Bicoastal production house Supply & Demand has hired Jeff Scruton as managing director and executive producer. Based at Supply and Demand's L.A. office, Scruton will liaise between the creative and business departments headed by founder and managing partner Tim Case and president and managing partner Charles Salice, respectively.
Scruton will take the reins from Kira Carstensen, who after seven years as Supply & Demand's EP/partner, is leaving to open the Pulse USA office as president of its commercial division.
Scruton has spent the past two years as president of Motion Theory (Mth).Prior to that he was at MJZ for 17 years. He joined when the company was in its infancy and helped steer its growth into one of the industry's most dominant players, overseeing hundreds of high profile projects that garnered recognition from Cannes, the DGA, the One Show, the AICP and the D&AD among many others.
Supply & Demand founder, Tim Case, stated, "Kira's departure is bittersweet. I regret her departure but am very happy that she has found a new and exciting opportunity with Pulse. I have heard nothing but good things about them and their team in London. Kira has been a terrific complement to Charles and myself….That said, we feel very, very fortunate that Jeff became available to us just as Kira was considering her options. Jeff and I worked together for some time back when I represented MJZ in the later '90s. Having someone of Jeff's caliber, experience, creativity and character join the company is exciting and hugely comforting for me."
Carstensen said, "Tim, Charles and the entire staff are like family to me and I am sad to be leaving my home of the last seven years. But I am thrilled to be turning the West Coast office over to Jeff's strong hands and excited about my new adventure with Pulse."
Craig Henighan Sounds Off On “Deadpool & Wolverine”
Hollywood lore has it that character actor Edmund Gwenn--while on his deathbed--quipped, “Dying is easy, comedy is hard.”
The second part of that darkly witty utterance remains all too true today as Craig Henighan--a Best Achievement in Sound Mixing Oscar nominee in 2019 for Roma--can attest in that he had to grapple with the sonic of being comic for this year’s box office hit, Deadpool & Wolverine (20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios).
The degree of inherent difficulty was ramped up even further because Deadpool & Wolverine had to seamlessly bring together high action-adventure exploits with moments and dialogue that tickled the funny bone. There’s a mesh of humorous banter--a staple of the franchise--along with major spectacle replete with explosions, fights, an impactful score and off-the-wall musical numbers.
Henighan explained that among the prime challenges for him from a sound perspective was having to make sure every joke landed within the construct of a superhero film. The tendency for a tentpole movie of this variety, he noted, is to gravitate towards big, loud audio spanning music, dialogue and sound effects. But the unique comedic element of Deadpool & Wolverine necessitated that re-recording mixer and supervising sound editor Henighan strike a delicate balance. “You need to get out of the way for the comedy,” he related. The jokes in a superhero film become “a real dance” as Henighan had to establish a rhythm that did justice to both the comedy and the action as the narrative moves back and forth between them--and sometimes the funny and the high energy, high decibel superhero dynamic unfold simultaneously in a scene or sequence. The “sonic fabric” has to... Read More