Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023

Sentimental tales about grumpy old men and American decline have, until recently, typically been the domain of Clint Eastwood.

But in "A Man Called Otto," Marc Forster's adaptation of Fredrik Backman's bestseller and a remake of the 2016 Swedish film "A Man Called Ove," it's Tom Hanks...

Monday, Oct. 10, 2022

Director Scott Weintrob has joined boutique Rakish for commercial representation. 

Hailing from a background in long-form television, showrunning, and directing,  Weintrob said he was drawn to Rakish and its managing director and co-founder, Preston  Garrett. Weintrob said, “I’ve had the...

Wednesday, Jun. 5, 2019

Preston Garrett and Brad Johns, former live action executive producers at Tool of North America, have launched Rakish, a boutique live action production company focused on commercials, branded...

Friday, Aug. 3, 2018

Oh, bother.

The misfortune of "Christopher Robin" is not only that it comes a year after "Goodbye Christopher Robin," an earnest if sentimental tale about Winnie-the-Pooh author A.A. Milne and his son, Christopher Robin Milne, but that it arrives a few months after the screwball radiance...

Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017

To play a blind woman for her latest film role, Blake Lively took no short cuts into the darkness.

The 30-year-old actress learned to use a walking cane, wore opaque contact lenses off-camera to better understand her character and learned how to navigate the main set without her vision....

Monday, Mar. 27, 2017

Marc Forster is no stranger to the Academy Awards, having directed Halle Berry’s Best Leading Actress Oscar-winning performance in Monster’s Ball (2001). Fast forward to last month and Forster made his imprint on the Oscar telecast in an entirely different way, directing "Lost &...

Friday, Jan. 27, 2017

Walmart has secured feature filmmakers to direct three :60s that will run during commercial breaks of the Feb. 26th Oscar telecast on ABC. Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer, last year’s The Magnificent Seven) is set to direct one of the ads, as are Marc Forster (...

Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014

Tool has added feature filmmaker Marc Forster to its roster for representation as a commercial director. He most recently directed the Paramount release World War Z, starring and produced by Brad Pitt. The film is based on Max Brooks’ post-apocalyptic novel "World War Z: An Oral History...

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