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    World War Seven and MindsEye Partner In Cross-Atlantic Roster Swap

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    LOS ANGELES --

    Two comedy-driven production companies–World War Seven (WW7) in L.A. and London-based MindsEye–have officially joined forces in a new creative partnership. The deal sees each company representing the other’s directorial talent in their respective home markets, with WW7 handling a selection of MindsEye’s directors in the U.S., and MindsEye repping WW7’s full roster in the U.K.

    WW7 will represent Andrew Gaynord, Ben Taylor, Eros V, and Jim Archer in the U.S., while MindsEye brings the full WW7 lineup to the U.K. The companies align on critical core values: original, often risky thinking, high-level cinematic execution, and a shared respect for comedy. “Our shared foundation is the recognition of comedy as an art form, and our excitement to embrace the weirdness,” said WW7 partner and EP Sloane Skala.

    Collectively, the two shops have delivered standout work for global clients like McDonald’s, IKEA, Geico, Taco Bell, Google, Bud Light and Snickers, among many more. The companies and their talent have also helmed award-winning episodic and feature work as well, including Netflix hit Sex Education, and Pavements, the recent lauded hybrid music biopic/concert film directed by Alex Ross Perry.

    Josh Ferrazzano, WW7 co-founder and managing partner, said, “MindsEye feels like our U.K. counterpart–same instincts, same sense of humor, same obsession with doing things differently and at the highest level. It’s like meeting your creative doppelganger…and then deciding to collaborate rather than panic.”

    MindsEye’s CEO and founder Hughie Phillips added, “This partnership marks an exciting new chapter for MindsEye as we step into the U.S. market. With WW7, we’ve found a creative partner who’s just as allergic to boring work as we are. Expect the unexpected!”

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    Review: Director Darren Aronofsky’s “Caught Stealing” 

    Wednesday, August 27, 2025

    Darren Aronofsky has already made several indelibly New York movies. But loveable as was the subterranean monochrome paranoia of "Pi" and charming as we all consider the pupil-dilating tragedy of his bleak Brighton Beach-set "Requiem for a Dream," Aronofsky's latest, "Caught Stealing," is easily the director's most affectionate portrait of his hometown.

    That, too, may be a funny way to describe a movie where bodies get brutalized, corpses accumulate and even the cat comes away with a limp. But "Caught Stealing," a terrific caper starring Austin Butler as a Lower East Side man inadvertently drawn into a nightmarish crime world, is a period movie. It's set in 1998. And no amount of blood can detract from the overwhelming endearment Aronofsky has for '90s New York.

    Butler plays Hank Thompson: a former baseball player who can't play anymore; a bartender who, after some of the early events of the movie, can't drink anymore; and a devoted San Francisco Giants fan surrounded by Mets fans. As his not-quite girlfriend Yvonne ( Zoë Kravitz ) says, he's "a good country boy" who calls his mom in California every day. They end every call with "Go Giants!"

    Hank is far from the first regular guy to be ensnared in underground crime syndicates, but there are a number of things that distinguish "Caught Stealing." First, his troubles stem, like they do for so many New Yorkers, from his neighbor. Russ (Matt Smith), the mohawked Brit punk who lives next door, rushes out to fly to London, and he leaves Hank his cat to take care of.

    Soon, though, a pair of Russian gang skinheads (Yuri Kolokolnikov, Nikita Kukushkin) are banging on Russ' door and quickly after, pummeling Hank, too. Their beating of Hank is unexpectedly brutal, and the first sign that "Caught... Read More

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