Stink Films has added Sevasti Buford to its U.S. sales team. Buford will be based out of the Los-Angeles office, where she will handle representation on the West Coast. Prior to joining Stink, Buford was part of the sales team at Red Reps. There, Buford represented Academy Films, Electric Theatre Collective, Little Minx, Reset, The Reserve, Strangelove, and The Hoffman Brothers. Previous to Red Reps, Buford worked in-house at Uber Content. Stink Films has a diverse international roster of director talent including Nicolas Winding Refn, Eliot Rausch, and recent signings Joachim Back and Rhys Thomas…..
Film and animation production company Not To Scale has appointed Pippa Hall as marketing director. Based in Not To Scale’s London headquarters, Hall is accomplished in ongoing strategy for new business, and in developing and expanding relationships with agencies and brands. With 20 years’ experience in the creative industries, Hall brings a diverse range of practical knowledge and creative insight to the role. Starting out in PR at Warner Music, Hall went on to set up her own photographers’ agency before moving on to work as an art buyer at CHI & Partners with clients such as The Times, Lexus, Toyota, Tiger and British Gas. Most recently Hall has served as head of new business for several production companies including Pretzel, Jelly, Hoi Polloi and 76ltd, working across animation and live action for the last eight years…..
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