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1) Linking online social to live social experiences. Creating live experiences that connect brands to their market continues to be a strong trend.
2) We have continued to build on our two core competencies, brand building through effective strategies and campaigns and building branded software for our clients that enhances how brands interact and transact with their customers.
3) Our launch of a new car for Redspace at the LA Auto Show drew on all of our areas of strengths. From brand strategy to long form beautifully produced documentary about the car design process, website, live surprise and delight event at the car show and a gala event we produced for media and other influencers. We secured coverage for our client garnering over a half-billion press impressions in top-tier publications including The Verge, Mashable, Fast Company and Forbes.
4) The creativity will continue to be focused on integrated services and solutions. The ability to think across all platforms and campaign types and develop a comprehensive, efficient approach to brand building with a production team that can execute on creative assets and software.
5) Our New Year’s resolution is to build on our considerable successes in 2017 by expanding our team and delivering our model to more diverse audiences.
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