FEBRUARY 11, 2000
Cohn+Company has signed directors Martin Bell, Mark Raymon Bennett and Olivier Venturini for spot representation. All come over from 1/33 Productions, Santa Monica, which has closed and folded its operations into Cohn+Company, a New York-based house that now becomes bicoastal….Jack Lechner, formerly a key development executive at Miramax Films, has joined the motion picture division of bicoastal/international @radical.media….Editor Bill Marmor has joined Santa Monica-based TrailHead….Composer Morgan Visconti has signed with JSM, New York. Visconti comes to the shop after nine years at New York-based Crushing Music….Publicly-traded, New York-headquartered Paradise Music & Entertainment has launched Paradise Digital Productions (PDP), a bicoastal division that will produce and develop content for the Internet….
FEBRUARY 10, 1995
Bicoastal production company Crossroads Films has established a satellite division, Pellington/Gorai, for director Mark Pellington and his longtime executive producer, Tom Gorai….Director Mike Bigelow has signed with HKM Productions, Hollywood, for exclusive representation in commercials….Director Bill Scarlet, formerly of the lopes picture company, New York, has joined bicoastal Harmony Pictures for exclusive commercial representation….Beehive, New York, the design and editorial company formed last November by editor Jon Vesey and designer Ada Whitney, has tapped producer Marion Rosenfeld to work full time….Marking its expansion into the Canadian market, animation/live action studio Cornell/Abood, Studio City, Calif., has entered into a partnership with Toronto-based RF Fly Films….
After 20 Years of Acting, Megan Park Finds Her Groove In The Director’s Chair On “My Old Ass”
Megan Park feels a little bad that her movie is making so many people cry. It's not just a single tear either — more like full body sobs.
She didn't set out to make a tearjerker with "My Old Ass," now streaming on Prime Video. She just wanted to tell a story about a young woman in conversation with her older self. The film is quite funny (the dialogue between 18-year-old and almost 40-year-old Elliott happens because of a mushroom trip that includes a Justin Bieber cover), but it packs an emotional punch, too.
Writing, Park said, is often her way of working through things. When she put pen to paper on "My Old Ass," she was a new mom and staying in her childhood bedroom during the pandemic. One night, she and her whole nuclear family slept under the same roof. She didn't know it then, but it would be the last time, and she started wondering what it would be like to have known that.
In the film, older Elliott ( Aubrey Plaza ) advises younger Elliott ( Maisy Stella ) to not be so eager to leave her provincial town, her younger brothers and her parents and to slow down and appreciate things as they are. She also tells her to stay away from a guy named Chad who she meets the next day and discovers that, unfortunately, he's quite cute.
At 38, Park is just getting started as a filmmaker. Her first, "The Fallout," in which Jenna Ortega plays a teen in the aftermath of a school shooting, had one of those pandemic releases that didn't even feel real. But it did get the attention of Margot Robbie 's production company LuckyChap Entertainment, who reached out to Park to see what other ideas she had brewing.
"They were very instrumental in encouraging me to go with it," Park said. "They're just really even-keeled, good people, which makes... Read More