Hybrid Edit + Content has secured Perry Tongate of Perry Reps for sales representation in the Texas and Southeast territories. West and East Coast sales are handled by executive producer Gail Butler….Imaginary Forces (IF) is expanding its reach within the video game industry by naming Derek C. Smith as the studio’s new director of business development, gaming. With over 15 years of experience working in interactive entertainment, Smith has extensive expertise within every facet of the video game production process, from testing and publishing to development. Smith has produced a number of top video game titles, overseeing a diverse array of artists, during his recent five-and-a-half-year tenure with Sony Computer Entertainment America as associate producer. Smith first met IF’s team when collaborating on main, end and flashback sequences for the PlayStation3 games God of War III and God of War: Ascension. Impressed by IF’s stylized, cinematic work, he fostered a working relationship with the IF team while at Sony….Kevin Batten and his Pop-Arts Management are now handling representation on the West Coast for Venice, Calif.-based VFX studio Brewster Parsons….Carlos Penny has joined Oishii Creative as head of business Development. He comes to the creative agency with more than a decade of business development experience, including positions at production companies SD MEDIA and FILTER. Penny’s hiring signals Oishii Creative’s continued evolution, embracing strategic partnerships with a focus on multidisciplinary talent and investing in proprietary technology, mobile video and multi-channel networks….Below-the-line talent agent Kirk Orlando has launched Orlando Agency in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Unlike his previous company Orlando Management, which exclusively represented DPs and production designer, Orlando Agency also carries new below-the-line talent categories. The Orlando Agency roster represents editors, costume designers, hair & make-up artists, production sound mixers and script supervisors for commercials and music videos. Several DPs are also available as directors/cameramen through the agency….
Harris Dickinson Toys With Ambiguity In “Babygirl” While Keeping a Secret From Nicole Kidman
Harris Dickinson was nervous to approach Nicole Kidman.
This would not necessarily be notable under normal circumstances, but the English actor had already been cast to star opposite her in the erotic drama "Babygirl," as the intern who initiates an affair with Kidman's buttoned-up CEO. They'd had a zoom with the writer-director Halina Reijn, who was excited by their playful banter and sure that Dickinson would hold his own. And yet when he found himself at the same event as Kidman, shyness took over. He admitted as much to Margaret Qualley, who took things into her own hands and introduced them.
"She helped me break the ice a bit," Dickinson said in a recent interview.
On set would be an entirely different story. Dickinson might not be nearly as "puckishly audacious" as his character Samuel but in the making of "Babygirl," he, Kidman and Reijn had no choice but to dive fearlessly into this exploration of sexual power dynamics, going to intimate, awkward, exhilarating and meme-able places. It's made the film, in theaters Christmas Day, one of the year's must-sees.
"There was an unspoken thing that we adhered to," Dickinson said. "We weren't getting to know each other's personal lives. When we were working and we were the characters, we didn't veer away from the material. I never tried to attach all of the history of Nicole Kidman. Otherwise it probably would have been a bit of a mess."
His is a performance that reconfirms what many in the film world have suspected since his debut seven years ago as a Brooklyn tough questioning his sexuality in Eliza Hittman's "Beach Rats": Dickinson is one of the most exciting young talents around.
Dickinson, 28, grew up in Leytonstone, in East London — the same neck of the woods as... Read More