Johan de Nysschen has been named president and CEO of ARRI Americas Inc. He oversees the entire region in all functional areas, including ARRI Rental North America and Illumination Dynamics. He will report directly to Matthias Erb, chairman of the executive board at ARRI.
Johan de Nysschen brings extensive experience as an Executive Board Member at several global companies.
During his career, de Nysschen–who brings extensive experience as an executive board member at several global companies–successfully led several transformation processes together with international teams. In his role as a consultant for ARRI over the past several months, de Nysschen has already been able to spearhead the company’s first important transitional steps.
ARRI also retains the talents of Glenn Kennel who supervised the Americas team for many years. Kennel, who reports directly to de Nysschen, now serves as executive VP sales for ARRI Americas and shall bring his many years of experience to the new role.
Erb commented, “The Americas has been a key region for ARRI for many decades and its future success and development is vital for ARRI globally. We will continue to systematically expand our business into new market segments such as live entertainment, corporate, and studios which hold major potential across all business units. To take these next steps, we are further developing our global organization including ARRI Americas.”
“ARRI is an inspiring company,” added de Nysschen. “Its product portfolio has inspired creatives in Hollywood and around the world for decades and ARRI still has so much to offer, not only for motion pictures but also in live entertainment, virtual production, and beyond. I look forward to the challenge of facilitating a new era for ARRI in the Americas.”
ARRI Americas Inc. was the company’s first subsidiary outside of Germany, set up as The ARRIFLEX Corporation of America in 1958. Today, ARRI Americas Inc. oversees a region which includes ARRI and ARRI Rental offices across the United States, Canada, and Brazil. Illumination Dynamics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ARRI Rental, manages two locations in the United States: in Los Angeles, California, and Charlotte, North Carolina.
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