‘The Beta Take a look at’ And ‘Thunder Highway’ Filmmaker Jim Cummings Indicators With UTA

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed creator, director, manufacturer and actor Jim Cummings (The Beta Take a look at) for illustration in all spaces.

Cummings maximum just lately partnered with PJ McCabe to co-write and direct The Beta Take a look at, additionally generating and starring in that genre-bender, which premiered to vital acclaim on the 2021 Tribeca Movie Pageant. That movie additionally starring McCabe and Virginia Newcomb sees an engaged Hollywood agent obtain a mysterious letter for an nameless sexual stumble upon, changing into ensnared in a sinister global of mendacity, infidelity and virtual information. IFC Motion pictures launched it within the U.S. in November.

Cummings additionally wrote, directed, produced and starred within the acclaimed quick movie Thunder Highway, which gained the Quick Movie Grand Jury Prize on the 2016 Sundance Movie Pageant, together with SXSW’s Particular Jury Award and different honors. He later tailored the quick, wherein a person eulogizes his mom, right into a 2018 characteristic of the similar identify, which he additionally wrote, directed, produced and starred in, seeing that undertaking win SXSW’s Grand Jury Award, in addition to the Grand Particular Prize on the Deauville Movie Pageant.

Moreover, Cummings wrote, directed, produced and starred within the 2020 horror-comedy The Wolf of Snow Hole. He’s recently in building on an untitled Victorian horror characteristic.

Cummings was once maximum just lately noticed in David Gordon Inexperienced’s Halloween Kills. Along with his personal motion pictures, he has seemed on FX’s Dave, and Hulu’s Informal and The Handmaid’s Story, and in motion pictures together with The Block Island Sound, Greener Grass and 13 Cameras.