Company 3 has relocated Nick Monton from its Santa Monica studio to its New York facility where he becomes head of production, features. Monton was promoted from sr. DI producer, a capacity in which he worked on a mix of feature studio blockbusters, indie films and documentaries.
“Nick brings an enormous amount of experience, talent and technical expertise to the New York operation,” said Stuart Robinson, general manager of the New York branches of Company 3 and its sister company, VFX house Method Studios. “This city’s production and post industries have been expanding at an incredible rate; we are seeing an explosion in the number of feature film productions shooting and posting in New York, as well as growth in the scope of some of those projects. Nick has a comprehensive understanding of the complex workflow involved in posting larger, VFX-intensive features, but also of the challenges facing independent filmmakers with far more limited resources. With Nick as head of production, we know that we can meet the needs of any and every client wanting to post in New York.”
As DI producer at Company 3 in Santa Monica, Monton worked with assorted high-profile filmmakers, including J.J. Abrams, Michael Mann, Ridley Scott, Gore Verbinski and Brett Ratner.
Feature film credits for Company 3 include Les Miserables, Man of Steel, Star Trek Into Darkness and Oz The Great and Powerful. Company 3 is part of Deluxe Creative Services Group. The Content Creation Group businesses are wholly owned by Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc.
Faith In The Power of Holy Horror To Connect With Moviegoers–From “The Exorcist” To “Heretic”
In the new horror movie, "Heretic," Hugh Grant plays a diabolical religious skeptic who traps two scared missionaries in his house and tries to violently shake their faith.
What starts more as a religious studies lecture slowly morphs into a gory escape room for the two door-knocking members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, underscoring just how well-suited religion can be for terrifying and entertaining thrill-seeking moviegoers.
"I think it is a fascinating religion-related horror as it raises questions about the institution of religion, the patriarchy of religion," said Stacey Abbott, a film professor at Northumbria University in Newcastle, England, whose research interests include horror, vampires and zombies.
"But it also questions the nature of faith and confronts the audience with a debate about choice, faith and free will."
Horror has had a decades-long attraction to religion, Christianity especially in the U.S., with the 1970s "The Exorcist" and "The Omen" being prime examples. Beyond the jump scares, the supernatural elements of horror and its sublime nature pair easily with belief and spirituality — and religion's exploration of big existential questions, Abbott said. Horror is subversive. Real-life taboo topics and cultural anxieties are fair game.
"It is a rich canvas for social critique and it can also be a space to reassert traditional values," Abbott said in an email.
Death, demons and other tough topics religion and horror address
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