December 10, 2010 Tor Myhren has been promoted to president of Grey New York. He remains the agency’s chief creative officer and becomes the first creative ever to lead the agency’s flagship office….Bicoastal Park Pictures is slated to open its first-ever London office January 1, 2011. The new hub will be run by executive producer Stephen Brierley, former head of production at Stink, London….Peter Nicholson has joined JWT New York as chief creative officer. He will be responsible for driving the creative vision and future growth of JWT’s flagship office, reporting to David Eastman, CEO of JWT North America. A former JWT executive creative director, Nicholson returns to JWT from Redscout, where he held the title of chief creative officer. Nicholson joined 50-person Redscout to help move the marketing strategy and design-focused shop toward a more full-service creative offering, focused on consumer-oriented executions. During his time at Redscout, he worked on Activision, Diageo, Kate Spade, PepsiCo and Samsung. Prior to Redscout, Nicholson was chief creative officer at Deutsch New York where he pitched and won more than $200 million in new business, garnering the USAA and PNC Bank accounts…..Goodby, Silverstein & Partners has hired Joakim Borgstrom as creative director. He comes over from Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam and will be working closely with Rick Condos and Hunter Hindman on Chevrolet….
December 9, 2005 Lisa Hinman, president of San Francisco-based Phoenix Edit.Effects.Design, has been elected president of the Association of Independent Creative Editors (AICE) for a two-year term starting on January 1, 2006. She will succeed Richard Gillespie, owner/editor of Fast Cuts Edits, Dallas…..Susan Credle has been promoted to executive creative director at BBDO New York….Alan Pafenbach, managing partner/exec creative director at Arnold Worldwide, Boston, will leave the agency at the end of the year. He was one of the key creatives on the Volkswagen account which moved over to Crispin Porter + Bogusky….Frank Lowe, the founder of Lowe Worldwide, is launching an agency in partnership with several ad execs, including Paul Weinberger, former chairman of Lowe London….Web ad revenue hit a record quarterly high, surpassing $3 billion from July-August 2005 according to figures released by the Internet Advertising Bureau. This total represents a nearly 34% increase over the revenue generated during the same three-month period in 2004…
After 20 Years of Acting, Megan Park Finds Her Groove In The Director’s Chair On “My Old Ass”
Megan Park feels a little bad that her movie is making so many people cry. It's not just a single tear either — more like full body sobs.
She didn't set out to make a tearjerker with "My Old Ass," now streaming on Prime Video. She just wanted to tell a story about a young woman in conversation with her older self. The film is quite funny (the dialogue between 18-year-old and almost 40-year-old Elliott happens because of a mushroom trip that includes a Justin Bieber cover), but it packs an emotional punch, too.
Writing, Park said, is often her way of working through things. When she put pen to paper on "My Old Ass," she was a new mom and staying in her childhood bedroom during the pandemic. One night, she and her whole nuclear family slept under the same roof. She didn't know it then, but it would be the last time, and she started wondering what it would be like to have known that.
In the film, older Elliott ( Aubrey Plaza ) advises younger Elliott ( Maisy Stella ) to not be so eager to leave her provincial town, her younger brothers and her parents and to slow down and appreciate things as they are. She also tells her to stay away from a guy named Chad who she meets the next day and discovers that, unfortunately, he's quite cute.
At 38, Park is just getting started as a filmmaker. Her first, "The Fallout," in which Jenna Ortega plays a teen in the aftermath of a school shooting, had one of those pandemic releases that didn't even feel real. But it did get the attention of Margot Robbie 's production company LuckyChap Entertainment, who reached out to Park to see what other ideas she had brewing.
"They were very instrumental in encouraging me to go with it," Park said. "They're just really even-keeled, good people, which makes... Read More