Pulse Films has promoted Claire Wingate to SVP of production and operations, and Isabel Davis to head of production for unscripted TV and branded content. Wingate has moved to L.A. and will divide her time among the L.A., NY and London offices to support both international growth opportunities for Pulse and its partnership with Vice. She will focus on expanding the U.S. infrastructure and overseeing production and operations across its film, gaming, branded entertainment and TV output. At Pulse, Wingate has overseen projects including BBC documentaries United States of Hate: Muslims under Attack and Hunting the Nazi Gold Train. She was also head of production on gaming projects “Guitar Hero Live” and “Need for Speed.” Based in the UK office, Davis was previously production exec on “Guitar Hero Live” and involved in other key projects across the branded content and the unscripted television departments….
Audio post company Sound Lounge has introduced Sound Lounge Everywhere, a remote audio post and sound mixing service for clients. To bring this offering to life, Sound Lounge partnered with Editbar, Boston, which will manage the Sound Lounge Everywhere technology. Sound Lounge can stream audio and video from its NY office to Boston. Sound Lounge Everywhere allows the company to expand its footprint to the Boston ad market, and provides the opportunity for Boston-based clients to work with the Sound Lounge team without travel. Plans call for Sound Lounge Everywhere technology to eventually become available across the globe…
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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