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Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2024
Indie Agency Elite Media Hires Gati Desai Curtis As Its First President
Elite Media has hired Gati Desai Curtis as president, a new role at the independent, Black-owned full service creative agency. A 20-year industry veteran, Desai Curtis will report to Christopher Crawford, founder and CEO of the Harlem-based shop. Desai Curtis was most recently EVP, head of product...
Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2024
Taylor Swift, President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Sydney Sweeney, Ryan Gosling Earn Webby Award Nominations
Taylor Swift and her Super Bowl-winning boyfriend Travis Kelce, along with Sydney Sweeney,Ryan Gosling and Timothee Chalamet, are among the nominees for this year's Webby Awards, recognizing the best internet content and creators. The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences announced...
Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2024
Ad Industry Nominees Unveiled For 23rd Annual Webby Awards
The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS) has unveiled the nominees for the 28th Annual Webby Awards. Among those advertising industry companies recognized this year are Code and Theory, Condé Nast, Duolingo, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Jung von Matt AG, Mattel, McCann...
Monday, Apr. 1, 2024
Golden LA Signs Director Ric Cantor For Commercials and Branded Content
Golden LA has added Ric Cantor to its directorial roster for U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content. Hailing from Manchester, U,K., Cantor is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker recognized for his unique brand of character-driven humor that brings familiar, uncomfortable scenarios...
Monday, Apr. 1, 2024
Gillian Anderson, Rufus Sewell Revisit A Royal Media Disaster In Netflix Drama "Scoop"
As the past few weeks have shown, British royalty and the media can be an explosive mix. The absence of the Princess of Wales after abdominal surgery in January sparked uncontrolled online speculation that was first heightened by the release of a manipulated photo, then eased by a video statement...
Monday, Apr. 1, 2024
MIRIMAR Adds Creative Team of Jake Ausburn and Alex Polglase
Independent creative agency MIRIMAR has brought the creative team of Jake Ausburn and Alex Polglase aboard its talent roster. Ausburn and Polglase come over from Sydney’s The Monkeys, part of Accenture Song’s global creative network. Ausburn and Polglase have been working together for two-and-a-...
Sunday, Mar. 31, 2024
"Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire" Exceeds Expectations With $80 Million Opening
The Godzilla-King Kong combo stomped on expectations as "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire" roared to an $80 million opening on 3,861 North American screens, according to Sunday studio estimates. The monster merger from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures starring Rebecca Hall and Brian Tyree Henry...
Friday, Mar. 29, 2024
Judge Denies New Trial For "Rust" Armorer Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter
A New Mexico judge on Friday rejected an effort by a movie set armorer to challenge her conviction of involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film "Rust." After hearing brief arguments during a virtual hearing, Santa Fe-...
Friday, Mar. 29, 2024
Oscar and Emmy-Winning Actor Louis Gossett Jr. Dies At 87
Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries "Roots," has died. He was 87. Gossett's first cousin Neal L. Gossett told The Associated Press that the actor died in Santa Monica, California. A statement from the...
Friday, Mar. 29, 2024
Director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire Hits NY Streets--and U.S. Theaters--With "Asphalt City"
Director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire immersed himself in New York and the world of paramedics--spending nearly a year in the back of ambulances as part of extensive first-hand research--so that he could create a similarly immersive experience for the viewers of his film, Asphalt City (Vertical/Roadside...