This is a fun little ad John Poliquin directed in Vietnam with an amazing team.
Post completed in Thailand.
Creative by the Japanese advertising agency Hokuhodo.
Over 2.5 million views on YouTube in its first week!
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Fantasia and Genre VR Get Write-up In Indiewire
Indiewire’s Chris O’Falt wrote a piece about how genre filmmakers are using VR to create a different type of immersive thrill. He interviewed virtual reality creators from this year’s Fantasia Film Festival who relate how powerful a tool 360 VR can be for action and horror filmmakers.
“Genre fans and filmmakers once again this summer flocked to Montreal for the Fantasia Film Festival, which has established itself as a premiere platform for discovering exciting and out-of-the-box genre films. However, this year’s though festival-goers weren’t only seeing cutting-edge works in packed theaters, but lining up to experience one of the festivals two pop-up VR arcades.”
“It was an eclectic VR selection ranging from animation to horror, and from science fiction to poetic experimental experiences” said Marc Lamothe, the festival’s co-Director. “The response from both the regular public and industry attendees was absolutely overwhelming.”
“Partnering with the Montreal-based talent agency Woolf + Lapin, Fantasia’s Samsung Gear VR Experience brought in 12 360-experiences that showcased the different ways genre filmmakers were using virtual reality.”
Unboxtherapy’s Lewis Hilsenteger is a Cut Above With the Dollar Shave Club
This is Unboxtherapy’s latest integration for the Dollar Shave Club.
From Tubular Insights:
“We all remember the first time that we watched “DollarShaveClub.com – Our Blades Are F***ing Great.” Published in March 2012, the oldest video on Dollar Shave Club’s YouTube channel currently has 24.7 million views and 180,000 engagements, according to Tubular Labs.”
“Lately, Dollar Shave Club has been cleverly using sponsored video, the industry’s fastest growing marketing channel, to accomplish something that hasn’t been seen in these parts for more than 140 years. In fact, this form of collaboration was first described by Mark Twain in Chapter 2 of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which was published way back in 1876. That’s right, Dollar Shave Club has figured out how to get its friends to whitewash the modern equivalent of Aunt Polly’s fence, or to be more literal, the brand is sponsoring a wide variety of influencers to create sponsored videos on YouTube and Facebook that are engaging and also happen to promote the brand’s amazing razors and grooming products.”
“So, how are they doing? Well, I’m glad you asked. Dollar Shave Club is currently working with 24 content partners, who have created 69 sponsored videos. The most popular is “8 Groovy grooming hacks to keep you feelin’ fly this summer!” Uploaded to Blossom’s Facebook page on July 21, 2017, this “hack video” currently has 24.4 million views and 662,000 engagements.”
“A second sponsored video, “Samsung Galaxy S8 – Does It Suck?,” was uploaded to the Unbox Therapy YouTube channel on April 3, 2017. This review video currently has 5.8 million views and 113,000 engagements.”
Jim Donovan Directed TV Series, 21 Thunder, Premieres Tonight
“In the cutthroat world of pro soccer, a club lives and dies by the stars on its under-21 team. They are the future and lifeblood of any franchise, but most will never make it. 21 THUNDER is the story of the Montreal Thunder U21 team, following the team’s star players on and off the field. A story of love, crime, race, sex and athletic glory, at its core the series is about how a group of players and coaches unite as family in the whirlwind of life, one step away from the pros.”
Partners Mont VR Open New VR Centre in Quebec
This is the dawning of a new era of arcades.
We are very proud to be associated with Mont VR who just now opened a third VR centre in Quebec.
We believe bricks and mortar is the best way to achieve mass adoption.
Two thousand square feet of VR bliss.
Kevin Bachar’s Two Shark Week Shows
Kevin Bachar worked on two Shark Week shows as Director, Writer, Producer and Cinematographer.
They air this week on the Discovery Channel, starting Tuesday July 25th and Wednesday July 26th at 10PM ET.
Our Featured Script
We are very happy to announce that Diane Hanks has signed with Woolf+Lapin. Her standout script Paragraph 175, chronicling the story of two gay lovers in Nazi Germany, has gotten a lot of interest and Matthew Newton has since been attached to direct. Matthew Newton’s upcoming Who We Are Now stars Emma Roberts, Julianne Nicholson, and Zachary Quinto.
Diane Hanks has an MA in Publishing & Writing from Emerson College in Boston, MA. Diane’s other screenplays – both features and pilots – also have done well in prestigious screenplay competitions, including the Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship (semifinalist, THE PATRIOT SPY) and the Austin Film Festival (top 30 pilots, The Highwayman and The Cuvvie). And her pilot Changelings won the 2016 Page International Screenwriting Awards Grand Prize.
Diane also taught screenwriting at Roger Williams University and appeared as a guest lecturer on screenwriting at Stonehill College and Emerson College.
Diane also is represented by Equitable Stewardship for Artists (ESA), Los Angeles, CA.
Time for the Fantasia Film Festival
Fantasia, North America’s largest genre film festival, is upon us again! And we couldn’t be happier.
We are of course excited for the VR selection, but also for some titles like Cannes-buzzed Good Time, starring Robert Pattison, as well as Atomic Blonde, starring Charlize Theron, from John Wick director David Leitch.
That’s to say nothing of Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, starring Cara Delavigne and Rihanna.
Also, the festival will open with North American premieres for Korean director Jung Byung-gil’s The Villainess, starring Kim Ok-vin as a woman who sets out for revenge after her assassin husband is murdered on their wedding day, and Takashi Miike’s Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (his 101st film!!!). Based on Hirohiko Araki’s manga cult series, it tells the tale of a pompadour-headed young man with special powers who has to help his town fight off a serial killer.
Woolf+Lapin is happy to partner with the festival for a third year now.
Oden Few Roberts’ Military Drama ‘A Fighting Season’
Not bad for a Memorial Day weekend!
ROTTEN TOMATOES reviewer Zaki spitballs with CLAYNE CRAWFORD about his role as RIGGS on LETHAL WEAPON and being the lead on A FIGHTING SEASON.
Also, cast member LEW TEMPLE chats about the film and Co-star CLAYNE CRAWFORD.
In the blog world and print world!
“…plays like a military version of Glengarry Glen Ross.”
“★★★★ Harsh, Eye opening, yet utterly brilliant.”
“A Fighting Season is a powerful look behind the lines of war.”
“it is a dark, disturbing take on the swirling maelstrom of national pride and muddied morality that swept through Oden Roberts’ homeland post-9/11.”
“An unvarnished look at military recruiters” – La-Times
Woolf+Lapin Off To Cannes 2017
Woolf+Lapin is at Cannes again this year.
First and foremost on our radar this year is the presentation of Unlimited VR’s Trinity, directed by Woolf+Lapin’s Patrick Boivin, at the Next Pavillon.
We’re also looking forward to our friends from the Byron Bay Film Festival to present the work of some of Australia’s premier VR studios, namely Proxi VR.
VR remains a strong focus for the agency as it has entered a partnership with Canada’s Mont VR to scout and license top narrative experiences. Plus we’re excited to bring our slate of film projects to market, many of them never-before-seen from newly signed, fresh voices.
Also, for the first time, “the Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes and the Fantasia International Film Festival (Woolf+Lapin Partners) co-present the Frontières Platform in Cannes, a dedicated section of industry programming & networking events for the genre film industry at the Marché du Film.”
Lastly, we’re certainly looking forward to meeting up with friends, old and new!