While the latest Friday the 13th movie sequel tops the box office in the U.S. during its debut week, a takeoff spot reminiscent of the film’s stalker is generating a buzz in Canada as it drives traffic to the website peerintoasoul.ca.
We open on some lovely young women in an isolated cabin at night, the front door wide open as is often the case in chainsaw massacre type films with victims seemingly oblivious to the obvious. Sure enough a menacing stalker character approaches the cabin wearing a plastic form fitting mask.
The girls go about their business as the man draws nearer.
When we next see the girls, they are laying motionless in the cabin the following morning. At first, we assume they’re dead or at least severely injured. But it turns out they’re just asleep as we see them awaken.
Now in the early morning light, we find the stalker is still outside the cabin, staring at a Kia Soul SUV, the sight of which has captivated him since nightfall.
A super then suggests we log onto peerintoasoul.ca.
This is one of three spots in a Kia Canada campaign directed by Mark Gilbert of Untitled Films, Toronto, for Publicis, Toronto.
The Publicis ensemble included exec creative director Duncan Bruce, creative director/writer Pat Pirisi, associate creative director/art director Gary Holme and producer Dale Harrison.
Peter Davis exec produced for Untitled with Sean Cooley serving as line producer. DP was Robert Yeoman.
Editor was Mick Griffin of Rooster Post Production, Toronto.
Netflix Series “The Leopard” Spots Classic Italian Novel, Remakes It As A Sumptuous Period Drama
"The Leopard," a new Netflix series, takes the classic Italian novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and transforms it into a sumptuous period piece showing the struggles of the aristocracy in 19th-century Sicily, during tumultuous social upheavals as their way of life is crumbling around them.
Tom Shankland, who directs four of the eight episodes, had the courage to attempt his own version of what is one of the most popular films in Italian history. The 1963 movie "The Leopard," directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, won the Palme d'Or in Cannes.
One Italian critic said that it would be the equivalent of a director in the United States taking "Gone with the Wind" and turning it into a series, but Shankland wasn't the least bit intimidated.
He said that he didn't think of anything other than his own passion for the project, which grew out of his love of the book. His father was a university professor of Italian literature in England, and as a child, he loved the book and traveling to Sicily with his family.
The book tells the story of Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina, a tall, handsome, wealthy aristocrat who owns palaces and land across Sicily.
His comfortable world is shaken with the invasion of Sicily in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was to overthrow the Bourbon king in Naples and bring about the Unification of Italy.
The prince's family leads an opulent life in their magnificent palaces with servants and peasants kowtowing to their every need. They spend their time at opulent banquets and lavish balls with their fellow aristocrats.
Shankland has made the series into a visual feast with tables heaped with food, elaborate gardens and sensuous costumes.... Read More