Creative strategic design agency eyeball has brought David Edelstein on board as managing director, broadcast, and Danny Rosenbloom as managing director, commercials. In their new roles, Edelstein and Rosenbloom will work closely with managing partner/executive producer Ben Spivak on expanding the agency’s three core businesses: broadcast, commercials and client direct, respectively.
Edelstein and Rosenbloom each bring more than 20 years of experience in corporate strategy, sales and production management, and will continue to build on eyeball’s evolution into a fully integrated creative and digital agency, working with such clients as Amazon, AOL, Trident, Ringling Circus, MTV and A&E.
Edelstein, a veteran producer whose background includes working in broadcast design, promo production and commercials, comes from Click 3X, where he was managing director for more than four years and worked on high-profile projects, including the Super Bowl on CBS. Prior to Click 3X, he helped launch Nth Degree Creative Group; as managing director, he oversaw the full branding campaign for “Live Earth,” as well as projects for Microsoft, National Geographic, HGTV, CBS, MSG Network, and the National Hockey League.
After holding a producer position at Showtime for four years, Edelstein co-founded broadcast design company [fdg] in 2000, working on notable projects such as the re-launch of the Sci Fi channel. He has also leveraged his expertise in the education field, serving as an adjunct instructor at NYU and the Parsons School of Design, teaching career development courses at both schools.
Rosenbloom was most recently the managing director of Brand New School where he was also a partner and previously executive producer. During this time, he was instrumental in guiding the company’s transition from a primarily design and animation studio into a multi-division, integrated production company, working in all media and across multiple offices (Los Angeles, New York and London).
He has served on the East Coast Board of Directors, National Labor Board and the National Digital Board of Directors (where he is also a founding member) of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP). Rosenbloom also has extensive experience as an executive producer, including two years at Manic and two separate stints at Psyop.
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