Production company B-Reel has brought veteran producer Michael McQuhae on board as executive producer and managing director. He will be running B-Reel Commercials together with managing director/exec producer Susan Rued Anderson.
McQuhae brings over 15 years of producing experience to B-Reel, including most recently a decade-long run as executive producer at HSI Productions.
Prior to HSI, McQuhae has worked at Propaganda, FM Rocks and Believe Media, producing award-winning jobs for high-profile directors, including Simon Cole, Brett Ratner, Joseph Kahn, Chris Applebaum, Ryan Ebner, and Michael Haussman.
Pelle Nilsson, founding partner at B-Reel said that McQuhae strengthens and solidifies the company's production team in Los Angeles. With offices in L.A., New York City, London, Barcelona, Berlin and Stockholm, B-Reel is an international production company with three divisions: Commercials and Branded Content, Digital, and Feature Films.
B-Reel Commercials' directorial roster includes: Drake Doremus, Anders Hallberg, Filip Tellander, Miles Jay, Steven Tsuchida, Josh Miller, Kief Davidson, Patrik Bergh, Tom Malmros, Emil Moller, Johan Perjus, Jens Sjögren, Anders Forsman, Mikael Marcimain and Jon+Torey.
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