January 29, 2010
A month into Hollywood’s awards season and the competition is still wide open. The Hurt Locker appears to be a front-runner, but Avatar, Precious, ‘Inglourious Basterds and Up in the Air have won their share of awards, too. The directors of these films—Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron, Lee Daniels, Quentin Tarantino and Jason Reitman—compete Saturday for the top prize from the Directors Guild of America, an award that almost always predicts the Oscar winner for best director….Editor Karen Schmeer, who worked on many of Errol Morris’ documentaries, including The Fog of War, was struck and killed by a getaway car speeding from a Manhattan drugstore robbery….Creative editorial boutique jumP has hired Tommy Murov to serve as executive producer at its New York office. He comes over from Spot Welders where he had been since 1999, promoted from producer to exec producer of that shop’s N.Y. operation in 2006….
January 28, 2005
Damian Stevens has returned to the agency side of the business, joining Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles as director of broadcast production. The move reunites him with Saatchi LA executive creative director Harvey Marco; the two had worked together at Fallon where Stevens was a West Coast-based producer for the agency while Marco served as a creative director in Minneapolis. Stevens most recently served as an executive producer at JGF, Hollywood, which is now bicoastal Sandwick Films…..Directors Shona Auerbach, who has made a major splash with her feature film debut, Dear Frankie, and Jim Weedon, an accomplished spot editor who’s successfully diversified into helming, have joined GARTNER for their first formal representation in the American ad market. Both Auerbach and Weedon are with The Bare Film Company, London, a shop formed last summer by partners/managing directors Helen Hadfield and Claire Sims. GARTNER gains a European production foothold via Bare, in addition to repping two of its directors stateside….Editor Jason Painter—who made his first major industry mark on the 2003 Super Bowl with Reebok’s “Terry Tate: Office Linebacker” spot directed by Rawson Thurber—has joined Mad River Post. Plans call for Painter—who comes over from Jigsaw—to be available via all the Mad River studios, splitting his time primarily between NY and Santa Monica….
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