Detour Films, a Santa Monica-based house headed by principal/executive producer Josh Canova, has signed the Goetz Brothers–Kevin and Michael–for spot work in the U.S. They come over from Crossroads. The Goetz Brothers join a Detour directorial roster that includes Jeff Kaumeyer, Dana Tynan, Rudy Manning, Geoff Moore and George Mays….Nice Shoes, New York, has expanded its offerings by integrating with Guava, its visual effects subsidiary. Via this union, Nice Shoes adds VFX supervision, design, and 3D animation to its own menu of services, including telecine and 2D artistry, enabling clients to complete almost all of their post work under one roof (under the Nice Shoes banner), and to gain the benefit of collaboration such as telecine and VFX artists working hand in hand in pre-pro to help realize the desired creative vision….Miami-based boutique Vapor Post has launched Vapor Post Interactive via an alliance with Digiworks, an interactive agency in Mexico City. Vapor Post Interactive will leverage the interactive expertise of Digiworks and Vapor Post’s creative services to deliver cost-effective solutions for clients’ advertising and e-marketing needs. Vapor Post Interactive will operate from both Miami and Mexico City……Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, won the Grand Trophy in the New York Festivals’ 16th annual Innovative Advertising Awards on the strength of Doritos’ “Hotel 626,” a scary web-based interactive adventure combining live-action footage with digital environments. Additionally Goodby garnered four Innovative Advertising Gold medals, two for Nintendo Wii and one apiece for Sprint and the California Fluid Milk Processors Advisory Board….
Review: Director Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17” Starring Robert Pattinson
So you think YOUR job is bad?
Sorry if we seem to be lacking empathy here. But however crummy you think your 9-5 routine is, it'll never be as bad as Robert Pattinson's in Bong Joon Ho's "Mickey 17" — nor will any job, on Earth or any planet, approach this level of misery.
Mickey, you see, is an "Expendable," and by this we don't mean he's a cast member in yet another sequel to Sylvester Stallone's tired band of mercenaries ("Expend17ables"?). No, even worse! He's literally expendable, in that his job description requires that he die, over and over, in the worst possible ways, only to be "reprinted" once again as the next Mickey.
And from here stems the good news, besides the excellent Pattinson, whom we hope got hazard pay, about Bong's hotly anticipated follow-up to "Parasite." There's creativity to spare, and much of it surrounds the ways he finds for his lead character to expire — again and again.
The bad news, besides, well, all the death, is that much of this film devolves into narrative chaos, bloat and excess. In so many ways, the always inventive Bong just doesn't know where to stop. It hardly seems a surprise that the sci-fi novel, by Edward Ashton, he's adapting here is called "Mickey7" — Bong decided to add 10 more Mickeys.
The first act, though, is crackling. We begin with Mickey lying alone at the bottom of a crevasse, having barely survived a fall. It is the year 2058, and he's part of a colonizing expedition from Earth to a far-off planet. He's surely about to die. In fact, the outcome is so expected that his friend Timo (Steven Yeun), staring down the crevasse, asks casually: "Haven't you died yet?"
How did Mickey get here? We flash back to Earth, where Mickey and Timo ran afoul of a villainous loan... Read More