Partnership also formed with feature film house Rodeo FX
Digital creative studio Click 3X has added Camille Geier as executive producer. In this role, Geier will lead all studio operations, including spearheading business development and recruiting new talent. Geier brings with her a partnership with Rodeo FX, an award-winning visual effects company headquartered in Montreal, where she was previously executive producer. As part of the collaboration, Click 3X will represent all advertising work for Rodeo FX across the U.S.
Geier has an extensive VFX and animation background, working in advertising, production and the feature film worlds on films including Unbroken, Gangs of New York, Deconstructing Harry, Starship Troopers, and Magnolia. In her previous role as EP at Rodeo FX, she oversaw the launch and expansion of its U.S. advertising division.
Prior to Rodeo FX, Geier was COO/head of studio for animation company Curious Pictures, home to over 150 artists ranging from directors, visual development artists, and animators. She acted as supervising producer for the award winning Nick Jr. series, Team Umizoomi, and oversaw all commercials, features, games, digital and TV. Geier also held the COO/EP position at Rhinofx, a visual effects facility in New York City, and before that as an EP at ILM.
Click 3X will use its extensive relationships within the postproduction and advertising world to collaborate on projects with Rodeo FX. This will enable Click 3X to access Rodeo’s state of the art VFX capabilities, adding to its already established resources and capabilities in the production space. Click 3X will handle all sales and talent management for Rodeo FX within the U.S. market.
“I am thrilled to reunite with Camille and to partner up with Click 3X,” said André Ü Montambeault, head of advertising at Rodeo FX. “Combining Click 3X’s enviable position in the post-production and advertising world with our VFX talent and expertise will create great opportunities to achieve projects that will be creatively and technically challenging.”
Rodeo FX delivers cinematic creations of picturesque environments and has contributed to over 70 feature films and television shows including Game of Thrones (Seasons 4 & 5), Birdman, Unbroken, and Furious 7. Rodeo FX’s advertising division also created the opening sequence for NBC’s Sunday Night Football and this year’s NFL Super Bowl. Since its inception in 2006, Rodeo has grown to over 250 visual effects professionals across its flagship in Montreal and other locations.
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