Ad agency Doner has brought aboard Justin Bilicki as EVP, executive creative director and Felipe Cabrera as SVP, strategy director. Cabrera, in his second tour at Doner, will help scale the integrated strategy team by leveraging new tools and processes across a number of accounts. Bilicki will provide creative leadership for brands including Travelocity, Zyrtec and Listerine.
Cabrera worked as SVP, strategy director at Doner in 2018. Most recently, he served as the head of strategy at Wunderman Thompson Puerto Rico, stemming from his two decades of brand building across the U.S. general and Hispanic markets. Previously, Cabrera held strategic leadership positions at FCB and Leo Burnett, as well as worked in brand marketing at Procter & Gamble.
A highly awarded executive creative director, Bilicki also has nearly two decades of experience in the advertising industry. He has received every major advertising award including Cannes Lions, One Show Pencils, and Art Directors Club Pencils, among others. In 2015, The Gunn Report recognized his #TBT Twix Bites campaign as the third most awarded film campaign in the world and most awarded in the U.S. Before joining Doner, Bilicki had most recently been freelancing for a year; prior to that he was VP, creative director a MullenLowe U.S.
“It’s a point of pride when great talent returns to Doner, and when great talent chooses Doner,” said Doner CEO David DeMuth. “In Felipe, we have reunited with a strategic leader who will help power our data-driven creativity, and in Justin, we have bolstered our creative muscle with a talent that fits perfectly in our agency. With our continued growth, we look forward to bringing in more top tier talent to drive results for our clients.”
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More