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    Street Talk for December 13, 2019

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    MPC's Usama Al-Qassab (l) and Mark Benson
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    Spears & Arrows, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based production company headed by EP Jason Wolk, has added director Michael Shapiro to its roster….

    Barbarian, a digital creative agency backed by Cheil Worldwide, has opened an office in Warsaw, its first global outpost outside the U.S. The Warsaw shop will serve as a launchpad for European clients as well as a major extension of Barbarian’s technology and creative capabilities, including a staff of back-end developers, UX specialists and production designers. Barbarian Warsaw is currently working on multiple projects for Samsung and is collaborating with Barbarian New York on select clients. The Warsaw operation will be led by managing director Slawek Wala, who most recently served as head of digital for Cheil Poland. Barbarian Warsaw will have a broad range of capabilities, including 24/7 content creation and management, data-driven retail marketing and a full-service ensemble of seasoned creatives with a strong background and understanding of the creative industry within the European market. The Warsaw debut is subsequent to the overall agency’s recent executive appointments of Steven Moy to CEO and Lamar Hines to CTO, as well as its introduction of Barbarian Labs. The new offering curates senior teams bespoke to brand clients’ business challenges as the DTC model continues its trajectory. Barbarian has also announced new business wins, including Emergent Holdings and EKA Software Solutions…..

    Usama Al-Qassab has joined Moving Picture Company in the newly established position of chief growth officer. He comes aboard MPC’s sr. management team and will report to CEO Mark Benson. MPC has created this position to accelerate growth and innovate MPC’s services for brands and agencies. Since 2012 Al-Qassab was VP of marketing for Sony Interactive Entertainment where he transformed the PlayStation Marketing group across EMEA and Australasia, repositioned PlayStation as “For The Players,” delivered growth, breakthrough results and market leadership in 100+ countries. Prior to PlayStation he worked at P&G leading several brands and the Marketing Innovation team…..

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    Harris Dickinson Toys With Ambiguity In “Babygirl” While Keeping a Secret From Nicole Kidman

    Tuesday, December 24, 2024

    Harris Dickinson was nervous to approach Nicole Kidman.

    This would not necessarily be notable under normal circumstances, but the English actor had already been cast to star opposite her in the erotic drama "Babygirl," as the intern who initiates an affair with Kidman's buttoned-up CEO. They'd had a zoom with the writer-director Halina Reijn, who was excited by their playful banter and sure that Dickinson would hold his own. And yet when he found himself at the same event as Kidman, shyness took over. He admitted as much to Margaret Qualley, who took things into her own hands and introduced them.

    "She helped me break the ice a bit," Dickinson said in a recent interview.

    On set would be an entirely different story. Dickinson might not be nearly as "puckishly audacious" as his character Samuel but in the making of "Babygirl," he, Kidman and Reijn had no choice but to dive fearlessly into this exploration of sexual power dynamics, going to intimate, awkward, exhilarating and meme-able places. It's made the film, in theaters Christmas Day, one of the year's must-sees.

    "There was an unspoken thing that we adhered to," Dickinson said. "We weren't getting to know each other's personal lives. When we were working and we were the characters, we didn't veer away from the material. I never tried to attach all of the history of Nicole Kidman. Otherwise it probably would have been a bit of a mess."

    His is a performance that reconfirms what many in the film world have suspected since his debut seven years ago as a Brooklyn tough questioning his sexuality in Eliza Hittman's "Beach Rats": Dickinson is one of the most exciting young talents around.

    Dickinson, 28, grew up in Leytonstone, in East London — the same neck of the woods as... Read More

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