Film and TV marketing veteran Sharre Jacoby has been named executive producer of Buster, the animation and design studio of Los Angeles-based Stun Creative. She will report directly to Michael Vamosy, Stun’s chief creative officer. Jacoby will oversee all aspects of production at Buster, and take an active role in new business development.
Prior to joining Buster, Jacoby was executive producer/head of operations at Pembrook Productions, a design and marketing agency with clients including HBO, BET, Discovery, OWN, ITV and Lifetime. Before that, she was sr. producer, and then head of production at New Wave Entertainment where she worked for over a decade producing film main titles and broadcast design for clients such as HBO, MTV, Discovery Channel, BET and Bravo. She began her career working as a postproduction supervisor/post producer on films including Terry Gilliam’s “The Fisher King” and Robert Duvall’s “The Apostle.” She has been honored with PromaxBDA Gold for Discovery’s “Shark Week,” a Create Award for HBO’s “Sports of the 20th Century” main title design, and an Emmy nomination for “On the Record with Bob Costas.”
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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