NY industry veteran Philip Fox-Mills has launched Fox-Mills Inc., a commercial representation company that will serve a select group of companies across the spectrum of creative services. Fox-Mills Inc. launches with the signing of production house Furlined for representation on the East Coast. Fox-Mills brings a background in commercial sales and marketing, both on the agency and production side, to the new venture. He has worked as a sales EP for numerous production companies, including Satellite/Propaganda, RSA Films, Alldayeveryday and Legs Media. His agency experience includes working at Kirschenbaum+Bond, helping to win such accounts as Hennessy and Grand Marnier….
Production designer Jeremy Reed has signed with Murtha Skouras Agency for exclusive representation in film, television and commercials….
Production designer Rene Navarrette has signed with Dattner Dispoto and Associates (DDA) for representation in commercials, features and TV. Also inking with DDA is costume designer Christopher Lawrence for commercials. DDA has booked cinematographer Lun Moncrief on the feature When I’m A Moth directed by Zacharay Cotler and Magdalena Zyzak. On the television front, DDA has booked DP Giles Nuttgens on Damnation (USA Network), DP Quyen Tran on Mogadishu, Minnesota (HBO), DP Daniel Patterson on She’s Gotta Have It (Netflix), DP Brad Lipson on Pure Country 3 (WB), DP Ryan McMaster on Izombie (WB/CW), production designer Arad Sawat on Absentia (Sony TV), production designer Todd Jeffery on Flaked (Netflix) and costume designer Nancy Ceo on Kingdom (Audience Network, formerly DirecTV)….
Lara Fischman has joined strategic branding and marketing innovations agency Troika as account director. She was previously group director of account management at Siegel+Gale….
After 20 Years of Acting, Megan Park Finds Her Groove In The Director’s Chair On “My Old Ass”
Megan Park feels a little bad that her movie is making so many people cry. It's not just a single tear either — more like full body sobs.
She didn't set out to make a tearjerker with "My Old Ass," now streaming on Prime Video. She just wanted to tell a story about a young woman in conversation with her older self. The film is quite funny (the dialogue between 18-year-old and almost 40-year-old Elliott happens because of a mushroom trip that includes a Justin Bieber cover), but it packs an emotional punch, too.
Writing, Park said, is often her way of working through things. When she put pen to paper on "My Old Ass," she was a new mom and staying in her childhood bedroom during the pandemic. One night, she and her whole nuclear family slept under the same roof. She didn't know it then, but it would be the last time, and she started wondering what it would be like to have known that.
In the film, older Elliott ( Aubrey Plaza ) advises younger Elliott ( Maisy Stella ) to not be so eager to leave her provincial town, her younger brothers and her parents and to slow down and appreciate things as they are. She also tells her to stay away from a guy named Chad who she meets the next day and discovers that, unfortunately, he's quite cute.
At 38, Park is just getting started as a filmmaker. Her first, "The Fallout," in which Jenna Ortega plays a teen in the aftermath of a school shooting, had one of those pandemic releases that didn't even feel real. But it did get the attention of Margot Robbie 's production company LuckyChap Entertainment, who reached out to Park to see what other ideas she had brewing.
"They were very instrumental in encouraging me to go with it," Park said. "They're just really even-keeled, good people, which makes... Read More