Editorial house Beast has expanded its Austin facility with the addition of a Smoke room for finishing projects and the hiring of senior editor Ariel Quintans and Smoke artist Jim Reed. In addition, Beast Austin has partnered with sister company Company 3 to provide virtual telecine services.
Quintans has been an editor in Austin for over 12 years, cutting spots, music videos and longer-form fare. On the latter front, he served as lead editor on Rollergirls, a 13-episode reality series for A&E, was the supervising editor for four seasons of the Emmy Award-winning documentary series Downtown, and has been a contributing editor and motion designer on feature length features and documentaries.
An industry veteran with over 30 years of experience, Reed joins Beast from 501 Post, where as senior editor and postproduction supervisor he worked on feature film projects such as Sin City and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Reed also has a long list of commercial credits for brands including AT&T, BMW, Burger King, Kohler, Land Rover, Snickers and Wal-Mart.
Company 3 will employ its remote technology for postproduction services on commercials and features, enabling clients at Beast Austin to collaborate in real time with Company 3 artists on color grading projects. A high-resolution monitor calibrated by a certified Company 3 engineer coupled with a video conferencing system ensures that client feedback reaches their Company 3 colorist in Los Angeles or New York without delays or color discrepancies.
Beast also maintains shops in Santa Monica, New York, Detroit, Chicago and San Francisco.
Daniel Craig Embraced Openness For Role In Director Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer”
Daniel Craig is sitting in the restaurant of the Carlyle Hotel talking about how easy it can be to close yourself off to new experiences.
"We get older and maybe out of fear, we want to control the way we are in our lives. And I think it's sort of the enemy of art," Craig says. "You have to push against it. Whether you have success or not is irrelevant, but you have to try to push against it."
Craig, relaxed and unshaven, has the look of someone who has freed himself of a too snug tuxedo. Part of the abiding tension of his tenure as James Bond was this evident wrestling with the constraints that came along with it. Any such strains, though, would seem now to be completely out the window.
Since exiting that role, Craig, 56, has seemed eager to push himself in new directions. He performed "Macbeth" on Broadway. His drawling detective Benoit Blanc ("Halle Berry!") stole the show in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery." And now, Craig gives arguably his most transformative performance as the William S. Burroughs avatar Lee in Luca Guadagnino's tender tale of love and longing in postwar Mexico City, "Queer."
Since the movie's Venice Film Festival premiere, it's been one of the fall's most talked about performances — for its explicit sex scenes, for its vulnerability and for its extremely un-007-ness.
"The role, they say, must have been a challenge or 'You're so brave to do this,'" Craig said in a recent interview alongside Guadagnino. "I kind of go, 'Eh, not really.' It's why I get up in the morning."
In "Queer," which A24 releases Wednesday in theaters, Craig again plays a well-traveled, sharply dressed, cocktail-drinking man. But the similarities with his most famous role stop there. Lee is an American expat living in 1950s... Read More