April 17, 2009
Darren Spiller, who made a major creative splash Down Under, is slated to become chief creative officer of Fallon Minneapolis in late spring. He comes to Fallon Minneapolis by way of Publicis Mojo in Melbourne, Australia, where he most recently served as regional executive creative director and a member of the Publicis Global Creative Board…. Euro RSCG Chicago has extended its interactive reach, bringing aboard Alexis Chiagouris and Rina Mallick as digital strategist and digital creative director, respectively. These appointments—which are both new positions at Euro RSCG Chicago—come on the heels of Sprint awarding digital marketing business to the agency. Chiagouris will provide digital strategy and analytics expertise for the Sprint account, while Mallick will manage the account’s interactive creative direction…. Director Marc R. Wilkins has joined Caviar, a production house which maintains operations in Venice, Calif., Brussels and Amsterdam. He comes to Caviar from Paranoid US. Wilkins’ spot credits span such clients as Sprint, BMW, T-Mobile, Mercedes-Benz and Coca-Cola….
April 16, 2004
Noted feature composer Philip Glass (The Truman Show, The Hours, Secret Window) has made his spotmaking debut, wrapping music for two Altoids ads out of Leo Burnett USA, Chicago. Glass took on the commercials via Groove Addicts, the music/sound design house headed by creative director Dain Blair. Glass becomes the latest feature composer to come aboard Groove Addicts for select spot assignments. That roster includes Stewart Copeland (Wall Street, On the Line, Rumble Fish), Danny Elfman (Spider-Man, Batman, Good Will Hunting), Elmer Bernstein (Sweet Smell of Success, Magnificent Seven, To Kill A Mockingbird) and Jerry Goldsmith (L.A. Confidential, Alien, Chinatown)….Director Michael Patterson, formerly of Visitor, has joined Green Dot Films. Patterson, who had been at Visitor for about a year, is best known for his long tenure at Rhythm & Hues….Richard Cormier has been named senior VP at Nice Shoes, NY, which also serves as the umbrella for NY-based VFX company Guava and design unit Freestyle Collective. Most recently, Cormier served as sr. VP of commercial digital services at Ascent Media Group, following four years as managing director of Ascent company R!OT, Santa Monica. During that time, he oversaw the merger of POP, POP Animation, Digital Magic, 525 Studios, Hollywood Digital West and the original Riot into what is today R!OT….
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