DDB has named Joe Cianciotto as director of digital integration, U.S. Cianciotto will take on the new role effective immediately while retaining his duties as executive creative director at DDB New York. As director of digital integration, Cianciotto will continue to contribute to the social solutions DDB creates and to the agency’s agility as it delivers an ever greater breadth of creative solutions for its clients. Cianciotto will work closely with all areas of the organization not only to create more content that consumers want to participate in, play with and pass on, but also to build fluency in all emerging media in real time….Brooklyn-based creative agency Big Spaceship has made three hire: Jarrod Riddle as senior art director, Jeremy Morrill as art director, and Joshua Teixeira as senior strategist. Riddle formerly served as creative director at space150 in N.Y. In his previous roles at space150 and Carmichael Lynch, he worked on a wide range of blue-chip brands such as Target, American Express, Porsche and General Mills. Morrill joins Big Spaceship from Struck Creative in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he most recently served as interactive director. And Teixeira was partner and senior strategist at Bond Art + Science in New York….PJA Advertising + Marketing has promoted Aaron DaSilva to executive creative director. In this new role, DaSilva will lead the creative staffs in PJA’s Cambridge and San Francisco offices on clients including Yahoo!, Chase Sapphire, Novell, Trend Micro, EMC, and Infor. PJA has seen significant growth in the past 12 months as it expands client work into social, mobile and digital content. DaSilva joined PJA in 2004 as associate creative director, and was promoted to VP/creative director in ’06. Prior to PJA, he was with Allen & Gerritsen in Watertown, MA as senior copywriter….
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