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Steve Hendricks is joining Post Logic Studios as president and CEO. He succeeds Barry Snyder who left the company–which maintains facilties in Hollywood and New York–last month. Hendricks brings two decades of post experience to his new roost. He is perhaps best known for having served as president/CEO of Virgin Digital Studios–an entertainment arm of Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, Ltd.–where he oversaw operations of post studios in Los Angeles, New York, London, Mexico City and Vancouver, B.C. One of those shops was the former 525 Studios, Hollywood, which he, U.K. editor Kelvin Duckett and Virgin partnered to create in ’87. Hendricks had most recently been consulting; he served briefly as CEO of now defunct CCA….Editor Nick Lofting, formerly of Santa Monica-based Chrome, has joined Union Editorial, Santa Monica….Klasky Csupo Studios, Hollywood, has hired Jill Heinrich as director of postproduction. She will oversee the editorial and finishing processes for episodic TV and feature films on Klasky Csupo projects, as well as commercials for ka-chew!, the parent company’s spot division….Nice Shoes, New York, has promoted Gene Curley and Ron Sudul to night colorist positions; both had previously served as assistant colorists to company senior colorists Scott Burch, Lez Rudge and Chris Ryan……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