Acting and Actor News – Film, TV & Theater
Actors: when creating your reel, be sure you have permission to use the footage you plan to use from all parties.
“I think that I experience things much more intensely when I’m acting. I get into the work and feel things very deeply, more so than I do in my own life.” – Laurie Metcalf
Lawyers in California are considering filing class-action civil cases against the charged firms on behalf of all the actors who claim to be victims
Landing the role in The Glass Menagerie has been a highly coveted goal for Sally Field.
“With films that top secret, they don’t give you the actual lines. So they give you a scene from Pride and Prejudice…” – Eddie Redmayne
IMDb’s suit calls the law unconstitutional for violating the site’s free speech rights.
On September 24, California Governor Jerry Brown signed AB-1687 into law which, in part, will require entertainment websites like IMDb to remove age information from a subscriber’s profile within five days of a request.
What are you doing to make sure you set yourself apart from the rest of the pack?
Casting director Will Stewart wrote a now-deleted Facebook post accusing The Hollywood Reporter of writing a “hate piece” and that “workshops are dying” because of it.
Casting workshop agencies have been contacting their clients asking them to sign a Change.org petition to stop the inquiry.
Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer has appointed an investigator in order to address the so-called “pay-to-play” casting workshop scandal.
The acting coach is demanding Morrison pay him $182,000, based on an ‘oral agreement’ between the two, dating back to 2011.
Two prominent casting directors offer some insight on the difficulty of casting and how some casting decisions are left up to people who carry a bit more weight
Freya was six and still hadn’t found her forever home, until she caught the eye of none other than Michael Bay, director of Transformers.
Gold acknowledges that one of the hazards of her job is that agents constantly want to introduce her to their clients, but each production she works on already know what they are looking for.
David is closing The Actors Link and his partner in the business, Brett Weinstock, will rebrand and reopen as ACE Studios without David’s financial involvement
CSA President Richard Hicks told The Hollywood Reporter, “We have been in communication with the city attorney’s office as things come up. At the end of the day, it’s up to them to enforce.”
Greg Orson, casting director for The Vampire Diaries, has canceled his late April 29 and 30 acting workshops that were scheduled in Georgia.
“While filming the first scene, right before their entrance, he [Hoffman] slapped Streep hard across the cheek, leaving a red mark.”
Is it a conflict of interest for a casting director of a popular television series to offer casting workshops to actors for a fee?
