Kate Aspell has joined production house Process as director of sales. She will be in charge of developing and promoting the company’s roster of feature film directors for content creation and commercial projects. Aspell was initially an assistant at HSI Productions where she worked her way up to a junior sales position, handling the Texas territory while supporting the head of sales. She moved from L.A. back to New York in 2011, and joined Maven Label the following year, where she represented brands such as Final Cut, Hello & Co, and Paranoid. Prior to joining Process, Aspell was also head of sales at East Pleasant Pictures, where she was responsible for representing, developing, and promoting a wide range of directors working in commercials, film, episodic television, and other formats, as well as developing new talent acquisitions. Process’ directorial roster includes Mary Harron (American Psycho), directorial team Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (American Splendor), John Krokidas (Kill Your Darlings), Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace), Greg Camalier (Muscle Shoals) and Daniel Schechter (Life of Crime). Films produced by Process include Last Chance Harvey (Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson), World’s Greatest Dad (Robin Williams) and A.C.O.D. (Adam Scott, Amy Poehler and Jessica Alba)….
Quantel has appointed LineUP as its reseller partner in Brazil for its full range of Quantel news and sports production systems and post finishing systems as well as the complete Snell Live TV and TV Everywhere product ranges. Founded in 1990 by a team of broadcast engineers, LineUP delivers services covering engineering, project management, sales, technical support and technical services for the broadcast, education and corporate markets….
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