December 10, 2010 Tor Myhren has been promoted to president of Grey New York. He remains the agency’s chief creative officer and becomes the first creative ever to lead the agency’s flagship office….Bicoastal Park Pictures is slated to open its first-ever London office January 1, 2011. The new hub will be run by executive producer Stephen Brierley, former head of production at Stink, London….Peter Nicholson has joined JWT New York as chief creative officer. He will be responsible for driving the creative vision and future growth of JWT’s flagship office, reporting to David Eastman, CEO of JWT North America. A former JWT executive creative director, Nicholson returns to JWT from Redscout, where he held the title of chief creative officer. Nicholson joined 50-person Redscout to help move the marketing strategy and design-focused shop toward a more full-service creative offering, focused on consumer-oriented executions. During his time at Redscout, he worked on Activision, Diageo, Kate Spade, PepsiCo and Samsung. Prior to Redscout, Nicholson was chief creative officer at Deutsch New York where he pitched and won more than $200 million in new business, garnering the USAA and PNC Bank accounts…..Goodby, Silverstein & Partners has hired Joakim Borgstrom as creative director. He comes over from Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam and will be working closely with Rick Condos and Hunter Hindman on Chevrolet….
December 9, 2005 Lisa Hinman, president of San Francisco-based Phoenix Edit.Effects.Design, has been elected president of the Association of Independent Creative Editors (AICE) for a two-year term starting on January 1, 2006. She will succeed Richard Gillespie, owner/editor of Fast Cuts Edits, Dallas…..Susan Credle has been promoted to executive creative director at BBDO New York….Alan Pafenbach, managing partner/exec creative director at Arnold Worldwide, Boston, will leave the agency at the end of the year. He was one of the key creatives on the Volkswagen account which moved over to Crispin Porter + Bogusky….Frank Lowe, the founder of Lowe Worldwide, is launching an agency in partnership with several ad execs, including Paul Weinberger, former chairman of Lowe London….Web ad revenue hit a record quarterly high, surpassing $3 billion from July-August 2005 according to figures released by the Internet Advertising Bureau. This total represents a nearly 34% increase over the revenue generated during the same three-month period in 2004…
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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