Director/creative director Steve Fuller has joined New York-based studio Sibling Rivalry. Known for the Emmy Award-winning main titles for AMCโs Mad Men as well as for HBOโs Nurse Jackie and the HBO miniseries The Pacific, Fuller has also been active in spotmaking, with directorial credits for McDonaldโs and CB2.
Fuller, whose creative through-line is visual storytelling, comes aboard Sibling Rivalryโs directorial roster that includes Mikon van Gastel, Joe Wright, and Pete Sillen. Fuller now reunites with van Gastel who first hired him at Imaginary Forces. There, Fuller forged a reputation for inspired, original projects for networks, agencies and feature films. Van Gastel went on to become a co-founder of Sibling Rivalry with Wright. Maggie Meade is exec producer at Sibling Rivalry, a studio which aligns design thinking and production.
Fuller was formerly repped by Go Film. Earlier, he was creative director/director at Imaginary Forces and prior to that an art director at MTV.
โWeโve known Steve for over a decade so welcoming him to Sibling Rivalry is like a return to the nest,โ said van Gastel. โHis experience, like ours, crosses over branding, titles and commercials, all design-driven storytelling.โ
Sibling Rivalryโs clientele includes Lincoln Motor Company, Nickelodeon, Unilever, Yoplait, Verizon, Bloomberg and EA Sports.
Mindy Kaling and Kate Hudson Take On Pro Basketball In Netflix Series โRunning Pointโ
In Mindy Kaling's new Netflix series, "Running Point, " Kate Hudson stars as Isla Gordon, the new president of the Los Angeles Waves, a pro basketball team that's been run by her family for years. Hudson's character has to prove herself as a woman in a man's world not only to her passed-over brothers, but also to players whose egos need checking and other executives who don't take her seriously.
If Isla's story rings a bell, take a look at the list of executive producers on the 10-episode season dropping Thursday: Among them is Jeanie Buss, the president of the Los Angeles Lakers, who was embroiled in similar turmoil over control of the storied NBA franchise after the death of her father, Jerry Buss.
Buss not only has given the show her blessing, it was her idea said Kaling. Buss was a big fan of "The Office" and approached Kaling with the premise about five years ago. Kaling ended up as the co-creator, writer and executive producer alongside Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen.
"She's in a very serious, stressful job but she loves comedy. She does not take herself seriously," Kaling says of Buss. "That's really rare when someone has that much power and that much to lose."
Jeanie Buss' blessing
In fact, Kaling said, Buss wanted the show to be funny and had "no ego" about using her real life as inspiration.
"She's had some extremely interesting things happen to her as the president of the Lakers. Some of it is she literally dated the coach for many years and she's like, 'Do whatever you want,'" Kaling says, referring to Buss' former relationship with Phil Jackson. "To get that kind of carte blanche, I'd never heard that from someone who is so famous and, you know, pretty private."
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