Ezra Burke, former in-house West Coast rep for bicoastal Cohn+Company, has been named head of sales & marketing for bicoastal Notorious Pictures. The Santa Monica-based Burke will additionally handle West Coast commercial sales for both Notorious and its recently launched design arm….Bicoastal companies Giraldi Suarez Productions (GSP) and Playroom have hired Roxanne Artesona and Jeff Bowman of Roxanne and Co., New York, for representation on the East Coast. In-house sales rep Wil LaFayette will handle the West Coast for GSP and Playroom….Bicoastal Villains has signed Sean Sullivan of Sullivan Creative Management, Chicago, for Midwest representation….Delores Hively and Dawn Schiffman of Buzz Management, New York, are handling East Coast representation for Santa Monica-headquartered Plum Productions and PS 260, New York….Santa Monica-based production house Thomas Winter Cooke has secured representation in Canada via Imported Artists Film Company, Toronto….Jared Shapiro of Moustache, New York, is handling East Coast representation for bicoastal CreoCollective….San Francisco-based Pond Radio Entertainment has signed Boss Talent, Venice, Calif., for West Coast representation….DP Aaron Phillips has completed photography for the documentary Surf Rasta and is now available for commercials via Sherry Rousso Associates, New York….
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