Toni Saarinen and Brook Durham of Saarinen, Los Angeles, have been named to handle the West Coast and Texas for Superior Assembly Editing Company, Santa Monica….Open Frame Productions, New York, has signed Connie Mellors of Connie Mellors & Company, Toluca Lake, Calif., to handle West Coast representation; Cathi Connor, Jim Waldron and Wendy Hanson of The Connor Group, Chicago, for the Midwest; and Fran Montoya of Montoya Reps, Dallas, to cover Texas. Maggie Klein of New York-based Maggie Klein & Co. remains Open Frame’s New York rep….Lee Pisarski of Lee+Lou Productions, a Los Angeles-based independent rep firm, is now handling national sales for director Scott Miller of Scott Miller & Company, Malibu, Calif….Steve Lewis, president/directors agent of Studio City, Calif.-based The Directors Network, has signed several helmers for exclusive freelance representation: Milan-based director/cameramen Alberto Dell’Orto; Yas, a Japanese spotmaker who resides in Los Angeles and is known for his stylized work; New York-based monologue and real-people specialist Conrad Fink; Les Luxford, whose reputation is in complex live action/visual effects design combo jobs; and director/cameraman Michael Dali, a Midwest artisan whose reel combines strong visuals with real people and monologue….Production designer Lauryn LeClere has joined The Skouras Agency, Santa Monica, for exclusive representation….Cinematographer John Toll has wrapped the feature Vanilla Sky and is now available for spots through the Judy Marks Agency, Los Angeles….Rick Lee has been appointed senior account executive of sales and marketing for Picture Pipeline, a West Los Angeles-based secure broadband solutions company launched by TRW (SHOOT, 1/26, p. 7). Picture Pipeline offers digital dailies, postproduction collaboration and file transfer services to the film, TV, spot and music video communities. Lee formerly was a senior account exec at post house Hollywood Digital….
The Women Of “The White Lotus” Check Into Thailand For Season 3
Get ready to check into "The White Lotus" in Thailand for Season 3 — this time, sadly, there's no room for Jennifer Coolidge, who went overboard in the second season.
With the absence of her fan-favorite character Tanya comes the opportunity for other characters to win over the audience, when it returns to screens on Sky and HBO this Sunday.
Vying for your love or loathing at the indulgent Thailand outpost is Michelle Monaghan's vacationing TV actor and Aimee Lou Wood's cool Brit. Natasha Rothwell is back as spa manager Belinda, herself a victim of Tanya's flighty financial ways in the first season. Blackpink's Lisa makes her acting debut as a resort employee.
As before, in Mike White's anthology series, the rich holidaymakers are unable to upgrade themselves away from the sense of menace that lurks around the landscaped hotel grounds.
The cast? They're having a much better time.
A nightmare stay is a dream job
Monaghan cried when she found out she got the role of TV star Jaclyn.
"It was such a big deal and it's such an exciting opportunity," she explained, adding that she opened a bottle of Champagne to celebrate. As the show is popular, critically acclaimed and filmed in exotic locations, Monaghan, who recently featured in Apple TV+'s "Bad Monkey," agrees that starring in White's prestige drama is "hands down, no doubt about it" the best job on television.
Rothwell agrees with her. She returns as Belinda, who worked at the Hawaii resort, home to Season 1.
"I don't know what I did in a previous life to deserve this, but I'm so grateful to be a part of this family," Rothwell says.
Viewers told Rothwell that they were mad at the affluent Tanya for not investing in Belinda's... Read More