Sep 28,2009
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I’m too much of a scaredy-cat to watch the movie but I did watch this long enough to see that Connie is in the trailer…
Sep 26,2009
SO EXCITED! Only about a month away!
Sep 26,2009
For those of you unaware: the “Grey’s Anatomy” writing staff has a blog that they post on every week after the airing of Grey’s on Thursday nights. Each week the writer who penned the previous night’s episode shares his/her thoughts on each character’s development, the purpose of the episode, and any themes that they attempted to weave throughout the 43 minutes of TV. However, a lot of times, because it IS a blog the writers will ramble a bit and share some inner workings and thoughts of the writing staff as a cohesive unit. This week one of the lead writers, Krista Vernoff shared some exciting info for us FNL fans:
In the writer’s room at Grey’s Anatomy, we are obsessed with Friday Night Lights, Project Runway and ordering Pinkberry in the afternoon…We have used 7 guest actors who regularly appear on Friday Night Lights.
To check out the Grey’s writer’s staff, check out the site: http://www.greyswriters.com/
Sep 25,2009
Aimee at the recent Alzheimer’s Association Benefit hosted by Chelsea Handler.
Sep 25,2009
On location casting is once again looking for paid extras to appear in “Friday Night Lights,” the locally-shot NBC/DirecTV show about central Texas football.
“We are currently filming all over the Austin, TX area and are looking for local residents to work as Extras on our show,” a casting agency spokesperson said.
If selected to work as an extra, all extras positions are paid at $7.25 per hour. All applicants must be US citizens and have valid photo ID and social security cards. No experience is necessary for these positions.
The agency is specifically seeking African American and Hispanic Extras of all ages to portray high school students, community neighbors, football fans and various other extras roles.
The casting call takes place Saturday, Sept. 26 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Millennium Youth Center, 1156 Hargrave St. in Austin. No preparation is necessary (except for the valid ID and social security card) — just show up prepared to have your picture taken.
Sep 25,2009
SpoilerTV posted scans of the 9/28 article. Lots of good new info!
“It’s going to be less Panthers and more Lions,” says exec producer Jason Katims of Coach Eric Taylor’s transition from West to East Dillon High. With the school reopening after a 20-year closure, there will be plenty of new students for Coach Taylor (Kyle Chandler) to whip into shape. And forget winning a championship: The goal this year will be just to win a single game. “He’s building this team from scratch,” says Katims. Julis (Aimee Teegardnen) will switch to East Dillon to be near Dad, but she’ll remain with Matt (Zach Gilford), who’ll exit the series halfway through the season – but not before making sure his grandma will be in good hands. Meanwhile, Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch), no longer the star football player, has dropped out of college and returns to Dillon to work with his brother, Billy (Derek Phillips). He ends up living in a trailer behind – who else?- a sexy mother and her beauty-queen daughter. Wanna guess which one he scores with?
Sep 24,2009
The remake of Red Dawn is busy filming right now in Pontiac, Michigan. The original 1984 movie starred the likes of Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, and Lea Thompson as a group of mid-western teens who band together to defend their town from invading Soviet forces, at the dawn of World War III. In the redo Josh Hutcherson, Chris Hemsworth, Isabel Lucas, and Adrianne Palicki save their town from an invasion by some other threatening power.
Whatever the attacking force, the film is currently filming and the folks at Red Dawn 2010 have put together a whole host of photos and video taken while hiding in the bushes near the movie’s set. In addition to giving you a pretty cool look at the Wolverines logo, it also sort of confirms who the attacking forces are. Word is that it’s some sort of combined Chinese Russian force which attacks, and the red star with a Chinese symbol in it seems to support that.
To see the first photos from the Red Dawn re-make check the source link below.
SOURCE: Cinemablend.com
Sep 24,2009
The Blanco Panther Band posed as the San Marcos Rattlers on Friday night in San Marcos for the filming of ‘Friday Night Lights’. The band will star in the third episode this season on the NBC program.
It’s not everyday that Hollywood calls. Especially not seeking a small high school band for an emergency shoot for a nationally syndicated television show. But that is exactly what happened last Thursday for the Blanco High School band.
The band director, David Shirk, received the call from a casting agency requesting that the band come to San Marcos to star as the marching band for a new episode.
Friday Night Lights is a television adaptation of a book and movie of the same name. The book, written by HG ‘Buzz’ Bissinger, details the 1988 season of the Permian Panthers, a high school football team in Odessa, Texas. The book was written as a work of journalism and is assumed to be completely factual. The Universal Pictures film stars Billy Bob Thornton as the coach. The film is also based on real-life residents of Odessa in 1988.
The show is based in fictional Dillon, Texas, and they are the Panthers. The show focuses on the trials of living in Middle America, and has won a Peabody Award, an Emmy Award and a Television Critics Award.
When the Blanco band marched onto set to the same cadence they enter the stadium by on Friday nights, Band Director David Shirk said the cast and crew started dancing.
The band members were fed and then wardrobe outfitted each of the band members with a San Marcos Rattler band shirt, and they were sent to their first spots. They were instructed to walk slowly to the stands as the crew filmed them arriving at the game. Once seated, they got to watch the procedure for filming a TV show. The majority of the actors were not stars, but local people. The football players were all 1A players.
Before the night ended, the band had to play “Hey You” and “Land of a Thousand Dances”. They were told not to tune their instrument; to make them sound more like a high school band. The director said that they did an outstanding job.
The band will debut in the third episode of this season, sometime in November. The show is broadcast by NBC on DirectTV channel 101.
For more photos of the filming of the episode with the Blanco band please see the source link below.
SOURCE: BlancoCountyNews.com
Sep 24,2009
From the sound of things, Disney’s adaptation of the nearly hundred-year-old sci-fi series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, “John Carter of Mars,” is going to start shooting as early as January of next year. The start had previously been pushed back from November. Pre-production continues to move steadily forward nonetheless on the hybrid live action/CGI film.
As co-star Lynn Collins told MTV’s Josh Horowitz last week on the New York red carpet for “The Burning Plain,” she’s already seen workups of fight sequences she’ll have to film and, last week, some initial effects work kicked into gear.
“We’re actually getting into some hair and makeup tests this week to see what the look is like,” said Collins, who plays the humanoid Martian princess Dejah Thoris. “It’s really collaborative and really creative and I’m really excited about it.”
The preliminary idea is not to bury Collins under prosthetics and heavy-duty makeup but to create a look that would not be out of place on a tropical island. “I think they’re going more like a really great tan, like the best-tan-you-can-ever-imagine type of thing,” she said. “I’ve yet to find it. Maybe the makeup team will be able to.”
There’s no word yet how the rest of the cast will end up looking. Joining Collins in “John Carter” is her “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” co-star Taylor Kitsch as the title character, a Civil War vet inexplicably transported to the Red Planet, where he stumbles upon all manner of alien adventures.
“Taylor is so amazing,” Collins said. “We went to Pixar and saw some of the workups of some of the fighting that we have to do. I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s just no guy better for the job. He’s so athletic and wonderful and such a great actor and so positive.’”
Calling her character “a priestess of science and letters,” Collins extolled co-writer/director Andrew Stanton’s (”WALL-E,” “Finding Nemo”) vision for “John Carter.” “Edgar Rice Burroughs was a really smart writer, so smart that some of the stuff I can hardly wrap my head around, so that’s up to Pixar to see if they can put in visually to life,” the actress said, adding, “It’s completely satirical and politically on point, I’d say.”
With filming on the action-heavy flick planned for next year in Utah, Collins will begin a serious training regime next month. Until then, she’s been enjoying the cheesy glories of the city’s culinary crowning achievement. “I’ve been eating as much New York pizza—I just had a huge pizza!” she smiled.
SOURCE: MTV.com
Sep 24,2009
Our daily look at a few shows that promise to be among the day’s more interesting, for all the right — or wrong — reasons.
Let’s see: Derek and Meredith, Owen and Cristina, Mark and Lexie. Oh, and Izzie’s now married to Alex. Someone needs to break up so that “Grey’s Anatomy,” which begins its sixth season with a two-hour premiere (ABC, 9 p.m.), can start working on some new plotlines. It might have to wait until Week 2, though, because in the premiere everyone will be too busy mourning George, now that he’s taken the elevator to that big operating room in the sky.
PBS turns its attention to health care reform in a 90-minute special, a collaboration among “The Nightly Business Report,” “NOW on PBS” and “Tavis Smiley,” with the utilitarian title “PBS Special Report on Health Care Reform” (9 p.m. on most PBS stations). “Business Report” looks at how reform might affect employer-provided care; “NOW” examines how it might affect lifestyles, particularly for baby boomers; and Mr. Smiley reports on … childhood obesity?
Dean (Jensen Ackles) hunts for the archangel Raphael, who may know where God is, on “Supernatural” (CW, 9 p.m.). How many mainstream network shows can boast a story line like that? Adrianne Palicki of “Friday Night Lights” guest stars.
SOURCE: NYTimes.com
