Creative production company We Are Royale (WAR), with offices in L.A. and Seattle, has retained Astra Dorf of Astra Reps for entertainment marketing representation in the U.S. Over the last year, WAR has seen continued growth leveraging its broadcast design and production in the esports and gaming space, working with such clients as Epic Games, Riot Games, and Activision Blizzard. Meanwhile, the company continues to build on its collaborations with linear and streaming entertainment brands, with recent promo work for ABC’s The Bachelor and the visual identity toolkit for Hulu’s sixth annual Huluween event launched in conjunction with Disney+’s Hallowstream event. WAR also contributed to longstanding client Audible’s showing at the 2023 Clio Entertainment Awards where Audible received two shortlist honors for its “Words + Music” series launch campaign….
Anna Rotholz of independent represenation firm Anna Rotholz Management has brought Eli Rotholz on board as a partner, prompting a change in company moniker to Rotholz Reps. Now with the siblings as principals, the rep firm will retain its current roster of creative production and post companies that includes Madre, consulate and Chromista, along with new additions Public Record, OB42, and Alkemy X. Anna and Eli each started in the ad business as jr. independent reps at Ziegler Jakubowicz. Prior to joining forces with Anna, Eli served as director of business development for Alkemy X over the last five years. Before founding her management company, Anna held positions including head of East Coast sales at Union Editorial, head of sales for Believe Media, and sister at The Family, the rep firm founded by Diane Patrone and Chris Zander…
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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