Directors Adam Reed, Valerio Ventura and Kurt Burk have joined Santa Monica-based BeachHouse Films. Reed comes over from Elsewhere, Los Angeles. BeachHouse becomes Ventura’s first formal roost for U.S. spot representation. And Burk is a recent Art Center graduate…..Director Enno Jacobsen has come aboard Right Brain Films, Beverly Hills, for exclusive spot representation. He continues to be handled in Europe by Neue Sentimental Film, Frankfurt, Germany…..Venice, Calif.-based visual effects studio Digital Domain has formed an alliance with Richard A. Greenberg for the production of feature film title graphics. Greenberg was a founding partner in the graphics studio R/Greenberg Associates, New York, and has worked on features, trailers, shorts, spots and visual effects. His main titles credits include Mission Impossible 2, The Matrix, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The World According to Garp, Braveheart, JFK, Twister, Back to the Future and Tootsie….JSM has opened a satellite office in Venice, Calif. JSM/West will be headed up by executive producer Victoria Villalobos, who will be relocating to the West Coast….New York postproduction facility Moving Images is opening a film developing lab at the end of September. The new company, called the Lab at Moving Images, has secured Domenic Rom, formerly executive VP of DuArt Film and Video, New York, to run the service.
London Critics Name “The Brutalist” The Film of the Year
The Brutalist, Brady Corbet’s immigrant saga, won the Film of the Year prize at the 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards.
While The Brutalist garnered just one award, it was the marquee honor. Meanwhile Nickel Boys, Conclave and A Real Pain all receivd multiple awards, and Zoe Saldaña was honored twice.
Edward Berger’s Vatican thriller Conclave took two awards for British/Irish Film of the Year and Actor of the Year for Ralph Fiennes, while RaMell Ross’s radical Colson Whitehead adaptation Nickel Boys was recognized with Director of the Year and the Technical Achievement Award for Jomo Fray’s first-person cinematography. Jesse Eisenberg’s dark comedy A Real Pain was the night’s other multiple prizewinner, landing Screenwriter of the Year for the actor-filmmaker, and Supporting Actor of the Year for co-star Kieran Culkin.
Payal Kapadia’s Mumbai-set drama All We Imagine as Light was named Foreign Language Film of the Year, while the Palestinian-Israeli collective behind No Other Land took Documentary of the Year.
Alongside Conclave, British productions awarded by the Circle in the top categories included Mike Leigh’s intimate character study Hard Truths, which took Actress of the Year for Marianne Jean-Baptiste, while Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was named Animated Feature of the Year. In the British/Irish-specific categories, Saoirse Ronan won British/Irish Performer of the Year for her performances in The Outrun and Blitz, 14-year-old Nykiya Adams won Young British/Irish Performer of the Year for her screen debut in Andrea Arnold’s Bird, and Rich Peppiatt won the... Read More