Director Robert Black has joined bicoastal Coppos Films. He just wrapped his first job at his new roost, a three-spot State Farm campaign for DDB Chicago. At press time, Black was about to embark on filming in Spain for a Korean spot promoting the Hyundai line of automobiles; that shoot is being facilitated by Errecerre, a production house in Barcelona and Madrid, with which Coppos has a reciprocal production/representation relationship. Black was formerly represented by Hollywood-based Orbit Productions…After 96 years, the St. Louis office of D’Arcy is shutting its doors…. Editor William Senia has joined Slingshot Edit and Post, New York….Composer/performing artist Victor Bisetti of the band Los Lobos has joined Santa Monica music/sound design house Primal Scream….Editor Don Kleszy has come on board The Well…. New York-based post house Edgeworx has opened an offfice in London….Portland, Ore.-headquartered Vinton Studios has hired Al Cubillas as director of digital production….Veteran production exec Ava Seavey has launched Avalanche, a New York-based production/creative services boutique. The new venture exclusively represents directors Tony Lee, Kathy Da Silva and Ben Dolphin. Seavey formerly served as executive producer at Big Picture Communications, New York….Kodak Entertainment Imaging, Hollywood, has promoted two senior staffers. D. Brian Spruill has been upped to VP/director of strategic planning and business development. Michael J. Morelli, a general manager for the Entertainment Imaging division in Australia and New Zealand since ’99, will assume Spruill’s former role as VP/general manager of the Hollywood region (overseeing the company’s operations in Southern California and 11 Western states). Spruill served in that capacity since ’94. In his new position, Spruill will be responsible for developing, implementing and coordinating a worldwide global strategy for the company’s film, digital and hybrid motion imaging technologies, products and services….
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