Film and animation production company Not To Scale has brought executive creative director Richard Hickey on board to head its recently launched office in Hollywood, Calif. Not To Scale now has a total of four shops–the other three being its London headquarters, with studios in New York and Amsterdam. Hickey has experience in developing features both as an individual director and at studios such as Disney, Paramount and Sony. He additionally sports a background as a director and creative director of live action and animated commercials. As previously reported, Not To Scale's L.A. studio has added for exclusive commercial representation in all territories the Academy Award-winning director John Kahrs, the ex-Pixar/Disney animator and director of the shorts Paperman and June. He won the Best Animated Short Film Oscar in 2013 for Paperman…..
The Collective @ LAIR has signed narrative filmmaker/writer Laurence Thrush for exclusive representation in branded films, digital and network content. The company also handles Thrush non-exclusively for commercials nationwide. Thrush, who’s a Clio Best Young Director and A Young Gun Award recipient, has turned out spots for clients including MasterCard, Honda, Toyota, HP, Southwest, Amstel Light, Adobe and McDonald’s. His directorial credits also encompass a pair of feature films, Left Handed which was Best Feature at the Milan Film Festival, and A Different Light which made its world premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival…..
Production company Seven Sunday Films in Jakarta, Indonesia, has launched a new content division, The Eight Sunday. Headed by Indonesian producer Yugi Darmawan. The Eight Sunday will primarily concentrate on digital video content, and will also undertake some smaller budget TV commercials, particularly when working directly with brands. Just prior to opening The Eight Sunday, Seven Sunday Films produced a regional job for Uber directed by Mark Toia and shot in Indonesia. Seven Sunday Films EP Rodney Vincent said the digital job is a good example of the type of projects The Eight Sunday will take on….
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