Production company JOJX has brought Kirby McClure, aka Radical Friend, aboard its directorial roster. McClure had previously been represented via production house Partizan.
Radical Friend started out as a duo consisting of McClure and Julia Grigorian. The directing partners then split up with Radical Friend becoming McClure’s solo venture. McClure and Grigorian under the Radical Friend banner worked with artists such as Skrillex, Yeasayer and Black Moth Super Rainbow. Rolling Stone recognized the filmmakers with inclusion in its rundown of “50 People Who Will Change the Future of Music.”
When McClure took over the Radical Friend mantle as an individual director, he proceeded to assemble a diverse body of work spanning performers such as HO9909 and Britney Spears, a four-minute cinematic trailer for the Netflix series Elite, ad assignments for such brands as KFC (the buzz-generating “Comeback” commercial introducing Colonel Sanders as the company’s mascot in the U.K.), AT&T, Taco Bell, Honda, Adidas, Chase Bank and Converse, as well as the feature film Spaghetti Junction which is currently available for viewing on Amazon Prime. McClure also wrote Spaghetti Junction which follows a disabled teenager in the Deep South who comes into contact with a cosmic traveler.
Jackson Morton, partner and executive producer at JOJX, said, “Radical Friend’s films are hypnotic on multiple levels. His incredible attention to detail and artistic nature engage all of your senses. He’s a director we knew would be immediately at home with JOJX—we have very similar values as filmmakers. He’s an innovator by nature, and we’re very excited to have him on our roster.”
McClure added, “Jackson [Morton] and Joe [Care, JOJX partner/EP] have an obvious passion and fire for making great work. I think we’re going to make some cool stuff together. I’m thrilled to join the JOJX family. I know I’m in great hands there as I continue to devote more time to my individual directing career.”
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More