Tool has promoted sr. executive producer Oliver Fuselier to managing director/exec producer of live action. Since joining Tool in 2011, Fuselier has overseen a steady stream of the studio’s live-action and interactive projects. This includes acclaimed integrated executions like JFK Museum’s Clouds Over Cuba, JAM with Chrome, and Take This Lollipop, as well as spots for Go Daddy, Under Armour, Keystone Light, Mini, and AirBNB’s first ever broadcast campaign. Fuselier boasts over 20 years’ experience as a producer, counting directors David Fincher, Mike Mills, Kinka Usher, and Michael Bay among his many collaborators…..Writer/director Rob Pearlstein has joined the directorial roster at humble. His first comedy feature, Someone Marry Barry, was released in theaters nationwide and has reached the top 10 charts on iTunes in three categories: Comedy, Independents and Romance. A comedy specialist, Pearlstein’s short film, Our Time is Up, was nominated for an Academy Award. His work also includes episodic TV, commercials and a series of comedic web shorts documenting the story of Matumbo Goldberg, a young African-American man adopted by a witless suburban couple. Pearlstein grew up around advertising; his father, as well as an aunt and uncle, are all in the business. He interned at ChiatDay and eventually became a copywriter, working on brands such as Samsung, Twix and USA Network. Seeking to move into entertainment, he parlayed his skills as a copywriter and his background in production into a career in short-form, episodic and feature work. Since then he’s sold feature screenplays to Warner Brothers, Universal and Working Title, and written original pilots for all of the major networks and several cable networks. He served as a writer on NBC’s psychic thriller Medium and other series, and his Matumbo Goldberg short, which he wrote, directed and stars in (along with Anthony Anderson of Law and Order), was so well-received at Comedy Central, the network commissioned a series based on it….Comedy director Adam Gunser has joined รber Content He’s brought a mixture of warm comedic narrative and quirky, often surreal, visuals to brands internationally, with commercial productions in London, Australia and New Zealand. His playful approach to storytelling can be seen in his spot for the Monopoly game at McDonald’s for DDB Auckland/Sydney, where he crafted a city-size version of the board game; and Arnott’s “Shapes” through DDB Sydney which entailed building a functional giant record player, choreographing a sexy dance and getting some geeky men to rap and beat box. This year Adam extended his reach beyond the commercial format with his first short film “Killing Phillip,” which had its European premiere at the Clermont Ferrand in February, where it was listed in International Competition. Shot over five days in a remote part of New Zealand, the poignant story follows a 6-year old boy and his imaginary friend….
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film โConclaveโ and the series โSay Nothingโ won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USCโs Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the yearโs most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen, including both feature-length films and episodic series.
Novelist Robert Harris and screenwriter Peter Straughan took home the award for โConclave.โ
In accepting the award, Straughan said, โAdaptation is a really strange process, youโre very much the servant of two masters. In a way itโs an act of betrayal of one master for the other.โ He joked that โYou start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,โ crediting author Robert Harris for being โso kind, so generous, so open throughout.โ
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode โThe People in the Dirtโ from the limited series โSay Nothing,โ which Zetumer adapted from Keefeโs nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this yearโs extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying โprojects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USCโs Leavey Library dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. If you fell in love with movies, or fell in love with TV, chances are you fell in love with something dangerous.โ
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. โIf ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,โ she said, โyou have only to go to a... Read More