Pixotope, a software solution for live Augmented Reality and virtual production, has made two senior promotions and a new hire–the latter being Ian Puszet who joins as chief customer success officer after a decade working at Avid where as VP he led the global customer care team. Puszet will drive Pixotope’s customer success initiatives, align departments with a customer-centric culture and continue to construct exceptional relationships between Pixotope and its current and potential customers. Meanwhile Karoline StorbrÃ¥ten has been promoted to regional sales manager for Southern Europe. She had served as sales & marketing manager at Pixotope since May 2020 when she joined the company. Another Pixotope veteran, Joachim Ringstad, celebrates his fifth year in the company, now serving as Pixotope’s regional sales manager for the Nordics and Benelux. Ringstad’s journey at The Future Group, the Oslo, Norway-headquartered company behind Pixotope, began in 2016 as information technology manager. Today, he spearheads the expansion of Pixotope’s customer base and the achievement of sales targets for territories including Sweden, Denmark and Norway…..
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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