Independent ad agency Odysseus Arms has hired Eric Dunn to serve in the newly created role of managing director. He will be responsible for expanding the operation, refining client services and steering digital architecture.
Dunn is a 15-year advertising and media executive with a broad range of brand and business development expertise across a variety of industries, including auto, hospitality, alcohol/spirits, luxury real estate and e-commerce. He joins from San Francisco-based ad agency Duncan/Channon, where he was most recently group account director. During his tenure, Dunn was instrumental in navigating efforts for StubHub, the world’s largest secondary ticket marketplace, as it grappled with Ticketmaster and over 150 other competitors. Dunn helped expand the business from creative projects to a holistic scope including media buying and planning, digital direct response, international campaign development, and “always on” studio support.
Dunn’s experience leading the Kona Brewing account while at Duncan/Channon will help Odysseus Arms further develop its wine and spirit business. Additionally, his expertise in the hospitality sector gained from driving accounts such as Tahoe South, Palms Resort and the Ritz Carlton Residences–combined with Odysseus Arms co-founder Franklin Tipton’s experience leading world-class work for Tourism Victoria in Australia–will help the agency offer premium, international-level strategic services.
“Eric will help us continue to rewrite the ad agency rulebook,” added Odysseus Arms’ co-founder Libby Brockhoff. “We achieved the distinction of a Top 3 brand on Facebook (highest engagement across the entire platform) for Carlo Rossi using a new consumer listening technique. Eric will help us offer these proprietary services on a global scale.”
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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