Picture Shop, Streamland Media's picture division, has brought sr. colorist Sam Daley aboard its global roster. Daley has nearly 25 years of experience working on series such as HBO’s “Succession” and Amazon’s “Dead Ringers,” and features including “The Florida Project,” “Sorry to Bother You,” “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” and “Barbarian.”
Cara Sheppard, president of Picture Shop, said of Daley, “He is tremendously talented, and his experience and artistry will only further bolster Picture Shop’s creative expertise.”
Daley has been nominated for Hollywood Professional Association Awards (HPA) for Outstanding Color Grading in Documentary/Nonfiction for “Descendant” (2023) and for Outstanding Color Grading in Television for “Show Me a Hero.” His list of credits includes the feature films “Earth Mama,” “Charm City Kings,” “Sanctuary,” “Swallow” and “Beirut.” Recent episodic credits include “Gossip Girl,” “I’m A Virgo,” “Station Eleven,” “Scenes From a Marriage,” “Harlan Coben’s Shelter,” and “I Know This Much Is True.” Daley is an associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). Prior to joining Picture Shop, he was at Light Iron and Company 3.
“I’m excited to be at a company with the scope and global footprint of Picture Shop,” said Daley. “I can continue to collaborate with the filmmakers I work with as they take their talents throughout the continent and across the pond.”
In addition to its New York facility, Picture Shop locations include Los Angeles, Toronto, and Vancouver with international locations in the U.K. that include London, Manchester, Bristol, Wales, and Pinewood Studios.
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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