Citizen Pictures has promoted three longtime employees to VP status. Tim McOsker takes the role of VP of production and development after helming development since 2013 in addition to serving as executive producer. McOsker is an EP of the twice Emmy-nominated series “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” as well as “The Real Girl’s Kitchen,” and “Guy’s Family Reunion” (which won a Daytime Emmy). In addition to his work on a diverse portfolio of shows since joining Citizen in 2006, McOsker was an EP for Food Network’s “Unwrapped”.
Operations manager Josh Dirmish has been named VP of post production and operations, managing Citizen’s growth with the addition of two new series in 2015. At Citizen, Dirmish has assured that the technology and facility evolve with the company portfolio, including several post-production system upgrades and equipment adds. Prior to Citizen, he was post production manager for High Noon Entertainment, and his credits include work for Food Network, Cooking Channel, Destination America, Starz, and Discovery Channel.
Dustin Astrom has been promoted to VP of business affairs and finance. Astrom has managed financial operations for Citizen since 2006, and grew to successfully guide the company in new client, network, and vendor business affairs.
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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