Spectrum Productions, an Emmy Award-winning entertainment, branding and content studio behind hits like Nat Geo’s special, World’s Biggest Great White?, is evolving its brand identity. Founder, CEO and EP Guy Nickerson announced Spectrum Productions is embarking on the next chapter of its story as Remedy Television + Branded. The new moniker represents the company’s specialized team of television producers, content developers, advertisers, storytellers, digital minds and branding experts who produce and drive effective and engaging content for audiences, networks, brands and agency partners. In particular, the new brand captures the company’s enthusiasm for problem solving and creating compelling content for clients. Producing television series, documentaries, specials, branded television, identity and title design for major networks, Remedy Television + Branded offers capabilities including show conception, talent development, production, postproduction and distribution. The studio’s current and recent production slate includes Nat Geo WILD’s popular series Secrets of the Zoo (Columbus & Tampa), Dr. K’s Exotic Animal ER and Dr. T. Lonestar Vet; ABC’s Jack Hanna’s Wild Countdown; the CW and nationally syndicated, seven-time Emmy Award-winning series, Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild; and Science Channel’s Street Science. In addition, the studio works with brand clients on a myriad of marketing solutions by developing meaningful creative, such as social media content, web series, short films, documentaries, brand campaigns, high-end corporate and sales promos, branded television specials and more. Recent branded and marketing content includes a short film and slate of social media assets for Sheraton Hotels, multiple 30-second TV commercials for Herschend Family Entertainment’s Dollywood theme park, and the Warrior Games’ opening ceremony video starring comedian and former Daily Show host Jon Stewart. Remedy Television + Branded, which is represented by ICM Partners, has produced over 1,000 television episodes and content solutions for high-profile networks and brands, including ABC, NBC, BBC, Discovery, Science Channel, Travel Channel, Nat Geo, Nat Geo WILD, Animal Planet, The Weather Channel, Disney, Marriott International, Universal, Busch Gardens, Sheraton, Fox Sports, NHL, Publix Supermarkets, and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation…..
Daniel Craig Embraced Openness For Role In Director Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer”
Daniel Craig is sitting in the restaurant of the Carlyle Hotel talking about how easy it can be to close yourself off to new experiences.
"We get older and maybe out of fear, we want to control the way we are in our lives. And I think it's sort of the enemy of art," Craig says. "You have to push against it. Whether you have success or not is irrelevant, but you have to try to push against it."
Craig, relaxed and unshaven, has the look of someone who has freed himself of a too snug tuxedo. Part of the abiding tension of his tenure as James Bond was this evident wrestling with the constraints that came along with it. Any such strains, though, would seem now to be completely out the window.
Since exiting that role, Craig, 56, has seemed eager to push himself in new directions. He performed "Macbeth" on Broadway. His drawling detective Benoit Blanc ("Halle Berry!") stole the show in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery." And now, Craig gives arguably his most transformative performance as the William S. Burroughs avatar Lee in Luca Guadagnino's tender tale of love and longing in postwar Mexico City, "Queer."
Since the movie's Venice Film Festival premiere, it's been one of the fall's most talked about performances — for its explicit sex scenes, for its vulnerability and for its extremely un-007-ness.
"The role, they say, must have been a challenge or 'You're so brave to do this,'" Craig said in a recent interview alongside Guadagnino. "I kind of go, 'Eh, not really.' It's why I get up in the morning."
In "Queer," which A24 releases Wednesday in theaters, Craig again plays a well-traveled, sharply dressed, cocktail-drinking man. But the similarities with his most famous role stop there. Lee is an American expat living in 1950s... Read More