Sibling Films, an independent creative production company partnering with clients like Nike, HPE, and Lexus, has added Nic Barnes as its new live-action East Coast executive producer.
Barnes brings to Sibling Films over 20 years of experience working in broadcast, film and VFX. Her previous roost was The Mill+ where she held the position of sr. content producer for a decade.
As part of The Mill team, she helped produce the PETA "98% Human" film that took home numerous awards including the Gold Cannes Lion for Film Craft: Visual Effects. She was also a part of the Hallmark "Mother Bird" shoot that won the AICP Show Animation award, Bronze Clio, and Hugo Gold Plaque.
Joe Wright, co-founder and CCO at Sibling, said of Barnes, “Bringing decades of experience in the industry, she will be responsible for bolstering our live-action production team on the East Coast. Together with our recent hire of Darren Foldes as MD/EP based in Los Angeles, Nic will help to bridge the coasts, opening up a multitude of new opportunities for Sibling Films.”
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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