Rania Hattar joins as exec producer
Integrated production house ACNE has upped Line Postmyr to CEO/executive producer to lead the North American office. He previously held the title of managing director/EP. The promotion comes in tandem with the hiring of EP Rania Hattar who comes over after a stint as EP at Little Minx.
Postmyr has produced lauded campaigns throughout her career, having collaborated with directors such as Fredrik Bond, Tony Kaye, Spike Jonze, Mark Romanek and Bruno Aveillan. She’s held top posts, most notably as the former managing director at HELLO!, and has produced for other leading companies including MJZ, Smuggler, Anonymous Content, RSA and Sonny London.
Postmyr has substantial film experience outside of advertising, having produced shorts, features, and documentaries for such filmmakers as Gore Verbinski, Mario Van Peebles, Neil Abramson and Danny Boyle. In the music space, she has produced videos for iconic artists such as Madonna, Nirvana, Tina Turner, Lou Reed, Massive Attack, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Iggy Pop, and Björk.
The evolution of Hattar’s career in L.A. after producing features, commercials, music videos and stills in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East reflects her ability to facilitate all facets of the production process. She cut her teeth working alongside the EPs at MJZ, guiding projects from pre-production to final delivery for 14 directors out of a roster of 23, including Bond, Michael Mann, and Nicolai Fuglsig.
Postmyr and Hattar duo will spearhead the new Southern California office of the Scandinavian-born company, which moves from Venice Beach to the historic Kim Sing Theatre in the Chinatown district of downtown L.A. in August 2015. A former vaudeville theatre from 1926, the Kim Sing Theatre is now an integrated live/work/event space with a retail storefront and restaurant license.
ACNE also maintains offices in Stockholm, London, Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam.
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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