Commercial production and post company Bella has entered into a representation agreement with Maureen “Mo” Butler, the founder of Chicago-based Mo Butler Reps. Butler now represents Bella’s talents throughout the U.S. Midwest. Recently launched as a stand-alone company after seven years under the auspices of Fivestone Studios, the Nashville, Tenn.-based Bella, which is headed by executive producer David Perry, now serves as the exclusive home for directors Anthony Pellino, Jeremy Liebovitch, and Robert Adamo. Bella’s roster editors are Brandon Roten, Christian Whittemore, Ken Conrad, and Tim Moore. Bella’s representation team also includes Devine Reps on the East and West Coasts, and Jack Reed in the South….
Atlanta-based advertising agency Ammunition has appointed Jeanna Welday to serve as VP of client partnership. Welday joins Ammunition with more than 12 years of experience in the advertising and marketing industry, having previously held positions at BBDO, Tailfin Marketing, and most recently, Definition6. While working agency-side, she has helped shape clients including the Georgia Lottery, Saia LTL Freight, Chick-fil-A, Atlanta Hawks, Oldcastle, and the American Heart Association. Earlier this year, Ammunition acquired the Mat Hat Creative production and postproduction studio. The acquisition contributed to a 15% increase in headcount and added award-winning video production capabilities, moment graphics, and media planning and buying, providing clients with truly end-to-end advertising services….
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