Director Frank Ockenfels 3 and bicoastal Go Film have parted ways. At press time, Ockenfels future plans were not known…. Leo Burnett Worldwide announced the formation of a new agency, Made, London, which will specialize in lifestyle and fashion brands. The new shop will be headed up by creative director Joakim Jonason, who scored two Grand Prix honors at Cannes for his work on Diesel out of Paradiset DDB, Stockholm….Burbank, Calif.-based Holy Cow Spots, best known for its animation commercials, has changed its name to MooUSA, reflecting an expansion which includes diversifying into live-action film with the addition of producer Roger J. Hunt—formerly of now defunct The End—as a partner, and directors Amie Steir and the helming duo Fabric….Music and sound design house Human, New York and Paris, has opened an office in Sydney, headed by partner/composer Simon Lister. Pilar Tronzick is the executive producer, while Anna Naylor and Peter Fenton have signed on as staff composers. The new office will maintain an affiliation with Melbourne-based composer Josh Abrahams…Word is that bicoastal Moxie Pictures and an undisclosed Hollywood management company are about to announce a script-writing contest for advertising creatives. Stay tuned…..Producer/programmer Lemahead has signed as a composer with Amber Music, London and New York. He is a former tour DJ for the band Prodigy….Composers Lewis Flinn and Dan Goldberg will soon be partnering to form a new music and sound design house in New York: The Music Dept. Goldberg has been running Off Center Music, New York, while Flinn has headed Lewis Flinn Music, also New York….Sound designer Bryan K. Klumpp has signed for exclusive national representation with the newly formed AudiO. He has relocated from New York to Los Angeles to provide a West Coast presence for the music/sound design shop, a division of Southfield, Mich.-headquartered Producers Color Service. Plans call for AudiO to build on its new base of operations in Los Angeles and to add new creatives, as well as a producer and marketing rep….
London Critics Name “The Brutalist” The Film of the Year
The Brutalist, Brady Corbet’s immigrant saga, won the Film of the Year prize at the 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards.
While The Brutalist garnered just one award, it was the marquee honor. Meanwhile Nickel Boys, Conclave and A Real Pain all receivd multiple awards, and Zoe Saldaña was honored twice.
Edward Berger’s Vatican thriller Conclave took two awards for British/Irish Film of the Year and Actor of the Year for Ralph Fiennes, while RaMell Ross’s radical Colson Whitehead adaptation Nickel Boys was recognized with Director of the Year and the Technical Achievement Award for Jomo Fray’s first-person cinematography. Jesse Eisenberg’s dark comedy A Real Pain was the night’s other multiple prizewinner, landing Screenwriter of the Year for the actor-filmmaker, and Supporting Actor of the Year for co-star Kieran Culkin.
Payal Kapadia’s Mumbai-set drama All We Imagine as Light was named Foreign Language Film of the Year, while the Palestinian-Israeli collective behind No Other Land took Documentary of the Year.
Alongside Conclave, British productions awarded by the Circle in the top categories included Mike Leigh’s intimate character study Hard Truths, which took Actress of the Year for Marianne Jean-Baptiste, while Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was named Animated Feature of the Year. In the British/Irish-specific categories, Saoirse Ronan won British/Irish Performer of the Year for her performances in The Outrun and Blitz, 14-year-old Nykiya Adams won Young British/Irish Performer of the Year for her screen debut in Andrea Arnold’s Bird, and Rich Peppiatt won the... Read More