Production company and creative consultancy The Bigger Picture has expanded its sales team, connecting with Nathan Skillicorn’s indie firm Heart, Brains & Nerve for exclusive representation in the Midwest….
VFX studio Electric Theatre Collective fortifies its L.A. team with the hiring of Alex Gorodetzki as head of sales. Electric maintains studios in London and L.A. Gorodetzki will be tasked with growing the business in the U.S. market for both Electric Theatre and sister company, Friends Electric, a creative production studio. Gorodetzki joins from The Enthusiast Network’s (now The Motor Trend Group) internal production and post studio where he developed a client base that included Nike, VIZIO, Infiniti and Mazda. Prior to The Enthusiast Network, Gorodetzki headed up business development at LOGAN and Picture Mill where he focused on developing relationships with brands such as Apple, NFL, Google and Electronic Arts and developed close relationships with global agencies that include BBDO, JWT and Goodby Silverstein & Partners. Before Picture Mill, he helped launched Elastic where he was EP before becoming head of sales for Elastic and sister brands Rock Paper Scissors and a52….
Zoic Labs, an advanced visualization software product company and sister company to Emmy-winning entertainment company Zoic Studios, has teamed up with Alchemy Tech and Entertainment Group for strategic business development. Alchemy is a boutique consulting firm facilitating partnerships and business development solutions for the entertainment technology industry. Led by industry veterans Annie Hanlon and Lisa Gerber, Alchemy will partner with Zoic Labs and EVP Matt Thunell to connect brands and clients with Zoic Labs’ data-driven storytelling, VR/AR/MR, and UI/UX solutions at the intersection of Hollywood-level entertainment and technology. Hanlon is a business development executive and executive producer with 20 years of experience covering a wide range of creative projects including AR/VR, traditional film and TV, digital content, commercials and documentary production. Gerber has been at the frontlines of entertainment since her start in TV and feature casting. As a connector for thought leaders at top tier technology and entertainment companies, Gerber led strategic partnerships at The Advanced Imaging Society….
James Fraser has joined the Deluxe Post Production sales team in Toronto in the role of VP, sales. He reports to the division’s Mark Smirnoff, EVP, sales. In his new role with Deluxe, Fraser will be working alongside Christa Tazzeo Morson and be responsible for feature, OTT and television sales. Fraser has over 20 years of experience in the film and television industry, most recently as sales executive at Technicolor. Prior to his career in post, Fraser worked for 10 years as a production coordinator and production manager on more than 20 film and television projects including Max Payne, The Time Traveler’s Wife, and Lars and the Real Girl. He is a graduate of Ryerson University’s Radio and Television Arts program….
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