Tim Reilly has joined customer experience agency DEFINITION 6 (D6) as creative director. Reilly, a creative and writer, brings almost two decades of experience creating movie trailers, social media content, marketing strategies, and promo work for HBO, Turner, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount+, among assorted other entertainment brands.
Most recently, Reilly ran Newest Industries, a creative and content management consulting firm, where he conceived and directed behind-the-scenes content and developed scripted social media campaigns for such clients as A24, Netflix, and FX, among others.
Prior to that, Reilly worked as a creative director at Turner Classic Movies for 15 years. There, he led a team of writers and producers creating promotions and content for a portfolio of classic film franchises across multiple platforms. Reilly highlighted his work with the Imagineers at Disney where he updated and rebranded The Great Movie Ride at Walt Disney World Resort with new video installations and scripting. He was also instrumental in positioning TCM as the authoritative curator of classic movies by facilitating events such as “Summer Under the Stars,” The TCM Classic Film Festival, and The TCM Classic Cruise. During his tenure, Reilly was recognized with Promax Awards for “31 Days of Oscar” and Fathom Events, among others.
During this time, he also partnered with The Criterion Collection to launch and promote FilmStruck, an art-housing streaming service. Reilly coordinated the rollout of FilmStruck across multiple platforms and cultivated long-form shoulder content to give context to directors and themes featured on the platform.
Reilly has also held a position as sr. writer-producer at HBO where he developed scripted, and produced promotional campaigns for series and specials including Six Feet Under, Sex and the City, Chris Rock: Never Scared, Inside the NFL, and Real Time with Bill Maher.
“Tim is, quite simply, an inspired storyteller and fantastic writer, as well as a great 360-degree creative,” said Crystal Hall, D6 SVP/creative director. “He pulls from a wide and varied background that is perfect for our clients.”
Reilly shared, “I’m especially excited to bring my ideas into the fold for entertainment marketing campaigns, collaborating with the data and analytics team. Coming from a writing and economics background, I have a healthy respect for the data-driven approach to winning hearts and minds. That’s what we’re trying to do at the end of the day. The best creative lives within boundaries. It needs some structure to latch onto in order to grow–like a tomato plant in a cage.”
Reilly further noted, “On top of knowing and collaborating with some of the people at D6 going back to my HBO days, I’ve already witnessed how community and culture is just as important to the team here as it is to me. You can’t put a price on that. I’m eager to build on those relationships and forge new ones.”
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