March 24, 2011
Jill Applebaum, former creative director at Y&R/Brandbuzz, has joined Draftfcb New York as sr. VP/group creative director. At her new roost, Applebaum will helm creative efforts for key accounts including Oreo and Gevalia. Applebaum’s appointment comes on the heels of Roald van Wyk’s hiring as a sr. VP/group creative director last month from Publicis Modem. Both report to Darren Moran who was recently appointed Draftfcb New York’s CCO…..Animation studio Passion Pictures has formed a live-action commercials division, Passion RAW, under the aegis of exec producer Dan Scott-Croxford, formerly with Stink. The new venture will sit alongside Passion’s animation and live-action documentary departments and be based in the company’s London offices…..Craig Love and Shayne Millington, a creative duo at Wieden+Kennedy, have come aboard JWT New York as creative directors on the Macy’s and Bloomberg accounts, respectively. At W+K, Love was a senior copywriter and Millington a senior art director since 2008, partnering on notable campaigns for Target, Nike and Coke. Love and Millington represent the first new creative hires of Peter Nicholson since he became JWT New York’s CCO in January….
March 24, 2006
The New York Assembly’s proposed state budget for fiscal year 2006-’07 includes language that would establish tax credits for filming of commercials. The Assembly now joins the State Senate in incorporating the tax credit incentives into its budget….Director Dana Adam Shapiro–who served as a co-director (with Henry-Alex Rubin) of Murderball, an Oscar-nominated feature documentary about quadriplegic rugby players who go on to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens–has joined the roster of Little Minx for spot representation.,,,Stink, London, and DDB London topped the 2006 British Television Advertising Awards, being named, respectively, the top production company and ad agency of the year in the U.K….. Director Chris Applebaum has joined Reactor Films for exclusive representation. He comes over from Partizan….Director Eric King has signed with Tate USA. He had been with the recently shuttered Headquarters….Director Gavin Bowden and exec producer Beth Pearson have joined Santa Monica, Calif.-based Plum Productions……
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