Tony Ke has joined Tribal Worldwide as group creative director for Experience Design. He will be based in the agency’s New York office. In this new position, Ke will be responsible for work across the shop’s client roster including H&R Block, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, and Alcon Visioncare while supporting a deeper integration and collaboration between the agency’s strategy, user experience, and visual design practices. Ke joins Tribal from Digitas, where he served as the VP/creative director for Mobile and Experience Design with clients including American Express, eBay, Aetna, Whirlpool, and Taco Bell….LOOK Effects has hired visual effects industry veteran Wendy Lanning as executive visual effects producer in its Vancouver office (LOOK also maintains operations in L.A., NY and Stuttgart, Germany. Lanning will be producing LOOK’s postproduction projects and working to bring on new films and television shows. Her most recent projects include: The Great Gatsby, Out of the Furnace, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Pt. 1, Immortals, and Sucker Punch. Previously, as one of the original founding partners of Intelligent Creatures in Toronto, she acted as executive producer on over 20 feature films. Her credits include: Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, Hairspray, The Number 23, The Fountain, Babel, Stranger Than Fiction, Stay, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and The Matador. Other experience includes serving as visual effects production manager on Panic Room and as visual effects producer on the Oscar-winning Chicago….Ryan Spelliscy, formerly co-creative director at Sid Lee Toronto, has been named sr. VP, creative director at JWT Canada‘s Toronto office….
Mindy Kaling and Kate Hudson Take On Pro Basketball In Netflix Series “Running Point”
In Mindy Kaling's new Netflix series, "Running Point, " Kate Hudson stars as Isla Gordon, the new president of the Los Angeles Waves, a pro basketball team that's been run by her family for years. Hudson's character has to prove herself as a woman in a man's world not only to her passed-over brothers, but also to players whose egos need checking and other executives who don't take her seriously.
If Isla's story rings a bell, take a look at the list of executive producers on the 10-episode season dropping Thursday: Among them is Jeanie Buss, the president of the Los Angeles Lakers, who was embroiled in similar turmoil over control of the storied NBA franchise after the death of her father, Jerry Buss.
Buss not only has given the show her blessing, it was her idea said Kaling. Buss was a big fan of "The Office" and approached Kaling with the premise about five years ago. Kaling ended up as the co-creator, writer and executive producer alongside Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen.
"She's in a very serious, stressful job but she loves comedy. She does not take herself seriously," Kaling says of Buss. "That's really rare when someone has that much power and that much to lose."
Jeanie Buss' blessing
In fact, Kaling said, Buss wanted the show to be funny and had "no ego" about using her real life as inspiration.
"She's had some extremely interesting things happen to her as the president of the Lakers. Some of it is she literally dated the coach for many years and she's like, 'Do whatever you want,'" Kaling says, referring to Buss' former relationship with Phil Jackson. "To get that kind of carte blanche, I'd never heard that from someone who is so famous and, you know, pretty private."
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