Agency 360i has added Jeff Anderson as group creative director. Anderson will lead creative, digitally-centric marketing for the agency’s clients, which include HBO, Toyota, Oscar Mayer and Clinique. Anderson is based in the agency’s New York headquarters and reports to chief creative officer Pierre Lipton, who joined 360i in November.
Anderson comes over to 360i from CHI&Partners, where he served as executive creative director. During his tenure, Anderson created PBS’ “TV Gone Wrong” campaign as well as innovative work for Every Mother Counts and HP. Prior to that, he was associate creative director at Goodby Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco, where he worked on the Chevrolet Mayan Apocalypse Super Bowl spot. He has also held positions at Droga5 and TBWAChiatDay, New York where he helped develop the Jewish Council for Educational Research’s “Great Schlep” with Sarah Silverman and Combos’ “What Your Mom Would Feed You if Your Mom Were a Man,” respectively. Anderson’s work has been recognized by Cannes Lions, CLIO Awards, The One Show, Effie Awards, D&AD and more.
Anderson’s appointment comes during a year in which 360i has launched fully integrated campaigns for brands like Toyota and Scotts Miracle-Gro. The agency has also won notable new business, including leading integrated media buying and communications planning for Pernod Ricard USA and global strategy for Anheuser-Busch InBev. In addition, 360i recently expanded to the West Coast with the opening of an office in Los Angeles.
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