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Street Talk for May 25, 2018
Brand experience agency WRG has brought Jennifer Baker on board in a newly created sr. management role--director of operations, overseeing the Live... more...


Rep Report for May 25, 2018
Dattner Dispoto and Associates ( DDA ) has signed DP Tucker Korte and editor Bryan Irving for representation.... DDA has also booked DP Manuel... more...


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Up-and-coming directors discuss their entries, plans during panel discussion, gain feedback from Nonfiction Unlimited's Loretta Jeneski, Townhouse's James McPherson
NEW YORK -- SHOOT premiered its 16th Annual New Directors Showcase reel at the DGA Theatre in New York City on Thursday (5/24), followed by a panel discussion moderated by SHOOT publisher and editorial director Roberta Griefer featurng four of the up-and-coming filmmakers as well as feedback and advice from Loretta Jeneski, partner/executive producer of Nonfiction Unlimited, and James McPherson, EVP, director of integrated production at Townhouse, a WPP/Grey unit. The 2018 New Directors Showcase consisted...
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DP discusses approach to Einstein and Picasso in seasons 1 and 2, respectively, of National Geographic series
LOS ANGELES -- From Albert Einstein in season one to Pablo Picasso in season two, the bar has been set high for the National Geographic series Genius . Season one earned 10 Emmy nominations last year, including for Best Limited Series. Among the assorted other honors bestowed upon the show was the first career ASC Award win for Mathias Herndl, AAC on the strength of his lensing the very first Einstein episode which was directed by Ron Howard. This episode marked the very first collaboration between Herndl and...
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Insights from creatives, execs at W+K, McCann, Leo Burnett, VML, Isobar
LOS ANGELES -- Colleen DeCourcy, chief creative officer, Wieden+Kennedy, is serving back to back as a Cannes Lions jury president. Last year, she chaired the Cyber Lions jury. Now, she holds the presidential reins of the Titanium jury. DeCourcy is no stranger to Titanium, having previously served as a judge in that category back in 2007. Asked to reflect on how Titanium has evolved over the years, DeCourcy observed that the question itself may be flawed. “I’m not sure if Titanium has evolved or needs to. Its...
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CANNES, France -- The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced the 413 jury members chosen to award and celebrate the best creative work from around the world. This year’s juries are composed of individuals from 50 countries, including for the first time representatives from Georgia, Nigeria, Kenya and Sri Lanka. Continuing the drive for a more diverse mix within the jury room, this year includes 46% female jury members, as well as a wide mix of creative agencies, brands, media owners and...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Flinching when he heard himself described as a man who used power to prey on women, Harvey Weinstein was arraigned Friday on charges of rape and a criminal sex act in the first criminal prosecution to result from the wave of allegations against him that sparked a national reckoning over sexual misconduct. Seven months after the allegations destroyed his career and catalyzed the #MeToo movement, the once-powerhouse movie producer turned himself in to face the charges, which stem from encounters...
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CANNES, France (AP) -- A tumultuous Cannes Film Festival concluded Saturday with the Palme d'Or awarded to Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Shoplifters," a tender portrait of a poor, impoverished family, while Harvey Weinstein accuser Asia Argento vowed justice will come to all sexual predators. At the closing ceremony for the 71st edition of the French Riviera extravaganza, the Cate Blanchett-led jury selected one of the festival's most acclaimed entries, one hailed as a modest masterpiece from a veteran...
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NEW YORK -- Peabody Award winners and nominees were celebrated at a gala evening event on Saturday (5/19) at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. Hasan Minhaj, comedian, writer and senior correspondent on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” hosted the proceedings while also receiving a Peabody Award winner for his comedy special “Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King,” released on Netflix last year. Also on hand was Carol Burnett to accept the first Peabody Career Achievement. The honor is reserved...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- If provocative, psyche-jangling shows like "The Handmaid's Tale" are your taste, head directly to streaming or cable. But if you're feeling the urge for milk-and-cookies comfort, broadcast television wants to help. The upcoming TV season will bring more sitcom nostalgia in the "Roseanne" and "Will & Grace" mode. More heartwarming dramas taking a circle-of-life page from "This Is Us." More crime and medical dramas in which the good guys always win, and in just an hour (minus commercial time...
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CANNES, France (AP) -- Fifty years after filmmakers shut down the Cannes Film Festival, the prestigious Cote d'Azur extravaganza was again shook by upheaval. From the start to the finish, the 71st Cannes was dominated by protest and petition for gender equality, culminating in the extraordinary sight at the festival's closing ceremony Saturday of Italian filmmaker and Harvey Weinstein accuser Asia Argento vowing justice for sexual predators in the film industry. "You know who you are," Argento told the audience. "But...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- When the filmmaking Duplass brothers sat down to list their top 10 movies of all time, one cinematic masterpiece didn't make the cut. Jay and Mark Duplass made room for "Dumb and Dumber," ''Tootsie" and "Raising Arizona." But "The Godfather," often topping lists of all-time great films, was left off. Why it was says a lot about these off-beat indie darlings, who rose to fame in 2005 with their $10,000 film, "The Puffy Chair," and then went on create a mini-empire, with deals at Netflix and HBO...
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NEW YORK -- Lisa Gunning has signed with production company Imperial Woodpecker for her first official commercial representation as a staff director in the U.S. Gunning started her career and found success for many years as a film and commercial editor with The Whitehouse Post in London. Inspired by decades of work with top agencies, brands, directors, and on feature films, her transition to directing has been at once seamless and unconventional. In 2013 she wrote, directed and edited the award winning...
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LOS ANGELES -- Directorial trio JEAN has joined L.A.-based Community Films for U.S. representation. JEAN, pronounced like the pants that are made of denim, is comprised of Eric Eckelman, Armand Prisco and Natalie Prisco. Known for their comedy chops, and pulling believably odd performances out of their actors, they have created comedy-driven work for Lifetime, Delta, AT&T, Honda, TBS and Visa. Natalie Prisco and Armand Prisco got their start in advertising at McCann Erickson and eventually moved over to...
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NEW YORK -- Mass Appeal, an urban culture-focused media and entertainment company, has announced the combination of its production arm, Decon, into a fully integrated operation under the flagship Mass Appeal brand. Effective immediately, Mass Appeal will operate as a single entity media, content and production company. This shift will allow Mass Appeal to offer a comprehensive network of services that will better serve the company’s roster of clients and attract new brand partners looking to connect with...
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LONDON -- Cannes Lions will host a two-day “Change for Good” Hackathon, to be held live on June 19-20 at the 65th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Together with Amazon, Huge and international advocacy platform Global Citizen, Cannes Lions will invite teams from across the globe to join forces and imagine and build solutions that will further six Global Citizen campaigns: No Poverty, Food & Hunger, Health, Education, Gender Equality, and Clean Water & Sanitation. Philip Thomas,...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Despite high-profile Oscar wins for art house films like "Call Me By Your Name" and "A Fantastic Woman," LGBTQ representation in films from the seven biggest Hollywood studios fell significantly in 2017 according to a study released Tuesday by the advocacy organization GLAAD. GLAAD said in its sixth annual report that of the 109 major releases surveyed from 2017, 12.8 percent included LGBTQ characters, down from 18.4 percent the previous year. None of the major films had a transgender character...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The creator and executive producer of "Arrested Development" acknowledges that some people will not like his decision to keep Jeffrey Tambor on the show after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced last October. "Good people will find this offensive," explained Mitchell Hurwitz. "I, too, get worked up when I hear about Harvey Weinstein and other people who have taken advantage of people. But I also believe very strongly that we don't want to live in a world where accusations ruin people's...
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CANNES, France (AP) -- A Lebanese film about a 12-year-old boy who sues his parents has put child poverty in the spotlight at the Cannes Film Festival. Nadine Labaki's "Capernaum" premiered Thursday night (5/17) at the Cannes Film Festival where the neo-realistic drama about street kids in Lebanon received a rousing standing ovation. "Capernaum" was made largely with non-professional actors living in circumstances not unlike those in the film. It centers on the 12-year-old Zein (played by Zain Alrafeea) who takes his...
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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The 2018 Billboard Music Awards paid tribute to the students and teachers affected by recent deadly shootings in Texas and Florida, while the night also featured show-stopping performances by iconic singer Janet Jackson and K-pop group BTS. A tearful and emotional Kelly Clarkson, who hosted the awards, opened the show in honor of the 10 people who died Friday at Santa Fe High School, barely able to speak as she urged the audience and the world to do more to prevent deadly shootings from...
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BURBANK, Calif. -- The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA®) has opened the Call for Entries in Creative Categories for the 13th annual HPA Awards. These awards are considered important recognition for groundbreaking work and artistic excellence, acknowledging creative artistry in color grading, editing, sound, and visual effects in feature film, television, and commercials. The 13th annual gala awards presentation will be held at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California on the evening of...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Deadpool and his foul-mouthed crew of misfits and malcontents have taken down the Avengers. Fox's "Deadpool 2" brought in $125 million this weekend, giving it the second-highest opening ever for an R-rated movie and ending the three-week reign of Disney's "Avengers: Infinity War" at the top of the North American box office, according to studio estimates Sunday. "Deadpool 2," with Ryan Reynolds returning as the title character and co-writing this time, fell somewhat short of the $130 million the...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- CBS is finishing another television season atop the television ratings, but the network had to sweat a little this time. The traditional TV season that started in September ends on Wednesday, and CBS will win bragging rights for the 10th year in a row, the Nielsen company said. CBS has won for 15 of the last 16 years, the only exception being Fox during the height of “American Idol.” Nielsen says CBS averages 9 million viewers in primetime this season. NBC is averaging 8.9 million, but there’s...
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Ad agency AKQA teamed with VFX/post studio MPC and director Paul Hunter of production house PRETTYBIRD on this film that tells the world about the grand makeover at Palms Casino. In this cinematic piece, we see the old hotel being physically destroyed to make way for the new. The spot shows the hotel being demolished by a group of people in an epic fashion, along to the soothing soundtrack of Sasha Distel’s “La Belle Vie.” MPC handled all VFX for the film, which was graded by MPC’s Ricky Gausis...
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To mark Canada’s recent Mental Health Week, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) launched a campaign, conceived by agency Zulu Alpha Kilo, to rally Canadians around its new brand platform and tagline, “Mental Health is Health.” This TV spot is part of the campaign which highlights not only the devastating impact of mental illness, but the disparity in the way that people with mental illness are treated compared to those with a physical illness. “We must not stand silent when the...
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Simon McQuoid of Imperial Woodpecker directed this spot for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), part of a campaign from Publicis New York which takes a light-hearted approach to a serious challenge, as a “monster” I.T. problem literally gets blown away. The “TAME I.T.” campaign brings the IT Monster to life as a disruptive character who personifies I.T. complexity and specific customer pain points with humor--demonstrating an empathy and deep understanding of IT customers’ challenges. Andy Bird,...
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A playful 60-second commercial, “Spotlight,” taps into the anticipation and joy of summer, and brings to life the outstanding trends of the season. Directed by Peter Thwaites of The Corner Shop for BBDO New York, the spot shows the sun magically turning people’s winter outfits into vibrant summer outfits. The film follows women, men and children as they shed their winter clothes and embrace summer, accompanied by "The Oogum Boogum Song" by Brenton Wood. The film ends with the line “Find summer...
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W+K New York is launching a new round of work for Duracell, kicking off with 30-second spot “Hallway” which is part of the continuing “Trust is Power” campaign. The spot sheds a light on what happens when you can’t trust the battery power inside your new smart door lock--specifically, the Smart Lock fails without Duracell AAs and an apartment hallway becomes increasingly uncomfortable. Will the neighbors help? Will the super have a spare key? Will a small dog ever stop barking? Directed by Arts...
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Henrik Rostrop of Variable directed this Brighthouse Financial campaign from BBH New York featuring real-life people who are redefining what it means to “retire.” The package of documentary-style films includes this :90 which introduces us to Matt who is from Cleveland and used to own a roofing company. Now he’s working as an abstract impressionist painter. “I’m retired from construction, but I’m not retired from the creative life,” he says. “These new films celebrate individuals who...
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Atom Tickets, the social movie ticketing platform, is launching its first-ever national brand campaign. It debuts today (5/23) just in time for the summer movie season, with a national TV spot directed by filmmaker Peter Berg ( Lone Survivor, Patriots Day ) via Pony Show Entertainment and featuring actress Anna Faris. Titled “Anna’s Night Out,” the commercial shows movie fanatic Faris instigating a night at the movies via Atom. Using the app, she picks the movie, invites her friends, selects...
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Created by We Are Unlimited, this national “Speechless” campaign introduces McDonald’s new fresh beef, cooked-to-order Quarter Pounders. Inspired by the idea that words can’t describe the pure delight, the feeling, and the taste of a hot and juicy burger, the “Speechless” creative leverages celebrities and technology to speak for customers eating McDonald’s new hotter & juicier, 100% fresh beef Quarter Pounder. The burger tastes so good the customer is literally speechless. In this spot,...
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Director Ben Chappell teamed with longtime collaborator Aaron Brown to helm this surreal music video for Arctic Monkeys’ first single “Four Out of Five,” from their recently debuted album Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. Clip was produced by production company FRIEND. The video follows lead singer Alex Turner as he strolls the corridors of a palatial home, photographs a black stallion and appears mysteriously in an orange underground tunnel. The 1970s cinema-inspired visual approach fuses...
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