Directors Tim Story and Maurice Marable have joined brother, a bicoastal production company founded by exec producer Rich Carter and director Theodore Melfi, for commercial and branded content representation.
Story began his career directing music videos for artists including N’ Sync, R. Kelly and India Irie, and his 2002 hit movie Barbershop launched a feature filmography that includes Hurricane Season , Fantastic Four, Think Like a Man , Ride Along and their sequels. His expansive repertoire in both visual and narrative storytelling lends itself naturally to the short form world.
Marable, formerly of Believe Media, brings over a decade of spotmaking experience to the brother roster. Honing his craft as creative director/filmmaker in Residence at HBO, he has created promos for some of television’s most successful series, earning an Emmy nomination in the process. His White House Correspondents’ Dinner promo for Veep starring Julia Louis Dreyfus (with cameos from Joe Biden and Michele Obama) has over 1.7 million views on YouTube. Marable moves between commercial work and promotional campaigns, and in 2012 founded Brim + Brew, where he concepts and directs campaigns for broadcast networks.
Plans call for brother to work closely with Marable to help build the Brim + Brew company profile, while offering the brother roster a chance to concept and create work through the promo company.
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