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VOICE: JASMINE SAFAEIAN; IRELAND: SHUTTERSTOCK<br />
Costumes Find<br />
Their ‘Voice’<br />
No material is off limits for “The Voice” head<br />
costume designer Erin Hirsh — including<br />
the bullet casings and NASA-developed<br />
lightning technology she once worked<br />
into Kanye West’s illuminated jacket and<br />
sunglasses.<br />
Having worked on eight of the show’s<br />
nine seasons, Hirsh always begins her<br />
process by sending contestants style<br />
sheets a few weeks ahead of their first<br />
appearance to learn about color and fashion<br />
preferences.<br />
Once the season of live shows gets<br />
under way, her timeline doesn’t always<br />
allow her to build each individual costume.<br />
Instead, she’ll embellish found<br />
items with fun fabric or objects.<br />
In addition to avoiding cloth such as<br />
nylon and linen that display poorly on<br />
camera, she eschews materials that affect<br />
sound quality — always checking in with<br />
sound engineers before adding embellishments<br />
or jewelry.<br />
“I like to take things out of context,”<br />
says Hirsh, “like going into Home Depot<br />
PRODUCTION CHART<br />
TITLE/DISTRIB PRODUCTION DIRECTOR CAST SHOOT START LOCATION<br />
Before I Fall<br />
The Bye Bye Man<br />
Emerald City<br />
(series) NBC<br />
The Girl on the Train<br />
Touchstone Pictures<br />
Overanalyzers<br />
(pilot)<br />
INCENTIVES<br />
The<br />
Green I$le<br />
For the discerning producer,<br />
Ireland offers a plethora of<br />
shooting possibilities: rolling<br />
hills, rocky bluffs, sparkling<br />
lakes, charming hamlets and<br />
rustic farmhouses. The nation’s<br />
film commission maintains<br />
offices not only in Ireland<br />
but also in North America<br />
to facilitate the production<br />
process for Hollywood execs.<br />
Another sweetener: a recently<br />
raised, hefty tax credit perproject<br />
cap of €70 million<br />
($78 million).<br />
Awesomeness Films,<br />
Jon Shestack Prods.<br />
Intrepid Pictures,<br />
Los Angeles Media Fund<br />
Universal Television<br />
DreamWorks Studios,<br />
Marc Platt Prods.<br />
DRESSED TO SING<br />
Costume<br />
designer Erin<br />
Hirsh, left,<br />
preps season<br />
seven contestant<br />
Reagan James<br />
on “The Voice.”<br />
Ry Russo-Young Zoey Deutch 11/16 Vancouver<br />
Stacy Title Douglas Smith, Doug Jones 11/2 Cleveland<br />
Tarsem Singh<br />
Vincent D’Onofrio,<br />
Adria Arjona<br />
11/16 Budapest<br />
Tate Taylor Emily Blunt, Chris Evans 11/11 New York<br />
Comedy Central Bryan Poyser Echo Kellum 11/9 Atlanta<br />
Data provided by Variety Insight. For a complete list of films in production, visit varietyinsight.com<br />
IRELAND<br />
and grabbing material I can work into<br />
a design.”<br />
She particularly enjoys creating costumes<br />
for those individuals who may not<br />
easily find stage-worthy clothing.<br />
“I love working with plus size contestants<br />
to create things they feel great in,”<br />
she says.<br />
— Marj Galas<br />
“Miss Julie”<br />
“The Tudors”<br />
“Leap Year”<br />
32%<br />
Tax incentive<br />
for eligible Irish<br />
expenditures,<br />
including cost<br />
of cast and crew<br />
working in Ireland,<br />
plus goods and<br />
services purchased<br />
there<br />
€139k<br />
Minimum eligible<br />
spend, or:<br />
€278k<br />
Minimum<br />
project total<br />
$78m<br />
Per-project<br />
cap<br />
Kodak<br />
Campus<br />
Goes Digital<br />
DAVE McNARY<br />
@variety_dmcnary<br />
Perhaps nothing better symbolizes Hollywood’s<br />
digital migration than the conversion<br />
of the historic Eastman Kodak<br />
complex on Santa Monica Boulevard — a<br />
longtime bastion of film technology —<br />
into a digital campus.<br />
The center opened in 1929. It’s where<br />
Kodak scientists developed the first<br />
motion picture film specifically designed<br />
for movies with audio. Cinematographers<br />
watched dailies in its screening room.<br />
But, as everyone knows, the growing<br />
use of digital-imaging technologies began<br />
to drive down film sales in the late 1990s<br />
— and Kodak struggled. The company<br />
filed for bankruptcy in 2012, and the main<br />
building was shuttered.<br />
Fast-forward to the present day. The<br />
SIM Group has announced the signing of<br />
a long-term lease for the 65,000-squarefoot<br />
facility. Following a multimillion-dollar<br />
buildout, per the company, the space<br />
is scheduled to reopen in April as a onestop<br />
shop for camera packages, workflow<br />
design and editing, housing three SIM<br />
units: equipment rental house SIM Digital,<br />
post-production shop Chainsaw, and<br />
Bling Digital, which provides workflow<br />
services and processing of dailies.<br />
“We are well aware of the irony of<br />
being an all-digital enterprise in the<br />
Kodak headquarters,” says James Martin,<br />
SIM Group’s chief strategy officer.<br />
“But with the expanded tax credit program<br />
in California and the digital business<br />
expanding, we see Los Angeles as the<br />
ideal location for our services.”<br />
Adds Chainsaw founder Bill DeRonde:<br />
“The history is what attracted us. Since<br />
we announced our lease agreement last<br />
month, we’ve been hearing from lots<br />
of d.p.’s who say, ‘You can’t believe how<br />
much history there is in that building.’ ”<br />
DIGITAL CONVERSION The SIM Group is<br />
taking over Hollywood’s old Kodak building.<br />
INFORMATION COURTESY OF EP FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS, A PRODUCTION<br />
INCENTIVE CONSULTING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPANY.<br />
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