Dani Nadel has been upped to president of Publicis Modem & Dialog USA, the digital and direct arm of Publicis Worldwide in the USA. The promotion extends Nadel’s leadership responsibilities from her prior post as president of Publicis Modem & Dialog East in N.Y. to include oversight of the West Coast operation in San Francisco. John Rabasa continues as general manager of Publicis Modem & Dialog West and will report to Nadel who joined the agency after serving as senior VP of marketing at Digitas New York….Hollywood-headquartered entertainment marketing agency Trailer Park continues to grow its Blu Ray and DVD business sectors by melding those two previously existing units into a new Advanced Content Group. Concurrently, Trailer Park has named Curt Doty, one of Hollywood’s leading experts in Blu Ray and BD Live, as the new group’s executive VP. For the past five years, Doty was VP, creative services, with Universal Studios Home Entertainment….Dictionary Films, which maintains offices in Los Angeles and Chicago, has hired Tyler Jay as executive producer in its Chicago shop where he will team with exec producer Megan Maples. Jay comes over from the Chicago Olympic 2016 Bid Committee where he was exec producer of content overseeing the creative, execution and completion of 22 bid films. Earlier he served as a senior broadcast producer with Draftfcb, Chicago, and a producer at Leo Burnett, Chicago….
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