I woke up today mentally still clinging to a piece of garland. The weekend after New Years... no matter how hard we try to justify it, the holidays have been officially liquidated. No pun intended.So... as I drag my This-Was-A-Mistake...
Good Morning! Good Very Early in the Freakin’ Morning, America! On Tuesday the Spring Awakening crew headed to ABC to encourage people around the nation to donate their lightly used coats to the homeless or other less fortunate who can’t...
Wow. I am so on fire right now with all the things that I want to get done and am getting done in January. And it's not a New Years resolution thing at all. It's just that the holiday slow...
Thanksgiving? Done. Christmas? Done. New Year? Here. Me? I'm here too. Only I'm not real sure where "here" is, or where I'm trying to go. I don't know if I need to go back to therapy, find myself a life...
Literally. I've been pretty good since I've returned from home - I hit the ground running with a thorough clean-up of my apartment. Granted, I have yet to hit the gym or the studio, but a long overdue purge has...
Migrating Forms Festival (formerly the New York Underground Film Festival) is accepting submissions. The festival runs in New York from April 15 to 19. If accepted filmmakers will have the opportunity to get media exposure from renowned outlets such as The Village Voice, The New York Times, New York Press, The Onion, Filmmaker, and IndieWIRE. Concerts, interactive screenings, and parties during each night of the festival help bring together filmmakers, alumni, industry, and guests. The deadline is January 15. This festival accepts all genres and and filmmakers working within or against experimental, documentary or avant-garde traditions are especially encouraged to...
There are plenty of familiar names in the casting announcements recently made for some upcoming L.A, productions. The Rubicon Theatre’s revisit to Edward Albee’s lacerating classic Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, opening January 31, will topline Emmy-winner Joe Spano (of NCIS, Hill Street Blues, and NYPD Blue, and many acclaimed theatre productions), pictured, as George, opposite Rubicon’s founder Karyl Lynn Burns as Martha. Jason Chanos will play Nick, and at this writing, the role of Honey is to be cast. It was previously announced that Leslie Uggams would star as legendary actor-singer Lena Horne in the Pasadena Playhouse’s bio-musical Stormy...
Pat Hingle, the folksy, grandpa-like actor who played dozens of character roles on stage and screen, died on Sat. Jan. 3 at his home in Carolina Beach, NC. He was 84. Hingle was one of those actors who would cause you to say, "Oh yeah, I know that guy, but what's his name?" Many of the obits are first listing his stint as Commisoner Gordon in the Batman franchise as his best-known role, but he was a father to Sally Field in Norma Rae and Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass. On Broadway he starred as the title character...
So did you keep track of all your auditions, callbacks and bookings in 2008? If not, it's probably a good idea to start this in 2009, not only to track your progress but also to keep track of all your new casting contacts and hopefully fans. If you did keep track, you get a gold star! So now's a good time to go over any trends you may notice. Did you do better with comedy? Were you called in more with one picture type? Were you called in multiple times by a certain casting director? Check your log...did you keep...
The Beverly Hills Film Festival is still accepting submissions in the short film category. Your shorts should be 50 minutes or less in length and they'll accept films of all genres and formats. This festival does require a press kit and upon acceptance you should have the film in final format ready to submit if you had a sent a work in progress. Here is a list of all the materials that you will need to have ready to submit to the BHFF:All materials will need to be into the festival office no later than February 15th excluding the master...
Looks awfully similar to the five we've picked as the Oscar best picture contenders, with "The Dark Knight" taking another step toward The World's Most Ginormous/Prestigious Film Award.The Producers Guild of America, like a lot of other critics' and industry...
This is a serious bit of awards derbying, and we know that by facts such as these: Eve, the lucite love interest from "WALL-E," and "JCVD" star Jean-Claude Van Damme were among those in the running for best performances. With...
It's the kind of discount movie theater where $5 buys you the largest tub of 'corn -- good, too! -- and the only reason the ticket's $5 is because it's a weekend and "Synecdoche, New York" is billed as a...
Earlier this year it was Tom Cruise, then Miley Cyrus. And now this week, it's Larry Gelbart, two-time Oscar nominee and co-creator of the Emmy-winning TV series "M*A*S*H" and sitcom vet Paul Reiser. Not Reiser! Nooooooooo!Who are these morbid Internet...
Why are we and all our Oscar prognosticating brethren watching hours worth of Important Films and going through rounds and rounds of carefully considered awards picks when we could just consult with "mentalist to the stars" and "corporate event entertainer"...
