CLIENT
Southwest Airlines.
PRODUCTION CO.
Radke Films, Toronto.
Michael Downing, director; Barry Parrell, DP; Krysta Marshall and Edie Weiss, executive producers; Miriana Diquinzio, producer. Shot on location in Toronto.
AGENCY
Gardner Nelson & Partners,
New York.
Steve Gardner and Tom Nelson, founders; David Page, founder/art director; Paul Hackett, copywriter; Bob Samuel, partner/director of broadcast production; Coleen Cahill, partner/pro-ject director; Elizabeth Forber, project supervisor; Kate Kissel, assistant producer.
EDITORIAL
89 Editorial, New York.
Michael Coletta, editor; Megan Swados, assistant editor; Bob Cagliero, executive producer; Kris Polinsky, producer.
POST
Company 3, New York.
Tim Masick, colorist.
Headlight Design + Visual Effects, New York.
Steve Zorntos, online editor.
AUDIO POST
audioEngine, New York.
Rex Recker, mixer.
MUSIC
Big Foote Music, New York.
Darren Solomon, composer; Ray Foote, producer.
THE SPOT
The :30 "Double Town" touts Southwest Airlines’ Double Credit Time program by showing that receiving two of anything—watermelons, dessert or twins—is better than one.
Spot broke Sept. 18.
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