Ross Hopman has joined music house duotone audio group as executive producer/head of commercial music production. He comes over after eight years at JSM where he produced music for such brands as Google, Gillette, Major League Baseball, Coke, Hershey’s and Comcast. Projects he’s worked on have garnered honors from the AMP Awards, AICP Show and the AICE Awards, among other competitions.
David Leinheardt, duotone’s managing director, said of Hopman, “His musical instincts and industry reputation will make him an invaluable addition to our commercial production endeavors.
As a performing musician, Hopman has shared the stage with such acts as the Alternate Routes, Sister Hazel, Ari Hest, Ernie Halter, Toby Lightman and Gavin Degraw. From bluegrass to soul, pop to rock & roll, Hopman has been a part of various musical acts. Currently he is half of the dark folk duo Civil Brother, along with creative partner Jordan Leib (of Fangs and Back Light Smoke) who just released their debut self-titled album.
Recent work from duotone includes a new “Play with Oreo” ad, the heartfelt “Love This Life” commercial for Chobani featuring Eef Barzelay (Clem Snide), and music for Younger, the new Darren Star series on TV Land.
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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