Afterhrs., the recently launched L.A.-based content studio under the aegis of producer Thelonious Brooks and director Kai Regan, has secured DeVine Reps to handle representation on both coasts for advertising and branded content projects. Regan was a founding partner of Alldayeveryday and has directed projects for many brands and agencies; Brooks was sr. producer for Gloria Content and EP of his service company, Behemoth Production. He has also been a line producer for such directors as Jeremy Saulnier, Diego Luna and Rodrigo Valdes. Over the years, Brooks and Regan found a calling in the curation of artist development; inclusive and diverse storytelling talent. Among the many artists with whom Afterhrs. is collaborating with on a nonexclusive basis (affording the studio with the flexibility to match the right storyteller to select narrative projects) are Sunbeam (aka Dean Fleischer-Camp and Nick Paley, whose upcoming live action and animated film Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is being released via A24), writer/director Maegan Houang (Three Busy Debras), writer/director Harry Israelson, photographer, curator and filmmaker Manon Macasaet, Australian documentary and spot director Selina Miles, photographer Jason Al Taan, directors Petra Collins, Hans Emanuel and Nick Cammilieri….
Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired North American rights for Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO, a vision of modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a donkey, which has been one of the most discussed films of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered in competition and won the Jury Prize. EO is presented by Skopia Film and Jeremy Thomas and stars Sandra Drzymalska, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz and Isabelle Huppert. It was produced and the screenplay written by Ewa Piaskowska and Skolimowski. Eileen Tasca is co-producer. Jeremy Thomas is EP. Sideshow and Janus Films are planning a fall 2022 theatrical release….
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