The Elements Music has promoted Dan Liebermann (formerly Lentaigne) to executive producer in the UK after two years as head of new business, UK.
Liebermann has worked alongside Andy Carroll, partner and head of the The Elements Music’s London branch, on winning work from brands such as Nike, Toyota, Samsung, Porsche, Dyson, and Mercedes-Benz. Liebermann’s new role will expand her duties further into production as she continues to help build the company’s client base in Europe. Lieberman said becoming an EP “feels like a natural fit to be more involved in fostering the creative process with our clients, composers, and artists.”
A singer/songwriter herself, Lieberman began a career in advertising unexpectedly when she sang a version of Peggy Lee’s “Fever” for a FIFA World Cup Mastercard campaign in 2006. That rendition became beloved, which led to a career as a session singer, and eventually into the production side of music for advertising. Collaborating with artists and producers throughout her career, Liebermann sung Ian Brown’s Ivor Novella winning track F.E.A.R. and performed with him on the pop culture TV music show Top of the Pops.
J Bonilla, The Elements Music co-founder based in Los Angeles, said, “Dan is an A-Player. She brings a blast of energy into everything she touches. It’s a no-brainer for us to put her into a position where she can directly contribute to our creative output as well as our continued overall growth.”
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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