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Day of Depp: Happy Birthday Mah Woo May!

Tags: Celebrity Birthday, Johnny Depp, Johnny Depp in New Mexico

Up on the Hill: Indie Go Go New Mexico

“We need your support to finish this IMPORTANT film that exposes the environmental poisoning of the land, the health effects on the community, the contamination of the drinking water, and the profiteering of Los Alamos National Labs. As co-producer of this feature documentary, we urge your to donate, what you can to help us finish this film. This film will world-wide distribution, but we need your help for us to raise finishing funds. The deadline for the fundraiser is June 1, 2012. Our hope is that we can finish prior to Hiroshima Day, August 6, 2012.”

-Angelie Gamboa, Producer/Director &
Thomas Jaggers, Producer/Writer
“Up On The Hill”
www.UpOnTheHillFilm.com
ag@uponthehillfilm.com

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Tags: Documentary Film, Fund Raising, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, Up on the Hill

Kutch in Space, New Mexico Style

Moore may be reticent on a return to New Mexico, but Kutcher is reportedly signed-up for the $200K space flight via NM’s Own Spaceport America!

Commercial space adventure pioneer, Sir Richard Branson announced his latest star client Monday saying, “I gave Ashton a quick call to congratulate and welcome him. He is as thrilled as we are at the prospect of being among the first to cross the final frontier with us and to experience the magic of space for himself.”

MTV News Reports (sans mention of NM):

When you’re a single guy in your 30s making more than $700,000 per episode on a sitcom, there isn’t much that’s out of your financial reach. Wanna go out and buy a car today with cash? Go for it. Hell, buy two!

That and the actor’s “whatever, dude” attitude might explain why British adventure billionaire Richard Branson announced on his blog this week that Ashton Kutcher, 34, has signed up to be the 500th space tourist on Branson’s Virgin Galactic airlines. The suborbital spacecraft will give passengers a few minutes of weightlessness at a cost of $200,000 per ride.

Branson expects to launch a test flight beyond the Earth’s atmosphere this year and possibly start sending commercial passengers into space in 2013 or 2014 on its six-passenger jets.

Of course, that’s if things progress on track. In the meantime, we were wondering: What other kinds of outer-limits adventures or experiences Ashton could have while he’s awaiting a shot at the great beyond? » Read the full post

Tags: Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Native New Mexican, New Mexico Native, Sir Richard Branson, Spaceport America, Virgin Galactic

Sanjaya ROCKS This State of Independence, NM Style

Sanjaya says…

The American Idol alum keeps the music going this summer on tour with The Brave Chandeliers and Chris Blair in the State of Independence Tour!

The whirlwind that is this tour has already performed at the season 2 premiere of NM’s Own (and now mainstream’s only Hispanic lead comedy show) The After After Party with Steven Michael Quezada, visited with 2 Kasa Fox on New Mexico Style and given a bevvy of interviews between appearances.

HERE with OHI fave Bad Boy Carlos D on 93.3 KOB Pop Music Malakar took a min. or two to talk the Q and beyond!

As he tells it straight to our resident Bad Boy Albuquerque has a few more up-close and in person performances ahead from the tour including Vernon’s Black Diamond Lounge, Knuckleheads, Nativo Lodge…

Thanks to 93.3 for the intimate audio with the Idol!

I hear he’s super sweet, shy & a big fan of cookies…

Here’s a taste of the Sanjaya’s current sound: (and be sure to click the links above to see & keep up with the rest of his ABQ visit)

Tags: 93.3 KOB FM, Bad Boy Carlos D, Chris Blair, Kasa Fox 2, Nativo Lodge, New Mexico Style, Sanjaya Malakar, State of Independence Tour, Steven Michael Quezada, The After After Party, The Brave Chandeliers, Vernon's

New Mexico Big Screen String: Lit. Edition

ICYDK: You can’t throw a stone without hitting someone or something tied to NM Film – but don’t.

Like the intricate threads woven throughout classic literature…such as in a Cormac McCarthy novel turned film…like the Coen Bro’s Oscar® winning turn at the McCarthy best selling novel, No Country for Old Men, so is New Mexico woven into the fiber of Global Film…

Garret Dillahunt the lovably daft undersheriff to Tommy Lee Jones in No Country is named as the lead in the New Mexico production of The Boys of Abu Ghriab.

Another No Country star, Woody Harrelson is soon to be seen in the HBO original film Game Change which recently wrapped Northern N. Mex. filming…

The Coen bros put “pen to paper” for the reboot of the 1966 film Gambit, this time out starring Cameron Diaz & Colin Firth now filming in…yes, New Mexico!

The likewise best selling Dean Koontz novel turned highly anticipated NM movie, Odd Thomas is (back) at work this week.

Odd director Stephen Sommers also churned out 2009′s GI Joe which starred Sienna Miller and Channing Tatum…Sienna’s current project, Just Like a Woman is now casting and set to shoot right here in NM.

Tatum’s upcoming New Mexico movie Ten Year is expected to premiere this year…but you never can tell, another GI Joe co-star Rachel Nichols starred in the NM film Bird of the Air (formerly titled The Loop) and we’re still waiting on its release.

This isn’t the first NM term for Odd Thomas star Anton Yelchin, who is back for another run as he was for the soon to be released thriller Fright Night.

Anton’s co-star in Fright, Colin Farrell is too a repeat NM filmer as he previously starred opposite the Oscar® winning Jeff Bridges in…the wholly New Mexico film Crazy Heart.

Bridges also worked in NM…in last year’s True Grit along side Matt Damon who first worked NM waay back in ’99 in All the Pretty Horses a film based on the novel of the same name by…you guessed CORMAC MCCARTHY…

And that’s a Big Screen String…New Mexico Style!

Tags: Anton Yelchin, Cameron Diaz, Channing Tatum, Colin Farrell, Colin Firth, Ehtan Coen, Garret Dillahunt, Jeff Bridges, Joel Coen, Matt Damon, Rachel Nichols, Sienna Miller, Stephen Sommers, The Boys of Abu Ghraib, The Coen Brothers