The directors have been set for the next three installments in BMW’s "The Hire" Internet film series, which will be produced by bicoastal RSA USA. The filmmakers are Tony Scott (whose feature filmography includes Enemy of the State, Spy Game, Crimson Tide, Days of Thunder, Top Gun), John Woo (Windtalkers, Mission Impossible II, Face/Off, Broken Arrow) and Joe Carnahan (Narc; Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane). RSA succeeds bicoastal Anonymous Content as the production company on the Web-based shorts, which will again center on a central character known as "The Driver," played by Clive Owen. Fallon Minneapolis continues as the ad agency, with RSA USA’s Ridley Scott, Tony Scott and managing director Jules Daly serving as executive producers. The three new shorts are slated to debut in October…..Paul Grimshaw has joined The Orphanage’s commercial and music video division, San Francisco and Los Angeles, as VP/executive producer. Grimshaw formerly served as exec producer at Industrial Light+Magic Commercial Productions (ILMCP), which closed in June. Well known for its feature effects pedigree, digital studio The Orphanage has successfully diversified into spots and music videos. The San Francisco-based Grimshaw will work closely with John Benson, executive producer for The Orphanage in Los Angeles, to further extend the shop’s spot reach….Santa Monica-based editorial/design/animation studio Revue has opened under the aegis of executive producer Tatiana Derovanessian. Rick Lobo, who comes over from FilmCore San Francisco, is staff editor. Another editor is expected to join Revue imminently. Derovanessian had been a senior producer at Cosmo Street Editorial, Santa Monica….Fire/Inferno artist Ernie Camacho has joined Avenue, Santa Monica. He comes over from Bob ‘n’ Sheila’s Edit World, San Francisco….Kate O’Neill has become a staff visual effects artist at Black Logic, New York, after having worked regularly at the shop as a freelancer.…Formerly with the New York office of bicoastal/international Attik, producer Danielle Amarai and senior designer John O’Callaghan have come aboard Charlex, New York.…Agent Jackson, Santa Monica, has become a bicoastal music shop with the opening of a New York studio….
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