Anonymous Content has opened a London commercial production office and appointed Tor Fitzwilliams as its managing director and executive producer. The outpost will offer the UK access to Anonymous’ talent pool which includes such sought-after directors as Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón, Armando Bo, Autumn de Wilde, Brett Morgen, Cara Stricker, Chris Sargent, Daniel Kaufman, Dee Rees, Grant Singer, John X. Carey, Johnny Green, Malcolm Venville, Mark Romanek, Pantera, and Tim Godsall.
Fitzwilliams brings 15 years of production experience, having worked across sales, strategy and talent management with leading filmmakers and creative agencies globally. She began her career at production company Blink, where she spent five years working with some of the U.K.’s most prolific directors and on some of advertising’s most iconic work. She then joined Smuggler London as head of sales, before moving to Smuggler New York to head up their East Coast sales. In 2015, Fitzwilliams returned to London as executive producer at Stink Films. She has also served on many juries, including Film Craft at Cannes Lions and, most recently, last year’s Film Craft jury for Creative Circle.
Eric Stern, Anonymous Content partner and managing director, cited Fitzwilliams’ “myriad experience” as making her “the perfect person to be leading this office and our commercial partnerships in the U.K.”
Fitzwilliams is enthused about opening the London office, sharing, “No other production company has proven how to bridge the gap between the commercial and entertainment world better than Anonymous Content. They have world-class talent on their books, which is accessible to all agencies and brands.”
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