Executive producer Leila Gage will be promoted to head of broadcast production at Goodby Silverstein & Partners (GS&P). In this role she will oversee the department and lead the agency’s broadcast-production offering, developing innovative new ways of working with GS&P’s production partners.
Former head of broadcast production Tod Puckett will fill GS&P’s newly created role of director of film and music curation. In this role he will apply his passions and talents for music and film.
“Leila has a knack for building relationships with the production world to help achieve the very best creative results,” said Margaret Johnson, chief creative officer of GS&P. “She has grown up at GS&P and has become an invaluable resource in leading some of our most complex and most-awarded assignments.”
Gage has been with GS&P for 10 years, where she has produced some of the agency’s most famous productions–work for “got milk?,” StubHub, Xfinity, and PepsiCo’s rap battle between Morgan Freeman and Peter Dinklage during the Super Bowl. Prior to GS&P, Gage worked at JWT NY and Saatchi & Saatchi NY.
“Since the first day of our company’s founding, broadcast production has been critical to our creative success,” said Jeff Goodby, co-founder and co-chairman of GS&P. “Leila is a favorite of our creative department and is never shy to push all of us toward greatness.”
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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