Omelet, an L.A.-based branding, marketing and entertainment company, has appointed Mike Wallen to the newly created position of chief content officer. Wallen, who has been serving as partner and EVP, content & development, will continue to oversee Omelet Studio, the company’s branded content division, which is currently working with roster clients like Microsoft and AT&T, while also producing License to Operate, Omelet’s first feature-length film which follows ex-L.A. gang leaders turned street saviors.
Since joining Omelet in 2011, Wallen has brought in marquee clients including Walmart and Red Bull, as well as developed Omelet Studio into a full-fledged content division. Under his leadership, the company recently began development on its second feature-length documentary and in his new role, he will continue to shape the future of Omelet-created branded content while also playing an important part in the creation and publication of Wake Up, the company’s strategic quarterly magazine.
A graduate of Art Center, Wallen has co-created and written several animated comedies with networks that include 20th Television and Spike TV. Prior to joining Omelet, Wallen was head of Fox Mobile Studios, a unit of NewsCorp, where he developed and produced original and licensed content that was tailored specifically for mobile and online distribution worldwide.
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