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    World War Seven Forms Entertainment Division, Rolls Out First Feature “Pavements” At Venice Film Fest

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    Alex Needles (l) and Peter Kline
    LOS ANGELES --

    Known for its award-winning comedy commercials, World War Seven has diversified with the formation of WW7 Entertainment, led by producers Peter Kline and Alex Needles. The new venture has a full slate of films, episodic offerings, and podcasts set to debut this year, starting with its first feature film, Pavements, which rolls out this week at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.

    Pavements, a prismatic doc-musical hybrid from director Alex Ross Perry, is a cinematic deep dive into the enigmatic world of the iconic ‘90s band Pavement and features a cast including Jason Schwartzman, Tim Heidecker, Joe Keery, Zoe Lister-Jones, Nat Wolff, and Fred Hechinger. Pavements was produced in collaboration with Vice Films, Rick Yorn, and Matador Records.

    The new WW7 Entertainment shingle is emerging with a full slate of titles to be announced shortly, including a documentary on an iconic musician with Sony Pictures Classics, and a true crime podcast series with Wondery. In addition to the unscripted projects, WW7 Entertainment is actively developing a slate of scripted comedy projects, a natural evolution of the work WW7 has long been doing on the commercial side.

    With the launch of WW7 Entertainment, the company is building on 14 years of producing captivating commercials, and Kline and Needles are well positioned to help translate this legacy into long-form. With backgrounds straddling features and advertising, Kline and Needles have the ability to bridge traditional entertainment with brand storytelling, which has led to successful partnerships with clients like Lyft, Pepsi, and Coinbase.

    “This is a big moment for WW7, “ said David Shafei who’s partnered in the overall company with Josh Ferrazzano and Sloane Skala. “Peter and Alex are incredibly talented, and their experience in both branded work and entertainment is exactly what we wanted for this new venture. I’m eager to share what we’ve been working on, but we’ll let the work speak for itself–you’ll see. We’re all really excited about this new chapter.”

    Kline said, “We feel very fortunate to be joining David, Josh, and Sloane who have built a really special company. We look forward to growing with them, making stories that break boundaries, and ask questions, which surprise, delight, amuse, and challenge. Our evolution into feature films and comedy projects is a natural extension of WW7’s exceptional commercial work. We have a lot to share in the coming year and beyond, and we can’t wait!”

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    Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95

    Tuesday, January 21, 2025

    Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.

    Feiffer's wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple's two cats and his recent artwork.

    Holden said her husband had been ill for a couple of years, "but he was sharp and strong up until the very end. And funny."

    Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers' lives.

    As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority."

    Feiffer won the United States' most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and "Munro," an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.

    "My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh," Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. "Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down."

    Feiffer was born on Jan. 26, 1929, in the Bronx. From... Read More

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