Send Your Stuff! Pilot "Lights Out"

Lights Out is a 1 hour AFTRA pilot for FX.

Synopsis: Patrick “Lights Out” Leary is a retired prizefighter in his 40s who needs to support his wife and 3 kids. Diagnosed with pugilistic dementia, he knows he needs to make fast money before early Alzheimer’s kicks in.

And check out the post on Karina Walters from FMW Casting.

FMW CASTING
6767 FOREST LAWN DR.
LOS ANGELES, CA 90068

Send your Stuff! Pilot "Good Girls"

The brilliant Ashton Kutcher (cough, cough) is producing Good Girls. It’s a 1/2 hour multi-camera AFTRA pilot for CBS.

Synopsis: A good girl is convinced by her best friend to go nuts the summer after her high school graduation only to end up pregnant. 7 years later,she’s now a single mom who is part-time law student dealing with her kid, best friend and life.

TRACY LILIENFIELD CASTING
6086 LEXINGTON AVE
LOS ANGELES, CA 90038

Send Your Stuff! Pilot "Hard Times"

Hard Times is a 1/2 AFTRA pilot for MTV.

Synopsis: A 10th grader is on the bottom of his high school social ladder until a wardrobe malfunction at a basketball game reveals his almost freakishly impressive “endowment.”  At first embarrassed, he realizes that his exposure may actually be the best thing that ever happened to him.

DEBRA ZANE CASTING
5225 WILSHIRE BLVD.
SUITE 536
LOS ANGELES, CA 90036

Send Your Stuff! Pilot "Waiting To Die"

Waiting To Die is a AFTRA pilot.

Synopsis: Two friends and roommates have successfully avoided adult responsibility but now that their friend is getting married they are forced to face the inevitable to need to buy suits. But, happily, even this setback winds up in their favor.

Julie Ashton
6715 Hollywood Blvd
Suite 203
Hollywood, CA 90028

Send Your Stuff! Pilot "The Law"

The Law is a 1/2 AFTRA pilot for ABC. Cedric the Entertainer is attached.

Synopsis: A reserve Deputy Sheriff has to train 3 new recruits for the LAPD’s “weekend cops” volunteer team.

RUDOFSKY/LEVY CASTING
800 W. MAIN ST.
SUITE 337
BURBANK, CA 91506

Now LA wants a Film Czar?

I take a day off to go skiing and I’m swamped with news! This will teach me.

Have you heard this? City leaders are thinking about getting a film czar to bring film shoots back to the city.

LA is in a huge panic right now because there are only 3 major films scheduled to shoot in the city this year. More than 100 major films with budgets over $75 million were shot in LA in 2007 and only 22 were filmed last year. That’s a huge decline!

Other states have been offering tax breaks, free services and other incentives that have been luring movie producers away from Hollywood. Some states even lend out the police for free.

Residents who hate film shoots in their neighborhoods have also helped in runaway production.

I don’t know what took the city so long to get their act together. For far too long they have just accepted that Hollywood will always shoot in their backyard. This is like having a girlfriend and taking her for granted. Once you realize she’s just not that interested in you anymore, you start to pay attention to her again to try and win her back.

Not that that’s ever happened to me.

And by the way, the above picture isn’t actually from LA. I couldn’t find an actual picture of a film that shot in the streets of LA.

Actor Tom Bower reveals the Studios' game plan

Tom Bower talks outside a SAG rally what the studios are planning regarding residuals.

Don’t know his work? Check out his reel here!

What do a Manager and Agent think of the state of SAG?

Very differently it turns out.

Bruce Smith, manager and president of Omnipop Talent Group, compares the Rosenberg led SAG to the Bush administration. Hm… I don’t think he’s putting membership first. (Get it? I got a million of ‘em folks!)

I’ve met Tony Martinez, the agent they interviewed in the article, several times in an always futile effort for him to sign me to his agency, GVA. He was always nice and had informative things to say. He even has a great book you all should read, An Agent Tells All.

After reading this article, it makes want want to get back in his office again.

Backstage has all here.

Back Stage: Membership First still has almost 48 percent of the vote. What happens if it regains power? How does the business weather this back-and-forth situation?

Smith: I just keep looking at the Alan Rosenberg–led SAG, and it has such strange echoes of the George Bush administration. They refused to apologize for mistakes, and they seem to have backed themselves into a corner, and they want to pull their membership into a corner with them, as if that will somehow get them out. It will not get them out. The corner they’re in is the corner they’re in… . I feel that with Unite for Strength, there is no turning back [and that the so-called moderate view will prevail]. As small as that majority is, it’s the power of the voters that matters.

Martinez: I think it’s a shame the way this industry has demonized Alan Rosenberg and Doug Allen [SAG's recently fired national executive director]. These two men are the victims of bad timing and a divided membership. Everything they’re holding out for is crucial to the survival of the middle-class actor. Years from now, when we’re stuck in the mother of all strikes, everyone’s going to look back at Rosenberg and Allen in a very different light.

Matt Mulhern has it right

Matt Mulhern is back with another video and no matter what you thought of his last SAG video there is no question that you have to agree with this one.

Send Your Stuff! Pilot "Cop House"

Wendy O’Brien has another pilot. Cop House is a single camera comedy for FOX.

Synopsis: A half-way house for cops has officers being rehabilitated to go back on the force.

Wendy O’Brien
2233 BARRY AVE. 2ND FL.
LA, CA 90064

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