NY-based production company Easy Mondays has secured Veronica Lombardo Management (VLM) for representation on the West Coast and in Texas. VLM rounds out an Easy Mondays sales team that includes Carl Forsberg and Justin Lasoff (Apostle) on the East Coast, Sarah Gitersonke (SG&Partners) in the Midwest, and Marta Burga who handles the Hispanic market. Headed by founder/EP Asori Soto, Easy Mondays has a directorial roster which includes Biceps, Sebastian Caporelli, Luis Gerard, Matt Hranek, Kristian Mercado, Plastico, Maca Rubio, Tomat, Nes Buzzalino, and Yann Malka…..
Editorial, finishing, and VFX studio Uppercut is adding new East Coast and Midwest representation for its New York and Atlanta offices. Jen Giles + Partners will represent them in the Midwest and Anna Rotholz Management will handle the East Coast. Chicago-based Jen Giles + Partners is a talent management boutique representing a diverse group of directors and artists for commercials, branded content, and experiential projects across the Midwest market. Giles started her company in 2010 and has been in the advertising and production community for 20 years. Giles currently represents companies including CoMPANY Films, Identity, Minted Content, Washington Square Films, Yonder, and Uppercut’s music partner Racket Club. Anna Rotholz Management is based in New York and covers the East Coast and Latinx markets. Rotholz brings over a decade of broad understanding in conveying talents’ capabilities and goals, having spent the majority of her career as an independent rep working with such shops as Ziegler Management, The Family, and as in-house head of sales at Believe Media. Her current roster includes production companies Rocket Film, Hey Baby, Bindery, and Bodega….
Stephan Schenk has been appointed general manager global sales & solutions for ARRI’s hardware products as well as its solutions business. This newly created position aims to combine and align the sales and service activities across all ARRI product groups and expand the systems business across all markets. In this role, Schenk reports directly to executive board member Markus Zeiler. Schenk is responsible for all the sales and service departments of the camera systems and lighting business units, including the ARRI System Group in Berlin. Additionally, the regional managers from the Americas, China, East Asia Pacific, and EMEAI will report to Schenk who joined ARRI on August 1, 2009, as head of ARRI’s Business Unit Camera Systems. He was appointed managing director of Arnold & Richter Cine Technik in July 2014…..
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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