Commercialmaker best known for Paralympic Games’ “Meet the Superhumans”
British director Tom Tagholm, best known for the lauded 2012 commercial “Meet the Superhumans” promoting Paralympic Games coverage on U.K.’s Channel 4, has signed with Park Pictures, bicoastal and London, for joint U.S. and U.K. representation. Tagholm has helmed an eclectic body of work, first at 4 Creative in London where he started, and later working directly with ad agencies.
Tagholm has won most major creative awards such as Creative Circle, British Arrows and Cannes Lions, as well as several D&AD pencils, including the coveted black pencil for “Meet the Superhumans.” Among his other notable credits are Axe’s “Stairs” and Marie Curie’s “Symmetry.”
Park Pictures co-founder Jackie Kelman Bisbee said, “I can recall only a few times in my career where a director’s reel has moved me from laughter to tears (and back again) in just a few beats. Tom is a powerful and poetic storyteller.”
Director Lance Acord, Park Pictures’ co-founder, concurred. “I love watching Tom’s work. There’s purity in each film, which leaves a lasting impression. Nothing feels forced or contrived. Tom has an innate ability and great talent for storytelling.”
Tagholm said he was drawn to Park Pictures by the work of its directors as well as the personal affinity he developed for Acord, Bisbee and Stephen Brierley, exec producer at Park Pictures, London.
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