(December 31, 2001 - January 1,
2002) YEAR-END REVIEW 2001
As the year comes
to a close, it's time to take a look back at the work of
Paul Hunter in 2001. 2001 was a landmark year for
Paul, who spent his time split between videos,
commercials, and developing a movie career. All of
his work this year has been well-received and highly
publicized. He only directed 7 videos this year,
including notable ones such as Lady Marmalade
(Christina Aguilera, Mya, Pink, Lil' Kim), We
Need A Resolution (Aaliyah), and the
high-profile come-back video for Michael Jackson's You
Rock My World. My personal favorites were Guilty
Until Proven Innocent (Jay Z), Like
A Feather (Nikka Costa), and We Need
A Resolution (Aaliyah). For his
great work in music videos this year, Paul Hunter
received the award for Best Director at the 2001
Billboard Music Video Awards. Paul Hunter also made a mark in the
commercial industry, directing some of the most popular
commercials this year: Nike Jordan "Much
Respect" (feat. Michael Jordan), the
mega-popular Nike "Freestyle"
commercial, Gap Denim "My First Love"
commercials, and Gap's Holiday 2001
commercials. He also directed commercials for Coca
Cola, Mountain Dew Code Red, Dasani Water,
and Miller Beer. To top off an already
extraordinary year, it was announced in November that
Paul Hunter will direct his first feature film, Bulletproof
Monk, early in 2002. The movie, which stars
Chow Yun-Fat and Sean William Scott, begins shooting in
Toronto in February 2002. Although we probably
won't see too many music videos and commercials from Paul
Hunter next year, we certainly look forward to see what
great things he does with his new movie.
(December
10, 2001) GAP HOLIDAY COMMERCIALS (UPDATE)
By now, everyone
must have seen at least one of the many Paul
Hunter-directed Gap Holiday 2001 commercials
currently airing on North American television. They
have been seen on almost all U.S. network and cable
television stations since mid-November. According
to www.alanismorissette.net, the commercials are scheduled to
air for 4 weeks on North American television. Here
is how the television ad campaign schedule is planned:
U.S. -
premiered November 17; ends December 19
Canada - premiered November 22; ends December
19
UK - premiered December 1; ends December 22
Japan - premiered December 3; ends December 23
For those who haven't seen
them yet, you can view them online at these three sites:
Gap Holiday
2001 (8 clips) at gap.com
Gap Holiday 2001 (4 clips) at adcritic.com
Gap Holiday
2001 (5 clips)
& Gap Denim (7 clips) at modernista.com
(December
8, 2001) NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINATION
Paul Hunter's
video for Michael Jackson's You Rock My
World has been nominated for Outstanding Music
Video at the 33rd Annual NAACP Image Awards.
Other nominees in this category include All For You
(Janet); Contagious (Isley Bros.); Fallin'
(Alicia Keys); Rock The Boat (Aaliyah). The
awards will be handed out February 23, 2002 and air
sometime in March 2002 on Fox.
(December
5, 2001) *** PAUL HUNTER MOVIE TO FILM IN
TORONTO ***
I've known this
for the past few weeks but didn't want to post the info
until it became official. I guess it's official
now: according to the Canadian news-site Canoe.ca, Paul Hunter is scheduled to begin shooting
Bulletproof Monk in Toronto for 5 weeks beginning
February 18.
click here to
read article
(November
27, 2001) GAP HOLIDAY 2001 COMMERCIALS
(UPDATE)
As previously
announced, the Paul Hunter-directed Gap Holiday 2001
commercials premiered last week. They have already
been seen in primetime on network TV (NBC, ABC) and cable
music stations (MTV, MuchMusic). The three main
commercials airing are medleys, each one featuring 4
different singers. This week, gap.com has added 5 new clips featuring a single
artist singing throughout the commercial. The ones
at gap.com feature india.arie, Seal, Liz Phair, Dwight
Yoakam, & Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes. I
believe there are ones for the other artists as well,
because the Shaggy commercial has been airing on Canadian
music channel MusiquePlus. My guess is that gap.com will be releasing clips for the other
6 singers in the upcoming weeks leading up to Christmas.
click here to
view Gap's Holiday 2001 Ad Campaign
(November
22, 2001) *** GAP HOLIDAY 2001 COMMERCIALS
PREMIERE ***
Back in October, I reported that Paul Hunter had
directed a set of commercials the Gap Holiday 2001
television campaign. The set ot three commercials,
entitled "Give Your Gift", started
airing earlier this week. Each commercial features
4 singers performing their own renditions of Supertramp's
Give A Little Bit in an empty soundstage against
an ice-blue background. The
screen fades to black as each singer sings a line from the
song. The
"women" clip features Sheryl Crow, India.Arie,
Lisa Lopes, and Liz Phair. The "men" clip
features Dwight Yoakam, Robbie Robertson, John Rzeznik
and Shaggy. A "mix" clip features Seal,
Alanis Morissette, Macy Gray, and Robbie Robertson.
The commercials can be viewed & downloaded in
Quicktime format at gap.com.
click here to
view Gap's Holiday 2001 Ad Campaign
(November
21, 2001) *** PAUL HUNTER TO DIRECT MOVIE
"BULLETPROOF MONK" IN 2002 ***
I hinted a few
weeks ago on this site that Paul Hunter was working on
directing his first feature film. The project has
finally been green-lit, and become official. Paul
Hunter is to direct "Bulletproof Monk" for MGM.
The movie is an adaption of the cult comic book created
by Gotham Chopra (son of self-help guru Deepak Chopra),
and is set to star Chow Yun-Fat (Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon). It was revealed yesterday in
trade papers The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety that Seann William Scott (American
Pie 1 & 2) has also signed on for the film.
Director John Woo (Mission Impossible 2) and Terence
Chang's Lion Rock Productions will produce the
film. The comic book is about an Tibetan martial
arts master who becomes a mentor to a young urban street
kid. Filming is expected to begin in early 2002.
(November
15, 2001) SUGAR RAY DR. PEPPER COMMERCIAL
It was reported
last month that Paul Hunter shot a new commercial for Dr. Pepper which features Sugar Ray.
On the Official
Sugar Ray Website,
it was revealed that the commercial will air sometime in
February 2002. The commercial features Sugar Ray
lead singer Mark McGrath in a take on the musical Grease,
in which Mark looks like Buddy Holly in the Auditorium
during a dance scene.
(November
7, 2001) PAUL HUNTER WINS BILLBOARD MUSIC
VIDEO AWARD
The Billboard
Music Video Awards were handed out last Friday in Los
Angeles. Congratulations to Paul Hunter for winning
the award for Director of the Year! He won
the award back in 1998, and was nominated for it again
last year. His video for Lenny Kravitz's Again
also won for Best Adult Contemporary Clip.
(October
31, 2001) GAP COMMERCIALS AT ADCRITIC.COM |
MOUNTAIN DEW CODE RED (FEAT. MACY GRAY)
Gap.com has removed the links to the set of 6 Gap
Denim "My First Love..." commercials, but
some of them can now be found at AdCritic.com: Digital Love (feat. Daft Punk
& Juliette Lewis), Forever In Blue Jeans (feat. Will
Ferrell), My Mom (feat. Carole King), Angus Young (feat.
Cherokee).
The Paul Hunter-directed
commercial for Mountain Dew Code Red feat. Macy
Gray can now be viewed in Quicktime format at methodstudios.com.
(October
12, 2001) DR. PEPPER COMMERCIAL | UPCOMING GAP
COMMERCIALS
Paul Hunter shot a
new commercial for Dr. Pepper earlier this week in Los
Angeles. The commercial features Sugar Ray.
It has also been reported
that Paul Hunter is set to direct the a set of
commercials for the Gap Christmas ad campaign.
(October
11, 2001) MOUNTAIN DEW COMMERCIALS
As reported
earlier, Paul Hunter had shot a new commercial for Mountain
Dew Code Red which features Macy Gray.
Apparently he also shot another commercial for the
campaign entitled "Hoops", which
features street-ballers playing ball. The
commercial can be viewed in downloadable Quicktime format
at methodstudios.com.
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