Production and entertainment company Alldayeveryday has added Renee Krumweide to its management team, hiring her as executive producer to head up the commercial division. The move comes on the heels of John Kaplan joining the company as partner and president.
Krumweide comes to Alldayeveryday with two decades of experience building connections and businesses across the advertising and entertainment industries and a reputation as a thoughtful matchmaker of today’s best creative talent. In 2012, she joined forces with Raquel Elfassi to form R&D Placement, a talent management company born from a desire to nurture and progress directorial talent. During her time at R&D, Krumweide also developed and produced a slate of documentaries, films and episodic content, including the Go90 docuseries Why We Fight.
Prior to R&D, Krumweide was part of the team at Resource LA, representing a roster of companies including Biscuit, The Directors Bureau, Spot Welders, and Serial Pictures. There, she worked with directors such as Noam Murro, Mike Mills, Roman Coppola and Tim Godsall.
Krumweide will be based in Allday’s LA Arts District office, where her focus will be developing and managing talent for both advertising and entertainment projects in a collaborative environment. Alldayeveryday is already off to a strong 2018, having produced work for clients including Nike, Beats, Nest, Puma, as well as upcoming film projects for HBO and Viceland.
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