Transatlantic production company Loveboat, with offices in L.A. and Paris, has added Australian filmmaker Patrick Hughes to its diverse cooperative of directors and interdisciplinary artists.
Hughes is a writer, producer, and director who graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts Film & Television School in Melbourne. He has written and directed more than 20 short films including the 2001 Tropfest winner The Lighter; and Signs, a romantic tale that garnered 10 million-plus hits and won a Cannes Gold Lion in 2009. His credits also include notable commercials for brands such as Xbox, BMW, Honda, Mercedes, Vodafone and Toyota.
Hughes’ feature films include The Hitman’s Bodyguard, starring Ryan Reynolds, Salma Hayek, and Samuel L. Jackson, which was #1 at the box office for three consecutive weeks. The sequel, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, was released earlier this year, starring the same cast, along with Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas.
Hughes' upcoming feature The Man From Toronto, with another all-star cast including Woody Harrelson, Kevin Hart, and Kaley Cuoco, will release next year. Previously, Hughes helmed The Expendables 3, an installment of the action film franchise. He was handpicked by Sylvester Stallone to direct the film, which starred Stallone, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hughes also directed, wrote, and produced the modern-western thriller Red Hill, which marked his feature directorial debut. Red Hill premiered at the Berlin Film Festival where it was one of the fastest-selling films that year.
“Patrick is a high-octane director whose work is well known in Hollywood,” said Jeff Baron, managing partner of Loveboat’s L.A. office. “He’s extremely talented and the possibilities are endless in the realm of advertising with his level of expertise.”
Hughes is based in Los Angeles and in Melbourne. He is also represented by Finch in Australia and New Zealand. He was previously represented by Rattling Stick in the U.S. and U.K.
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