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.
Steven Soderbergh Has A Multi-Faceted “Presence” In His Latest Film
Steven Soderbergh isn't just the director and cinematographer of his latest film. He's also, in a way, its central character.
"Presence" is filmed entirely from the POV of a ghost inside a home a family has just moved into. Soderbergh, who serves as his own cinematographer under the pseudonym Peter Andrews (his father's name), essentially performs as the presence, a floating point-of-view that watches as the violence that killed the mysterious ghost threatens to be repeated.
For even the prolific Soderbergh, the film, which opens Friday in theaters, was a unique challenge. He shot "Presence" with a small digital camera while wearing slippers to soften his steps.
The 62-year-old filmmaker recently met a reporter in a midtown Manhattan hotel in between finishing post-production on his other upcoming movie ("Black Bag," a thriller Focus Features will release March 14) and beginning production in a few weeks on his next project, a romantic comedy that he says "feels like a George Cukor movie."
Soderbergh, whose films include "Out of Sight," the "Ocean's 11" movies, "Magic Mike" and "Erin Brockovich," tends to do a lot in small windows of time. "Presence" took 11 days to film.
That dexterous proficiency has made the ever-experimenting Soderbergh one of Hollywood's most widely respected evaluators of the movie business. In a wide-ranging conversation, he discussed why he thinks streaming is the most destructive force the movies have ever faced and why he's "the cockroach of this industry."
Q: You use pseudonyms for yourself as a cinematographer and editor. Were you tempted to credit yourself as an actor for "Presence"?
SODERBERGH: No, but what I did is subtle. For the first and... Read More