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    Union Editorial Networks With Level (3)

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    CLIENT

    Level (3) Communications.

    PRODUCTION CO.

    Villains, bicoastal.

    Phil Joanou, director; Toby Irwin, DP; Richard Goldstein, executive producer; Michele Abbott, producer; Joby Barnhart, head of production; Katie Day, production manager; Michael Iaicono, art director. Shot on location in Sydney.

    Film Construction, Sydney.

    Rene Shalala, producer.

    AGENCY

    DWP/Bates Technology, Atlanta.

    Roy Trimble, creative director; Mark Wagner, producer; Richard Link, associate creative director/copywriter; Anna Godfrey, associate creative director/art director.

    STOCK FOOTAGE

    Sports’ Cinematography Group, Venice, Calif.

    EDITORIAL

    Union Editorial, Los Angeles.

    Einar, editor; Yvonne Peterson, assistant editor; Michael Raimondi, executive producer.

    POST

    Company 3, Santa Monica.

    Stefan Sonnenfeld, colorist.

    VISUAL EFFECTS

    Asylum Visual Effects, Santa Monica.

    David Hofflich, executive producer; Whitney Luxton, producer; Jeff Werner, CG producer; Phil Brennan, Andy Barrios, Perri Pecora and Steve Muangman, compositing; Joel Brehrens, Michael Ffish Hemschoot, Matt Merkovich, Gunther Schatz, Jason Schugardt, Greg Stuhl, Pinkelton Wickham and Yuichiro Yamashita, CG artists; Brandon Criswell, rotoscope artist.

    AUDIO POST

    Union Editorial.

    Josh Eichenbaum, mixer.

    MUSIC

    Amber Music, New York.

    Mike Hewer, composer/arranger; Michelle Curran, president/executive producer; Ebony Maitland, producer.

    THE SPOTS

    Three :30s feature Level (3)’s eponymous red parentheses—adapted from the company’s bracketed logo—as towering 3-D obelisks that hover in mid-air over cityscapes to reinforce Level (3)’s global presence in the telecommunications industry. "Carrier/Wireless," "Broadband" and "ISP/Media" are set in a high-tech, cosmopolitan city. As Sean Connery’s voiceover details the company’s slate of services, the camera glides through each scene, swooping from inside a modern office building outward and toward the sky, where the parentheses frame a singular skyscraper, passing through a home where children surf the Internet, then zipping back outside and across the city skyline. "Why do all the leading companies expect so much from us?" asks Connery. "Because their companies expect so much from them." The commercials end with the company’s logo and the tagline, "Level (3). The network partner you can rely on."

    Spots broke Aug. 25.

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    Daniel Craig Embraced Openness For Role In Director Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer”

    Tuesday, November 26, 2024

    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

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