Red Car Chicago has named Carrie Holecek, formerly executive producer at The Whitehouse, as managing director. She joins executive producer Jon Desir at the editorial boutique, which has been a Chicago mainstay for almost 20 years. At Red Car she will work closely with Desir and Chicago-based producer Nikki Piazza.
Holecek got her start in the industry as an associate producer at Fallon Worldwide in the mid-1990s. The Iowa native then moved to Los Angeles as a producer and marketing executive at EFILM, Technicolor and Company 3, working in each company’s feature departments. The Whitehouse position brought her home, both to advertising and the Midwest, in 2007.
Offering a client perspective on Holecek, Lisa Burke Snyder, director of production at mcgarrybowen in Chicago, said, “Carrie is the consummate professional. I appreciate her ability to offer smart and creative solutions to any roadblocks along the way. She is a calming presence in challenging situations.”
According to Red Car founder/editor Larry Bridges, bringing Holecek aboard is a key move in a management restructuring that began just over one year ago when Desir, who started at Red Car as an intern, was promoted to executive producer. “Carrie’s ability to not only supervise the rapidly evolving workflow of what postproduction is today, but also to help us grow the Red Car brand in the Midwest, were really appealing qualities,” said Bridges.
Recent work out of Red Car Chicago includes two new Coors Light spots featuring Ice Cube for agency Commonground, edited by Tim LoDolce, as well as a new R Kelley video, “Share My Love,” marking LoDolce’s seventh collaboration with the R&B star. Other notable projects include a Chrysler spot out of agency Global Hue starring Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am that was edited by Greg Sunmark and a spot for Joe’s Crab Shack, edited by Mike Coletta for agency Slingshot out of Red Car’s Dallas office.
The Red Car Chicago roster includes editor Bob Carr in addition to Coletta, LoDolce and Sunmark, along with graphic designer Kevin O’Rourke and finishing director Christopher Elliott. It is represented by Matt Bucher of Obsidian. All Red Car Chicago editors are available nationally through the Red Car offices in Dallas, New York and Los Angeles.
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