Visual effects studio and integrated content company Alkemy X has signed Richard Ellis for postproduction business development. Ellis previously served as SVP of new business development at Periscope Post & Audio. Ellis brings to Alkemy X over 30 years of experience in postproduction sales, client partnerships and strategic business development….
Cabin Editing Company has entered into a partnership with Ziegler Jakubowicz–the indie rep firm founded by Peter Ziegler and Jonathan Jakubowicz–for East Coast sales. Cabin is also repped by Standard Goods & Services on the West Coast, and by Baer Brown in the Midwest…
Film editorial house PS260 has tapped talent management firm Renee & Melissa–under the aegis of Renee Case and Melissa Erke–to represent its roster of editors in the Midwest. Renee & Melissa also reps talent at such shops as 1stAvenueMachine, Agile Films, Landia, L’ELOI, Moxie Pictures, Superprime, and The Selby….
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