Executive producer Leila Gage will be promoted to head of broadcast production at Goodby Silverstein & Partners (GS&P). In this role she will oversee the department and lead the agency’s broadcast-production offering, developing innovative new ways of working with GS&P’s production partners.
Former head of broadcast production Tod Puckett will fill GS&P’s newly created role of director of film and music curation. In this role he will apply his passions and talents for music and film.
“Leila has a knack for building relationships with the production world to help achieve the very best creative results,” said Margaret Johnson, chief creative officer of GS&P. “She has grown up at GS&P and has become an invaluable resource in leading some of our most complex and most-awarded assignments.”
Gage has been with GS&P for 10 years, where she has produced some of the agency’s most famous productions–work for “got milk?,” StubHub, Xfinity, and PepsiCo’s rap battle between Morgan Freeman and Peter Dinklage during the Super Bowl. Prior to GS&P, Gage worked at JWT NY and Saatchi & Saatchi NY.
“Since the first day of our company’s founding, broadcast production has been critical to our creative success,” said Jeff Goodby, co-founder and co-chairman of GS&P. “Leila is a favorite of our creative department and is never shy to push all of us toward greatness.”
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