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Street Talk for November 24, 2017
Great Guns has added Rollo Hollins and Chris Neal to its directorial roster for international representation. Hollins’ credits span films,... more...


Rep Report for November 24, 2017
Dattner Dispoto and Associates ( DDA ) has booked DP Peter Holland on the feature film Backtrace , and DPs Neville Kidd on the TV series Umbrella... more...




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Inbal Weinberg's subtle touches help to define characters in writer/director Martin McDonagh's film
LOS ANGELES -- Welcome to the most unwelcoming gift shop you’ve ever seen. It’s not overtly so. And it’s not a pivotal but rather a briefly seen setting in writer/director Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Fox Searchlight). But that’s what makes it all the more intriguing from a production design POV--namely that of Inbal Weinberg whose credits include director Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines , Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower ,...
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Best Feature Spirit Nominees: "Call Me by Your Name," "The Florida Project," "Get Out," "Lady Bird," "The Rider"
LOS ANGELES -- The nominations for the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards were unveiled with five features up for Best Picture: Call Me by Your Name ; The Florida Project ; Get Out ; Lady Bird; and The Rider . Four of those six films also garnered Best Director nominations: Sean Baker for The Florida Project ; Luca Guadagnino for Call Me by Your Name ; Jordan Peele for Get Out ; and Chloé Zhao for The Rider . The other two Best Director nominees are Jonas Carpignano for A Ciambra and Benny Safdie and Josh...
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LOS ANGELES -- The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has unveiled its 2018 Documentary Motion Pictures nominees that will advance in the final voting process for the 29th Annual Producers Guild Awards. The films nominated for the Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures are: Chasing Coral City of Ghosts Cries from Syria Earth: One Amazing Day Jane Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee The Producers Guild Awards honor excellence in motion...
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Daniela Vega in contention to become 1st transgender actor to receive an Academy Award nomination
TORONTO (AP) -- In one of the dreamy moments of surrealism that punctuate Sebastian Lelio's otherwise realistic "A Fantastic Woman," the film's transgender protagonist, Marina (Daniela Vega), walks down the street but an extreme, exaggerated headwind makes moving forward nearly impossible. She's tilted, as if climbing a mountain, as the gale-force winds try to beat her back. To watch "A Fantastic Woman," Chile's Academy Awards submission, is to walk in the shoes of a trans woman, to feel the everyday...
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- The American Film Institute (AFI) has revealed the films that received the Audience and Jury awards at AFI Fest 2017. “As the 31st edition of AFI Fest comes to a close, this year’s awards shine a light on the American independent, auteur and foreign cinema that resonated with our audiences and jurors,” said Jacqueline Lyanga, AFI Fest director. “Audience awards help bring film lovers together, while building momentum for the filmmakers in this year’s festival.” The Audience Award winners were...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Pixar films have never been shy about death. The "Toy Story" films are, in part, about mortality. The poetic highlight of "Up" is a wordless sequence of a spouse's passing. The Earth, itself, was left for dead in "Wall-E." But Pixar plunges fully into the afterlife in "Coco," a brightly colored fable surrounding the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). The imagery of skeletons and graves in a kids' movie might have put off other animation studios. But director Lee Unkrich ("Toy...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Just days before Pixar's "Coco" is set to hit theaters, Pixar co-founder and Walt Disney Animation chief John Lasseter announced he is taking a six-month leave of absence citing "missteps" with employees. The boisterous, Hawaiian shirt-wearing personality behind some of the most beloved children's films of the past 30 years like "Toy Story" is the latest entertainment titan to be exposed for claims of sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct in the workplace, including a reported "unwanted...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Denzel Washington, 62 years-old and a seven-time Oscar nominee, is still trying to get better. In Dan Gilroy's "Roman J. Israel, Esq.," Washington has challenged himself with one of his most complicated and singular roles. The title character (played by Washington) is a veteran activist attorney. After decades spent as a brilliant behind-the-scenes legal mind, the death of his more renowned partner brings Israel out into the open. For an actor whose most powerful performances ("Malcolm X," ''...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- In the longest and most emotional close-up in "Call Me by Your Name," director Luca Guadagnino asked for three variations, one per take, from his young actor, Timothee Chalamet: dry, humid and wet. The Italian summer of "Call Me by Your Name," set in 1983, is unchanging: day-after-day of sunshine and languid bliss. But for the 17-year-old Elio (Chalamet), who's awakening to the beauty and heartbreak of love, the weather is churning. To capture it all, Guadagnino elected for simplicity. A single...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Decades after they were banned from the airwaves, Big Tobacco companies return to prime-time television this weekend — but not by choice. Under court order, the tobacco industry for the first time will be forced to advertise the deadly, addictive effects of smoking, more than 11 years after a judge ruled that the companies had misled the public about the dangers of cigarettes. But years of legal pushback by the industry over every detail means the ads will be less hard-hitting than what was...
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LOS ANGELES -- Production and management company Anonymous Content has signed directing collective PANTERA for commercial and music video representation in the U.S. and the U.K. Comprised of filmmaking trio Pato Martinez, Brian Kazez and Francisco Canton, PANTERA has directed short films, music videos and commercials for global brands including Nike, Mercedes-Benz, Adidas, MTV, Rolling Stone and Converse. PANTERA was also recently awarded a Bronze Lion for Film Craft: Direction and a Silver Young Director...
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NEW YORK -- Pamela Romanowsky--who directed and wrote The Adderall Diaries , which played at the Sundance and Tribeca fests, nominated at the latter for the Best Narrative Feature Jury Award in 2015--has come aboard the directorial roster of Rocket Film for commercials and branded content. The Adderall Diaries made its world premiere at Tribeca; the film starred James Franco as a once-successful novelist inflicted with writer’s block and an Adderall addition. He strives to escape his problems by delving...
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TORONTO -- Stop motion animator/director Hayley Morris has joined IAMSTATIC, a Toronto-based shop headed by partners Ron Gervais and Dave Greene. IAMSTATIC is also on the roster of the recently launched animation division of New York/San Francisco-based studio BODEGA which, said Gervais, means that Morris will have U.S. representation through that relationship. She had earlier been handled in the U.S. by Click 3X and prior to that th1ng (“thing one”). Morris, the face behind her own animation studio Shape...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Sonja Sohn has gone from being in front of the camera to behind it. The actress, who played a Baltimore detective on "The Wire," has become a documentary filmmaker and her debut offering is a powerful look at her beloved adopted city. "Baltimore Rising," which was to debut Monday on HBO, examines a fearful community in the wake of riots after the death of Freddie Gray, who was fatally injured while in police custody in 2015. Sohn and her team accumulated some 600 hours of footage over a year to...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- If you want to see Barbra Streisand sing, watch her upcoming Netflix special because you won't see her onstage again. And she's not just saying it to get you to watch "Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!" when it debuts on the streaming service this Wednesday: Streisand, who didn't tour for 27 years after forgetting the words at a show in 1967, said performing live concerts are too nerve-racking for her to consider doing them again. "No I would never do another show. It's...
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NEW YORK -- The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced and honored the winners of the 45th International Emmy® Awards this evening (11/20) at a black-tie gala event attended by 1,000 television professionals from around the world and hosted by comedian Maz Jobrani at the New York Hilton. The Directorate Award and 11 Emmy statues were presented by the International Academy during the evening. Norwegian detective series Mammon II won topped the Best Drama category while the U.K.’s...
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MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) -- The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission set out Tuesday to scrap rules around open internet access, a move that would allow giant cable and telecom companies to throttle broadband speeds and favor their own services if they wish. Ajit Pai followed through on a pledge to try to repeal "net neutrality" regulations enacted under the Obama administration. The current rules treat internet service providers such as Comcast, AT&T and Verizon as if they were utility companies that...
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- California’s prolonged drought when it comes to big-budget feature film production continues to be reversed with help from the state’s expanded Film & Television Tax Credit Program 2.0. The California Film Commission has announced that two more big-budget films--“Call of the Wild” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Untitled #9”--will be shot in-state. They join other recently announced big-budget wins for California including “Captain Marvel,” “Island Plaza,” “Midway,” “Ad Astra,” “Bumblebee” and “...
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A couple of two-time Camp Kuleshov “Lev” winners have welcomed a newcomer to the fold, as the 2017 top winners in the International Camp Kuleshov competition have been announced. Taking The Lev Award in Editorial is assistant Alex Heisterkamp of Lucky Post in Dallas, who won for his reworking of the 1962 musical hit “The Music Man” as a foreboding dystopian drama. Joining Heisterkamp in the winner’s circle are two assistants for whom winning has become familiar. Particle Audio’s Jordan Stalling...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Following two allegations of sexual harassment against him, actor Jeffrey Tambor says he doesn't see how he can return to the Amazon series "Transparent." In an ambiguous statement Sunday that heavily implies, though doesn't confirm, an imminent departure from the Emmy-winning series, Tambor referenced what he calls a "politicized atmosphere" that has afflicted the set. He said that this is "no longer the job I signed up for four years ago." Two women have come forward over the past few weeks...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Only in the modern era of superhero films could a $96 million opening weekend be considered anything less than impressive. But that's the situation Warner Bros. and DC's "Justice League" find themselves in. The big budget superhero mashup came in well under expectations, which had pegged it for a $110 million launch in North American theaters. If studio estimates hold, it will also have the dubious distinction of being the lowest-opening film in the DC Extended Universe. It has been a...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- As Thanksgiving approaches, NBC can be thankful for another weekly ratings win, its second in a row. As with last week, NBC won largely on the strength of two football games. Sunday night's clash between Philadelphia and Dallas was the week's most-watched program, while Thursday's face-off between Tennessee and Pittsburgh ranked third, Nielsen said. Sunday's game was the fourth "Sunday Night Football" so far in this young season to top 20 million viewers. Three editions of "The Voice" helped...
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Jaci Judelson of Tool directed this emotionally moving film kicking off Gatorade’s #SistersInSweat campaign from TBWA\Chiat\Day. Starring Serena Williams holding her recently born baby girl (actually a double for her baby), the piece shows the tennis superstar imparting an important message to her child: “I won’t mind if you play tennis badly. I won’t mind if you never choose to pick up a racket,” she says. “But I beg you in this game of life please keep playing.” The film points out the...
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Heathrow has unveiled its second-ever Christmas commercial, showing the 50-year-long love story of Doris and Edward Bair, the airport’s much-loved teddy bears, who were shown in the airport’s first Christmas TV ad last year. The spot opens in the 1960s where the bears first set eyes on each other. Edward was still his clumsy self, leaving his coat on an aircraft by accident when returning from a business trip. Doris, the airline’s air stewardess, notices and chases after him. She wouldn’t want...
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Stash Capar of Toronto-based production house Sequoia Content wrote, directed and edited this spec spot for SpaceX, Elon Musk’s company known for its advancements in privately funded space travel. Titled “We Choose,” the piece presents a lyrical and visual narrative with the only words spoken being those of President John F. Kennedy from his famed 1962 speech at Rice University in Houston in which he explains the quest for progress and why “we choose to go to the moon.” The spot is set in a...
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This fun, fast-paced holiday ride follows two dads as they go head to head in pursuit of the last remaining parking spot at the mall. Featuring the 2018 RS 7 and RS 3 Audi Sport vehicles, “Parking Lot” was directed by Steve Rogers of Biscuit Filmworks for agency Venables Bell & Partners.
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Leo Burnett in London has created a Christmas campaign for McDonald’s focused around the anticipation and excitement of Christmas, with work that builds on the magic in the air as everyone prepares for the big day in his or her own way. In this 90-second spot, we see the holiday through the lens of a little girl who saves her last carrot stick at McDonald’s to give to the reindeer on Xmas eve. She carries it very carefully through the hustle and bustle of Christmas-time on the streets, much to...
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Humanitarian organization War Child USA launched its first campaign in the United States. Titled “$249,” the campaign raises awareness about global spending on war, which amounts to approximately $249 per person, per year for every man, woman and child on the planet. The campaign encourages people to offset this spending on war by investing in peace together with War Child USA. Produced by The Mill for Publicis New York, this animated film kicked off the campaign. Narrated by Stranger Things...
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Putting a face to high blood pressure numbers is this PSA from the Ad Council in association with the American Heart Association, American Stroke Association and American Medial Association. Titled “HBP Numbers,” this :60 brings us real people who testify to their HBP experience in emotional detail, linking blood pressure numbers to the impact on their lives. Marco Grob of Great Bowery Film directed and shot the overall campaign consisting of multiple PSAs conceived by agency Havas Adrenaline...
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