This playful take on being faster than a speeding bullet for Clio Renault’s RS 200 was directed by Joseph Kahn via Mercurio Cinematografica, Milan, for Saatchi & Saatchi Italy. In this spot, we see a bullet struggling to keep up with the Renault as both approach a fork in the road.
The driver angles his car so that the bullet enters through his lowered window, flies on a straight line through the interior of the car and then out the front passenger side window. The Renault then veers off to the left roadway as the bullet hurtles down the right.
The Saatchi creative ensemble consisted of creative directors Guido Cornara and Agostino Toscana, copywriter Luca Lorenzini, art director Luca Pannese and producer Jessica Ferguson.
Luca Fanfani executive produced for Mercurio. The DP was Paolo Caimi.
Editor was Antonio Civilini of You Are Post, Milan. Contributors from post house sto.pp Sweden were online editor Peter Marin and 3-D artists Stefan Andersson, Arvid Bjorn and Per Bergsten. Colorist was Adriano Mestroni of Contrast, Milan. Audio mixer/sound designer was Jean Casalini of Mach2 Studio, Milan.
Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19
The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.
Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.
Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.
If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.
At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.
But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.
Gorsuch labeled arguments advanced by the Biden administration' in defense of the law a... Read More