'Love Never Returns' and More Open Up for Auditions

“Love Never Returns” is a student film for New York Film Academy, which will begin shooting on Jan. 13, is seeking talent for three roles in New York.

Danny and Elizabeth are best friends and roommates. When Danny comes home late one night with a girl, Taylor, Elizabeth feels jealous, knowing that Danny has opened his mind and heart to Taylor. Soon, Elizabeth decides that she cannot be around him if he’s going to love someone else, so she decides to leave.

Elizabeth is thrilled the next day when she sees Danny looking for her, but hurt when Taylor persuades him to stop looking for her. In the end, Elizabeth decides it’s better to be near him as a friend, then not be near him at all.

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Locals Drive to 'The Diner' Film Audition

Under the glare of bright lights while a casting director, camera man, and movie director observed in the background, actors throughout Florida fought jittery nerves Sunday as they answered an audition call to read scripts for supporting roles for the full-length movie “The Diner.”

The Lazarus Filmwork’s production will begin filming the Christian-based film in February with several scenes slated right here in Lake County.

“I should have sold tickets,” Director De Miller quipped by the sight of 35 actors – the first arrivals – filling seats in two rooms while several others stood outside the CEC Building of the First United Methodist Church in Mount Dora, quietly reading their parts.

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SNL Holds Auditions for Black Female Cast

Saturday Night Live exec producer Lorne Michaels says he’s bringing seven or eight female African-American comediennes to New York to audition for the show on Monday — one of whom will be added to the cast in January.

As many as two could “potentially be considered” but he does not want to add too many women at this time because the cast already has five of them, Michaels told The New York Times, in an interview given in the wake of a news report he’d tried out about a dozen black female comediennes in Los Angeles on December 1.  Three paragraphs later, the reporter reminded readers that when criticism of the show’s new cast members broke out before the start of the new season,  Michaels had said his process for selecting cast members “was driven purely by talent considerations.” Michaels this afternoon told the NYT he had seen two black women performers in Chicago when he was hiring for the show this fall, but they didn’t pan out when brought to New York for their final auditions. “Then when the deck got reshuffled and as we premiered we realized, it looks a different way.” (That would also be about the time the press started shellacking Michaels because the list included no black women and the late night program had not had a black female cast member for six years.)

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Spilled Secrets on Casting Auditions

You started with acting, but stuck with casting instead; what is your favorite part of casting?

It’s fun when you get to hire somebody for a role, especially if it’s someone that you have been tracking for a while, who you groomed and brought in over the years. Getting to call the agent and tell them they got the part is the best part; when it all works out, that’s a good day of casting.

Have you had actors that you’ve really championed?

Actors have to make casting directors their fans, and we have to make the client (producing director) a fan of the actor; it’s a gradual process and doesn’t happen overnight. There are many actors that I love and fight for. The challenging thing is that I don’t want to shove my opinion down a director or studio executive’s throat. Casting is like bartending: My job is to present the choices to the creative team and hope the director/producers like the choices.

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Casting Rumors Over Batman vs. Superman Film

“Game of Thrones” star Jason Momoa may be on the big screen in 2015, as it is rumored he will play supervillian Doomsday in the highly anticipated “Man of Steel” sequel. The as-yet-untitled Batman-vs.-Superman film will be directed by Zack Snyder, who also directed “Man of Steel” and “300.”

Doomsday is best known as the character who killed Superman, and was originally known as “The Ultimate.”

Momoa seems well-qualified to play the villainous fighter: In 2011, he played the title role in “Conan the Barbarian” as a warrior who seeks revenge on an evil warlord, and on the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones,” he stars as Khal Drogo, a warlord and feared warrior.

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Casting for Wonder Woman and More Marvel Superheroes

ScreenCrush’s Comic Strip is a weekly roundup of the hottest superhero movie news items. From Marvel to DC and points in between, if it pertains to costumed comic-book heroes, we’re covering it here, bringing you our expert analysis. This week, Warner Bros. announces who will play Wonder Woman in the upcoming ‘Batman vs. Superman‘ film, Bryan Singer reveals the ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past‘ sequel, and the ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2‘ trailer unleashes loads of secrets.

Wonder Woman

It’s long been rumored that Wonder Woman (aka Diana Prince) would be making an appearance in the ‘Man of Steel’ follow-up, unofficially titled ‘Batman vs. Superman,’ with Gal Gadot, Olga Kurylenko and Elodie Yung up for the part. Well, not only did Warner Bros. officially confirm that the Grecian strong woman would make her first feature-film appearance, Gadot of ‘Fast Five’ and ‘Fast and Furious 6′ fame landed the part.

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Hundreds Flock to Bernsen Film Auditions

More than 500 people packed the parking lot in front of Pet Extreme Monday evening, vying for a role in a Corbin Bernsen penned and directed romantic comedy film, set to be shot in Turlock.

And standing last in line, far across the parking lot, almost to the entrance of the Home Depot, was me.

That's right: I, too, was drawn in by the allure of stardom, of the chance to see my face on the big screen. Or at least the chance to write an article about my failed attempt at fame, as the case may be.

My fatal error, it seems, was arriving at 5:48 p.m. – just 12 minutes before the open auditions were set to start. The man first in line, Robert Fourre, told me he arrived nearly six hours earlier, right at the stroke of noon.

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