The creative team of Calle and Pelle Sjonell is joining Fallon Minneapolis as group creative directors.
The creative team of Calle and Pelle Sjonell is joining Fallon Minneapolis as group creative directors. The brothers come to Fallon from different ad shops in Sweden. Pelle Sjonell has been the creative director/co-founder/CEO of King, while Calle Sjonell comes over from his post as creative director at Starring (formerly Moonwalk), Stockholm. Despite working at separate agencies, the brothers have collaborated on several projects in recent years. Fallon creative director Kerry Feuerman plans to use Pelle’s traditional ad agency background and Calle’s interactive industry experience by merging the two disciplines to work together as a single team…..Vic Palumbo has been promoted to director of broadcast production at Fallon Minneapolis, succeeding Brian DiLorenzo, who is leaving to become executive director, content, at BBDO North America. Palumbo joined Fallon a little more than a year ago as an executive producer. He came to Fallon from Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, Ore., where he produced Emmy and Cannes Lion-winning work for Nike……Dave Weist has joined Modernista!, Boston, as creative director. He will manage various agency clients, including Cadillac, Hummer, TIAA Cref and Rockport. Weist spent the past nearly 10 years at Arnold Worldwide, Boston, where he moved up the ladder from junior writer to senior VP/creative director. At Arnold, Weist worked on the famous Volkswagen “Drivers Wanted” campaign….. Lisa Rettig-Falcone has joined DDB New York as a creative director, overseeing the Subaru regional account, as well as working on United Technologies and new business. The move marks her return to DDB after serving for the last seven years as a group creative director at Lowe, New York….
SAG-AFTRA Calls For A Strike Against “League of Legends”
"League of Legends" is caught in the middle of a dispute between Hollywood's actors union and an audio company that provides voiceover services for the blockbuster online multiplayer game.
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists called a strike against "League of Legends" on Tuesday, arguing that Formosa Interactive attempted to get around the ongoing video game strike by hiring non-union actors to work on an unrelated title.
Formosa tried to "cancel" the unnamed video game, which was covered by the strike, shortly after the start of the work stoppage, SAG-AFTRA said. The union said when Formosa learned it could not cancel the game, the company "secretly transferred the game to a shell company and sent out casting notices for 'non-union' talent only." In response, the union's interactive negotiating committee voted unanimously to file an unfair labor practice charge against the company with the National Labor Relations Board and to call a strike against "League of Legends" as part of that charge.
"League of Legends" is one of Formosa's most well-known projects. The company provides voiceover services for the game, according to SAG-AFTRA.
SAG-AFTRA has accused Formosa of interfering with protections that allow performers to form or join a union and prevent those performers from being discriminated against — a move the union called "egregious violations of core tenets of labor law."
Formosa did not immediately respond to a request for comment. "League of Legends" developer Riot Games said that the company "has nothing to do" with the union's complaint.
"We want to be clear: Since becoming a union project five years ago, 'League of Legends' has only asked Formosa to engage with union... Read More