Beauty/fashion directors Didier Kerbrat, Wilfird Buch and Lars Knorrn have joined C-Entertainment, a New York shop headed by president Jack Cohn and partner/executive producer Olivier Gauriat. Also becoming available for commercials via C-Entertainment is director Jaume Collet-Serra after having wrapped his latest feature, The Unknown White Man starring Liam Neeson….Director Matt Smukler has returned to Los Angeles-based HELLO! for spot representation. He comes over from The Cartel, Hollywood. Smukler’s recent commercialmaking credits span such clients as the NFL Network, Digiorno Pizza, Reebok, Oreo and Serta…The directorial duo of Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland has joined The Sweet Shop for commercial representation worldwide Their short The Six Dollar Fifty Man came up a winner at the short film section at Cannes last year, has gone on this year to garner best international short distinction at the Sundance Film Festival, honors at the 60th International Film Festival in Berlin, and most recently an Oscar-qualifying best drama honor (in addition to a BAFTA/Los Angeles prize for excellence) at the Aspen Shortsfest….Ryan Denning has been promoted to managing director and will lead the San Francisco office of R/GA, partnering closely with executive creative director Mauro Cavalletti. In addition, R/GA San Francisco has added interaction design directors Andres Jimenez, Yasmin Nestlen and Vlad Margulis, as well as Brett Rampata who comes aboard as associate creative director, interaction design, Ricardo Landim as associate creative director, visual design, Ted McGagg as an associate creative director, and Allison Gabrys as group director, production….
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