Production company Recommended has signed Scott Zabielski, director of TV series Tosh.O. Zabielski got his start on Tosh.O (an American TV program hosted by comedian Daniel Tosh) as editor and producer after being noticed during his time on FOX’s Talkshow with Spike Feresten. The Chicago native quickly ended up in the executive producer and director’s seat and has since helmed the show through five seasons, landing it in the number one slot of Comedy Central’s lineup. His experience on Tosh.O underscores his abilities working with comedic actors and VFX.
Zabielski is currently the executive producer and director for season 6 of Tosh.O, and writing and directing Disco Sucks for State Street Pictures. He recently developed the remake of the ‘80s comedy Police Academy for New Line/Warner Bros and directed a commercial for CanadaHelps in 2001.
Prior to Tosh.O, Zabielski helped produce Zach Galifianakis’ VH1 TV series Late World with Zach. Zabielski later went on to edit trailers and promos for a variety of networks and studios including several high profile movies–Batman Begins, Superman and Harry Potter. He also did promos for Rescue Me and Nip/Tuck on FX, Smallville, Charmed, Reba, One Tree Hill, Dawson’s Creek and Angel and Everwood on The WB, Medium on NBC, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on Bravo, The Pickup Artist on VH1, Grey’s Anatomy on ABC and House on Fox. Additionally, Zabielski edited commercial work for Ford, Chevy and Axe Body Spray.
Zabielski graduated with honors and a BA in Cinema Production from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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