Digital creative agency Hook, Ann Arbor and Los Angeles, has hired Tony Tung as executive creative director. Tung, who’s based in L.A., will work on all of the shop’s clients including YouTube and Google Search.
As a creative and a producer, Tung has created integrated brand experiences, games and interactive television content for nearly every type of screen. He spent the first half of his career in entertainment before making the segue to advertising.
Tung began his career as a visual designer for Disney and went on to serve various creative roles at agencies and media companies. From 2009 to 2014, he served as VP/director of interactive production at advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky. Most recently, he co-founded Cloneless Media, a VFX and postproduction company–which he still runs–with a patented platform for creating real-time dynamic video.
Tung said of his joining Hook, “This is a chance to apply my agency background, my creative experience from the entertainment sector, and the technology learnings from co-founding a startup to help solve problems that require an approach blending creativity and technology. In the last few years, Hook has quietly moved from being solely a production shop to now becoming a trusted creative partner for some of the world’s most sophisticated brands and top-tier agencies.”
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More