Dattner Dispoto and Associates has booked DP clients Bob Gantz, ASC, David Stockton, ASC, Stephen St. John, Ken Glassing and Michael Wale, CSC for varied TV assignments. Stockton is set to shoot Supergirl (season 1) for CBS. Gantz will take on Limitless (season 1) or CBS. St. John will lens CSI: Cyber (season 2) for CBS. Glassing will shoot Scorpion (season 2) also for CBS. And Wale takes on Izombie (season 2) for The CW….
Two company veterans, Ed Erhardt and Justin Connolly, have been elevated to key positions within ESPN and Disney Media Networks, respectively. Erhardt has been named president, global sales & marketing. His new role includes oversight of consumer marketing, research and advertising sales business operations. In addition to leading a sales team that provides marketers with an array of multimedia and marketing platforms across the ESPN umbrella, Erhardt will be responsible for developing an insights-driven marketing and data organization supporting advertising sales. Erhardt will report to John Skipper, ESPN president and co-chairman, Disney Media Networks. Meanwhile Connolly has been promoted to EVP, Disney & ESPN affiliate sales and marketing. In this role, Connolly will oversee all aspects of domestic distribution and affiliate marketing including affiliate-related business operations for Disney and ESPN Media Networks such as ABC Family, Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney XD, Fusion, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS, ESPN Deportes, ESPNU, ESPN Classic, ESPN Goal Line, ESPN Buzzer Beater, ESPN Bases Loaded, Longhorn Network, SEC ESPN Network, and related Watch, HDTV, video-on-demand, interactive television and retransmission consent agreements for The Walt Disney Company’s eight-owned ABC stations. Connolly will report to Skipper and Ben Sherwood, president, Disney/ABC Television Group and co-chairman, Disney Media Networks, working closely with Ben Pyne, president, global distribution, Disney Media Networks….
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