O Positive has garnered U.K. representation via production house Rogue in London. Rogue will rep all the O Positive directors, including Jim Jenkins and David Shane (renowned for his recent Currys Christmas campaign with Jeff Goldblum). London-based O Positive EP/producer Nell Jordan also joins the team at Rogue.
Daryl Devlin will head up West Coast sales for Seed, the shop headed by founder/EP Roy Skillicorn. Seed is headquartered in Chicago with an office in L.A. Devlin created and ran what is now Getty Image’s National Business Development Initiative, working with salespeople to understand client needs while helping to digitize and populate its library with top drawer content. As the U.S. salesperson for BBC Technology she worked with its “think tank” at Kingswood Warren Ventures and helped to commercialize assets for sale to the U.S. market. Her real passion surfaced while she represented, and produced, for several film directors both through her own company, Media Logic, and with talent agency Bernstein and Andriulli. Seed’s directorial talent includes Tim Abshire, David Rosen, Jason Lindsey, Anthony Garth, Rick Wayne, Reuben Wu, Kristina Perreault, Corey Rich and Ashley Avis….
Flavor, the creative production division of international creative company Cutters Studios, has secured Friends of Ford for representation on the West Coast. Friends Of Ford is owned and operated by Ashley Ford, who adds Flavor to her roster which also includes Digital Domain, London Alley, Nylon Studios, BestFriend and Alpen Pictures. Flavor’s studios and talents across its Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit studios continue to be repped on the East Coast by hello tomorrow….
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