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    Eric Husband and Mike Caguin

    "Required Reading", Short Script-Big Screen, and People in the News

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    “REQUIRED READING”
        Leo Burnett USA, Chicago, topped last month’s Chicago Creative Club Awards, winning best of show in two categories, including television for the Hallmark spot “Required Reading,” which was directed by David Harner, then a creative at the agency, who has since joined Venice, Calif.-based production house The Institute for the Development of Enhanced Perceptual Awareness. The commercial shows a man struggling to become literate so that he can read the greeting cards given to him over the years by loved ones. “Required Reading” made a major awards splash in August, tying with FedEx’s “Stick” (directed by Traktor of bicoastal/international Partizan for BBDO New York) for the coveted primetime commercial Emmy Award. Overall at the Chicago Creative Club Awards, Burnett won 17 of the competition’s total of 27 categories…..


    SHORT SCRIPT-BIG SCREEN
        New York-headquartered cinema advertising firm Screenvision has launched the “Short Script-Big Screen” competition, which is open to qualified professionals in the advertising, marketing and media industries. Entrants are invited to submit a two-minute short script on the subject of their choice. The winning script–to be selected by Screenvision and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (UCB)–will be produced into a short film that will be shown as part of a national Screenvision digital entertainment preshow in 2007. UCB will provide a production team as well as on-camera talent for the winning entry. Deadline for entries is Nov. 15; log onto www.screenvision.com for more info…….


    PEOPLE IN THE NEWS    Mike Caguin and Eric Husband have returned to Colle+McVoy, Minneapolis, after having left the agency a year ago to work as senior creatives at Butler Shine & Stern, Sausalito, Calif. They are now taking on associate creative director duties at Colle+McVoy….Global creative and brand-engineering agency Attik has brought several artisans into its San Francisco office, including senior Flash developer Pete Shirmer, interactive producer Denise Czaja, copywriter Mary Michael Pringle, junior art director Mina Buehler Monnee and junior designers Jonathan Burkett and Ryan Lee……Cut+Run has added noted editor Chris Hellman to its New York-based talent roster, which includes company co-founder/editor Chuck Willis and editors Mike Douglas, Jon Grover, Anthony Marinelli and Adam Jenkins. A former partner/editor at Homestead Editorial, New York, Hellman has cut over the years for such clients as Miller, BK, Nike, and Coca-Cola……Editor Rich Jack, formerly of Big Sky, New York, has come aboard Bionic, the New York shop launched by veteran editors Steve Beal and Todd Feuer in 1999. Jack’s credits include commercials for Procter & Gamble, Budweiser, General Mills and HBO….Colorist Matt McClain has joined Filmworkers Club Dallas. He comes over from Riot, Santa Monica, where he served as assistant to veteran spot colorist Bob Festa as well as senior colorists Clark Muller and Brian “Crash” Carlucci. McClain’s spot credits as a colorist include Expedia, Scotia Bank and the Red Rock Casino……Cary Flaum has joined the New York office of international visual effects house Smoke and Mirrors as head of production. Headquartered in London, the company opened its U.S. operation in 2003. Flaum served as sales and facility manager at mad.house, New York, and as a senior producer at Version2, New York….

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    Daniel Craig Embraced Openness For Role In Director Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer”

    Tuesday, November 26, 2024

    Daniel Craig is sitting in the restaurant of the Carlyle Hotel talking about how easy it can be to close yourself off to new experiences.

    "We get older and maybe out of fear, we want to control the way we are in our lives. And I think it's sort of the enemy of art," Craig says. "You have to push against it. Whether you have success or not is irrelevant, but you have to try to push against it."

    Craig, relaxed and unshaven, has the look of someone who has freed himself of a too snug tuxedo. Part of the abiding tension of his tenure as James Bond was this evident wrestling with the constraints that came along with it. Any such strains, though, would seem now to be completely out the window.

    Since exiting that role, Craig, 56, has seemed eager to push himself in new directions. He performed "Macbeth" on Broadway. His drawling detective Benoit Blanc ("Halle Berry!") stole the show in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery." And now, Craig gives arguably his most transformative performance as the William S. Burroughs avatar Lee in Luca Guadagnino's tender tale of love and longing in postwar Mexico City, "Queer."

    Since the movie's Venice Film Festival premiere, it's been one of the fall's most talked about performances — for its explicit sex scenes, for its vulnerability and for its extremely un-007-ness.

    "The role, they say, must have been a challenge or 'You're so brave to do this,'" Craig said in a recent interview alongside Guadagnino. "I kind of go, 'Eh, not really.' It's why I get up in the morning."

    In "Queer," which A24 releases Wednesday in theaters, Craig again plays a well-traveled, sharply dressed, cocktail-drinking man. But the similarities with his most famous role stop there. Lee is an American expat living in 1950s... Read More

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