Philadelphia-based indie creative agency Red Tettemer O’Connell + Partners has appointed Ryan Scott as its first West Coast VP, group creative director. Scott will report directly to agency partners Steve Red (president and CCO) and Steve O’Connell (executive creative director). Scott will be responsible for leading the creative department for the West Coast office and working with clients such as Planet Fitness, Under Armour, Wellen Surf and Coty Brands. Scott joins the agency from Deutsch LA, where he was associate creative director before being promoted to creative director, working on Volkswagen, Snapple, Dr Pepper and Dr Pepper TEN. During this time, Scott contributed to multiple award-winning efforts including Volkswagen’s “Rocketman,” and “Feeling Carefree.” Prior to Deutsch, Scott was sr. copywriter at WONGDOODY LA, working with Full Tilt Poker, Health Net, and Autodesk. Before that, Scott was copywriter at DDB, Los Angeles, working on brands including Epson, Wells Fargo and Activision. He began his career at TBWA/Chiat/Day in Los Angeles after attending the The Portfolio Center in Atlanta…Director Dean Karr has signed with Mirror Films for commercials and related media. He comes to his new roost along with long-time producer/partner Arthur Gorson. Karr’s spot credits span such clients as Trident Gum (Saatchi & Saatchi), LG Phones (Alcone), Busch Gardens/Sea World Entertainment (Momentum), Palms Hotels (S+K Group), Mazda (Foote, Cone & Belding), Woolrich (Siquis, Ltd.), Mortal Kombat (DDB Needham), and eight annual campaigns for Universal Studios and Coca Cola’s “Halloween Horror Nights” (David & Goliath Agency). Karr’s music video endeavors include such artist as Marilyn Manson, Evanescence, Lisa Marie Presley, The Dave Matthews Band, X-Japan, Stevie Nicks, Willie Nelson, Velvet Revolver, Damian Marley, Ozzy Osbourne, Cypress Hill,Tommy Lee, Everlast, Dr. Dre, Queens of the Stone Age, Godsmack, and Iron Maiden….Carbon VFX has brought Marlo Baird Kinsey on board as executive producer in Los Angeles. She will oversee all aspects of production in Carbon’s L.A. office, including bidding for visual effects, CG, motion graphics, color correction and finishing. Previous to Carbon she worked as a freelance producer, independently spearheading projects for a number of visual effects studios, production companies, TV networks and editorial collectives….
Harris Dickinson Toys With Ambiguity In “Babygirl” While Keeping a Secret From Nicole Kidman
Harris Dickinson was nervous to approach Nicole Kidman.
This would not necessarily be notable under normal circumstances, but the English actor had already been cast to star opposite her in the erotic drama "Babygirl," as the intern who initiates an affair with Kidman's buttoned-up CEO. They'd had a zoom with the writer-director Halina Reijn, who was excited by their playful banter and sure that Dickinson would hold his own. And yet when he found himself at the same event as Kidman, shyness took over. He admitted as much to Margaret Qualley, who took things into her own hands and introduced them.
"She helped me break the ice a bit," Dickinson said in a recent interview.
On set would be an entirely different story. Dickinson might not be nearly as "puckishly audacious" as his character Samuel but in the making of "Babygirl," he, Kidman and Reijn had no choice but to dive fearlessly into this exploration of sexual power dynamics, going to intimate, awkward, exhilarating and meme-able places. It's made the film, in theaters Christmas Day, one of the year's must-sees.
"There was an unspoken thing that we adhered to," Dickinson said. "We weren't getting to know each other's personal lives. When we were working and we were the characters, we didn't veer away from the material. I never tried to attach all of the history of Nicole Kidman. Otherwise it probably would have been a bit of a mess."
His is a performance that reconfirms what many in the film world have suspected since his debut seven years ago as a Brooklyn tough questioning his sexuality in Eliza Hittman's "Beach Rats": Dickinson is one of the most exciting young talents around.
Dickinson, 28, grew up in Leytonstone, in East London — the same neck of the woods as... Read More