The Calvary Productions has signed multi-platform director Mark Pellington for spot work and branded content. In addition to Pellington’s iconic music video work for such groups as U2, Bruce Springsteen, REM and MIIA, the director is starting his second season on the NBC hit TV series Blindspot (director/EP on Season 1, EP for Season 2). His feature film The Last Word, starring Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried, is slated for release in March 2017. Pellington has also recently wrapped a branding campaign for United Healthcare….
Director Jara Moravec has signed with bicoastal/international production company Savage. Born in Prague, Moravec has a body of work which includes ads for adidas, Vitra, Red Bull, Wallpaper magazine, The Guardian, and Mulberry. He cut his teeth as a photographer shooting design, advertising and editorial assignments before directing a reel of visually inventive and entertaining commercials where art, technology and imagination are beautifully combined. His latest work includes campaign work for adidas where mastery of mood, light and color promotes the company’s first ever line of 3D-printed running shoes. “Futurecraft” features beautifully lit textures shot in voyeuristic, Zen-like fashion, an elegant flow of macro photography revealing the process behind the creation of 3D-printed sneakers….
Anthony Marinelli/Music Forever is now representing and collaborating with Grammy and Oscar-nominated music team JoLi for spot work. JoLi is the songwriting and production team of Joshua Bartholomew and Lisa Harriton. They are best known for co-writing and producing the version of “Everything Is Awesome” featured in The Lego Movie scene, official trailer, TV spots, video game and featurette….
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