Casting Turnover for 'Tomb Raider' Film Series

Square Enix might not have been especially happy with the performance of their new “Tomb Raider” game, but at least the reboot of the series was received favorably by fans and critics. That seems to have been enough for MGM and GK Films, who are teaming up to reboot the film series as well.

“I am thrilled to partner with [MGM CEO] Gary [Garber] and his MGM team on rebooting this successful ‘Tomb Raider’ film franchise. The enthusiasm over the recent game release is very encouraging and we can’t wait to bring it to the big screen,” GK Films founder Graham King said in a statement.

Development is said to begin immediately, though casting for the project has not been announced. King will act as a producer on the movie. It seems as though this will start the “Tomb Raider” film franchise from scratch, meaning no more Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft.

Read more

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.

Casting and Production Plans for 'Gigi' Comeback

NEW YORK -- Four decades after its Broadway premiere, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musical Gigi will return for the first time in a major revival.

our editor recommends

Directed by Eric D. Schaeffer, who staged the acclaimed 2011 revival of Follies, the show is being reworked in a new adaptation by British playwright Heidi Thomas, an Emmy-nominated television writer known for her work on Cranford, Upstairs Downstairs and Call the Midwife. A developmental reading is scheduled to take place in New York later this month.

Read more

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.

A Dark Comedy for Notable Casts

                               

EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Heigl and Patrick Wilson have signed on for Darko Entertainment’s dark comedy North Of Hell. Wilson will play Don Champage, a successful businessman who seems to have it all — including an obsessive wife (Heigl) who relentlessly controls everything in his life. Darko is financing the film with Skateland’s Anthony Burns directing and writing based on a story by Carlo Allen, Ted Elrick & Tom Lavagnino. Darko’s Sean McKittrick and Jeff Culotta, Burns, and AJ Buckley are producing. Darko’s Edward H. Hamm Jr., and Andre J. Champagne are executive producing. North Of Hell is scheduled to start production in Louisiana next month.

Read more 

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.

Thrilling Casting on Dan Nowak's Thriller Movie

Veteran line producer-turned-producer Ian Bryce is teaming up with Charlize Theron on an untitled crime project just set up at Paramount.

Theron is attached to star in and produce the feature via her Denver and Delilah label, with Bryce producing through his Paramount-based banner.

Dan Nowak, entering his third season as a writer on AMC's acclaimed crime series The Killing, is penning the script.

The project, described as being similar in tone to The Departed and End of Watch, revolves around a corrupt vigilante group.

Read more

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.

Unique Casting for 'Ginger & Rosa'

In October 1962, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, 13-year-old Sally Potter saw this doomsday scenario - every night in her dreams.

"It's very interesting, those people who can directly remember the crisis," says the filmmaker, whose beautiful Ginger & Rosa - about two London teenagers, fast friends caught in a whirl of personal and political tumult - is set during that fateful fall, when the whole world looked as if it were going to go ka-boom. "When you did live through it and you did have nightmares, it was something real. It's not just a historical event. It felt very close."

The world, of course, did not go ka-boom. But Potter - who went on to acclaim with Orlando, her 1992 adaptation of the Virginia Woolf novel, starring Tilda Swinton - never forgot her dreams, or her dread.

In Ginger & Rosa, opening Friday at the Ritz Five, Elle Fanning plays a 16-year-old Londoner obsessed with nuclear apocalypse. As Ginger, Fanning - in an extraordinary performance - listens to the nightly newscasts, the brinkmanship between Moscow and Washington, the estimates of fatalities. Ginger joins ban-the-bomb marches. And she drifts apart from her best friend, Rosa (Alice Englert), at just the wrong moment, when she needs her most.

Read more

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.

Casting for Directorial Debut, 'Tammy'

Melissa McCarthy tells EW that Susan Sarandon is close to signing on to play her Grandma in Tammy, a comedy co-written and co-directed by the Bridesmaids star and her husband, Ben Falcone. McCarthy, 42, is set to play the titular main character “who’s kind of falling apart and has to get out of town but her car is broken down” she says. “So she ends up on the road with her grandma, who has drinking problem for sure. They both have their issues they’re not acknowledging and they’re leaving town without knowing where they’re going. I love that there’s something that happens in a car with people where all bets off. You’re off your rhythm, off your schedule, you’re forced to be completely adaptable or die.”

Originally Shirley MacLaine was attached to play the role of McCarthy’s grandma, but the deal never came to fruition. “It didn’t work out but I think it’s meant to be,” says McCarthy, of the now-likely casting of the 66-year-old Oscar winner. “It’s Susan, Susan, Susan. We’re putting together a cast that literally makes my head spin.”

Read more

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.

Huge Casting for Paramount's 'Six Years'

In his first move since landing an Oscar nomination for his lead turn in Les Miserables, Hugh Jackman is attached to star in a big-screen adaptation of Harlan Coben's upcoming novel Six Years.

Paramount is developing the project. The studio was among at least four bidders including 20th Century Fox that were vying for the WME-repped package, which does not yet have a screenwriter or director attached. Tom Rothman, the former Fox chief, is in negotiations to produce alongside Mark Gordon.

The novel centers on Jake Fisher, who watched the love of his life, Natalie, marry another man. Six years have passed when Jake comes across the other man's obituary. He resolves to attend the funeral, hoping to catch a glimpse of Natalie. But the mourning widow is not Natalie, throwing all of his past memories with the woman into question. Coben’s past five novels have debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list.

Read more 

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.
 

'Need for Speed' in Need of Casts

 

A movie being filmed in Blue Ridge, Ga., is holding a casting call for men, women and machines.

On Saturday, March 30, representatives from the film “Need for Speed” will be in the small North Georgia town from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., according to a news release. The casting call will held in front of Ted Weaver’s body shop at 845 Main St., the release said.

The film’s plot follows modern-day car racing based on the “Need for Speed” video game. The crew is planning to spend two nights at Blue Ridge’s Swan Drive-in for a scene in the film, the release said.

Read more 

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.

Moses Casting for the 'Exodus'

 

Don’t consider this etched in stone yet, but it looks like Fox is putting a rush on the Moses movie it has been developing with Ridley Scott. I’m hearing that the director and studio are courting Christian Bale to star. The project is called Exodus, which was originally scripted by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage. Peter Chernin and his Chernin Entertainment bought the film as a pitch and they are producing with Scott and his Scott Free, which joined later. Now it has become a big priority after Steve Zaillian signed on to do a rewrite. Zaillian teamed with Scott on American Gangster. Scott is looking to mobilize this as soon as he completes The Counselor. The talks with Bale are early stage.

This comes as Warner Bros deals with Steven Spielberg dropping out of its mega-Moses project, Gods And Kings, the epic-sized film about life of Moses based on the script by Michael Green and Stuart Hazeldine. The studio’s Hail Mary pass is trying to secure the services of Ang Lee, fresh from his Oscar win for Life Of Pi.

Read more

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.  

Casting Negotiations for 'The Other Woman'

 

Leslie Mann and Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau are in negotiations to star opposite Cameron Diaz in 20th Century Fox’s The Other Woman.

CAA-repped Mann recently starred in This Is 40 and has The Bling Ring with Emma Watson in the can.

Coster-Waldau is coming off of the hit horror movie Mama and will be seen with Tom Cruise in Universal’s sci-fi movie Oblivion. Game of Thrones, in which he plays the scheming Jaime Lannister, begins its new season March 31 on HBO. He is repped by WME and Jill Littman's Impression Entertainment.

Read more

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair. 

Reunion for 'Horrible Bosses' Cast

After more than half a year of negotiations, New Line has closed deals to reunite Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis for a sequel to Horrible Bosses, the surprise hit comedy released in 2011.

Jamie Foxx is also likely to return and is negotiations to reprise his role as murder consultant Motherf---er Jones for the pic, which will see Seth Gordon back in the director's chair.

 

The original movie saw Bateman, Day and Sudeikis as harried workers who, in Strangers on a Train meets Nine to Five fashion, try to off one another's bosses, with mixed results. Foxx mentored -- the term is used loosely -- the trio. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who worked on the first movie, penned the sequel.

 

Read more 

 

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair. 

 

Grand Rapids Initiates 'Holiday Miracle'

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - There will be an open casting call for a new film held in Grand Rapids Saturday.

The movie is called "Holiday Miracle." It's a family film that stars Dean Cain ("Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman") and Christine Lakin ("Step by Step").

The audition will take place from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. at the West Michigan Film Office, located at 741 Kenmoor Avenue SE in suite E.

Read more

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.

Legendary Casting for 'Anchorman 2'

The actor, who is expected to reprise his role as Han Solo in the "Star Wars" sequel, first will play a legendary newscaster in the Will Ferrell starrer.

Before dusting off the Millennium Falcon for a Star Wars sequel, Harrison Ford will sharpen his comedic chops for a role in Paramount's Anchorman 2.

Ford will play a legendary newscaster a la Tom Brokaw in the Adam McKay-helmed comedy, which begins shooting this month in Atlanta. He previously played an anchorman in the film Morning Glory, the 2010 comedy produced by J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk.

Read more

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.

Synthetic Cinema Gears Up for Horror

Rocky Hill-based movie production company Synthetic Cinema is producing three horror movies this year, and holding an open casting call on Sunday, March 17, in Hartford for actors to play small roles and extras in the movies.

The call will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Hartford's TheaterWorks, 233 Pearl St. It will be first come, first served. Auditioners are expected to prepare a two- to three-minute monologue or performance piece.

Andrew Gernhard, who owns Synthetic and produces all its films, said that unlike the company's previous films, these three will be released theatrically in limited releases, all in 2014. Synthetic's previous efforts have gone either straight to TV, then DVD, or straight to DVD.

Read more

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.

'American Tabloid' Looks for Its Stars

                             

In 1995, Alfred A. Knopf published James Ellroy’s American Tabloid. Let’s rephrase that: Alfred A. Knopf unleashed James Ellroy’s American Tabloid. It’s a staccato fever-dream of a novel that plunges the reader into the seedy underbelly of American politics during the five years leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

The very first page of the novel promises that it will be a paean to the “bad men and the price they paid to secretly define their time” – and Ellroy delivers. The Mob, Communists, assassination attempts, heroin, the Klan, Teamsters, Cuban ex-pats, FBI skullduggery: all these and more are presented in a narrative that’s as propulsive as it is dizzyingly complex. The outline of the book ran to 300 pages. It increasingly looks like a high-water mark for Ellroy’s fiction. The two novels that followed in the trilogy – 2001’s The Cold Six Thousand and 2009’s Blood’s a Rover – largely failed to replicate its balance of chaos and coherence.

Read more

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.

'Need for Speed' Headed for Georgia

 

Hollywood is heading back to central Georgia for an upcoming film.

A casting call has been announced for the upcoming film 'Need for Speed'. Filming is slated to take place in Macon from April 23rd to the end of June.

Film organizers are looking for and gathering precision drivers, both men and women, with cars. You must have, or have access to, a car that is not red or white or custom bright colors.

They are looking for the following qualifications that could classify you as a precision driver:

Read more 

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.
 

Brandon Burlsworth Movie Opens the Casting Couch

 

This appears pretty real. They say they're casting for many of the Razorback personality of the 1998 era. Burslworth, Nutt, Stoerner, Lucas, Danny Ford, etc. They are casting 53 roles in all and plenty of extras.

Auditions for some of these people should be gold. I can't tell you all how much I'd love to sit in on the auditions for Nutt. That's a potential Oscar role, I think.

I remember hoping we'd get open casting for the coaches for The Blindside before it was announced all the actual coaches would be playing themselves.

Be sure to read the unintentionally hilarious personality descriptions for the players and coaches. This is my favorite part. Especially Stoerner's. Wonder if Stoerner will audition to play himself.

 

Read more 

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.

'Enemy Way' Gears for Casting as It Heads to Deming

http://www.bizjournals.com

Preparation for the feature film "Enemy Way," starring Forest Whitaker, is currently underway. The film will be shot in both the Deming and Albuquerque areas in April and May.

The production will cast hundreds of extras, featured extras and a few stand-ins from the local areas.
Extras needed include male and female, all ethnicities and all ages. Although, there will only be a minimum number of children hired for this project.

Some specific types include: Drivers with vehicles that are not red, white or black, fire fighters, police officers, prison guards, paramedics/EMT's, men with military experience, Mexican immigrants, pregnant Hispanic women (should be noticeably pregnant, but still able to work), parolees and gang types (rough looking), Border Patrol, restaurant and coffee shop customers, waiters/waitresses and bartenders with experience, Hispanic laborers, Mexican cumbia musicians, Hispanic latin dancers (salsa, cumbia, etc), upscale politician types with professional attire, hikers, mosque attendees and many other general extra roles.

Read more

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.
 

'Holiday Miracle' Brings Up Audition Process

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - A movie production titled "Holiday Miracle" is holding an open casting call in Grand Rapids. 

The audition will take place from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. March 9 at the West Michigan Film Office, 741 Kenmoor Ave. SE, suite E.

The film, a Screen Actors Guild feature, will shoot in Michigan and star Dean Cain ("Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman") and Christine Lakin ("Step by Step"), It's from producer Joel Reisig, a Hope College alum who has shot several low-budget movies in the state, including "A Dog for Christmas," which filmed in the Grand Rapids area in 2012, also starring Cain.

Read more 

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.

WB to Transcend 'Transcendence'

Alcon Entertainment and Syncopy in association with Evolutionary Pictures and Straight Up Films are in pre-production on the epic Warner Bros. Pictures sci-fi thriller feature film "Transcendence". Shooting will take place in Los Angeles and Boston beginning in April, 2013. Two-time Primetime Emmy Award winner and four-time Casting Society of America Artios Award winner John Papsidera is casting the film's starring and co-starring roles in Los Angeles. Additional principal actor casting will be taking place in Boston. 

The background performers and stand-ins will be cast locally in Boston. Experienced film crew members and production staff are also being hired locally in Massachusetts. "Transcendence" follows a scientist who uploads his brain into a supercomputer after he's assassinated by terrorists.

Read more 

To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair.