Bookings
September Bookings (Week of 9/1)
| Bjorn Johnson booked Guest Star Mad Men | Tom Beyer booked iCARLY | David Lawrence booked The Unit |
| Dave Kuhr booked TNT’s Leverage |
Elaine Loh booked Chuck |
Latest Acting News
Dustin Milligan talks about 90210
Dustin Milligan, 23, plays high school jock Ethan Ward on 90210, a modern version of the ’90s hit teen drama. Milligan said the show has given him the most exposure he’s ever received — a big break for an actor who decided to pursue acting while attending École Sir John Franklin High School in Yellowknife.
Jamie Bell, who broke through with Billy Elliot in 2000, is starring in the dark Mister Foe — and he swears it’s the most demanding film he’s ever done. From climbing on rooftops to fighting off rodents, he faced some tough challenges. The movie lets the audience watch a kid who has created his own sort of reality show as a voyeur.
There’s only one thing the boy wizard, Danielle Radcliffe, wants now that he’s all grown up—to play a drag queen.
“I think part of me would love to play a drag queen,” he said. “It would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup.” With video.
What does it take to create a lasting career for kids in show business today?
Danny Bonaduce, UTA’s Mitchell Gossett, William Morris Agency’s Bonnie Liedtke, Judy Taylor, vp casting and talent relations at Disney Channel and Malcolm-Jamal Warner talk about what it takes.
Hunter Parrish, who was raised in the conservative Texas town of Plano, has played a pot dealer on TV and now has sex onstage. Well, not quite: It’s simulated. But the scene is one of the most talked about in the Tony Award-winning rock musical “Spring Awakening.”
As plans for Wilson’s new movie, “The Rocker” were coming together (it had a director, a script, a budget and so on) the process hit a wall when the head of Fox Studios balked at the prospect of green-lighting a feature film starring an actor so closely aligned with his idiosyncratic role in “The Office.”
David Duchovny has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction. In a statement released Thursday by his lawyer, Stanton Stein, the actor said he did so voluntarily, adding: “I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family.”
Guy Pearce maintains such a low profile that sometimes even directors who intend to cast him in their upcoming movies don’t recognize him.
When writer-director Jeffrey Nachmanoff first met the 40-year-old actor to talk to him about the role of FBI agent Roy Clayton in the spy thriller ” Traitor,” which opens in theaters today, he walked right by the star of 1997’s “L.A. Confidential” and 2000’s “Memento” without a second glance.
Entertainment Weekly has confirmed that Michelle Rodriguez, whose Ana Lucia character was killed in Season 2, will be returning for one episode of Lost’s upcoming fifth season.
Latest Industry News
30 Rock About To Get The Big ‘O’
Sources confirm exclusively that Oprah Winfrey—the queen of everything—is currently in final talks to guest star on NBC’s 30 Rock this fall, and has already been written into the script for the second episode.
A Jan. 6 trial date has been set for Warner Bros. and Fox to duke it out over what’s basically a very expensive unpaid toll ticket.
If you have not voted yet. Please go and get your SAG ballot and do so today. This election is extremely important and may well determine the future of our Union, and your ability to earn a living wage as an actor. Read the story »
Here is a link to the SAG contract update that was sent out to all members.
DHD spotted this anti-Membership First flyer. Check it out.
A German film studio has offered to negotiate a settlement with a dozen extras who were injured on the set of the Tom Cruise film “Valkyrie,” despite their demands that the actor and his production company, United Artists, pay them $11 million.
SAG, AFTRA and the U.S. advertising industry said Monday they agreed to extend a contract covering commercials on TV, radio, the Internet and other new media by six months through March.
The extension gives the Screen Actors Guild extra time to finished stalled talks with Hollywood studios over a contract covering prime-time TV shows and movies that expired in June. Actors continue to work under the terms of the old deal.
The Best Of The Rest
JJ Abrams is on ‘The Fringe”
jj Abrams, the creator of hit TV shows “Lost” and “Alias” has a new project hitting airwaves next week that promises to sweep away old-fashioned notions of the genre and replace them with the most out there concepts of what the future holds.
Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol’ boy actor in car chase movies like “Smokey and the Bandit,” has died of complications from emphysema at 71.
Don LaFontaine, best known for his distinctive, dramatic voiceovers in theatrical trailers, has passed away at the age of 68.
Michael Phelps, who’s already going to host Saturday Night Live, will make a cameo on the HBO comedy Entourage later this year. Phelps scored the gig after literally stumbling upon the show’s set while it was recently shooting in Manhattan. After learning how Phelps was a big fan, series producer Doug Ellin immediately wrote the gold medalist into the episode. He’ll interact with Kevin Connolly’s Eric Murphy in an episode scheduled to air later this year. Entourage begins its fifth season Sept.
Aaron Sorkin, the Emmy-award winning writer of such series as The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and films like The American President and Charlie Wilson’s War is writing a screenplay about the creation of Facebook. Sorkin has established his own presence on the popular social-networking hub in an effort to start figuring out what Facebook thing is all about.
Want to become his friend? Click here!
TV & Film Appearances
August Appearances
 Michelle Tomlinson is appearing in The Cellar Door - available on Netflix. Also catch her in the pilot, The Seer. |
 Catch Amy Lyndon in LionsGate’s BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA’S GUEST as “Mrs. Witham” the Innkeeper from the 1800’s. On DVD @ Blockbuster or Netflix.Amy also produced & directed the film, “Award-Winning” which just won THE AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD at The Washougal International Film Festival in Washington on Saturday August 23rd. It’s the film’s first film festival since its completion in June 2008. |
Daily Actor Columns
An Evening With… Marlo Tiede (Donna Rosenstein Casting)
Marlo Tiede (formerly Hughling) runs her workshops like an audition - the only way you’ll get a redirect is if you earn it. She wants you to make a choice - if not, she won’t redirect you. She has also been known to ask what the objective is in the scene.
If you get an audition for any of her shows, you must know the tone of it. Read more of this article »
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