Rupert Grint may be a pop culture staple for his work as a child, but the "Harry Potter" star is low-profile on social media, selective about the projects he works on, and typically stays out of the limelight unless absolutely necessary. Until his 2015 film "Moonwalkers," Grint hadn't starred in a film in six years. Now, he's made quite the career on television, like in the shows "Snatch" and "Sick Note."
The actor seems pretty happy with the way things have been since his "Harry Potter" days — Grint has worked with award-winning filmmakers such as M. Night Shyamalan in "The Servant" and Guillermo del Toro in "Cabinet of Curiosities." And despite working with massive, influential Hollywood figures throughout his career, the actor sometimes does get a little bit star-struck. When he worked with Ron Perlman (aka Hellboy) in "Moonwalkers," Grint admitted he was intimidated by the veteran actor. He didn't associate...
The actor seems pretty happy with the way things have been since his "Harry Potter" days — Grint has worked with award-winning filmmakers such as M. Night Shyamalan in "The Servant" and Guillermo del Toro in "Cabinet of Curiosities." And despite working with massive, influential Hollywood figures throughout his career, the actor sometimes does get a little bit star-struck. When he worked with Ron Perlman (aka Hellboy) in "Moonwalkers," Grint admitted he was intimidated by the veteran actor. He didn't associate...
- 1/20/2023
- by Fatemeh Mirjalili
- Slash Film
Look! Another Rgm. What is it about Goldberg’s contraptions that’s made them such an enduring commercial form and reliable source of web traffic?
In support of its new Android tablets, Sony just launched a series of web films based on a Rube Goldberg Machine.
A Rube Goldberg Machine is a mechanism that is disproportionately complicated relative to the simple task it’s designed to… Oh, what? You know what a Rube Goldberg machine is because it’s The Most Relentlessly Employed Visual Device Of The Last 10 Years? Right.
For anyone who’s been alive as long as YouTube, the Rgm is a familiar sight indeed. Of course people have been building these exercises in engineering excess since Reuben Goldberg, an engineer turned cartoonist, illustrated the Self Operating Napkin. But they became a pop culture mainstay, and an ad standby, in 2003 when Wieden+Kennedy London stunned audiences not yet...
In support of its new Android tablets, Sony just launched a series of web films based on a Rube Goldberg Machine.
A Rube Goldberg Machine is a mechanism that is disproportionately complicated relative to the simple task it’s designed to… Oh, what? You know what a Rube Goldberg machine is because it’s The Most Relentlessly Employed Visual Device Of The Last 10 Years? Right.
For anyone who’s been alive as long as YouTube, the Rgm is a familiar sight indeed. Of course people have been building these exercises in engineering excess since Reuben Goldberg, an engineer turned cartoonist, illustrated the Self Operating Napkin. But they became a pop culture mainstay, and an ad standby, in 2003 when Wieden+Kennedy London stunned audiences not yet...
- 7/22/2011
- by Teressa Iezzi
- Fast Company
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