Minerva Content, the management consulting and representation firm run by partners Mary Knox and Shauna Seresin, has signed Machine Head. They will be handling sound designer Stephen Dewey on the East Coast and in the Midwest….
Long-time Deluxe postproduction sales executive Russ Robertson has returned to the company as SVP of sales, Encore New York, to support the growing demand for its TV post services in the region. He re-joins Deluxe from a year at Panavision, where he drove camera systems and production services as VP of marketing. Robertson built his career at Deluxe, joining the company in 2002 in Toronto and spending 14 years leading sales teams and efforts as VP of sales in Toronto, Vancouver, and New York, helping to establish the New York outpost of Deluxe’s Encore in the process. He began his 20-year postproduction career serving in sales and services roles at a number of facilities in Toronto….
Bonnie Rosen has joined strategic branding and marketing innovations agency Troika as an account director. She is responsible for leading client accounts and building relationships and partnerships with media and technology companies to elevate brand experiences. Rosen reports to Austin Katz, chief development officer. Most recently, Rosen was a consultant with various media and technology companies, where she helped develop partnership roadmaps, strategy and product ideation. Rosen spent six years at Viacom Media Networks in multiple roles from counsel to director of business development within content distribution. At Viacom, she built creative, strategic solutions that resulted in high-value partnerships with clients, including Amazon, Comcast, Verizon, and Hulu….
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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