Production designer Arad Sawat (A Tale of Love and Darkness directed by Natalie Portman), editor Jeff Castelluccio (Cardinal X directed by Angie Wang) and costumer designer Tracie Delaney (commercials and music videos) have signed with Dattner Dispoto and Associates (DDA) for representation. DDA has also booked the feature films Breakable You (director: Andrew Wagner) for its client, production designer Dara Wishingrad, and House Cat (director: Robert Logevall) for costume designer Patrik Milani….
RadiumOne, a global omni-channel programmatic ad buying platform, has appointed Brian Gardner to the newly formed position of director of Canada, heading up the company’s growing business in the region. The veteran sales exec will lead the RadiumOne Canada team from the company’s Toronto office. He will be responsible for generating strategic partnerships with agencies, trading desks and brand advertisers. Gardner has over 15 years of agency, publisher and programmatic partnership development experience, most recently as a sr. account executive at RocketFuel. Previously he held leadership and management positions at Real Media Group 24/7 and Yahoo Canada, among others. Additionally, he helped develop the supply side programmatic strategy for North America’s largest independently owned newspaper publisher, The Chronicle Herald. San Francisco-based RadiumOne builds software that automates media buying, making big data actionable for digital marketers. The company uses programmatic advertising to connect brands to their next customers by incorporating valuable proprietary data about behaviors, actions and interests demonstrated by consumers across web and mobile touch points. Using insights and data intelligence, RadiumOne helps marketers activate customer engagement in real-time with relevant and personalized offers, messages, content and ads across devices, locations and screens….
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