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    Rupert Reynolds-MacLean Named Managing Director of Biscuit UK

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    LONDON --

    Biscuit Filmworks UK has brought Rupert Reynolds-MacLean as its managing director. He joins the company after 10 years at Independent Films, London, where he held various roles from production to sales and helped to launch its in-house content division Indy8. Projects to which he’s contributed have earned accolades from Cannes Lions, Kinsale, The Webby’s, British Arrows, D&AD, and a BAFTA. He’s known as a leader in both production and new business development.

    Shawn Lacy, co-founder of Biscuit, said of Reynolds-MacLean, “He has launched the commercial and branded content careers of many successful directors, and he understands the industry and its constant evolutions.”

    Additionally, Biscuit UK has promoted Hanna Bayatti to executive producer and head of sales.

    Biscuit Filmworks UK is the London outpost of the Los Angeles-based commercial production company founded in 2000 by director Noam Murro and managing director Lacy. Directors on the Biscuit UK roster include Aaron Ruell, Aaron Stoller, Andreas Nilsson, Ayse Altinok, Big Red Button, Christopher Riggert, Clay Weiner, Isaiah Seret, Jeff Low, Lucie Beecham, Matt Dilmore, Michael Downing, and Murro.

    “Biscuit is one of the few production companies that has truly been at the top of its game for years on end,” said Reynolds-MacLean. “I’ve admired Shawn and Noam for a long time and I’m very excited to start working alongside Hanna and the rest of the talented production team and spectacular roster of directors.”

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    Daniel Craig Embraced Openness For Role In Director Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer”

    Tuesday, November 26, 2024

    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

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