Moon, the New York-based production house headed by veteran executive producer Tom Mooney, has taken on stateside representation for directors David Eustace, Dom Bridges, Double Act and Cris Mudge who are all on the roster of Mustard Film Company, London….Chicago-based editorial house Hootenanny has hired Don Avila as executive producer. He comes over from JWT Chicago where he served as the director of in-house editorial facility JWTwo. Hootenanny’s talent roster includes editors Graham Metzger, Liz Tate and Jerem Sloan, and the finishing staff of partner/Smoke artist Jim Annerino and visual effects artist John Montgomery. Annerino and Tate teamed to launch Hootenanny earlier this year….Kenny Segal has been promoted to composer/chief studio engineer at bicoastal music/sound design/audio identity house Elias Arts……Design collective Lobo, represented by international production company The Ebeling Group, has formally launched a New York office to better serve the American advertising community. The new Manhattan shop has direct access to the company’s flagship studio in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for a coordinated 360-degree effort and easy exchange of talents across time zones. Creative director Daniel Piwowarczyk will oversee the New York studio and Lobo’s founding partner Mateus de Paula Santos will divide his time between Sao Paulo and New York…..New York-based creative boutique Bionic has brought managing director Megan Sweeten and editors Brian Donnelly and Amanda Hughes on board. Sweeten comes to Bionic from Creative Bubble, New York, where she last served as general manager. Donnelly and Hughes had previously been at New York house Editional Effects….
Review: Director Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17” Starring Robert Pattinson
So you think YOUR job is bad?
Sorry if we seem to be lacking empathy here. But however crummy you think your 9-5 routine is, it'll never be as bad as Robert Pattinson's in Bong Joon Ho's "Mickey 17" — nor will any job, on Earth or any planet, approach this level of misery.
Mickey, you see, is an "Expendable," and by this we don't mean he's a cast member in yet another sequel to Sylvester Stallone's tired band of mercenaries ("Expend17ables"?). No, even worse! He's literally expendable, in that his job description requires that he die, over and over, in the worst possible ways, only to be "reprinted" once again as the next Mickey.
And from here stems the good news, besides the excellent Pattinson, whom we hope got hazard pay, about Bong's hotly anticipated follow-up to "Parasite." There's creativity to spare, and much of it surrounds the ways he finds for his lead character to expire — again and again.
The bad news, besides, well, all the death, is that much of this film devolves into narrative chaos, bloat and excess. In so many ways, the always inventive Bong just doesn't know where to stop. It hardly seems a surprise that the sci-fi novel, by Edward Ashton, he's adapting here is called "Mickey7" — Bong decided to add 10 more Mickeys.
The first act, though, is crackling. We begin with Mickey lying alone at the bottom of a crevasse, having barely survived a fall. It is the year 2058, and he's part of a colonizing expedition from Earth to a far-off planet. He's surely about to die. In fact, the outcome is so expected that his friend Timo (Steven Yeun), staring down the crevasse, asks casually: "Haven't you died yet?"
How did Mickey get here? We flash back to Earth, where Mickey and Timo ran afoul of a villainous loan... Read More