Argentinean design laboratory Gizmo Animation has joined the directorial roster of L.A.-based DUCK Studios. With over 10 years of experience in 2D animation, 3D animation, motion graphics, and postproduction, Gizmo produces commercial content across TV, film, and printed media. Gizmo is headquartered in Buenos Aires and also has offices in Mexico and Madrid, delivering campaigns for Latin American and global clients. Some of Gizmo’s recent clients include Netflix, Disney, Beats by Dre, ESPN, Kraft, Bayer, Ford, Hasbro, Honda, and Nestlé. Specifically for Netflix, Gizmo produced a series of animated shorts that summarize and promote the plots of recent hit films including The Wolf of Wall Street and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire….
Logan & Sons, the live-action division of bicoastal content creation studio LOGAN, has signed director Christian Alexander Holm-Glad, introducing him to the U.S. market. Holm-Glad is perhaps best known for directing “Not Alone” for multi-award winning UK artist Calvin Harris and Madcon’s “Beggin” which was number one in several European countries. He first broke into the music video scene in 2012 lensing New York Festival Shortlist selection “Rhapsody” for the Norway-based Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. Holm-Glad was an original founder of independent studio Bulldozer Films. Following, he was on the roster at Teddy TV and after, he signed with Bacon for commercial work in Scandinavia. Recent projects of note include: Sushi & Nuclear, an American Documentary Film Festival selection following blogger and nuclear physicist Sunniva Rose on her journey in Japan; “Driving Safely Home for Christmas,” a heartwarming PSA for Norwegian Road Public Administration; Castrol’s “Blackout”; and Not All Men Are Men, a 2014 film that explored issues of violence against women….
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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