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    Andreas Nilsson Wins The DGA Award For Outstanding Achievement In Commercials

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    Andreas Nilsson (photo from DGA)

    By Robert Goldrich

    BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. --

    Andreas Nilsson of Biscuit Filmworks won the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award recognizing Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials for 2024. The honor was announced and celebrated during the gala 77th DGA Awards ceremony on Saturday evening (2/8) at the Beverly Hilton.

    This marked the second career DGA Award in the commercials category for Nilsson. He first won the honor in 2016. He’s been nominated a total of three times (the other nod coming last year).

    This time around, Nilsson won on the strength of four entries; Hennessy’s “Board Game” out of Wieden+Kennedy London; Andrex’s “First Office Poo” for FCB London; the client-direct Apple commercial “One More”; and Virgin Media’s “Whizzer” for VCCP London.

    Nilsson topped a field of nominees which also consisted of: Lance Acord from Park Pictures; Kim Gehrig of Somesuch; the directorial duo of Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim from PRETTYBIRD; and Ivan Zacharias of SMUGGLER.

    Gehrig had won the DGA Award each of the past two years.

    Acord’s latest nomination is the fifth of his career (his four prior nods coming in 2004, 2012, 2013 and 2017).

    Zacharias has two career nominations, the first coming in 2023.

    And Heidecker & Wareheim picked up their very first DGA Award nomination this year.

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    “Dog Man” Still Has Bite, Tops Weekend Box Office For 2nd Straight Week

    Sunday, February 9, 2025

    On a quiet winter weekend at the box office, DreamWorks Animation's "Dog Man" chased its own tail, repeating as the top movie in theaters.

    The animated Universal Pictures release, adapted from Dav Pilkey's popular graphic novel series, collected $13.7 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Both new releases – the Ke Huy Quan action movie "Love Hurts" and the Valentine's Day-themed slasher "Heart Eyes" – were left nipping at the heels of "Dog Man."

    Hollywood often largely punts Super Bowl weekend to the small screen. Last year, Apple's much-derided "Argylle" debuted on the same weekend. Instead, the movie industry spends more energy pitching its blockbusters in trailers for the huge football audience on TV.

    It wasn't a banner weekend for "Dog Man." It fell steeply, dropping 62% in it second weekend. But with a production budget of $40 million, "Dog Man" has already tallied $54.1 million domestically in two weeks.

    Coming in second was Spyglass Media Group's "Heart Eyes," released by Sony. The horror-rom-com mashup earned $8.5 million from 3,102 locations. Reviews have been good for the film, directed by Josh Ruben and starring Oliva Holt and Mason Gooding, though audiences were less impressed. Moviegoers gave it a "B-" CinemaScore. Spyglass made "Heart Eyes" for $18 million.

    "Love Hurts," the action comedy from 87North Productions ("John Wick," "The Fall Guy"), debuted with a paltry $5.8 million in 3,055 theaters. In his first big movie role since his Oscar-winning comeback in "Everything All at Once," Ke Huy Quan stars as a mild-mannered realtor with a hitman past. Ariana DeBose co-stars. It, too, was modestly budgeted at $18 million. Audiences, however, mostly rejected the movie, giving "Love Hurts" a... Read More

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