Mike Goode—formerly part of the three-member helming team known as Goetz+Goode of Beverly Hills-based production house Copper—is branching out on his own as an individual director. He has signed with Great Guns USA, Santa Monica, for exclusive representation in the U.S. and Canada. Great Guns, London, is also handling him in Europe for spots. Goode’s former colleagues, the Goetz Brothers, continue to be repped via Copper…..Executive producer Taylor Ferguson has exited House of Usher Films, Santa Monica, to pursue a new soon-to-be-announced venture. Ferguson is being succeeded at House of Usher by Ayelet Weinerman….. Tony Chase has been named director of operations at postproduction house Hollywood Digital. With a long track record in spots, including serving as a producer at Ogilvy & Mather, Los Angeles, Chase will oversee Hollywood Digital’s move to return short-form services to its menu of offerings. The facility has become best known in recent years for its TV and feature business. After his six-year tenure at Ogilvy, Chase went to Encore Hollywood, where he eventually became its general manager. He then went onto Digital Magic and R!OT Santa Monica before landing at Hollywood Digital….Commercial editor Emanuel "Manny" Berlingo passed away suddenly last Thursday (8/22.) He was 41. Having began his editorial career in 1978 with an eight-year stay at since closed The Editing House. Berlingo worked for a number of New York editorial facilites before going freelance in ’96. Since early ’01, Berlingo had maintained his own editorial shop, Manny’s Roadhouse, New York. Berlingo is survived by his wife, Joni Fiore….Director Stan Schofield’s first feature—Cost of Living, which earned top honors at the AFI International Film Festival in ’97—is making its world premiere Sept. 8 on Showtime Women. Schofield—who is best known for helming commercials via his Schofield Films, New York—is currently in development on the feature Parting Words, written by Ned Crowley…..
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