Production designer Todd Fjelsted, whose credits include the HBO series Looking and the Gregg Araki-directed feature White Bird In A Blizzard, has signed with Dattner Dispoto and Associates for representation. Also at Dattner Dispoto, DP Maryse Alberti has been booked for the Ryan Coogler-directed Creed, DP Bojan Bazelli, ASC, for Pete’s Dragon directed by David Lowery, and DP Florian Sadler for the Santiago Rizzo-directed Quest. New bookings for Dattner Dispoto costume designers include Paco Delgado securing director Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, Meghan Kasperlik tabbed for the Lee Kirk-helmed Geezer, and Kameron Lennox landing director Matt Ross’ Frank and Lola….Carlos Arambula has joined R&R Partners in the new position of VP of Hispanic marketing. Based in the firm’s L.A. office, he will provide leadership and insight to the firm’s nine offices, especially R&R’s new office in Mexico City. Prior to joining R&R, he served as partner/VP marketing & business development, MarcasUSA LLC, a Pan-American OTC pharmaceutical import/distribution company based in El Segundo, Calif., which he also co-founded. Also during this period, he ran his own consulting firm, Arambula-Phillips Communications, serving as managing partner/lead marketing strategist, introducing and establishing foreign brands. Arambula brings deep experience in marketing to Latin American and the domestic Hispanic consumer markets, working on brands such as Toyota, Mars, Unilever, Hormel, ConAgra, and Nestle. Past affiliations include Saatchi, Grey, WPP, and Publicis….Greg Holland has become worldwide VP of sales for Digital Vision, a supplier of color grading, restoration and film scanning solutions for the broadcast, film, commercial and archive industries. Holland is part of a company management team which acquired Digital Vision from Image Systems….
Snubs and Surprises In Oscar Nominations
In one of the more wide-open Oscar fields in recent history, there were plenty of nominations surprises Thursday. Not too long ago, it seemed that people like Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman were destined for best actress nominations, while general audience disinterest in the young Donald Trump movie "The Apprentice" might have indicated its awards chances were dead on arrival. But the members of the film academy had something different in mind. Here are some of the biggest snubs and surprises from the 97th Oscar nominations. SURPRISE: Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan, "The Apprentice" The young Trump movie "The Apprentice" has been one of the bigger awards season question marks, especially after it failed to resonate with moviegoers in theaters. And yet both Jeremy Strong, for his portrayal for Trump lawyer Roy Cohn, and Sebastian Stan (who was also in the conversation for "A Different Man" ), for playing the future two-time president, made it in. Only Strong got nominated by the Screen Actors Guild. SNUB: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, "Hard Truths" This will forever be one of the more confounding awards season oversights. Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivered one of the all-time great performances in Mike Leigh's "Hard Truths," as the perpetually aggrieved and sharp-tongued London woman Pansy. The general thinking is that it was either going to be Jean-Baptiste or Fernanda Torres, and Torres got in for the equally beloved "I'm Still Here." SNUB: Pamela Anderson, "The Last Showgirl" This is perhaps up for debate, but there was certainly a lot of goodwill behind Anderson's movie-star turn in Gia Coppola's "The Last Showgirl," especially considering her SAG nomination. But like with Jennifer Lopez and... Read More