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1) The development of technology has had the most profound effect on our business, and the opportunity for our creative, technology and production talent to deliver increasingly remarkable images for our clients. Work that continues to tell stories in evermore creative and imaginative ways. From the craft of photoreal CG creatures, to high-tech VFX techniques, from highly sophisticated interactive capability, to the mind-blowing immersive content of VR experiences. Today, we again find ourselves at a point where the convergence of technology and creativity will empower our industry yet again, to a world of even more extraordinary creative opportunities.
6) I am enormously proud of MPC’s creative contribution to the collaborative processes that continue to produce some of the best creative work in our industry. Innovating, challenging, and imagining opportunities to engage in new and more dynamic storytelling in the future is what we are most excited about; and it is very much our ambition to continue to participate in the discovery of what we can do next!
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