“Over 20 students from the Public Academy for Performing Arts star in this Public Service Announcement for the New Mexico Film Industry, the New Mexico Film Office, [and] the New Mexico Public Education Department.” – PAPA
Among the many who are passionate about this novel is local investigative reporter extraordinaire and fan, Jeremy Jojola who was recently able to sit down with New Mexican author Rudolfo Anaya who shares his feelings about his classic work, Bless Me Ultima moving onto film.
Here’s hoping we catch at least a glimpse of each of thee above (Jojola à la Transformers and Anaya à la Stan Lee in Spider-Man), and many, many more locals in front of and behind the camera.
Local “people hoping to be cast in the film can send their photo to castinnewmexico@yahoo.com” – KOB.com
Casting for feature roles as previously reported here.
Build your reel – Get your slasher on for copy, credit and meals.
“GWG Motion Picture Company, an up-and-coming Albuquerque independent film company, is currently looking to fill several different speaking roles for a horror/sci-fi short film scheduled to shoot later this summer. We are looking for male and female actors, ages 18-25, who are not afraid of running, screaming and getting tons of fake blood splattered on them. We have virtually no budget for this picture, but you will get meals during filming, and receive a DVD of the film when it is finished.
Auditions will be held the week of September 5th. Filming is currently being scheduled for September 24-28. Please send resumes, head shots and contact information to lastsummercasting@gmail.com.
Please include the following information: sex, age, phone number, and email address. We will contact you with audition dates and times.
Plot:
Last Summer is [a] film about a group of friends who embark on a weekend camping trip that turns horrifying when zombies show up, only to find that the most unlikely member of their group eerily has powers that no zombie can match”
Feature roles being cast:
JASON (LEAD): Male, age 19, Anglo/Hispanic, brown hair, very handsome and muscular, star football player for military academy (Quarterback), articulate and well-spoken, classy dresser, loves the outdoors, very loyal to his friends, has been with Brandy for years, a bit reckless, heavy partier.
BRANDY (LEAD): Female, age 18, any race, brown hair, still in high school, attractive in a conservative way, very smart, anti-social, slightly troubled, and sweet, has been with Jason for years.
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Sheryl Roberts Casting (The Dry Land, Crash, In Plain Sight) is casting the feature film (allegedly titled) “Psyche” (sounds like a code name to me…)
What: PAID ROLES in this NON-UNION film.
Who: Specific looking types. Previous acting experience is not necessary.
“If you feel you look right for a part, please submit.
We are looking for people with a strong desire to play the role. Our coaches will work with you.
The film will premiere at the Century Rio 24 Theater in Albuquerque. Every actor will receive a DVD and will have their credit listed.
When: Starting September 3rd. Locations are in and around Albuquerque. We will make arrangements to film children on the weekend.
Send your Pictures/Headshots to Jennifer at:
laschicas003@hotmail.com ASAP!!!!
Kindly specify which part you are submitting for.
YOU MUST INCLUDE A PHONE NUMBER SO THAT WE CAN BOOK YOU IMMEDIATELY!!!
WE ARE CASTING IMMEDIATELY!!! Shooting dates have been moved up!!!”
- Sheryl Roberts Casting
According to the New Mexico Film Office the following roles are casting NOW:
Josephine’s Mother (age 45-50) – Prefer Boston accent, possibly New York, dark hair and dark eyes.
Peter* (age 6)- Caucasian, light blue eyes, dirty blond/light brown hair. Always blamed for everything.
Peter’s brother* (age 9-10) – Caucasian, Light blue eyes, can have darker brown hair. Picks on Peter and always wants the attention.
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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!
Local actor Eric Martinez of NM’s ABC series’ In Plain Sight, Scoundrels (and much more) was on the carpet with our focus of the night Steven Michael Quezada.
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)
For more…read on
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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!
Via On Location Casting:
“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
Original Theatrical Trailer:
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.
via Reelblog
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!)
As we told you here the hugely popular, classic novel Bless Me Ultima by native New Mexican Rudolfo Anaya is big screen bound.
And as promised current casting deets (extras+ will have diff. specs) are as follows…The long and the short of it is this; SAG actors only and said SAG actors MUST be registered on Actors Access and have “Red Agency Las Vegas” added to their account.
If you’re SAG and Access ready read on for the specs on the currently listed roles…
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UPdATE: Ummm, Shizamm! Here is Penn on the afore/latter (depending on what order you’re reading this) mentioned Dublin set of the soon to be headed to NM film, This Must be the Place. YOWZA! – via my beloved Michael K.
The Alamogordo Daily News has been cast in the upcoming Sean Penn flick set to film in So. Nem’s Tularosa Basin.
In addition to shooting in Ireland and one of our top our U.S. film location competitors MI, “This Must be the Place” has tapped the hometown paper to be featured in the film which is also currently seeking to cast paid extras for the NM shoot.
The movie co-stars Frances McDormand and Harry Dean Stanton, written by Umberto Contarello and Paolo Sorrentino who is also directing.
Read on for casting deets and plot summary…
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The NM film Inhale shot under the title ‘Run For Her Life’ will be released on DVD in September.
Thank God it’s not Montag – the latest co-star headed to NM to scream, slash, holler & shriek alongside the hotness that is Colin Farrell, who’s becoming a veteran NM actor is…Emily Montague (Melrose Place, CSI, Days of Our Lives) hmmmmmm.
Welcome Ms. M. And perhaps some of you will be enjoying craft-service at tonight’s ALL NIGHT shoot of the Fright Night redux in Albuquerque…
It may not be Forever yet, but another one of the adolescent classic novels by the prolific author Judy Blume is being committed to film right here in NM later this Fall.
The writer herself invites die-hards to give their very own input on casting the cherished characters of Tiger Eyes here.
Amber Entertainment and the British supermarket chain Tesco are partnered on this direct to DVD feature that will be sold exclusively at the chain for the first three months of distribution.
The film is part of a multi-picture deal of the Amber/Tesco partnership in which works by Jackie Collins, Rebecca Stead, and Blume have and will be produced.
As we told you here the beloved book that is soon to be a stage production is now set to become a feature film.
Bless Me Ultima, the classic novel by native New Mexican Rudolfo Anaya will be written and directed for the big screen by Carl Franklin (High Crimes, One True Thing, Devil in a Blue Dress).
Production is slated to begin as early as next month in Nuévo Mexico!
Casting deets soon to follow.
This all New Mexico all the time (just the way we like it) movie begins its local run tonight at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque.
“Spoken Word was written by New Mexicans, and shot, produced and funded in the state. The screenplay was inspired by Santa Fe poet Joe Ray Sandoval’s work. He co-wrote the film with Bill Conway.” – NM Business Weekly
The film runs at the Guild through the 18th, then on to Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, Denver and Chicago.
Full production and distribution deets here.
Tags: Spoken Word, The Guild Cinema, Rubén Blades, Kuno Becker, Miguel Sandoval, Paul J. Porter, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Persia White, Tony Elias
“Founded by Stephen Cuomo, Buzz Networking Abq is a company dedicated to revolutionizing the way people approach, perceive, and enjoy both social and business networking. BuzzNetworkingABQ produces monthly high-energy Fashion Show Events in Albuquerque and Santa Fe.” -Buzzz505
Join Buzz Networking ABQ for their Fashion and Film Industry Night tomorrow night at Imbibe.
This event promises creative collaborations networking, mixing & mingling, call/sign-up for Albuquerque Film Festival volunteers and casting opps. for upcoming Art of Fashion Shows and “episode 2″.
Full event deets here.
Reviews are pouring in for this weekend’s directorial debut of NM’s Own Neil Patrick Harris. NPH took his very own production of RENT to the Hollywood Bowl with a mixed bag of talents and we’re hearing he churned out a performance worthy of the original.
From his ABQ roots performing at Musical Theatre Southwest straight through to his Emmy nominated run on the CBS hit series How I Met Your Mother Harris holds steady as on of NM’s brightest stars.
Besides his directorial duties, dogooding and his t.v. gig NPH will be back on the big-screen in 2011 (in 3D no less) when he reprises his stint in the Harold & Kumar movie series in A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas!
Also in 2011 he lends his zexy voice to the 3D animated film Smurfs and next month he will haunt the lives of evil doers as the voice of The Amazing Spiderman in the video game Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.
UPDATE: 8/15/10 “ALBUQUERQUE Notice “Lemonade Mouth” for MONDAY 8/16/10 at the Kimo Theatre. RUSH CALL for a 07:00am call time. Need CONCERT ROADIES – Male, age range 25-45, wearing all black. If you can rush to set Monday morning – call at 06:15am to 505-366-9863 to be booked and on set by 07:00am. We will not be near computer so won’t get facebook responses.” – Link
UPDATE: 8/14/10 “We are FULL on Grandparents and Caucasian Female Parents. Still need Male Parents and African American or Asian Female Parents.” – Link
To be considered for Lemonade Mouth casting you MUST have the basic registration with On Location Casting found here.
Then call them and/or post your contact info. on their FaceBook thread after the APPLICABLE casting call post.
Today’s post:
“ALBUQUERQUE Notice -”Lemonade Mouth” for MONDAY 8/9 & TUESDAY 8/10. MUST be available BOTH days. Need – African American Female Teacher, Male Basketball Coach, P.E. Teacher, Office Secretaries, High School age DANCERS with experience, 14-18 year old Students, 18 y/o African American Male. CALL the office for booking 505-341-2216″
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