Erin Wahed has joined SMUGGLER as director of sales and management on the East Coast, working alongside Trace Henderson. Wahed will also serve in this role for SMUGGLER’S sister company, DIVISION7. She brings broad-based experience to SMUGGLER and DIVISION7. Wahed worked at fashion photography agency Management + Artists producing print campaigns for noted photographers. She continued her career as a project manager at independent design consultancy Pentagram. She later joined RepresentationCo as a talent agent, representing the company’s roster of production companies, editing houses, and experiential/immersive artists, connecting them with leading advertising agencies. Wahed then launched Favorite Child under RepresentationCo, a curated roster to speak to the ongoing creative evolution in the advertising industry….
Picture North, which provides ideation, production and postproduction solutions for advertising agencies, record labels and direct clients, has signed indie firm DeVine Reps to handle exclusive representation on the West Coast……
Four DPs have joined Innovative Artists for narrative and commercial representation: Robert E. Arnold, Eric Branco, Thomas Scott Stanton, and Todd Dos Reis. The latter’s projects include Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Longmire and Entourage. Arnold has worked with such brands as adidas and Dodge. Branco served as cinematographer on Clemency, this year’s Grand Prize Jury winner at the Sundance Film Festival. And Stanton has shot for brands including Carthartt, Landrover, the NFL and Disney…….
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