As part of the reorganization in the wake of the merger between New York ad shops Bozell and Lowe, Andrew Chinich, formerly head of production at Bozell, will replace Nick Felder as executive VP/director of broadcast production at Lowe. Felder, however, will remain at Lowe in a newly created senior role in the production department….Scott Mitchell and Chris Bing have been promoted, respectively, to director and deputy director of creative broadcast production at FCB, Chicago. They succeed senior VP/director of broadcast production Mike Leary, a longtime FCB staffer….Mark Barasch has resigned from Palace Studios-NYC and opened SoundImage at Photomag, a music/audio post shop in the former Photomag space in New York. Joining Barasch—who will hold the title of president—at SoundImage are mixers Bobby Elder, Kenny Fredrickson, P. Dennis Mitchell, Michael Levesque and Jared Seidman, as well as director of operations Lucy DeJesus….New York-based audioEngine has added mixer John Grant, formerly of Photomag, New York….Albert Hughes, half of the Hughes brothers directing duo (From Hell, Dead Presidents, Menace II Society), has signed with @Tate, Santa Monica, for exclusive spot representation. At press time, he was wrapping an @Tate-produced EA Sports campaign for Odiorne Wilde Narraway+Partners, San Francisco. Meanwhile, Allen Hughes is currently directing a pilot for USA Network about a special investigative unit that tracks serial killers. He continues to be affiliated with Oil Factory Films, Hollywood, and will again be available for commercials effective April 8….Executive producer Elvia Gaitan has launched Pistolera Post. The new Santa Monica shop opens with editors Patrick Sheffield and Greg Chamberlain….Editor Chris Jones has joined DownStream digital, Portland, Ore…..After eight years in the New York office of bicoastal Crew Cuts, editor Nicole Futoran has joined Steel Rose Editorial, New York…. Blair Hayes is currently directing a one-hour pilot for producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Warner Bros. Television. The drama is titled Fearless and is based on the series of young adult novels by Francine Pascal. Hayes is scheduled to again be available for spot work beginning April 7 via Area 51 Films, Santa Monica….
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