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    Ebeling Group Gets Serious For Compaq

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    CLIENT

    Compaq.

    PRODUCTION CO.

    The Ebeling Group, Playa del Rey, Calif.

    Caskey, director; Christophe Lanzenburg, DP; Mick Ebeling, executive producer; Moody Glasgow, head of production; Hamidah Glasgow, line producer; Charles Infante, production designer. Shot at Crossing Studios, Burnaby, B.C.

    AGENCY

    Pubicis & Hal Riney, San Francisco.

    Greg Ketchum and Dennis Lim creative directors; Sam Walsh, senior VP/director of production; Cathleen Kisich, producer; Chris Lindau, copywriter; Doug Patterson, art director.

    EDITORIAL

    Jigsaw, Los Angeles.

    Jason Painter, editor; Kelly Koppen, assistant editor; Traci Meyer, executive producer; Corey Evans, producer.

    POST/VISUAL EFFECTS

    The Ebeling Group.

    Ellery Gave and Cameron Walser, visual effects artists; Peter Murphy, compositor.

    Jigsaw.

    Mark Leiss, online editor/Flame artist

    Company 3, Santa Monica.

    Mike Pethel, colorist; Shara Martin, producer.

    AUDIO POST

    Eleven, Santa Monica.

    Mike Greenberg, mixer.

    MUSIC

    Little Green Men, San Francisco.

    Charles Judge, composer.

    SOUND DESIGN

    Eleven.

    Mike Greenberg, sound designer.

    THE SPOTS

    "Intruder" (:30) opens in a futuristic command center, where two latex-suited agents monitor the security of the premises via a holographic plasma screen. As an alarm sounds, the duo frantically guide a fellow agent through a darkened hallway littered with cables and blown fuses. "It’s closing in on you," says one of the agents through a headset, as an animal-like growl gets louder. "They’re multiplying!" warns the other. Suddenly, a casually dressed young man saunters into the command center. He walks past the stunned agents, yanks the computer tower out of the rack and walks out of view. The commercial cuts to the man’s living room, where he happily plunks the computer onto his desk. The voiceover states, "Get your hands on some serious technology. Get a Compaq." In "Vault" (:30), a she-hacker dressed in a black bodysuit scales a metal-walled vault. She avoids laser motion detectors as she leaps backward, landing on her feet. Then she whips out her laptop to log onto the system. A man’s voice commands her via a headset: "You should be inside the network now." She tells him that she is in, as panels along the wall begin opening. Suddenly, the motion alarm is triggered, and the panels slide back into place. Out of nowhere, a dreadlocked dude walks into frame, grabs the laptop and exclaims, "Sweet!" The scene switches to the guy’s living room as he sets up his new computer.

    Spots broke Nov. 4.

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    Daniel Craig Embraced Openness For Role In Director Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer”

    Tuesday, November 26, 2024

    Daniel Craig is sitting in the restaurant of the Carlyle Hotel talking about how easy it can be to close yourself off to new experiences.

    "We get older and maybe out of fear, we want to control the way we are in our lives. And I think it's sort of the enemy of art," Craig says. "You have to push against it. Whether you have success or not is irrelevant, but you have to try to push against it."

    Craig, relaxed and unshaven, has the look of someone who has freed himself of a too snug tuxedo. Part of the abiding tension of his tenure as James Bond was this evident wrestling with the constraints that came along with it. Any such strains, though, would seem now to be completely out the window.

    Since exiting that role, Craig, 56, has seemed eager to push himself in new directions. He performed "Macbeth" on Broadway. His drawling detective Benoit Blanc ("Halle Berry!") stole the show in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery." And now, Craig gives arguably his most transformative performance as the William S. Burroughs avatar Lee in Luca Guadagnino's tender tale of love and longing in postwar Mexico City, "Queer."

    Since the movie's Venice Film Festival premiere, it's been one of the fall's most talked about performances — for its explicit sex scenes, for its vulnerability and for its extremely un-007-ness.

    "The role, they say, must have been a challenge or 'You're so brave to do this,'" Craig said in a recent interview alongside Guadagnino. "I kind of go, 'Eh, not really.' It's why I get up in the morning."

    In "Queer," which A24 releases Wednesday in theaters, Craig again plays a well-traveled, sharply dressed, cocktail-drinking man. But the similarities with his most famous role stop there. Lee is an American expat living in 1950s... Read More

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