Filmmaker Louis Leterrier, whose latest feature was Clash of the Titans starring Sam Worthington and Liam Neeson, has joined Saville Productions for exclusive North American representation in commercials.
Leterrier’s filmography as a director also includes The Incredible Hulk, Transporter 2 and martial arts film Unleashed, which starred Jet Li and Morgan Freeman. Leterrier also shares a directorial credit with Cory Yuen on the movie The Transporter.
In the spotmaking arena, Leterrier has experience as reflected in spots he helmed for BNP and the Asian Games.
Born in Paris, Leterrier was guided artistically from an early age by his mother, the Academy Award-nominated costume designer Catherine Leterrier. At the age of 18, after some training in advertising and publicity, he left France to study cinema at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Leterrier’s first break came when he was chosen to assist Jean-Pierre Jeunet on the set of Alien: Resurrection. On returning to France, he secured a position working with Luc Besson on commercial projects as well as on the film Joan of Arc.
In 2002 Leterrier directed The Transporter, a Luc Besson produced action movie starring Jason Statham–although the U.S. release lists him as artistic director and Yuen as director, the opening credits of the European release grant him directorial credit and list Yuen as action director. The success of The Transporter persuaded Besson to entrust him to direct Unleashed, and later Transporter 2.
Two years later Leterrier directed his first big-budget American film, The Incredible Hulk. The film gained favorable reviews, earned $134 million in the U.S. boxoffice and was nominated for Best Superhero Film at the 2008 National Movie Awards and for Best Science Fiction Film at the Saturn Awards.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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