Filmmaker is a 10-time NATAS Sports Emmy winner
Director Greg Kohs has joined bicoastal Chelsea Pictures for U.S. and international representation. A native of the Motor City and graduate of Notre Dame, Kohs honed his signature “captured not contrived” storytelling aesthetic and craft at NFL Films shortly out of college. It was during his tenure there that he received an astounding 10 Sports Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS). Kohs’ uniquely genuine style of visual storytelling has been brought to spots and content for clients ranging from Google and Apple to Nike, Mastercard, Disney, EA Sports and Titleist. He has collaborated and forged strong relationships with such agencies as 72andSunny, Wieden+Kennedy, Mullen, Arnold, The Martin Agency, and Y&R.
As a filmmaker, Kohs has an interest in projects with soul, and a particular passion for those of his subjects who doggedly pursue their own passions. He crafts these soulful stories with an eye towards visually striking and honest imagery. On the longer form front, his feature films include Song Sung Blue, which the late Roger Ebert hailed as “superb,” and the imminent documentary The Great Alone, which chronicles the incredible comeback journey of four-time Iditarod champion and inspirational cancer survivor Lance Mackey.
The director joins Chelsea for international representation from Backyard, except for the Canadian market where he is represented by Radke.
Chelsea is owned and managed by Allison Amon and Lisa Mehling, with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Chelsea is represented on the East Coast by Denise Blate Roederer, in the Midwest by Sean Sullivan of Sullivan Creative Management, on the West Coast by Ezra Burke of Content Chemics, and for broadcast and international work by Drew Baldwin.
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