Australian TV director Stuart McDonald has joined The Sweet Shop for representation in commercials and branded content worldwide. He brings extensive experience in performance direction and comedic television; his most notable TV series credits include the cult hits Summer Heights High and more recently Angry Boys. McDonald is also well known Down Under for his dramatic work on the Foxtel series Tangle.
McDonald’s desire is to now bring his accomplished skillset in performance direction to the commercial world where he is planning to focus on drama and comedy scripts.
“Whether it’s comedy or drama, as a director I enjoy finding that key that makes it real, the moment to moment,” said McDonald. “I started my career as a screenwriter and as such the heart of my work will always be storytelling.” He was drawn to The Sweet Shop for its forward thinking and global footprint, among other factors.
Paul Prince, CEO/founding partner of The Sweet Shop described McDonald as “a rare talent. He has very obvious strengths with cast and characterisation, in any genre, from comedy to hard-hitting drama, but what really stands out with Stuart is his depth of understanding of the idea within a narrative. His background as screenplay writer serves him very well.”
“Captain America: Brave New World” Tops Weak Weekend At The Box Office
"Captain America: Brave New World" kept falling but still hovered above all others at a weak weekend box office.
The latest Disney-Marvel offering brought in another $15 million according to studio estimates Sunday, when most of Hollywood's attention was on the Oscars.
The Anthony Mackie-led "Captain America: Brave New World" opened strong at about $120 million on a three-day weekend last month, but plunged to $28.2 million last week in one of the most significant second-week drops for a Marvel movie. It's earned $163.7 since its release.
It was slammed by many critics and audiences, failing to bring the Marvel reset some had hoped for. That task now falls to May's "Thunderbolts" and July's "Fantastic Four: First Steps." But "Captain America" will face little competition through March, and could remain at No. 1 for a while.
The weekend's only significant new release, Focus Features' "Last Breath," earned just $7.8 million. The based-on-a-true-story adventure starring Woody Harrelson, Simi Liu and Chris Lemons is about a routine deep-sea diving mission that goes terribly wrong when a young diver is stranded some 300 feet below the surface.
It got strong reviews, with Lindsey Bahr of The Associated Press praising the "white-knuckle experience" and "pure suspense and anxiety" it brings.
At No. 3 was Oz Perkins' "The Monkey," which brought in $6.4 million for a two-week total of $24.6 million. It's among the strongest openings for indie distributor Neon, whose film "Anora," and its director Sean Baker could make a major mark at the Oscars later Sunday.
"The Monkey" marks another successful low-budget collaboration between Perkins and Neon, whose "Longlegs" brought in $126.9 million globally last year.
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