Bicoastal Arcade Edit has added editors Jen Dean and Mark Paiva. Both will be based in the company’s NY office with their talents being available to clients across the U.S.
Dean honed her skills at Whitehouse Post before joining Arcade, editing spots there since 2011 for brands including Google, New York Times, Cotton, BMW, TJ Maxx and Sprint. Dean began her commercial career working for film editor Hank Corwin at Lost Planet, where she spent 12 years and worked her way up from apprentice to editor. It proved to be an invaluable experience for her. It was at the University of Colorado, however, that Dean originally discovered her love of film, studying under experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage.
Paiva has over 10 years of experience as an editor. In the last year alone he’s worked with many agencies including 180 Amsterdam, Droga5, The Corner and several Wieden+Kennedy offices all across North America and Europe. In 2009 he helped found Poster Boy Edit, which, this year, he merged with Toronto-based Saints Editorial, of which he is a founding member. He was recently honored with the 2013 Craft Award for editing at The Bessies.
Arcade Edit is an editorial collective and partnership among managing partner Damian Stevens, executive producer/partner Sila Soyer and editors/partners Kim Bica, Jeff Ferruzzo, Geoff Hounsell and Paul Martinez. Arcade’s talent roster also includes editors Dean, Paiva, Will Hasell, Christjan Jordan, Nick Rondeau and Greg Scruton, and executive producer Nicole Visram.
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