David&Goliath has hired three new creative leaders: Dino Spadavecchia, group creative director, and longtime creative partners Chris Hutchinson and Driscoll Reid as creative directors. The three officially joined the agency’s 50-person creative department this summer, reporting to Colin Jeffery, D&G’s newly appointed chief creative officer.
Spadavecchia joins the agency most recently from Leo Burnett, where he served as sr. VP/creative director since 2012, working on General Motors. Hutchinson and Reid join from TBWAChiatDay, where they created one of this year’s most visible World Cup campaigns for Adidas’ Brazuca. In their new roles, Spadavecchia, Hutchinson, and Reid will touch many of the brands on D&G’s roster, including Kia, California Lottery, VIZIO, and a few pieces of business that have yet to be announced.
Spadavecchia’s 15-year career in advertising includes work on Chevrolet, HP, Hyundai, Logitech, Mazda, Nintendo, Toyota, and Dew Action Sports Tour. He’s spent time at several agencies in addition to Leo Burnett, including Goodby, Silverstein & Partners and Saatchi & Saatchi LA.
Hutchinson and Reid met during ad school in 2004 at W+K 12 and have since worked together at many well-known shops. They spent a total of five years working together at Wieden+Kennedy’s Portland and Tokyo offices, with their main focus on the flagship Nike brand. Between the two of them, they’ve worked on Nike, LIVESTRONG, Electronic Arts, Coca-Cola and Old Spice–and most recently, Southwest Airlines, Adidas and Gatorade.
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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