Last year, Paramount+ ascended to the Super Bowl with a groundbreaking campaign featuring over 30 stars from film, TV, sports, and news series coming together to climb the fabled Mount Paramount.
And just this past weekend, Paramount+ returned to the mountain during the AFC Championship game with this “Bonfire” spot, a nod to the highly anticipated Halo series coming to Paramount+ later this year, with the creative having a little bit of fun with the Halo theme song. “Bonfire” stars iCarly’s Miranda Cosgrove, Halo’s Pablo Schreiber, The Good Fight’s Audra McDonald and Christine Baranski, Reno 911’s Thomas Lennon, South Park’s Cartman, Jackass’ Johnny Knoxville, NFL superstars Matt Judon and Jalen Hurts and more talent from across Paramount+ titles. The campaign is also voiced over by Grammy Award winner Tim McGraw.
Also returning to Mount Paramount to direct “Bonfire” was David Shane of production house O Positive.
CreditsClient ViacomCBS/Paramount+ Agency Droga5 NY Tim Gordon, Felix Richter, co-chief creative officer; Dan Kelly, group creative director; Sean Buckhorn, sr. copywriter; Gonzalo Navarro, sr. art director; Emilie Abel, copywriter; Sara Meinecke, art director; Jeremy Fox, executive producer, film; Forrest Holt, sr. producer, film; Adam Vevang, producer, film; Lauren Bautista, associate producer, film. Kathryn Ruocco, group communications strategy director; Emily Mulvey, brand strategy director; Soheyla Escher, sr. communications strategist. Production O Positive David Shane, director; Jeff Kim, DP; Ralph Laucella, Marc Grill, exec producer; Jason Reda, Devon Clark, producers; Maia Javan, production designer; Greg McCollum, first assistant director; Luke Fiegar, production supervisor. Editorial Arcade Dave Anderson, editor; Sam Barden, assistant editor; Sila Soyer, partner/exec producer; Ellen Lavery, producer. Postproduction/VFX The Mill Nathan Kane, executive creative director; TJ Sponzo, exec producer; Colin Blaney, Luis Martin, production supervisors; Joaquina Lopez, producer; Kshitij Khanna, VFX supervisor, 2D lead; Zach Stimell, associate producer; Tara Goodman, production coordinator; James Mulholland, Seon Crawford, CG leads; Oisin O’Driscoll, Joni Brandenburg, colorists; Brian O’Donnell, design; Tara Holland, Luke Midgley, Michael Almodovar, Noah Catan, Andrew Emmerson, Kevan Lee, Matt McDonald, Marxcelo Pasqualino, Tamir Sapir, Akhil A S, 2D team; Abhishek Jain, Bhushan Thakur, Bikash Kalita, Chatta Ravikumar, Chetan Shelar, Jijo Joseph, Jyoti Nikam, Nilesh Patil, Sachin Ranaware, Sagar Gawande, 2D paint; Amit Kumar Shukla, Amit Singh, Apurva Palkar, Ashish Bhange, Avinash Sapale, Deepak Kumar, Jaydeep Rajendra Jadhav, Karthik A, Ketan Prabhakar Gangadhare, Manu PS, Nilesh Kale, Nitin Yashwant Thorat, Rahul Jagtap, Ramchandran Kannappan, Shrikant Jadhav, Vignesh Rajendran, roto; Arsen Arzumanyan, CG previs; Matt Roach, CG FX; Aman Jain, Dinesh B, Dinesh Kanakaraj, Dongili Varaprassad, Kartik Arona, Neveen Srinivasan, Sandeep Kumar Yadav, Shravan Srikanth, Sivasubramanian, CG matte painting; Christian Peck, Michael Davin, CG animation; Arman Matin, Bingi Akhil, Krantikumar Rawat, Nishant Amin, Setty Ashok Chakravarthy, CG lighting; Sathyaraj A, Sriram Namana, Bhushan Ghurade, Santosh Ambre, Vivek Shedge, CG tracking. Music Human James Wells, exec producer; Morgan Visconti, creative lead; Matthew O’Malley, composer. Sound Heard City Stefano Campbello, Evan Mangiamele, Phil Loeb, sound designers/audio mixers; Chenoa Tarin, Ronnie Stapleton, Seth Brogdon, Virginia Wright, Zoltan Monori, assistant engineers; Gloria Pitagorsky, managing director/partner; Sasha Awn, Jackie James, exec producers; Liana Rosenberg, sr. producer; Nick DuVarney, producer; Dylan Stetson, assistant producer.
Director Gia Coppola Teams With Mejuri For “A New York Minute”; 1st Episode Takes Us To The Grocery Store
Mejuri, known for turning fine jewelry into an everyday luxury, has partnered with director Gia Coppola (The Last Show Girl, Palo Alto) and The Directors Bureau in Los Angeles, for the first time reimagining the brand’s story as episodic content. In a series of microfilms, co-created by Coppola and premiering following New York Fashion Week, Mejuri eschewed a typical celebrity campaign and cast us as voyeurs to a group of aspiring young women--real people, not actors--at the crossroads of their adult lives against the backdrop of New York City.
Titled “A New York Minute,” the series features five real-life friends, who include one perfectly imperfect heroine named Emma. The women celebrate ordinary moments and interactions which reveal, sometimes retrospectively, the extraordinary within the mundane. Adjacent to the brand’s own community, the 30-something year old cast includes Laura Love (Emma), Rebecca Ressler, Natalie Vall-Freed and Rozzi Crane. Mejuri’s jewelry makes an appearance as the best supporting actor.
“When I met with Gia and The Directors Bureau team, there was instant creative and personal chemistry and a natural alignment on the desire to push and blur the lines between marketing, storytelling, and the construct of what a ‘campaign’ could be,” said Jacob Jordan, chief brand officer, Mejuri. “Gia was able to push that idea into something that truly feels new and artful, with a realism and relatability that almost feels jarring. Gia was such a perfect collaborator and partner, someone I had complete trust in to be a catalyst for Mejuri’s values of celebrating women as their truest selves. I can’t wait for us to continue to tell the next chapters of this story.”
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