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    Street Talk for June, 5, 2015

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    Entertainment and media company Alldayeveryday (Allday) has signed Ghost+Cow, the Brooklyn-based directing duo comprised of Brandon LeGanke and John Carlucci. Ghost+Cow specializes in music videos, films, commercials, and branded content, with award-winning work that has screened at Slamdance, SXSW, Telluride, Milano and Cannes Lions. Their film Drone Boning, which began as a commentary on voyeurism and privacy invasion in the 21st century, quickly became a viral sensation that earned millions of media impressions and coverage across web, broadcast news and late night entertainment shows. Ghost+Cow join an Alldayeveryday directorial roster that includes Matt Baron, Kenzo Digital, Cheryl Dunn, Colin Devin Moore, Phil Pinto, Kai Regan, Danny Sangra, Jake Sumner, Josh Taft, Lieven Van Baelen and We Are The Rhoads….

    New York/San Francisco-based content creation/production company Bodega has signed director Mark Rosenberg for his first commercial representation. With a diverse background as a director, cinematographer, writer, producer and editor, Rosenberg is no stranger to wearing multiple hats on a project. He boasts two decades of experience in production across commercials, music videos, promos, independent films and documentaries and thrives off creative diversity. His recent work includes two music videos for the Tony-nominated musical On The Town as well as a series of branded documentary shorts for Pivot TV and New Amsterdam Vodka.

    Spectrum, based in Tampa, has expanded with the opening of an office in Los Angeles. The expansion is part of a strategic initiative to invest and grow the company’s development efforts nationwide. In that vein, Spectrum, headed by CEO/EP Guy Nickerson, has named Daysun Perkins, former development executive at 44 Blue Productions, as sr. VP of programming and development, West Coast. In his new role, Daysun will lead development of new top-tier concepts for television, digital series and branded content. Prior to 44 Blue, Daysun was in development at such companies as Telepictures, CBS TVD, GSN and Eyworks. At 44 Blue, Daysun oversaw an expansive slate of development projects and series concepts for major broadcast and cable networks and syndication companies, and the company launched the hit series Wahlburgers, Donnie Loves Jenny, and Nightwatch. Daysun was also involved in the development of the upcoming BET/Centric series, According to Alex, and an HBO documentary produced in partnership with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson….

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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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