Splendid & Co. is the new moniker for executive producers Erin Tauscher and Taylor Ferguson’s LA..-based production company. After 13 years as trio films, the shop has re-launched as Splendid, .
Director Tim Keul is a new addition to the Splendid roster. Keul is a European director known for beauty and fashion. He has been directing for more than 10 years all over the world for international brands like Avon, Olay, Nivea, H&M and VW.
One of several new offerings emerging from the re-launch is Adolescent Content, a division of Splendid founded by director Ramaa Mosley and executive producer Hope Farley representing directors ages 13-25 years old. Adolescent’s aim is to harness and cultivate each young director’s natural visual and storytelling gift and to connect them with advertising agencies and brands looking for a unique and youthful voice for a wide range of projects. Mosley serves as creative director and mentor.
Splendid also has a first look deal with film producer Robert Stein (The Call, Careful What You Wish For, The Road Within). The company is currently in development on a feature film with Stein slated to shoot in North Carolina in the fall of 2014.
First up in the new year for Splendid is a three-spot campaign for Southwest Airlines with GSD&M. Director/DP Mosley shot in Los Angeles and New York.
Splendid continues to be repped on the East Coast by Carl Forsberg & Marianne McCarley/FM Artists, in the Mid-West by Catherine DeAngelis/Hot Betty and on the West Coast by Lisa Gimenez/Manifest Creative.
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