Happy Birthday: Kerr Smith

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Kerr Smith.jpgKerr Smith

Born: March 9, 1972 in Exton, Pennsylvania, USA

His kiss with Adam Kaufman in episode #323 (“True Love”) of Dawson’s Creek (1998) was the first ever gay male kiss on prime time television.

Originally auditioned for the part of “Leo” in the television series

Charmed (1998) along with Julian McMahon (Cole) and Ted King (Andy) but lost out to Brian Krause.

Kerr own’s the Venice Beach Beer Company.

 

 

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Happy Birthday: Rupert Evans

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Rupert Evans.jpgRupert Evans

Born: March 9, 1976 in UK

Our work, particularly in film and television, has become more and more last minute, so technology is vital. It has made us much more flexible. I’ve reduced my paper output massively by reading scripts on iPad.

Researching roles, especially historical ones, is a lot easier online. I’ve just done Lucan on ITV, so spent a lot of time surfing the web, reading up on my character, painter Dominick Elwes. Auditioning over Skype is becoming a lot more common too. My latest job was Rogue, an American cop drama with T’handie Newton’, and I had to do a Skype meeting with the showrunner for that.

On his favorite computer game: I got addicted to Tiger Woods Golf. I’d be up till 3am every night and it ruined my life, so I had to go cold turkey and give them up. But I do…

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Happy Birthday: Jean-Marc Vallée

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Jean-Marc Vallée.jpgJean-Marc Vallée

Born: March 9, 1963 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

I never knew I was going to make two TV series back to back, Big Little Lies (2017) and Sharp Objects (2017). We’re not treating them like TV series, I’m just making another feature film but just longer… [2016]
[on Demolition (2015)] A lot of the stuff was shot like a documentary.

We’re just observing, capturing, trying not to interfere. Of course were are staging, we have a script and making a fiction film. Here’s this sandbox, play in it and we’re going to watch you play in it and not try to interfere so it looks real. The goal is not to put style and fancy camera moves and colors above substance, it’s all about story, characters, emotion and looking real. We weren’t looking for what’s the tone is. We went, “Let’s try and be real and we’ll find…

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Happy Birthday: Raul Julia (1940–1994)

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Raul Julia (1940–1994).jpgRaul Julia (1940–1994)

Born: March 9, 1940 in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Died: October 24, 1994 (age 54) in Manhasset, New York, USA

What’s behind me is not important!

I knew there was something special about the theatre for me. Something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

 

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TV SPEC Reading of MODERN FAMILY “Relax, I Got This” by Edward Pronley

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Watch the January 2017 Winning TV SPEC Screenplay Reading.

Best Scene from the screenplay MODERN FAMILY Screenplay
Written by Edward Pronley

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Sean Ballantyne
CLAIRE – Val Cole
MITCHELL/LUKE – Nick Wicht
GLORIA/ALEX – Shannon McNally
HALEY/LILY – Catherine D’Angelo
PHIL – David Straus
CAMERON/JAY – Charles Gordon

SYNOPSIS:

Genre: Comedy, Family

After refusing to fulfill Claire’s request to hire tree trimmers, Phil, with Luke’s help, takes matters into his own hands; Claire and Mitchell attempt to have a relaxing getaway; Gloria has problems trusting the Dunphys.


How does this screenplay fit into the context of this show?

When the idea for this story came to me, I knew it would be able to fit in nicely with the rest of the series. The conflict that arises from the three separate storylines converge in a way that I have definitely witnessed on the show before.

How would…

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Best Scene Reading of The Rosy Hue Of The Dying Day by Lauren Hoekstra

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Best Scene from the screenplay THE ROSY HUE OF THE DYING Screenplay
Written by Lauren Hoekstra

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Peter Nelson
KIRA – Kelly Daly
BAHRI – John Fray
DENVER – Gabriel Darku

SYNOPSIS:

Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Romance

Story of an impulsive high-school girl who gets accidentally caught up in a guns-for-drugs deal gone wrong. Trapped with the drug-runners fleeing the cartel, she plays a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the leader, who’s keeping her till she sleeps with him, no matter the cost.


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Director/Producer: Matthew Toffolo

Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne

Editor: John Johnson

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Feature Screenplay Reading of THREE PLAY, by John-Arthur Ingram

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Watch the Feature Script Performance Reading of THREE PLAY:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Laura Kyswaty
OLIVER – Gabriel Darku
SILVIA – Holly Sarchfield
BLAKE – Chris Reid-Geisler
MAGGIE – Allison Kampf
MARCO – Ben Hur
JOSEPHINE/PARKER – Angelica Alejandro

Get to know writer John-Arthur Ingram:

1. What is your screenplay about?

It’s a romantic comedy about being loved for who you really are.

Logline: Oliver, a neurotic who’s hopelessly in love with his best friend Blake, finally comes out to both his shameless girlfriend, Silvia, and Blake. This revelation backfires when Oliver discovers Silvia and Blake are in madly in love. As a final act of desperation, Oliver magically switches bodies with Silvia days before her wedding to Blake.

(My Best Friend’s Wedding meets A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

Oliver is planning to come out to Blake and Silvia at a production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM in a city park…

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Best Scene of Living Proof by Herschel Medlin

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Best Scene from the screenplay LIVING PROOF Screenplay
Written by Herschel Medlin

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Laura Kyswaty
TRAVIS – Gabriel Darku
CARL – John Fray

SYNOPSIS:

Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror

This screenplay is about friends who are former U.S. Marines who get together for a reunion on a remote ranch. During their reunion, a friend is abducted by unknown forces who use the thought-to-be extinct Thylacine. They unite together to solve the mystery of their friends disappearance. While they investigate the disappearance, they encounter a silent triangle ship in the night (The Phoenix Lights Incident of 1997). They soon learn that their friend was taken to an underground alien base in the Arizona wilderness. This leads to an epic rescue mission and they enter the base to discover the horrors of the greater alien plan. The base consists of mutated and altered humans and animals and a portal or gateway…

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Best Scene TV Show – TALATRICS by Cecilia Copeland

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Best Scene from the screenplay TALATRICS Screenplay
Written by Cecilia Copeland

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Noah Casey
ALIA – Dan Thody
JONATHAN – Brian Carleton
RT – Angela Cavallin
WARREN – Chris Reid Geisler
SIEKO – Ucal Shillingford

SYNOPSIS:

Genre: Sci-Fi, Teen, Adventure, Comedy

A precocious teenager begins her first day at school in outer space, and must navigate her classmates and teachers, while learning to control her special powers.

Get to know the winning writer:

1. What is your screenplay about?

It’s set far in the future, 5515 when a young woman goes off to a special college for students with certain abilities. Her older brother is already there one year ahead of her. When she arrives she enters a world of intrigue, double crossing, and fights for supremacy all while trying to learn how to harness her powers. Both RT and her brother are from the family that…

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Feature Screenplay Reading of THREE PLAY, by John-Arthur Ingram

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Watch the Feature Script Performance Reading of THREE PLAY:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Laura Kyswaty
OLIVER – Gabriel Darku
SILVIA – Holly Sarchfield
BLAKE – Chris Reid-Geisler
MAGGIE – Allison Kampf
MARCO – Ben Hur
JOSEPHINE/PARKER – Angelica Alejandro

Get to know writer John-Arthur Ingram:

1. What is your screenplay about?

It’s a romantic comedy about being loved for who you really are.

Logline: Oliver, a neurotic who’s hopelessly in love with his best friend Blake, finally comes out to both his shameless girlfriend, Silvia, and Blake. This revelation backfires when Oliver discovers Silvia and Blake are in madly in love. As a final act of desperation, Oliver magically switches bodies with Silvia days before her wedding to Blake.

(My Best Friend’s Wedding meets A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

Oliver is planning to come out to Blake and Silvia at a production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM in a city park…

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