Copacino+Fujikado has hired former Publicis Seattle CEO Scott Foreman as managing director. Foreman will oversee the independent, full-service agency’s day-to-day operations, including new business, account management, media and production. He will work alongside creative director Mike Hayward and report directly to co-founder Betti Fujikado.
Foreman joins his new roost after spending nearly 15 years at Publicis Seattle, where he was largely responsible for managing the agency’s ongoing T-Mobile relationship, in addition to the office’s day-to-day operations. Foreman was part of the initial team that relaunched T-Mobile nationally in 2002 and has been integral in some of the company’s most memorable campaigns, such as "Get More,” “T-Mobile Girl” and the current “Un-carrier” initiative. He also drove Publicis Seattle’s new business, helping win AOR appointments for the likes of Eddie Bauer, American Girl and Visit Seattle during his tenure.
Prior to Publicis, Foreman briefly managed operations for Gamers.com, an online portal for gaming enthusiasts that was live in the early 2000s. He began his career in the media department of Foote, Cone & Belding, working on the agency’s Mazda business and eventually transitioning to account management where he ran AT&T Wireless.
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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