VFX company Electric Theatre Collective, established in London and L.A., has fortified its team with the hiring of producers Elle Lockhart, Polly Durrance and Antonia Vlasto.
Lockhart brings a wealth of CG experience and joins from Touch Surgery where she ran the Johnson and Johnson account. Prior to that Lockhart worked at Analog as a VFX producer where she delivered three global campaigns for Nike. At Electric, she will serve as producer on Martini and Toyota.
Vlasto joins Electric working on clients such as Mercedes, Tourism Ireland and Tui. Vlasto joins from 750MPH where, over a 4-year period, she served as producer on Nike, Great Western Railway, VW and Amazon to name a few.
At Electric, Durrance serves as producer on H&M, TK Maxx and Carphone Warehouse. She joins from UNIT where she helped launched its in-house Design Collective, working with clients such as Lush, Pepsi and Thatchers Cider. Prior to UNIT Durrance was at Big Buoy where she produced work for Jaguar Land Rover, giffgaff and Redbull.
Harry Jones, Electric general manager, said: “We are thrilled to have added three talented female producers to our busy production department. Each of them brings their own unique quality and character to the company.”
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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