Nexus Studios has added the directorial team of Mike & Payne to its global talent roster. The duo is able to create seamlessly across 3D, 2D and a hybrid of live action and animation. The director’s clients include Riot Games, Adidas, Nike, SKII, Honda and Spotify. Mike & Payne’s work has been featured in Vimeo Staff picks and has won Gold and Silver Promax awards….
Director Jack Weatherley has joined production company Banjoman for representation in Ireland. Throughout his career, he’s directed commercials for brands including Nike, Rolex, and LinkedIn–as well as working with major names in the sporting world such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, and Paul Pogba. Alongside his commercial work, Weatherley has garnered worldwide recognition for his short films and narrative projects. His short film Pieces, for example, starred Michael Smiley and George MacKay and premiered at the 57th BFI London Film Festival….
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