Send Your Stuff! Pilot "Mercy"

Mercy is an AFTRA pilot for NBC.

Synopsis: A nurse and veteran of the Iraq war, Veronica is currently working at Mercy Hospital, where she’s juggling two men, her current husband and new co-worker and ex.

Casting Director: Junie Lowry Johnson/Scott Genkinger
Casting Associate: Kevin Mockrin

JUNIE LOWRY JOHNSON / SCOTT GENKINGER
UNIVERSAL
100 UNIVERSAL CITY PLAZA
BUNGALOW 5165
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA 91608

Send Your Stuff! Pilot "Happiness Isn't Everything"

Happiness Isn’t Everything is a SAG 1/2 multi-camera pilot for CBS.

Jason Biggs is attached.

Casting Director: Allison Jones
Casting Associate: Ben Harris
Casting Assistant: Peter Kousakis

ALLISON JONES CASTING
1438 N. GOWER ST.
MAILBOX #3
LOS ANGELES, CA 90028

Send Your Stuff! Pilot "Ace In The Hole"

Ace In The Hole is a 1/2 hour multi-cam pilot for CBS.

This pilot stars Adam Carolla.

Synopsis: Ace is a driving instructor & frustrated inventor with a complaint or opinion for everything. He has particular venom for his good-for-nothing stepson who no job and no future.

Casting Director: Marisa Ross / Alyson Silverberg
Casting Associate: Elizabeth Campbell
Casting Assistant: Jessica Ross

ROSS/SILVERBERG CASTING
10201 W. PICO BLVD
BLDG 104
2ND FLOOR
LOS ANGELES, CA 90035

Send Your Stuff! Pilot "U.S. Attorney"

U.S. Attorney is a 1 hour SAG pilot for CBS.

Synopsis: A U.S. Attorney Section Chief and his team are stationed in NYC. They juggle
both national and local cases, some of which have huge political repercussions.

Casting Director: Sharon Bialy / Sherry Thomas
Casting Assistant: Brittany Burke

BIALY/THOMAS CASTING
10201 W. PICO BLVD.
BUILDING 214, ROOM 1
LOS ANGELES CA 90035

More from yesterdays SAG rally

I drove by the rally yesterday (I had a meeting so I couldn’t stop) and it was nice to see the turnout they had.

I really hope and wish some of the bigger names in the business would come out and support these types of things.

From Variety:

The three-hour event, aimed at urging SAG members to vote down the ratification if it’s ever sent out, featured sidewalk speeches at a half-hour news conference by former SAG president Ed Asner, former board member Sally Kirkland and veteran actors Larry Gelman and Scott Wilson. The quartet blasted the final offer from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, alleging its new-media provisions will destroy SAG by making it impossible for middle-class actors to make a living.

“We have enough economic problems in the world without putting this union out of business,” Kirkland said. “I’m just asking the CEOs to think humanely.”

Wilson, who served on the now-abolished negotiating committee, noted that the current SAG leadership has agreed to the rest of the final offer.

“It’s still the same lousy deal in every other respect,” Wilson said. “The members of the SAG board don’t understand what’s in the best interests of actors.”

Asner, who served as guild president between 1981 and 1985, said the national board should send out a strike authorization to members — a step that’s been opposed by the board’s moderate majority and a significant number of high-profile actors including Matt Damon, George Clooney and Tom Hanks. The moderates fired national exec director Doug Allen and replaced the negotiating committee in late January out of frustration with Allen’s strategy of pushing for an authorization vote.

“It’s a shame that we don’t see more of our high-profile members against this,” Asner added.

Anne-Marie Johnson letter from SAG's eNewsletter

I’m glad that Anne-Marie Johnson still has a voice on SAG and that, thankfully, she isn’t afraid to let it be heard.

I truly don’t understand why they SAG has not sent out a strike authorization vote. Is it because the moderate board knows the rank and file members will vote to strike?

1ST VICE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

By Anne-Marie Johnson

The following is my opinion. I am not speaking on behalf of Screen Actors Guild:

Why hasn’t SAG sent out a strike authorization ballot?

The simple answer is that the vast majority of the Hollywood Division Board has constantly voted to send out the SAV (strike authorization vote). But the majority of the National Board, with a handful of Hollywood Board members voting with the New York and Regional Branch boards, has refused to allow the membership, the ultimate authority within SAG, their right to vote on the strike authorization or the AMPTP’s “last, best and final offer.”

On February 17, 2009, the newly formed TV/Theatrical Task Force, under the leadership of newly appointed Chief Negotiator John McGuire, resumed negotiations with the AMPTP. After three days of negotiations, the AMPTP presented its LBF offer, which was found unacceptable by McGuire and the task force.

During the National Board meeting on February 21, 2009, a motion to reject the LBF offer was made and approved. Yet, once again, there was little-to-no support from the aforementioned board members to send out the SAV or the AMPTP’s LBF offer along with the rejection. And once again, the majority of the board has denied SAG members the right to vote.

From the conclusion of our Wages and Working Conditions committee meetings in March 2008, to the February 21, 2009, board meeting, I have been and will remain a strong advocate of sending out a SAV, as have been the majority of the disbanded TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee. Unfortunately, not enough members of the “moderate” board majority share in that advocacy. Some have been very public with their disdain for the SAV, lending their names to petitions, open letters and articles, disparaging and undermining the hard work done by former Chief Negotiator/NED Doug Allen and the Negotiating Committee.

If not the SAV, why not send out the LBF offer? What are we waiting for? In my opinion, the deal is not going to improve. Please log onto AMPTP.org to read the AMPTP’s LBF offer, if you haven’t done so already. It is a BAD DEAL. Forty-four days of actual negotiations, two days of mediation and three days of resumed negotiations with the revamped task force proved that the AMPTP had/has no intention of working with SAG to create an acceptable deal, potentially securing labor peace for years to come–regardless of who was sitting across the negotiating table.

The Hollywood Division represents roughly 70,000 members, generating more than 65 percent of the earnings under the TV/Theatrical Contract. It is the responsibility of all of us to be as involved and informed as we can be. If you are fed up with the delays and want to either vote on the SAV or the LBF offer, as soon as possible, please let YOUR union know. Contact contract2009@sag.org. Get involved. Be heard.

Bones, Dollhouse, Medium & more!

Rick Scarry booked Bones & recurring The Young and the Restless

Joe Howard booked Dollhouse, Days Of Our Lives & General Hospital/Night Shift

Ken Strunk booked Army Wives

Erica Piccininni booked Medium & Lie To Me

Clip from "Duplicity" starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen

This film hasn’t been on my radar at all. Although I did see a billboard for it yesterday in Studio City.

Video from yesterdays SAG rally at FOX studios

Public Enemies trailer Starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale

Johnny Depp. Christian Bale. Michael Mann? Come on. What’s not to love!

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