Los Angeles-based production company Keeper has expanded its sales representation in the U.S. Leading the West Coast is Alyson Griffith of AG Reps (formerly known as The Gossip Company). Gay Guthrey and Rowley Samuel of Samuel Guthrey will take on the Midwest territory. And Jolie Miller of Simpatico will head sales on the East Coast. Griffith began her career on the agency side at The Richards Group, and was the head of sales at Texas Story. Additional clients on her current AG Reps roster include Imaginary Forces, Slash-Dynamic and Breed Music. Beyond Keeper, Samuel Guthrey’s roster includes PRETTYBIRD, MJZ, The Mill, Greenpoint Pictures, Girl Culture Films, Pulse Films, and Golden LA. Simpatico’s roster also includes brother, Bunker, Society, Dress Code, harvest, JOJX, Cut + Run, and The Reserve…..
Utah Scientific, which specializes in routing switchers, master control switchers and related control software, has promoted Randy Rose from customer service manager to director of sales engineering. Succeeding Rose as customer service manager is John Bell who’s been upped from customer support manager. Rose began his career at Utah Scientific in 1988. Bell has been with the company for 14 years….
Elation Professional, which designs and manufactures a range of lighting and video products, has named ULA Group has exclusive distributor of its products in Australia and New Zealand. Established in 1991, ULA Group provides leading entertainment, architectural and LED digital lighting solutions to an extensive portfolio of clients across the region. Elation Professional is based in California with a European office in The Netherlands. Cuono (Con) Biviano is managing director of ULA Group. Eric Loader is Elation’s director of sales and marketing….
BOXX Technologies, known for high-performance computer workstations, rendering systems, and servers, has appointed Antonio Julio as VP of sales. As BOXX continues to expand into new markets, including data science, Julio is responsible for all direct and indirect global sales functions and entrusted to grow strategic customer accounts and partner relationships which align with core BOXX business goals. Prior to his new position at BOXX, Julio served in such roles as sales manager at Prologica Computers and as executive director of enterprise solutions and center of competence for Dell Inc….
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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