Hone Production, a NYC and Atlanta-based hybrid production company/consultancy, has secured Eli Rotholz as director of business development and content. Rotholz brings 10 years of sales and production experience to his new roost, having begun his career as an independent sales rep for Ziegler/Jakubowicz, before moving on to Moustache NYC. From there Rotholz worked in his first in-house position at Click 3X. Rotholz would then take his passion for discovering and developing emerging talent with his vision for content creation to found Honor Society Films. Rotholz now joins Hone to aim his expertise at growing new business and expanding the content side of the studio…
Editorial company Whitehouse Post has signed New York-based talent management company Hustle, headed by partners Anya Zander and Jake Neske, to handle representation on the East Coast. Hustle reps a client roster which also includes Tool, Partizan, Gifted Youth, Humble, MediaMonks, The Sweet Shop, HUSH, Chromista, Blacklist, Jam3, Duotone, and NO6…
Extreme Reach Crew Services, an Extreme Reach company and a provider of employer of record payroll services to the entertainment and advertising industries, has brought Amit Jagwani on board as director of sales and marketing. Based in New York, Jagwani will work closely with Anthony Vazquez, VP, sales and marketing, to lead Extreme Reach Crew Service’s sales growth strategy on the East Coast and in Canada. Jagwani has served as a production auditor at NBCUniversal; finance manager for production and reporting at Shine America; and more recently as director of sales and marketing for Entertainment Partners, followed by a role as VP, incentive services at Elite Commercial Incentive Services….
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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