By Christine Champagne
Eat a Snickers candy bar and you will be elected the next president of the United States. Surely, George Bush and John Kerry would be relieved if only it was that simple, and it is in the :30 "President," a farcical new spot for Snickers created by BBDO New York and directed by Filip Engstrom of Stylewar, the Stockholm-based directing collective represented by bicoastal Smuggler.
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CLIENT
Mars, Incorporated/Snickers.
PRODUCTION CO.
Smuggler, bicoastal.
Filip Engstrom of Stylewar, director; Martin Tedin, DP; Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody, executive producers; Jeff Miller, line producer; Allison Kunzman, head of production; Ninon de Klerk, production designer. Shot on location in Cape Town, and at Cape Island Studios, Cape Town.
Gatehouse, Cape Town.
Beverley Green, executive producer; Brendan Rice, producer.
AGENCY
BBDO New York.
Ted Sann, chief creative officer; Eric Silver, executive creative director; Dan Kelleher, associate creative director/copywriter; Jim Lemaitre, associate creative director/art director; Andy Wilcox, producer.
EDITORIAL
MacKenzie Cutler, New York.
Jun Diaz, editor; Staley Dietrich, assistant editor; Sundy Procter,
executive producer.
POST/VISUAL EFFECTS
The Mill, New York.
Fergus McCall, colorist; Tom Poole, assistant colorist; Angus Kneale, visual effects supervisor/senior Flame artist; Dave Parker and Jamie Scott, Flame artists; Jeanette Williford, Combustion artist; Aron Hjartarson and Jimmy Kiddell, 3-D artists; Verity Grantham, producer.
AUDIO POST
MacKenzie Cutler.
Marc Healy, mixer.
MUSIC
Human, New York.
Andy Bloch, Gareth Williams, Morgan Visconti, Lindsay Jehan, Sloan Alexander, Gordon Minette and Krishna Venkatesh, composers/sound designers; Marc Altshuler, executive producer.
SOUND DESIGN
MacKenzie Cutler.
Marc Healy, sound designer.
Actor Daniel Day-Lewis Ends Retirement For A Film Directed By His Son
Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement, seven years after his last movie, for a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis.
The project was announced Tuesday by Focus Features and Plan B, who are partnering on "Anemone." The film, Ronan Day-Lewis' directorial debut, will star his father along with Sean Bean and Samantha Morton. The film was co-written by the two Day-Lewises.
Earlier Tuesday, Daniel Day-Lewis and Bean were spotted driving a motorbike through Manchester, England, stoking intrigue about his impending return to acting. After making Paul Thomas Anderson's 2017 film "Phantom Thread," the 67-year-old had said he was quitting acting.
"All my life, I've mouthed off about how I should stop acting, and I don't know why it was different this time, but the impulse to quit took root in me, and that became a compulsion," he told W Magazine in 2017. "It was something I had to do."
Since then, his appearances in public have been infrequent. In January, though, he made a surprise appearance at the National Board of Review Awards to present an award to Martin Scorsese, who directed him in "Gangs of New York" (2002) and "The Age of Innocence" (1993).
"Anemone," currently in production, is described as exploring "the intricate relationships between fathers, sons and brothers, and the dynamics of familial bonds."
Ronan Day-Lewis, 26, is a painter who has previously exhibited his works in New York. His first international solo exhibition debuts Tuesday in Hong Kong.
"We could not be more excited to partner with a brilliant visual artist in Ronan Day-Lewis on his first feature film alongside Daniel Day-Lewis as his creative collaborator," said Peter Kujawski, chair of Focus Features. "They have written a truly... Read More