We can (and will) write the book on what NOT to do as the NEW Hollywood a.k.a. Homiewood, Tamalewood, Nuevowood, etc., etc.
Front cover Lindsay Lohan, back cover Paris Hilton…Ziiiing!!!
It’s a native New Mexican who gets my Tequila Shot of the Week, hailing from the Alien capital of the world…(if you don’t know by now – well then you just don’t know me at all, and I expect a “I’m sowwy” note delivered by Tues.)…MRS. Kutcher herself, cause’ ~sweet cakes needs to come’ on back!
Disney, isney, isney is casting TWO sets of Twins for the new Zack & Cody flick (Two for the Road, formerly Zack and Cody: the Suite Life on Deck) filming in British Columbia.
They’re looking for any ethnicity twins click here for submission deets.
J Thunder Studios (No Country, The Eye, 3:10 to Yuma, In the Valley of Elah, The Burning Plain, Crazy Heart, Terminator Salvation, Year One, Breaking Bad {pilot}) is holding an Open Casting Call for a Feature, promotional trailer manana
Where: Title Wave Books in Albuquerque [1408 Eubank NE Albuquerque
Oy! It’s an ELECTION year & New Mexico will have its first Governess come November!!! It will be Diane Denish or that other lady, (I keed, I keed) but either way the facts are out there for the taking…The candidates have their own sites and there are political bloggers in town that have tons of great info. to help inform and inspire us! So get your VOTE ON, we all gotta do it and make it count!
Money Matters: If you haven’t already utilized ‘em Albuquerque on the Cheap and Groupon are discount sites to help ya’ with all your Q Spot spending!!!
The biggest wine fest in the state is a great Summer wrap party – music, arts, food and of course great wine. It’s always a hot crowd, fun peeps, good times…
It’s been a long time since Demi Moore was a but a child from Roswell New Mexico. She’s experienced quite the trajectile ride from Area 51 to center stage/screen, global dogooding, to gyrating on rappers and her youthful hubs.
But something the Dems ain’t done es una película de Nuevo México. Yes, from the time she absconded to and conquered La, la land, to her infamous purchases of small town America and commendable humanitarian efforts…N. Mex hasn’t seen much of ‘er.
Let’s git’ wit Mrs. Kutcher (@mrskutcher) and ask her when she’s coming home, who does she want for her home state’s first Governess, when she’s gonna make a flick here, etc., etc.
Because we is good people – from So. Nem. to North 40 and everywhere in-between, whose booming film industry could really use a boost from her wattage – a little love from the Roswellian could result in more j-o-b-s which she could help parlay in to more philanthropic ways from we her neglected homies.
Before you hate on me (y’all didn’t even know she did half this stuff till I tol’ you) for bein’ hater I ain’t hatin’ I’m just callin’ a sister back home.
The Dems is currently betwixt Chi-town, Motor City and Gay Paree shooting the sure to be cinematic gold LOL: Laughing Out Loud with Miley Cyrus (who filmed her BIG Hannah Montana movie in her home state of Tennessee…hmmmm).
Maybe Dems, Kutch and the affable Willis can star in the sure to be remade Threesome, N. Mex Style…a.k.a. two slabs of beef with extra cheese!
And p.s. if Moore has any trouble finding us…NPH can show her the way
The stage production of Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me Ultima begins its New Mexico run in October through November. Click here for the full schedule presented by The Vortex Theatre and The National Hispanic Cultural Center.
Auditions
Albuquerque: As we told you here The Box Performance Space/Improv Theater will be holding open auditions for their production of Guys and Dolls Jr. this week for performances in October. Click for full audition deets.
Santa Fe: The Santa Fe Playhouse is now casting “Empty Bed Blues,”
by British Playwright, Stephen Lowe
directed by Dan Gerrity.
Saturday, Sept 4th at 4:30 PM; Sunday, Sept 5th at 5:00 PM.
Character descriptions and story synopsis here.
Post inspired by NM stage+ actors Manny Baca, Neil Patrick Harris, Jesse Tyler Ferguson et al…
Oscar winner Ryan Bingham and The Dead Horses Band release Junky Star today.
Here’s what the Washington Post had to say about the NM native:
“Junky Star, also produced by [T-Bone] Burnett, isn’t the showy, big-budget career-solidifier it might have been; luckily, it’s precisely the sort of underplayed album Bingham might have made if his Hollywood detour had never happened.
Bingham wraps his hoarse, well-worn voice — the aural equivalent of Marlboros and Levis 501s — around a collection of barroom folk songs that, musically and thematically, cast back to vintage Dylan and, more specifically, “Nebraska”-era Springsteen.” – Allison Stewart
Toni Collette did not take home a statue this year but was awarded the Emmy last year for lead actress in a drama series for the United States of Tara (Edie Falco got the award this year for Nurse Jackie). Collette is currently in town filming Fright Night.
Resident designer, part time director and “rancher” Tom Ford dressed the event’s host, Jimmy Fallon among other nominees, winners and presenters.
Temporary New Mexican Joan Allen, was up for lead actress in her NM film Georgia O’Keeffe which was nominated for Best TV Movie, Art Direction, Best Casting, Best Directing, Best Hairstyling, Best Makeup, Best Music Composition and Best Costumes. – HELLO!
You memmer him, he and his gorgeous familia – who shared their awesome pics with all of us. Oh of course you know his name…as does THREE time consecutive winner for lead actor in a drama series Bryan (standing ovation from TOM HANKS) Cranston!!! (as heard above)
With a blog post almost as vast and colorful as our NM vistas, actress Olivia Wilde waxes romantic over the beauty and goodness of our capital city.
The Cowboys and Aliens star regularly tweeted little glimpses of her observations and experiences these many months of filming in the Land of Enchantment and she bids us adieu in this quaint novella where she wraps with:
“I have really enjoyed my experience in Santa Fe, and there is so much more I could write about (maybe I will) but for now, consider this a love letter to the above mentioned ingredients to my happy summer in my latest home away from home.”
Thank you Miss Wilde for the love letter that leaves us so much warmer and fuzzier than the the online morning after cab fair on the nightstand that is a Tweety-bye-bye.
Don’t forget to join our quest to get the likes of Cowboys back to NM for a local premiere gala!
“Fright Night (Toni Collette [fresh off the Emmy red carpet], Imogen Poot, Colin Farrell) for TUESDAY 8/31/10: Asian High Rollers, Cooks, Busboys, Old Tan “George Hamilton” Guys, Frat Boys, Conventioneers, Upscale High Roller Men with suits, HOT Sexy Nightclub People, Security Guards, HOT Cougars. MUST be in OLC database. Possible multiple days (9/1 and 9/2). Call time likely 5am and must be available ALL day at Hard Rock Casino. If available, post here.”
Again, get registered in the OLC database (BASIC REGISTRATION IS FREE, upload 1-2 photos and info, profile upgrade is optional) – Link
The reigning King and Queen of New Mexico Steven Michael and Cherise Quezada hit the red carpet in L.A. today with their eldest daughter (who’s easily giving those young stars a run for their money), direct from Homiewood to Hollywood as part of the incredibles a.k.a. the cast & crew of AMC’s original series Breaking Bad.
As we’ve ~reported here before the world renowned series is up for 7 awards tonight including best drama series and best lead actor for Bryan Cranston (his third nom, w/two previous wins!!!).
Native New Mexican’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Neil Patrick Harris (above) also in da’ house! Tune in to E! for pre-show interviews and NBC for the live awards show hosted by Jimmy Fallon.
Images courtesy of the Quezadas
Steven Michael Quezada with Breaking Bad co-star Aaron Paul, Eva Longoria, Miss. Renee Quezada with Kim Kardashian, Cherise with LL Cool J, Steven Cherise & Renee
Here’s some of what we talked about Friday Night in-house with Big Benny on 97.7 omg! Radio:
Stage, Small Screen, Big Screen ETA’s…and more!
Hit the stage, get the lil’ ones on the road to their performing arts career by getting your Glee on in Albuquerque musical theater (not unlike, NM’s Own NPH)!
Auditions for Guys and Dolls Jr. are Thursday Sept. 2 and Saturday Sept. 4 for actors and actresses 8-17 years old! Full deets on cold reading and acapella audition specs here.
Small screen: YOU may have a shot to run your very own morning t.v. show. Our local Fox affiliate, KASA Fox 2 will be airing a daily a.m. style and talk show click here for more info.
Another gory Horror for NM? We can dream. It is being ~reported that the upcoming vampire, western, horror High Midnight will shoot in New Mexico late this year or early next.
Cast in the lead is Vincent D’Onofrio whom I just saw taking an adorably gross turn in the original MIB wearing himself as a skin suit (memmer?), but nothing can touch his sickness in one of the only two good Jennifer Lopez movies, The Cell.
William Baldwin and sexpot Elizabeth Hurley will also star. Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary, Urban Legends 3) is set to direct.
Synopsis:
“Unforgiven” meets “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” The story centers on a washed up sheriff who joins forces with an obsessed Victorian vampire hunter in order to stop an evil undead force from consuming a frontier town in 1892.
Tagline: In the Wild West a lot of blood was spilled… but it didn’t go to waste.
We welcome you with open arms, glorious vistas and major incentives…Bring your premiere galas and events to the land that holds you so dear! ‘LIKE’ this page…it worked for the Great White Betty! Let’s go New Mexico!
My personal New Mexican of the week is the Q Spot’s own Erica Viking! Her show is simply kickin’ a** and takin’ names in the Q and beyond and she did an awesome job all week featuring all the people and events of the Albuquerque Film Festival!
Hard to believe it’s only the second annual event with its loaded schedule which wraps this weekend with ongoing all day workshops and all night film screenings plus end of the night bashes every night now through Sunday at the Hard Rock Casino – Click here for the weekend’s full schedule, including an actor’s panel and the Last Movie, a Dennis Hopper Retrospective
Also tonight at the Hard Rock: Albuquerque the Magazine’s Hot Singles Party is finally here!
p.s. Congrats Dan Mayfeild. The former Journal staffer is now ABQ the mag Editor in Chief! (mini-woot!)
Ummmmm okay, so WWE makes movies – I did not know this. And it looks like before this hawt former wrestler hits the city otro vendrá…
WWE’s latest production, currently titled Blood Brothers is slated for a 2012 release. The movie is set to shoot in the Q starting in early October. Woot!
John Cena (uh, humina humina, above) will star in the story of three brothers, a Police Officer (Cena), a Bail Bondsman and a thief seeking a reward the FBI has offered for the return of a kidnapped American billionaire being held in a Mexican dungeon (because we play that and the apocalypse so well).
The PW Insider exclusively reports that this is the first WWE film…that has not been shot in New Orleans (one of our top competitors in film production).
As always more deets to follow, ollow, ollow…
Here’s the cute, muscley goodness on hosting duty at TMZ just a few weeks ago: (¡Bienvenida a Albuquerque!)
Memaws and Abuilitas from coast to coast can rejoice at the answered prayers from the sky in Nuevo México from yesterday’s rain storm.
Local DJ “Dex” Toth from none-other than The EDGE gets an other worldly response when he prompts his brood to harken the LORD!
Shazam! Ride the biblical proportions lightening! Oh my Geesus even made it onto the local news (well, their web extries anyway)! Take that burnt toast Jesus!
The hotness that is the ABQ Hot Singles party is here!
The issue, on stands now is chalk full of some of Albuquerque’s most desirable, but you know you’re a hot ticket too, so get to the party where all the singleness can shine, mix & mingle together!
Click here for full deets and a glimpse of par-tays past…the video is a MUST see.
Go Q, get your groove on…Tix available at the door this Friday night at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Albuquerque, the goodness starts at 7 p.m.
