Sound designer/engineer Weston Fonger, whose clients over the years include Coca-Cola, DirecTV, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Colgate and Lexus, has joined music/sound house Yessian which maintains offices in New York, Detroit, L.A., and Hamburg.
Fonger’s spots for Carmax and Hyundai aired during the 2011 Super Bowl. He has also been judging the Sound Design category at this year’s AICP Show.
Fonger studied Communications and Music at UMass Amherst and Music Production and Engineering at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. He began his career in New York at Howard Schwartz Recording (HSRNY) assisting automated dialogue replacement (ADR) sessions on projects like The Simpsons and X-Men: The Last Stand before migrating his way to audioEngine, also in NYC, where he worked as a mixer/sound designer for almost five years for clients such as HBO, Sony, Converse, Revlon and Visa.
Fonger’s longer format work includes animation films for Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton, several TV pilots for comedian Dave Attell, Brian Iglesias’ documentary film Chosin, the feature film Aardvark by director Kitao Sakurai, and a film about R&B artist Maxwell titled Five Days of Black. Fonger also did mix and sound design for Green by Sophia Takal, a 74-minute drama that won awards at this year’s SXSW Festival.
Lashana Lynch, Eddie Redmayne Compare Notes On “The Day of the Jackal”
Lashana Lynch was running away from spies.
After playing Nomi in 2021's "No Time To Die," she was actively avoiding any role that involved working for the secret service. What part could beat a Bond girl who took James Bond's 007 code name from him?
"I was like, 'No, I'm not doing it again. That's a legacy role. That's something that absolutely should be untouched forever,'" recalls Lynch.
But then she read the character of Bianca Pullman for a TV series based on Frederick Forsyth's classic thriller "The Day of the Jackal." Bianca was also an employee of Britain's foreign intelligence agency, but the differences between the two MI6 workers appealed: While Nomi was slick, Bianca was a mess Lynch could dive into.
"I'd pushed against this world for a long time and it felt like it came right at me full throttle," she says.
No one is happier that she jumped on board than Eddie Redmayne, who plays the Jackal, the myth-like murderer for hire. Her "versatility is insane," he says, adding that Lynch even suggested the perfect song for the theme, Celeste's "This Is Who I Am."
"The Day of the Jackal" updates Fred Zinnemann's 1973 movie, starring Edward Fox as the cravat-wearing killer hired to kill the French president.
Redmayne's version inherits the gentlemanly style of Fox, living a life of jet-setting quiet luxury, funded by getting away with murder through ingenious devices, clever disguises and flawless planning. Bianca is the intelligence officer and arms expert who will stop at nothing to find him, much to the discomfort of her co-workers and family.
Lynch and Redmayne are also producers on the show, which is airing on Sky in the U.K. and debuts Thursday on Peacock. They didn't spend much time together on set,... Read More