August 16, 2010
Crispin Porter+Bogusky (CP+B) has hired Matt O’Rourke as interactive group creative director, Jens McNaughton as interactive associate creative director, and Chean Wei Law as interactive design director, to work out of the agency’s Boulder, Colorado office….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….JWT North America has acquired Digitaria, a full-service digital agency based in San Diego and with satellite offices in Dallas, New York and Los Angeles. Purchase price was not disclosed. Dan Khabie retains his title as Digitaria CEO and will report to David Eastman, JWT North America CEO and worldwide digital director….
August 19, 2005
David Rolfe is joining DDB Chicago, as senior VP/director of branded production, a new role at the ad shop. Rolfe comes over from CP+B, Miami, where he served as co-director of integrated production, along with Rupert Samuel. In the wake of Rolfe’s departure, Samuel was promoted to director of integrated production at CP+B…Worldwide media buying shop Zenith Optimedia has entered into a working relationship with entertainment management/production company The Firm. Per the arrangement, The Firm will explore and pursue brand integration and entertainment-based opportunities for Zenith Optimedia’s client roster which includes General Mills, Hewlett Packard, Chase, L’Oreal, Nestle, Toyota, Lexus, Scion, Verizon and Verizon Wireless. Rich Frank, former chairman of Walt Disney Television, chairs The Firm, and will oversee that company’s work for Zenith Optimedia….Alan Irvin, former exec creative director of Grey Worldwide South Africa, has jumped over to the commercial production house side of the business, becoming a director at Picture Tree, Johannesburg…
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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