Smuggler (production company)

Smuggler
Industry Production Company
Founder Brian Carmody and Patrick Milling Smith
Headquarters New York City, Los Angeles, London
Website www.smugglersite.com

Smuggler is a film, TV, commercial, music video and theatre production company founded in 2002 by Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody. It has been awarded ‘Production Company of the Year’ by several leading commercial industry magazines and award shows over the past few years, including 2010 by Creativity magazine and has been awarded the Palme d'Or three times (including most recently in 2015) at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.[1][2]

Smuggler works with directors Jaron Albertin, Brian Beletic, Adam Berg, Susanne Bier, Adrien Brody, Michael Clowater, Stephen Daldry, Filip Engstrom, Todd Field, David Frankham, The Guard Brothers, Neil Harris, Christopher Hewitt, Jonah Hill, Tom Hooper (director), Miles Jay, Randy Krallman, James Marsh (director), Renny Maslow, Bennett Miller, Mark Molloy, Joshua Neale, Tristan Patterson, Jamie Rafn, Henry Alex Rubin, Björn Rühmann, Guy Shelmerdine, Chris Smith, Stylewar, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Benji Weinstein, and Ivan Zacharias.[3]

Commercials

Amongst the commercials Smuggler has created is the "Pretty" advertisement directed by Ivan Zacharias, starring Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, which won two Gold Cannes Lions in 2007,[4] and the Whopper Freakout Campaign directed by Henry Alex Rubin.[5] Whopper Freakout sparked numerous parodies, won the Cannes Lions Film Gold and Cannes Lions Integrated Lion in 2008,[6] and as of January 2008, the 7 1⁄2 minute video at Whopperfreakout.com has received more than 1.3 million views.[7] Psyop won an Outstanding Commercial Emmy Award for Coca-Cola 'Heist' in 2009 and Brian Beletic was nominated in the same category in 2010 for Nike 'Human Chain.' [8] In 2010, Henry-Alex Rubin's Best BuyTwelpforce campaign won the Titanium Grand Prix.[9] 2011 saw Ringan Ledwidge’s Puma commercial ‘After Hours Athlete’ with agency Droga5 win the Cannes Lions Film Craft Grand Prix and the company was awarded its second Cannes Lions Palme d'Or. The Fox NFL commercial "It's Good to Have a Ring" directed by Renny Maslow won a Sports Emmy in 2011. Randy Krallman's Newcastle "If We Made It" featuring Anna Kendrick made the top spot of AdWeek's 10 Best Ads of 2014.[10] Under Armour's integrated effort starring Gisele Bundchen out of agency Droga5, "I Will What I Want," won the Cyber Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions in 2015. Most recently, Henry-Alex Rubin's Gatorade "Made in NY" spot featuring Derek Jeter was nominated for the Best Commercial Emmy.

Music videos

Smuggler has created videos for The Rapture, Swedish House Mafia, Lady Sovereign, TV on the Radio, Gnarls Barkley, The Hives, Franz Ferdinand, Nas, T.I., Juvenile, Kaiser Chiefs, The Black Eyed Peas, Fatboy Slim, and Cee-Lo.

Long form work

Smuggler has created several long form works for Adidas, Officemax, Sony, and the eBay "Let Them Post" campaign. Director Randy Krallman won the Cannes Lions 2009 Film Bronze for "Zack 16."[11]

The Eckō Unltd. viral ad Still Free depicts graffiti artists breaking into Andrews Air Force Base and tagging Air Force One. The internet hoax was released to a few websites. It was later picked up by the internet community, eventually reaching over 17,000 websites. The viral spoof took home the Cannes Cyber Lions 2006 Grand Prix.[12]

Film, theatre, and television

In 2009, Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody formed a film, television and theater division. Smuggler produced Greetings from Tim Buckley and executive produced both Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian starring Benicio Del Toro and Electric Slide starring Jim Sturgess, Chloe Sevigny and Patricia Arquette.[13][14] Upcoming film projects include Beautiful Ruins to be adapted by Todd Field,[15] Weightless written by Enda Walsh and starring Alessandro Nivola, a remake of cult classic The Wild Geese written by William Monahan and the adaptation of Jean Anouilh’s play Becket written by William Monahan and to be directed by Michael Mann.[16]

In November, 2011, Smuggler produced the play Seminar starring Alan Rickman which premiered on Broadway and was eventually extended with Jeff Goldblum taking over the lead role.[17]

Smuggler adapted the film Once for the stage. Once was adapted by Enda Walsh and directed by John Tiffany. It premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop on December 6, 2011 and is produced in association with Frederick Zollo and Barbara Broccoli.[18] After a successful run in previews Once moved to Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre and officially opened Sunday, March 18, 2012.[19] Once is the fastest recouping musical to hit Broadway in over a decade, recouping its initial $5.5 million investment after only 21 weeks and 169 performances.[20]

Once won the Best Musical Award from The Drama Desk, The Outer Critics' Circle, Drama League, and The New York Drama Critics' Circle.[21] It was nominated for 11 Tony Awards in 2012 and won 8 including Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Actor in a Musical, Best Orchestrations, Best Scenic Design of a Musical, Best Lighting Design of a Musical, and Best Sound Design of a Musical.[22] On February 10, 2013, Once also took home Best Musical Theater Album at the 55th annual Grammy Awards.[23] The musical toured the US, Toronto, Australia, Korea and London's West End where it was nominated for six Olivier Awards including Best Musical in 2014. It picked up two Olivier awards for Best Achievement in Music and Best Actress. The Toronto production of Once won Outstanding Production of a Musical at the 2015 Dora Mava Moore Awards.[24][25]

In 2017, Smuggler produced The Kid Stays in the Picture, based on the memoir of the same name by Robert Evans.[26] Adapted and directed by Simon McBurney, the play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in March, 2017 and focuses the rise and fall of Robert Evans (born in New York in 1930 and still going), former head of Paramount Pictures who produced Love Story, Rosemary's Baby (film), Chinatown (film) and The Godfather.[27]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Creativity 50 2012: Brian Carmody, Patrick Milling Smith, Once | Special Report: Creativity 50 - Advertising Age". Adage.com. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  2. ↑ "Production Company of the Year: Smuggler - Special Report: Top Production Companies". Creativity Online. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  3. ↑ http://smugglersite.com/directors
  4. ↑ "Maria Sharapova So Pretty for Nike". The Inspiration Room. 2006-09-05. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ ""Whopper Freakout" Ambient Advert for Burger King by Crispin Porter + Bogusky". Coloribus.com. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  7. ↑ "Analysis of the Whopper Freakout Campaign | So Good". Sogoodblog.com. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  8. ↑ Parpis, Eleftheria (2009-09-14). "Coke's 'Heist' Wins Emmy for Best Commercial". Adweek. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  9. ↑ Best Buy “Twelpforce” wins Titanium Grand Prix; Nike Livestrong, Integrated Grand Prix | adobo magazine live in cannes 2010
  10. ↑ http://www.adweek.com/news-gallery/advertising-branding/10-best-ads-2014-161692
  11. ↑ "Zack 16" TV Commercial for Tampax by Leo Burnett Worldwide Archived January 8, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  12. ↑ Woods, Sarah (2006-06-22). "Spoof viral scoops top digital Cannes prize for droga5 - Brand Republic News". Brandrepublic.com. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  13. ↑ http://www.festivalcannes.fr/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/11409900/year/2013.html
  14. ↑ http://www.ioncinema.com/news/festival-predictions/2014-sundance-tristan-patterson-electric-slide
  15. ↑ http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/beautiful-ruins-movie-todd-field-director/
  16. ↑ http://www.deadline.com/tag/william-monahan-becket/
  17. ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2011/11/28/111128crth_theatre_lahr
  18. ↑ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118015004.html?categoryid=15&cs=1
  19. ↑ http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/theater/reviews/once-with-steve-kazee-and-cristin-milioti-at-jacobs-theater.html
  20. ↑ http://www.backstage.com/news/broadways-once-recoups-initial-55-million-investment/
  21. ↑ http://www.backstage.com/news/once-tribes-win-top-drama-desk-awards/
  22. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 11, 2008. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
  23. ↑ http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/wins-grammy-best-musical-theater-album-article-1.1260282
  24. ↑ http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/servlet/file/LOA_fullist.pdf?ITEM_ENT_ID=101095&ITEM_VERSION=1&COLLSPEC_ENT_ID=8
  25. ↑ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/2015-dora-mava-moore-award-winners-the-complete-list/article25062813/
  26. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/theater/11evans.html?hpw
  27. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/theater/11evans.html?hpw
  28. ↑ "Made in NY - Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - About". Nyc.gov. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  29. ↑ "''Creativity Online''". Creativity-online.com. 2011-03-17. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  30. ↑ Boards Still free
  31. ↑ "Production Company of the Year: Smuggler". Creativity Online. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
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