Cut+Run has promoted sr. producer Amburr Farls to head of production for the L.A., San Francisco and Austin offices.
“Since joining us Amburr has become an integral asset to the Cut+Run family,” said U.S. managing director Michelle Eskin. “She has a wide breadth of production experience gathered during her tenure in the industry. Our Cut+Run culture is an important part of our overall brand philosophy and success. Amburr enhances this with a wealth of ideas and dynamic energy each day. Additionally, Amburr will oversee our production practices and team in an effort to hone continuity and efficiency.”
Since joining Cut+Run in 2013, Farls has produced projects for BK Subservient Chicken Returns, Pepsi (World Cup), Turbo Tax (Super Bowl), and Miller Lite. She was previously sr. producer at Arcade Edit and at Beast. She also enjoyed producer tenures at both Filmcore and Trailer Park.
“My first love is producing,” said Farls, who will continue to produce projects in addition to serving in the head of production role,
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