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    SMUGGLER promotes Sue Yeon Ahn to U.S. managing director

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    LOS ANGELES --

    SMUGGLER has promoted executive producer Sue Yeon Ahn to U.S. managing director. 

    Based in Los Angeles, Ahn has spent her career in the commercial and music video world, working with brands like Apple, Nike, Calvin Klein, as well as such artists as Jay-Z and Run The Jewels. 

    Patrick Milling Smith, who founded SMUGGLER with Brian Carmody, said that the managing director role is new at SMUGGLER and “one that’s been a long time in coming. Sue brings her unique elegance, focus, and distinct point of view to everything she touches. There are big dreams afoot at SMUGGLER, and we feel very fortunate having the team we do, bristling with ambition and experience–all wanting to swing hard.”

    Ahn executive produced Apple’s “The Underdogs” campaign which was followed by a brilliant sequel in 2020–“The Whole Working-From-Home Thing” directed by DGA Award-nominated Mark Molloy and shot with a minimal crew, innovating the way to produce in the era of COVID. The seven-minute film has continued to sweep awards season, earning a Cannes Gold Lion for Achievement in Production and a Grand Prix at Ciclope. 

    Prior to SMUGGLER, Ahn worked as EP for The Directors Bureau, founded by Roman Coppola. Ahn began her career as an assistant to Coppola, before transitioning into the production space. While at The Directors Bureau, Ahn executive produced Arcade Fire’s “We Exist” music video, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music Video in 2014. 

    In her new post, Ahn will continue to executive produce and develop talent across SMUGGLER’s roster.

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    Harris Dickinson Toys With Ambiguity In “Babygirl” While Keeping a Secret From Nicole Kidman

    Tuesday, December 24, 2024

    Harris Dickinson was nervous to approach Nicole Kidman.

    This would not necessarily be notable under normal circumstances, but the English actor had already been cast to star opposite her in the erotic drama "Babygirl," as the intern who initiates an affair with Kidman's buttoned-up CEO. They'd had a zoom with the writer-director Halina Reijn, who was excited by their playful banter and sure that Dickinson would hold his own. And yet when he found himself at the same event as Kidman, shyness took over. He admitted as much to Margaret Qualley, who took things into her own hands and introduced them.

    "She helped me break the ice a bit," Dickinson said in a recent interview.

    On set would be an entirely different story. Dickinson might not be nearly as "puckishly audacious" as his character Samuel but in the making of "Babygirl," he, Kidman and Reijn had no choice but to dive fearlessly into this exploration of sexual power dynamics, going to intimate, awkward, exhilarating and meme-able places. It's made the film, in theaters Christmas Day, one of the year's must-sees.

    "There was an unspoken thing that we adhered to," Dickinson said. "We weren't getting to know each other's personal lives. When we were working and we were the characters, we didn't veer away from the material. I never tried to attach all of the history of Nicole Kidman. Otherwise it probably would have been a bit of a mess."

    His is a performance that reconfirms what many in the film world have suspected since his debut seven years ago as a Brooklyn tough questioning his sexuality in Eliza Hittman's "Beach Rats": Dickinson is one of the most exciting young talents around.

    Dickinson, 28, grew up in Leytonstone, in East London — the same neck of the woods as... Read More

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