Wondros has named Danielle Peretz as executive producer of its commercial/branded content division. Peretz currently oversees a directorial roster that features company founder/CEO/creative director Jesse Dylan, Henry Littlechild, Riess|Hill, Sean Thonson and Jeff Yeats.
According to Dylan, Peretz is the ideal leader to take the production division of Wondros into the future, collaborating closely with Wondros Global, a creative agency that intersects fields of social change, public health, and the arts. “Danielle has extensive industry experience and brings that perspective to her new role here at Wondros,” noted Dylan. “She is a natural collaborator and an intuitive listener. Her values align completely with everything that Wondros stands for.”
Peretz brings over 25 years of a proven track record managing and executing the creation of award-winning commercials and digital content across the advertising, music and branded entertainment industries. This includes extensive experience in new business development and generating additional revenue streams for overall company growth. Peretz has longstanding relationships with advertising agencies, media companies, and record labels. She has been responsible for discovering and nurturing the careers of some of the industry’s top directors. Beginning her career in independent feature film, Peretz then joined Propaganda and its division Satellite Films. She also served as VP, creative services at MCA Records. Additionally, Peretz has held staff positions at production companies Anonymous Content and Tool of North America, as well as having spent time at m ss ng p eces and HSI.
Peretz stated, “Collaborating with such a creative innovative leader, Jesse Dylan, on a daily basis is a tremendous opportunity. Our collective experience will shape and competitively position Wondros for the commercial and advertising industry not only for today, but also for the future.”
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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