Director Scott Vincent has signed with bicoastal/international hungry man. Vincent is still a creative director at Fallon, Minneapolis…..Director Olivier Venturini has signed with Los Angeles-headquartered A Band Apart for commercial representation…. Shares of common stock in Minneapolis-headquartered iNTELEFILM have been delisted from NASDAQ. Those shares now become eligible to trade on the OTC (Over-The-Counter) Bulletin Board, which is owned and operated by NASDAQ. Such a change in stock market status is generally the result of a company falling below the net tangible asset threshold required to remain listed on the NASDAQ exchange INTELFILM plans to ask that the NASDAQ Listing Council review the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel’s decision to delist the company, which is the parent to such shops as bicoastal/international Chelsea Pictures, New York-headquartered Curious Pictures, New York-based hybrid strategic consulting/agency/production shop D-CODE, and webADTV, Minneapolis….Kathryn Turk has been named executive producer at Motel Films, a Hollywood house with a directorial roster that includes company principal Rick Dublin, Todd Korgan, Randy Spear and Walter Pawluk….Editor Andrew Borton, whose prior roosts include Avenue, Santa Monica, and Rye Films, also Santa Monica, has joined Stun Gun, an Irvine, Calif-based editorial, design and finishing house…Sausalito, Calif.-based ad agency Butler, Shine & Stern has acquired PenaBrand, a San Francisco design firm which handles graphic design and Web marketing for clients. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. PenaBrand was founded in 1998 by Luis Pena, who had previously worked for Butler, Shine & Stern; Young & Rubicam, New York; and Katsin-Loeb, San Francisco….Director Antoine Fuqua has wrapped his feature film Training Day and is returning to commercials via bicoastal/international Propaganda Films….
Review: Writer-Director Mark Anthony Green’s “Opus”
In the new horror movie "Opus," we are introduced to Alfred Moretti, the biggest pop star of the '90s, with 38 No. 1 hits and albums as big as "Thriller," "Hotel California" and "Nebraska." If the name Alfred Moretti sounds more like a personal injury attorney from New Jersey, that's the first sign "Opus" is going to stumble.
John Malkovich leans into his regular off-kilter creepy to play the unlikely pop star at the center of this serious misfire by the A24 studio, a movie that also manages to pull "The Bear" star Ayo Edebiri back to earth. How both could be totally miscast will haunt your dreams.
Writer-director Mark Anthony Green has created a pretty good premise: A massive pop star who went quiet for the better part of three decades reemerges with a new album — his 18th studio LP, called "Caesar's Request" — and invites a select six people to come to his remote Western compound for an album listening weekend. It's like a golden ticket.
Edebiri's Ariel is a one of those invited. She's 27, a writer for a hip music magazine who has been treading water for three years. She's ambitious but has no edge. "Your problem is you're middle," she's told. Unfortunately, her magazine boss is also invited, which means she's just a note-taker. Edebiri's self-conscious, understated humor is wasted here.
It takes Ariel and the rest of the guests — an influencer, a paparazzo, a former journalist-nemesis and a TV personality played by Juliette Lewis, once again cast as the frisky sexpot — way too much time to realize that Moretti has created a cult in the desert. And they're murderous. This is Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous" crossed with Mark Mylod's "The Menu."
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