Keith Ehrlich has joined bicoastal Cohn + Company as East Coast sales rep….House of Usher Films, Santa Monica, has secured Southern California-based independent rep Steven Monkarsh to handle the West Coast, Texas and Detroit….John Buckley has been appointed in-house West Coast rep for Crew Cuts/West, Santa Monica….Chicago-based independent rep firm monaghan+halpine has parted ways with Claire Alden’s art.fx division, a New York-headquartered representatiion shop that handles the U.S. for a roster of animation and effects houses, including London outfits Picasso Pictures, Sherbet, and Frankie & Robin, as well as PSYOP Creative Collective, New York, and Wild Brain, San Francisco….Lisa Cleff has been named VP of sales and marketing for Goodspot Design and Goodspot Editorial, both based in Santa Monica. She formerly served as director of sales & marketing at R!OT Manhattan, New York. Prior to that, she was based at Attik, San Francisco, serving as U.S. director of business development…. Cinematographer Hubert Taczanowski has joined bicoastal Paradigm for exclusive representation in features and commercials. His recent feature credits include Tadpole starring Sigourney Weaver and John Ritter….
London Critics Name “The Brutalist” The Film of the Year
The Brutalist, Brady Corbet’s immigrant saga, won the Film of the Year prize at the 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards.
While The Brutalist garnered just one award, it was the marquee honor. Meanwhile Nickel Boys, Conclave and A Real Pain all receivd multiple awards, and Zoe Saldaña was honored twice.
Edward Berger’s Vatican thriller Conclave took two awards for British/Irish Film of the Year and Actor of the Year for Ralph Fiennes, while RaMell Ross’s radical Colson Whitehead adaptation Nickel Boys was recognized with Director of the Year and the Technical Achievement Award for Jomo Fray’s first-person cinematography. Jesse Eisenberg’s dark comedy A Real Pain was the night’s other multiple prizewinner, landing Screenwriter of the Year for the actor-filmmaker, and Supporting Actor of the Year for co-star Kieran Culkin.
Payal Kapadia’s Mumbai-set drama All We Imagine as Light was named Foreign Language Film of the Year, while the Palestinian-Israeli collective behind No Other Land took Documentary of the Year.
Alongside Conclave, British productions awarded by the Circle in the top categories included Mike Leigh’s intimate character study Hard Truths, which took Actress of the Year for Marianne Jean-Baptiste, while Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was named Animated Feature of the Year. In the British/Irish-specific categories, Saoirse Ronan won British/Irish Performer of the Year for her performances in The Outrun and Blitz, 14-year-old Nykiya Adams won Young British/Irish Performer of the Year for her screen debut in Andrea Arnold’s Bird, and Rich Peppiatt won the... Read More