Adam Jennings (born March 17, 1978) is a British actor, producer and film director best known for his theatre work. He was born in Rochford, England. Originally training as an actor, he has more latterly turned his hand to combining the Internet with entertainment and now owns and runs the Red Box Group of companies which include Red Box New Media, (a full service digital creative agency), and Peanut Films, (a UK based independent film production company). Career In 1996, Jennings set up a digital entertainment agency, The Red Box Group (now Red Box New Media), which provides support for entertainment based companies and charities. Racking up an impressive list of theatre credits his work on film and screen has been varied and usually comedic. In 2004, he took the film production arm of Red Box New Media and set it up as independent film production company Peanut Films. He has produced and directed two shorts for Peanut Films, Out Of The Frying Pan... and Toilet Humour. His design work under the banner of Red Box New Media is varied but has always been related to the entertainment industry working on the official UK websites for films like Van Helsing, The Bourne Supremacy, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, 9 Songs and Racing Stripes, as well as creation of the official UK websites for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Untold Scandal. He created the multi award-winning website for the BBC Two cookery show The Hairy Bikers' Cookbook and won more acclaim with the corporate website for independent film producers Barford Productions, (see external links below). He also produced and designed an award-winning, controversial animation for Greenpeace, featuring a chainsaw wielding Ronald MacDonald. During the summer of 2007, Adam produced a set of creative global marketing elements for the Twentieth Century Fox film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer; that included animated winks, emoticons and dynamic display pictures the public could download and use for free on their Microsoft Windows Live Messenger chat application. Later during the same summer he also produced a full campaign for The Simpsons Movie which ran in over 25 markets throughout the world and included two full sets of Windows Live Messenger Personal Expression elements, a mini site, HTML emails and multiple variants of display advertising; all of which was localised for each market. Following on a similar Windows Live Messenger related theme, Campbell-Ewald Digital, commissioned Adam's new media design studio, Red Box New Media to produce a full set of Personal Expression elements for General Motors Chevy brand sponsorship of the Live Earth events. The Messenger elements tied in with a larger campaign that included display advertising and an award-winning website to promote the various types of alternative fuel and hybrid Chevy vehicles available. In 2008 Adam and his studio were awarded the contracts to design and build websites for UK Television and Radio comedy legends Pozzitive Television, run by Geoff Posner and David Tyler and also to completely re-vamp the website for The Theatre, Chipping Norton; a little Victorian gem of a theatre that has become a National treasure and is well respected internationally. During the last 10 months of 2008, nearly 35 and a half million people saw his work around the world in one form or another; after he produced a number of high profile digital marketing campaigns, (or sections thereof), for clients such as Orange, Royal Mail, Adidas and Fanta. In 2008 he also worked on the theatrical launch of 20th Century Fox's ' movie and produced a bespoke ecard system for AOL Europe users to make use of by sending customised Valentines eCards. Through 2009, well over 100 million Internet users saw the work of Adam and his design studio, Red Box New Media; after they produced a slate of extremely successful, multinational digital campaigns to promote the theatrical release of Dragonball Evolution, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Night At The Museum 2, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Alvin & The Chipmunks 2 and Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Adam also launched the corporate websites of numerous TV and film prod cos; including: Pozzitive Television, Big Bear Films and Summer Films. He also oversaw the technical re-build of the new website for the multi award-winning production company Mind's Eye Media and designed the DVD cover art and promotional material for top UK stand up comedian Milton Jones' first DVD release. Previously he worked as Head Of Internet for computer games developers Rebellion, where he designed graphics for numerous computer games including The Mummy, Asterix & The Search For Dogmatix and Mission: Impossible, as Senior Designer for pan-European ISP World Online and Senior Designer again for the UK arm of Italian ISP Tiscali and also as Creative Lead (EMEA) for Microsofts' Premier Media Group, handling art direction on accounts for the likes of Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros., Adidas and Nike. Selected filmography As actor *Light Rain (2009) *Target Sighted (1996) *The Hamper (1995) *The Intruder (1994) As director *Toilet Humour (2004) *Out Of The Frying Pan... (2004) *The World Of The Engine: Industrial Strength (2001) Selected theatre credits as actor *Cinderella (Buttons) *' (Renton) *Pygmalion (Freddie) *Macbeth (Duncan) *Love Letters with Charlton Heston and his wife Lydia (Presenter)
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