AMV BBDO has made three creative promotions: Paul Brazier has been upped from executive creative director to chief creative officer and chairman; and Alex Grieve and Adrian Rossi from creative partners to executive creative directors.
Brazier will continue to creatively lead major accounts within the agency and will continue to report to Ian Pearman, the CEO. Grieve and Rossi join select company as the only others to take on the ECD title at AMV BBDO over the years were David Abbott, Peter Souter and Brazier.
Grieve and Rossi joined AMV in 2011, having previously worked at Glue and BBH. During their two years at AMV they have produced work for a broad spectrum of clients across a broad range of media disciplines. Their award-winning TV work of the last two years includes Guinness' "Clock" and "Cloud," The National Lottery's "Olympic Dreams" and "Hero's Return," and the new Eurostar campaign. They have been the creative directors behind award-winning brands such as Heinz, Walkers and Galaxy, and the integrated success of campaigns such as the "you're not you when you're hungry" Twitter campaign (one of the most awarded digital campaigns in the world this year), the "Googel" misspelling collaboration with Snickers and Google, and the vine-based content campaign for Kids Company that broke earlier this year.
Brazier has been with AMV BBDO for 23 years, nine of those as ECD.
Review: “Novocaine,” A Bloody Action-Comedy From Directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen
Nathan Caine may not be able to feel pain, as the tagline for the new action-comedy "Novocaine" reads, but the same does not apply to audiences.
Although he doesn't scream when his leg is impaled with an arrow or when he sticks his hand in a vat of frying oil, you might. I certainly did. Out loud. In a theater. With other people. There may have been some phrases uttered entirely involuntarily too. Were other people reacting in the same way, I wonder? I couldn't hear them over my own groans. Hooray for the communal experience, I guess?
This is, in some ways, a film for people who thought John Wick wasn't stabby enough. It delights in the relentless mutilation of its hero, a regular guy (played by Jack Quaid ) with a rare condition that has rendered him immune from feeling any sort of discomfort to bodily harm. Unlike such high concept premises as "Crank," congenital insensitivity to pain analgesia (or CIPA) is actually real. But it's not exactly a superpower, Nate explains. He can still die; it just might be because he hasn't emptied his bladder in many hours. Or because he's accidentally bitten his tongue off eating a sandwich. These are real concerns of his.
His entire existence is devoted to preventing these kinds of crises, mostly through tried-and-true baby proofing techniques like using tennis balls on sharp corners. Like Kelly Ripa before a show, he only consumes "non-chewing food."
Work is stable and dull as an assistant manager at a bank. And dating is out of the question; He spends most of his free time playing online video games. Quaid, even with his two movie star parents, is somehow believable as this cautious introvert, though everything is played with a light touch and a wink. The movie, written by Lars Jacobson and... Read More