Chromista has signed indie commercial representation firm Diplomat to handle the West Coast. Lauren Schuchman founded Diplomat last year; her firm joins a Chromista sales team which includes Hustle, Monaghan Talent Rangers and ENID London. Commercialmaking/branded content house Chromista was founded in 2013 by Oscar-nominated director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) and partners Scott Franklin, Sandy Haddad and Ted Robbins. Chromista scored two Cannes Gold Lions this summer for Aronofsky’s spot for The New York Times. His new feature film starring Jennifer Lawrence, Mother, will premiere on September 15. Meanwhile director Alessandro Pacciani’s new Acura work was also just nominated for best commercial at the London Motor Film Festival. Chromista’s roster includes Aronofsky, Pacciani, Xavier Mairesse, Marcelo Burgos, Kasra Farahani, Daniel Portrait, Dael Oates, Rory Kelleher and Josh Cole….
Spot Welders, an editorial house with studios in Venice, Calif, and NYC, has signed with Ezra Burke and Shane Harris of Content Chemics for West Coast representation. Content Chemics will also now represent the full spectrum of creative finishing, motion design and animation services of Spot Welders’ sister company SHIPPING + HANDLING….
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