The Bigger Picture, headed by EP/founder Tracy Mays, has promoted Daryl Devlin to head of business development and secured national representation via DeVine Reps. The Bigger Picture has also joined OWNED, a global coalition of women owned companies operating in the advertising production industry. Under the aegis of Founder Barnthouse, DeVine has a presence in L.A., NYC, San Francisco and Portland. Prior to her promotion, Devlin was head of sales for The Bigger Picture. Before joining The Bigger Picture, Devlin worked at Bernstein & Andriulli, where she was recruited to build their film/ motion division, working with premier filmmakers, photographers, animators, CGI artists, and illustrators. She was president at MediaLogic, where she represented talent with key accounts and provided consulting services to corporations to maximize their advertising capabilities. She also worked at BBC Technology as head of sales in the U.S., and at TIB/Getty Images….
The Department of Sales (DOS), headed by owner Dexter Randazzo, has added sr. sales representative Jonathan Logan. Logan will handle sales on the West Coast and in Texas for the current DOS roster which includes Arts & Sciences, Arcade Edit, Epoch Films, Imperial Woodpecker and Walker Music. Logan entered the ad arena on the music side when he joined SOUTH where he realized his combined skills of creative insight and thoughtful partnership gave him a great foundation for sales. He worked hard and it paid off, expanding to production and live action with Get Reehl/Get Davis in 2014. Logan has a track record of facilitating projects with top tier agencies and brands such as 72andSunny, DDB, TBWAChiatDay, Leo Burnett, Samsung, Nissan, Ford, Kellogg’s and Subaru….
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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