Mar 18,2011
Horror? This is more like an American dream.
Friday Night Lights‘ Connie Britton has snagged the female lead in American Horror Story, FX’s much-buzzed-about drama pilot from Glee bosses Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.
via Pilot Scoop: Connie Britton Snags Lead in Ryan Murphy’s American Horror – TVLine – TVLine.
Mar 11,2011
Mar 11,2011
Also inducted were the cast of the television series “Friday Night Lights” and the Austin band Spoon, which has contributed to numerous soundtracks.
Mar 10,2011
Awhile ago, we reported that Aubrey Plaza of NBC’s Parks and Recreation fame was attached to star in a teen comedy called The Hand Job. Stop snickering I can hear you. Since then, very little has been discussed about the project, but during an interview with Bill Hader for the upcoming Greg Mattola film Paul, The Playlist managed to get some more information out of him. What connection does he have? His wife Maggie Carey wrote the script and will be directing. Now that is a talented husband and wife.
Hader let lose some of the cast Carey and company have been able to wrangle together, which include: Alia Shawkat, Donald Glover, Mae Whitman, Andy Samberg, Connie Britton (Tami Taylor on the Friday Night Lights TV show), Johnny Simmons, and Hader himself. He also went into detail about the plot of The Hand Job to the Playlist folks, which I now quote to you below:
It’s about her playing an type-A, studious girl who graduates high school and hasn’t done anything with a guy. The summer before college she decides that she has to find out how to do everything in order to be properly prepared, so she makes a very serious bullet list of everything, like… handjob, titty-fuck, blow-job, fingering, and just kinda checks one off every time she does it. She’s being the aggressor and is very straight-forward about it, like ‘Okay, so I’m going to give you a hand-job now.’ And the guys are very taken aback about it, especially her straight-laced friends.
To read the rest of this article go to: TheFilmStage.com
Feb 27,2011
Emmy nominated actress Connie Britton and Taylor Kitsch of NBC’s “Friday Night Lights” team up to host the African Children’s Choir’s upcoming benefit, “Texas Tunes Into Africa” on March 23, 2011. Sponsored by Microsoft and Texas based, family owned Whataburger, the entertainment at the event will feature performances by the choir and favorite Texas musicians: Sara Hickman and Family Time Rocks, Kacy Crowley, Guy Forsyth and Tracie Lynn and other surprise guests. Presenting the event with the African Children’s Choir is Austin-based EMPACT Africa, a non-profit organization that trains pastors in sub-saharan Africa to fight the stigma and discrimination of HIV/AIDS.
The African Children’s Choir boasts several choirs which travel the world to perform and inspire. The choir’s goal is to rebuild countries by offering an education to children whose lives have been devastated by famine, violence and HIV/AIDS. This particular choir hails from Uganda, with children from 8-11 years of age.
Event details below:
Texas Tunes InTo Africa
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
6:30pm – 10:00pm
Nutty Brown Café Ampitheatre
12225 West Highway 290 (Near Dripping Springs)
Tickets are only $22 online at www.africanchildrenschoir.com/texastunes and at Waterloo Records and $25 at the door for this amazing musical pairing. Children under 12 are free and get .99 cent meals
Feb 14,2011
A couple of casting stories for you today. Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights) and Harry Connick Jr. will headline the holiday family film When Angels Sing. The film will be directed byTim McCanlies (Secondhand Lions), with a script by Lou Berney adapted from the novel of the same name by Turk Pipkin (Best. Name. Ever.). Variety reports that Kris Kristofferson,Chandler Canterbury, Willie Nelson, Fionnula Flanagan, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson and Lyle Lovettround out the Texas country music-themed cast. Gael Garcia Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries) will star in the drama documentary Who is Dayani Cristal?. The documentary recently started filming and explores the immigration debate sparked by the discovery of an unidentified body found on the Us/Mexico border with a tattoo that reads “Dayani Cristal” as the only identifying mark. Variety reports that the film is being produced by Pulse Films and Bernal’s own company Canana
SOURCE: IMDb.com
Feb 12,2011
Our good friend (and FNL football extra) Chris just said he bumped into Ms. Connie Britton. IN AUSTIN. Yes, Connie can’t get enough of Texas! She’s filming a new movie called When Angels Sing, which co-stars Harry Connick Jr., Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett and Kris Kristofferson. When we hear more information about the film we’ll be sure to post it, but that’s a lot of fine looking musician co-stars Connie gets to chum around with!
And according to @Ernest_James’ twitter feed he’s in the film as well as Dana Wheeler Nicholson. FNL alums reunite!
Feb 05,2011
Well this was definitely worth the wait. After months of speculation about what Connie Britton’s first post-Friday Night Lights career move would be, the unofficial word is that she’sdeveloping an FX drama series with David O. Russell, the acclaimed filmmaker behind Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees and The Fighter!
To read the rest of this article go to TVLine.com
Feb 04,2011
This article does not contain spoilers about Wednesday's series finale of “Friday Night Lights,” but it does address story lines from the fifth season, which has aired only on DirecTV. The final season of “Friday Night Lights” is scheduled to begin airing on NBC on X/TK on Tues.
“Eighteen years,” Tami Taylor angrily whispered in last week's episode of “Friday Night Lights,” referring to the amount of time she's been Coach Eric Taylor's loyal and supportive wife. Two words that packed a punch because of the way that Connie Britton quickly delivered them, sneaking them in with a piercing glance at her befuddled husband as she allowed uninvited guests into her home.
Then, just as deftly, Tami turned on her Southern belle charm: “Can I get ya'll anything — ice tea? Water?”
via ‘Friday Night Lights” Eric and Tami Taylor have a true-to-life marriage – latimes.com.
