BBH New York has promoted Nate Able and Caprice Yu to creative directors. They previously served as associate creative directors. In their new positions, Able will help lead creative on the agency’s Johnnie Walker and UNICEF teams while Yu will do the same for the Cole Haan and Google teams. Able and Yu continue to report to BBH U.S. chief creative officer John Patroulis. Able has tackled assignments for a number of BBH clients, including the recently launched AXE ‘Susan Glenn’ campaign. Prior to joining the agency last year, he spent a majority of his career on the West Coast in San Francisco as an art director at McCann Worldgroup, T.A.G. and agencytwofifteen, where he worked on Halo 3’s “Believe.” Yu helped BBH and Google Creative Lab earn Best of Show at this year’s AICP Show for her work on Google Chrome’s first global TV campaign, “The Web is What You Make Of It,” consisting of the spots “Dear Sophie,” “It Gets Better” and “Bieber.” Earlier she was with Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Boulder, Colo., and 180 Amsterdam…Executive producers Ben Morris and Ron Cicero have launched Clutch, a production studio specializing in an integrated approach to design, live-action and visual effects work for both traditional and non-traditional media. Between then, Morris and Cicero have produced a broad range of projects including live action spots, motion graphics, a video game, a Gold Pencil winning pop-up museum, branded web content shortlisted at One Show Entertainment, flash mobs, and video content for an Opera at MIT. Clutch will represent a roster of six directors: David Edwards, Daniel Levi, Kevin Lau, Clement Bolla, Jens Gehlaar and Eric Stoltz…..
Review: Writer-Director Mark Anthony Green’s “Opus”
In the new horror movie "Opus," we are introduced to Alfred Moretti, the biggest pop star of the '90s, with 38 No. 1 hits and albums as big as "Thriller," "Hotel California" and "Nebraska." If the name Alfred Moretti sounds more like a personal injury attorney from New Jersey, that's the first sign "Opus" is going to stumble.
John Malkovich leans into his regular off-kilter creepy to play the unlikely pop star at the center of this serious misfire by the A24 studio, a movie that also manages to pull "The Bear" star Ayo Edebiri back to earth. How both could be totally miscast will haunt your dreams.
Writer-director Mark Anthony Green has created a pretty good premise: A massive pop star who went quiet for the better part of three decades reemerges with a new album — his 18th studio LP, called "Caesar's Request" — and invites a select six people to come to his remote Western compound for an album listening weekend. It's like a golden ticket.
Edebiri's Ariel is a one of those invited. She's 27, a writer for a hip music magazine who has been treading water for three years. She's ambitious but has no edge. "Your problem is you're middle," she's told. Unfortunately, her magazine boss is also invited, which means she's just a note-taker. Edebiri's self-conscious, understated humor is wasted here.
It takes Ariel and the rest of the guests — an influencer, a paparazzo, a former journalist-nemesis and a TV personality played by Juliette Lewis, once again cast as the frisky sexpot — way too much time to realize that Moretti has created a cult in the desert. And they're murderous. This is Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous" crossed with Mark Mylod's "The Menu."
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