Phil Poynter, renowned British photographer, has joined the directorial roster at Mill+.
Poynter joins Mill+, The Mill’s content driven collective, to continue building on his long and highly acclaimed career in fashion photography with the addition of moving image direction.
In a career spanning 20-plus years, Poynter has had a prolific impact on the world of fashion photography and editorial content. With his strong sense of narrative and conceptual style, the transition into moving image direction is a natural one.
Poynter has a myriad of strong relationships in the fashion world, regularly contributing to Love Magazine, Vogue Italia Interview, Vogue Germany, Vogue Paris, Luomo Vogue, Vanity fair and Garage. His creative highlights include collaborations with Louis Vuitton, Prada, Givenchy, Maybelline, Lacoste, Rolex, Cadillac, Shiseido Prada and Calvin Klein Cartier and Alexander McQueen.
Poynter’s partnership with Mill+ has grown out of years of successful collaboration with The Mill’s Beauty team, leading to creation of Garage Magazine’s interactive AR cover series and contributions to Love Magazine’s annual advent calendar.
With his wealth of experience in both stills photography and moving image direction for luxury fashion brands and magazines, Poynter perfectly complements the current Mill+ team of directors across the globe, particularly as the industry sees a rise in demand for high quality branded editorial content.
Mill+’s end to end concept to delivery proposition will give Poynter a breadth of opportunities and support him in creating content backed by the scale and expertise of The Mill.
Is “Glicked” The New “Barbenheimer”? “Wicked” and “Gladiator II” Hit Theater Screens
"Barbenheimer" was a phenomenon impossible to manufacture. But, more than a year later, that hasn't stopped people from trying to make "Glicked" — or even "Babyratu" — happen.
The counterprogramming of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" in July 2023 hit a nerve culturally and had the receipts to back it up. Unlike so many things that begin as memes, it transcended its online beginnings. Instead of an either-or, the two movies ultimately complemented and boosted one another at the box office.
And ever since, moviegoers, marketers and meme makers have been trying to recreate that moment, searching the movie release schedule for odd mashups and sending candidates off into the social media void. Most attempts have fizzled (sorry, "Saw Patrol" ).
This weekend is perhaps the closest approximation yet as the Broadway musical adaptation "Wicked" opens Friday against the chest-thumping sword-and-sandals epic "Gladiator II." Two big studio releases (Universal and Paramount), with one-name titles, opposite tones and aesthetics and big blockbuster energy — it was already halfway there before the name game began: "Wickiator," "Wadiator," "Gladwick" and even the eyebrow raising "Gladicked" have all been suggested.
"'Glicked' rolls off the tongue a little bit more," actor Fred Hechinger said at the New York screening of "Gladiator II" this week. "I think we should all band around 'Glicked.' It gets too confusing if you have four or five different names for it."
As with "Barbenheimer," as reductive as it might seem, "Glicked" also has the male/female divide that make the fan art extra silly. One is pink and bright and awash in sparkles, tulle, Broadway bangers and brand tie-ins; The other is all sweat and sand, blood and bulging... Read More