The editors from Cutters operations in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York and Tokyo have secured new commercial representation in two key U.S. markets. Cutters is now being repped by Kevin Batten of Pop-Arts Management on the West Coast, and Sean Sullivan of Sullivan Creative Management in the Midwest. Pop-Arts adds Cutters to a roster which includes Go Film, Gentleman Scholar, Framestore, Independent Media, Joinery and Native for the West Coast. Sullivan’s indie rep/management firm represents Tool, Framestore, Brand New School, Jam 3 and MediaMonks in the Midwest….
Sister companies Transvideo and Aaton Digital, offering technologies for film and digital cinematography, have named Danny Hallett as sales manager. He comes over from Tiffen International, where he was European sales manager. Hallett was with Tiffen for 10 years, starting as office manager, then moving up to help grow Tiffen Motion Picture Filter sales as U.K. sales manager. He then became European sales manager and contributed to the roll out program of the benchmark Tiffen IRND filters when the ARRI Alexa launched, and was more recently involved with the technical field testing of the new Tiffen NAT ND range….
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