Tool has promoted sr. executive producer Oliver Fuselier to managing director/exec producer of live action. Since joining Tool in 2011, Fuselier has overseen a steady stream of the studio’s live-action and interactive projects. This includes acclaimed integrated executions like JFK Museum’s Clouds Over Cuba, JAM with Chrome, and Take This Lollipop, as well as spots for Go Daddy, Under Armour, Keystone Light, Mini, and AirBNB’s first ever broadcast campaign. Fuselier boasts over 20 years’ experience as a producer, counting directors David Fincher, Mike Mills, Kinka Usher, and Michael Bay among his many collaborators…..Writer/director Rob Pearlstein has joined the directorial roster at humble. His first comedy feature, Someone Marry Barry, was released in theaters nationwide and has reached the top 10 charts on iTunes in three categories: Comedy, Independents and Romance. A comedy specialist, Pearlstein’s short film, Our Time is Up, was nominated for an Academy Award. His work also includes episodic TV, commercials and a series of comedic web shorts documenting the story of Matumbo Goldberg, a young African-American man adopted by a witless suburban couple. Pearlstein grew up around advertising; his father, as well as an aunt and uncle, are all in the business. He interned at ChiatDay and eventually became a copywriter, working on brands such as Samsung, Twix and USA Network. Seeking to move into entertainment, he parlayed his skills as a copywriter and his background in production into a career in short-form, episodic and feature work. Since then he’s sold feature screenplays to Warner Brothers, Universal and Working Title, and written original pilots for all of the major networks and several cable networks. He served as a writer on NBC’s psychic thriller Medium and other series, and his Matumbo Goldberg short, which he wrote, directed and stars in (along with Anthony Anderson of Law and Order), was so well-received at Comedy Central, the network commissioned a series based on it….Comedy director Adam Gunser has joined Über Content He’s brought a mixture of warm comedic narrative and quirky, often surreal, visuals to brands internationally, with commercial productions in London, Australia and New Zealand. His playful approach to storytelling can be seen in his spot for the Monopoly game at McDonald’s for DDB Auckland/Sydney, where he crafted a city-size version of the board game; and Arnott’s “Shapes” through DDB Sydney which entailed building a functional giant record player, choreographing a sexy dance and getting some geeky men to rap and beat box. This year Adam extended his reach beyond the commercial format with his first short film “Killing Phillip,” which had its European premiere at the Clermont Ferrand in February, where it was listed in International Competition. Shot over five days in a remote part of New Zealand, the poignant story follows a 6-year old boy and his imaginary friend….
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