DP Jon Aguirresarobe, whose credits include the Joshua Locy-directed Hunter Gatherer (which premiered at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival), has been signed by Bill Dispoto and will be repped by Dattner Dispoto and Associates….
Furthermore Dattner Dispoto and Associates has booked DP Ken Glassing on season 3 of the CBS primetime series Scorpion, and DP Stefan Czapsky, ASC, on NBC’s Shades of Blue….
Biamp Systems, a provider of networked media systems, has appointed Michael Hooper as area manager for North Texas, a position previously held by Joshua Beltran. Beltran has accepted a new position as software product manager and will be based at Biamp headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, reporting to Shell Haffner, director of product management. Beltran will focus on developing and managing the company’s family of control software. Hooper will be based in Dallas, reporting to Mark Wentz, South Central regional sales manager, and will work to develop and expand Biamp’s sales opportunities and channel relationships throughout the North Texas region. Hooper joins Biamp from Mizzen Marketing–an independent professional AV manufacturers’ representative firm serving Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas–where he served as regional manager in charge of building and maintaining relationships with key regional clients….
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