Eleven founder/mixer/sound designer Jeff Payne has announced three team additions to his growing audio post company, with Madeleine “Maddee” Bonniot as producer, Andrew Smith as assistant mixer and Jordan “Jojo” Hart as client services and facilities coordinator.
A Los Angeles native, Bonniot moved north to attend the University of San Francisco and earned a BA degree in media studies, while working in the university’s events management department. She made her way back to L.A. after college and worked as an associate producer at Santa Monica music house HUM. Her event and music production background helped her find her way to Eleven, where she has taken on the role of producer.
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montgomery County, MD, Hart recently relocated to the Los Angeles area. Having studied communications, Hart has garnered experience as a production assistant, as well as with event planning–learning the tricks of the trade at a young age by helping with her mother’s event planning business. These skills have allowed Hart to bring a keen attention to detail and creativity to her client services capacity.
Growing up outside of Philadelphia, Smith has always had a passion for music and sound design. From playing drums to programming beats in high school, he has always known he wanted to work with sound. Moving to Los Angeles in 2015, Smith shifted his career focus to audio postproduction, landing a six-month internship at Eleven that yielded his current role as assistant mixer.
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