Custom music production and sound design company The Hit House has named Jesse Goodwin as the company’s first VP of music supervision. Most recently, Goodwin had been music supervisor with Seismic Productions, an entertainment marketing company.
In addition to Seismic, he also ran the music departments for several other houses including Big Picture Entertainment and Herzog & Co. He has sonically overseen countless marketing campaigns, winning two Golden Trailers for Best Music, and has freelanced on many other entertainment projects.
Goodwin said, “I have been a client of the Hit House since their inception, for no other reason than they are amazing at what they do and made my life as a music supervisor much easier. I’ve always appreciated how they work and interact with people, which to me is just as important as the work they create. When the opportunity arose to become part of their ever growing company, it felt like a no brainer. I can’t imagine a better fit for me. I look forward to helping them become a full service agency with my music supervision experience, while also guiding the expansion of their catalog and lending a knowing ear to the production of the custom scoring they are famous for.”
After 20 Years of Acting, Megan Park Finds Her Groove In The Director’s Chair On “My Old Ass”
Megan Park feels a little bad that her movie is making so many people cry. It's not just a single tear either — more like full body sobs.
She didn't set out to make a tearjerker with "My Old Ass," now streaming on Prime Video. She just wanted to tell a story about a young woman in conversation with her older self. The film is quite funny (the dialogue between 18-year-old and almost 40-year-old Elliott happens because of a mushroom trip that includes a Justin Bieber cover), but it packs an emotional punch, too.
Writing, Park said, is often her way of working through things. When she put pen to paper on "My Old Ass," she was a new mom and staying in her childhood bedroom during the pandemic. One night, she and her whole nuclear family slept under the same roof. She didn't know it then, but it would be the last time, and she started wondering what it would be like to have known that.
In the film, older Elliott ( Aubrey Plaza ) advises younger Elliott ( Maisy Stella ) to not be so eager to leave her provincial town, her younger brothers and her parents and to slow down and appreciate things as they are. She also tells her to stay away from a guy named Chad who she meets the next day and discovers that, unfortunately, he's quite cute.
At 38, Park is just getting started as a filmmaker. Her first, "The Fallout," in which Jenna Ortega plays a teen in the aftermath of a school shooting, had one of those pandemic releases that didn't even feel real. But it did get the attention of Margot Robbie 's production company LuckyChap Entertainment, who reached out to Park to see what other ideas she had brewing.
"They were very instrumental in encouraging me to go with it," Park said. "They're just really even-keeled, good people, which makes... Read More