the Orlando Consort, specialists in polyphonic medi- eval music at the Music Academy of the West here in Santa Barbara, watching lots of screeners (thanks CAS!), and doing not quite enough cycling (you can't have everything). It's a good start and I wish you all a very good year! Brendan Beebe CAS is starting Big Little Lies for HBO, with Dennis Fuller and Sean Byrnes. Jean-Marc Vallée is directing all episodes and understands the value of good sound! Always a treat! Todd Grace CAS and Ed Carr CAS con- tinue to be busy on Warner Bros. Dubbing Stage 2. Currently, they are mixing the hit show Limitless for CBS, Season 3 of Sleepy Hollow for Fox, and Season 6 of Shameless 44 W I N T E R 2 0 1 6 C A S Q U A R T E R L Y

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