Luke Holt has been named sales director of Big Pic Media, which maintains offices in London and Los Angeles, serving as a resource for production, post, broadcast and media products and services. The company can advise and supply solutions ranging from individual items to fully integrated suites. Big Pic Media has a support function which oversees design and installation services as well as offering engineering support for products supplied by the company. This department can design, develop and install facility updates or entire facilities on request….
Sunnyvalle, Calif.-based SDVI, a platform provider for cloud-native media supply chains, has hired Nahuel Villegas as VP of sales for Latin America. Villegas will lead the company’s expansion into the region and pursue its long-term initiative to bring significant industry transformation to media companies in Latin America that need to deliver more content to more customers across a broader range of platforms. Villegas has led sales efforts for such companies as Grass Valley, Imagine Communications, Harris Broadcat and Lucent Technologies. He has been instrumental in developing and implementing go-to-market strategies that generated customer and revenue growth in the territories, including Latin America, for which he has been responsible.
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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