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This week the "The Mouse House" (ABC/Disney) is all about the red and the blue.From news pertaining to studio heads, actors, producers, and writers, find out what sorts of waves Penn alumni are making this week!
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DT's B&P: 6 Reasons Why ABC Is Really Loving On Penn Alumni This Week
Friday, September 25, 2009This week the "The Mouse House" (ABC/Disney) is all about the red and the blue.From news pertaining to studio heads, actors, producers, and writers, find out what sorts of waves Penn alumni are making this week!
DT's B&P: They're ALL Hollywood Producers To Watch
Friday, September 11, 2009
Some exciting entertainment tidbits from our alumni film producers...
Mike Karz (C'89, W'89)'s Sorority Row (as reported HERE on DT ) debuts today.The film is about "A group of sorority sisters try to cover up the death of their house-sister after a prank gone wrong, only to be stalked by a serial killer."
Past posts about Mike's film projects here
More of my Penn "Film Producer" posts here
Adding to our "Alumni on Important Lists" series, husband and wife team, Elizabeth Banks (C'96) and Max Handelman (C'95, AEPi) are now 2 of Variety's "Top 10 Producers To Watch".More Here!
More of Liz's busy actress life HERE
Check back in weeks to come! I have a ton of developing stories from Penn alumni film producers!
DT's B&P: Alumni Dealings with Quentin Tarantino, Russell Crow and John Legend
Friday, August 28, 2009
Transitioning now out of our "Delicious Leftovers" series to bring you some exciting entertainment tidbits from our alumni and undergrads:
- Lots of celebrity dealing with our alumni this week
- She's casting For A new TV show
- She will be starring in a new thriller as a prisoner
- A Hot Los Angeles Penn event you'll want to go to on September 1!
- Free music!
Click HERE for the scoop!
"Most reality shows have people looking for their 15 minutes of fame. Reality Hell will have people wanting to give their's back! The reality genre has all but taken over television programming, making stars out of regular people. Now E! is turning the tables on all those reality-star wannabes by staging a show where the whole cast is in on an act to set up one unknowing reality-show contestant. Staged scenarios include an over-the-top modeling competition with extreme challenges, wacky contestants and insane judges and a family swap that will have the mom trying to find a way to escape the crazy Hollywood clan she's been placed with. This summer on E!, Fake is the new Reality!"I've watched this show and the part I look forward to is the end of the show at the moment when the actors tell the victim they're on "Reality Hell" and the person that is being pranked doesn't know what "Reality Hell" means until they realize all the actors are laughing at them. It's briliant!
My past posts about stand-up and casting director Lesley Wolff HERE
...Jordana also reviews the film for the Wall Street Journal. Read all about "Torah and Tarantino" HERE
...And speaking of Inglorious Basterds, read the early review HERE that Brian Tran (W'10) wrote last May for our Penn in Cannes '09 series
Elizabeth Banks (C'96) to star with Russell Crow in Next Three Days According to The Hollywood Reporter, Liz "will play the lead role of Laura, a woman who is imprisoned for a murder she claims she didn't commit, as her husband, the recently cast Russell Crowe, desperately tries to vindicate her."
I will tell you I recently saw Liz in the thriller The Uninvited. Liz definitely plays evil real good... in that she creeped me out real good. She reminded me of Rebecca De Mornay in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.
+ For more information about his tour, click HERE
+ More of my posts about John Legend and his appearances at Penn HERE
Speaking of John Legend, Malik Smith (C'10), a similar sounding (undergraduate!) artist I covered HERE is giving all of us his 1st single "Crazy" for free HERE
+ More of my DT Music posts HERE
Hollywood Bits and Pieces: Their New Upcoming TV Shows & Films
Friday, August 14, 2009
Some recent juicy Penn Hollywood alumni tidbits for y'all...
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- Elizabeth Banks (C'96) has signed on for a potentially recurring role on ABC's critically-praised new fall sitcom, "Modern Family". More HERE
- Todd Lieberman (C'95) will be producing a film based on the comic book "Alibi". More HERE
- Speaking of Liz and Todd above, have you seen the new poster for their upcoming film Surrogates?
- "Harold and Kumar" creators Jon Hurwitz (W'00) and Hayden Schlossberg will be directing the comedy "One Night Stan". Per The Hollywood Reporter, '"Stan" plays out a scenario about which many men fantasize on the cusp of marriage. When Stan learns his fiancee, Julie, has had more sexual partners than he, he gets her blessing for one night to play catch-up. Unfortunately, his plans for a sex buffet don't come together quite the way he had hoped."'
...Actually, Jon will be working on this project with Mike Karz (C'89, W'89), another Penn alum who will be in part producing the film.
My past "Hollywood Bits and Pieces" posts HERE
Alumni with New Films, TV & Music + His Recurring Role on a Popular Soap Opera!
Friday, April 3, 2009
Some Hollywood bits and pieces from our Alumni this week:
- New sci-fi film being produced.
- New reality TV show debuting in May.
- New music featured on a TV show.
- New TV guest appearances on 2 popular shows (one tonight!).
Dig into the details HERE.
Reality honcho Mark Cronin (ENG'86), debuts his next VH1 reality show, "New York Goes to Work"
More details here
My past posts about Mark and all his reality shows here
Todd Lieberman (C'95) will produce the film (based on the book) Grandma's Intergalactic Bed and Breakfast. Per Variety, "The story revolves around a boy who goes to visit his hippie grandmother for the first time and discovers that her inn caters to vacationing aliens, a secret that she has been able to keep from her small town."
My past posts about Todd and his films here
Actor Roy Vongtama (C'96) will appear on tonight's "Dollhouse" (April 3) at 9 pm (playing a yoga instructor)!
Roy will also be recurring on "Days of Our Lives" starting April 21st and 22nd on NBC at 1pm as Doctor Richman! As you may recall from my earlier posts, Roy is actually a doctor in real life. How great is that!
My past posts about Roy here
Matt Kap's (C'97) band's (The Moving Picture Show) song "The Boy Who Lives Backwards" was featured this season in minute 10 of "The Real World: Brooklyn" episode above.
Listen to "The Boy Who Lives Backwards" here:
The story behind the song? Per Matt:
"The Boy Who Lives Backwards" basically came out of a regret. I was going to take some summer classes at NYU and met a girl the first day in the dorm through a friend. She'd had a bad day and her friend wasn't around so I decided to try and cheer her up. We had a really incredible night but I was so shy at the time and thought she had a boyfriend so I didn't ask her out. Years later I thought of that while singing a melody and began thinking about regrets we have in life - the person we didn't kiss, the bully on the playground we didn't stand up to, the clever comebacks that we wished we'd said in an argument and that's what the song is about. It also really reminds me of New York City in the fall which is my favorite time of year."Check out Matt's performance at our very own Pennfest 2007:
My past posts about Matt here
More about The Moving Picture Show
Past "DT Hollywood Bits and Pieces" posts here
Two Mask and Wig Alumni Film Producers With A Bunch of New Hollywood Movies
Friday, March 13, 2009
This week here are some tidbits of some upcoming films from some Mask and Wig alumni film producers:
Per Variety,
"The plot centers on an average college student (Jay Baruchel), who is unwillingly recruited to work for sorcerer Balthazar Blake (Nicholas Cage). The sorcerer gives him a crash course in the art and science of magic to prepare him to fight the forces of darkness, including the evil magician Horvath (Alfred Molina), in modern Manhattan. Teresa Palmer will play Baruchel's love interest."
Norm's other Nic Cage movie Knowing comes out in theaters on March 20.
My past post about Norm here
Todd Lieberman (C'95, AEPi, Mask and Wig) will be producing a remake of The Man With the X-Ray Eyes. .
Per Variety,
"The original starred Ray Milland as a scientist who is near a breakthrough in X-ray vision technology when his funding is cut off. Desperate to show results, the doc applies eye drops that eventually cause him to lose control over his growing powers."
Todd also has a great looking movie coming out in June called The Proposal. Per Yahoo movies, the synopsis is as follows:
"A book editor (Sandra Bullock) is forced to marry her male assistant (Ryan Reynolds) in order to stay in the country. When they travel to Alaska to meet his family, the new couple has to fake their way through a surprise wedding thrown by his parents. "
Check out the trailer below:
Also, Todd's Beverly Hills Chihuahua movie also just came out on DVD
My past posts about Todd here
My past Hollywood Bits and Pieces stories HERE
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DT HB&P: His Big Job Change, Their New Films, Shows & Channel, She's a Broadway Doll
Friday, February 27, 2009
Some good Penn alumni Hollywood news in my roundup this week:
- Big Wig makes big job change
- Mogul announces new TV show
- Chairman debuts new channel
- TV and Film Producer with 2 new films in the work with big name attached
- Actress appears in Oscar nominated film and is now on Broadway
- Actress with new DVD out
Per Cynthia’s Cynopsis, after 19 years with the Sundance Film Festival (he’s been the Director most recently), Geoffrey Gilmore (C'74, Penn in Pictures 2002 panelist) just changed jobs and joined New York-based Tribeca Enterprises as CCO where "he will lead the company's international content strategy, development efforts and brand expansion. Geoffrey will also be a part of Tribeca's Board of Directors."More of my posts about Geoffrey here
Rich Ross (C’83, Penn in Pictures 2003 panelist) announces a new Disney channel for boys.
More of my posts about Rich here
Mark Cronin (ENG ’86) picks Ricki Lake as headmistress of the next installment of “Charm School 3”.
Mark's beginnings in showbiz
More posts about Mark's abundance of reality shows here!
Mike Karz (C’89, W'89) will produce the film Valentine’s Day: “a love story which revolves around five relationships in Los Angeles, all of which are put through the paces over the course of one Valentine's Day.
Mike will also be producing the romantic comedy “Five Killers” starring Katherine Heigl. Per Screamingdemon, “Story kicks off when a woman meets the man of her dreams while on vacation. Married bliss is turned upside down when they discover that their neighbors may be assassins hired to kill them.”
Past posts about Mike's film projects here
More of my Penn "Film Producer" posts here
Kate Jennings Grant (C’92, Counterparts) plays Diane Sawyer in the Oscar Nominated film Frost/Nixon.
She is also now starring as Sarah Brown in the Guys and Dolls revival on Broadway with Lauren Graham.
Look for more about Kate on DT in the near future!
More of my Penn alumni actor posts here
Liz Banks' (C’96) W is now out on DVD
More of my scintillating Liz posts here
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Past Hollywood Bits and Pieces posts here
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Friday, October 10, 2008
A Penn alum splitting from a major studio and another Penn alum continues to be a TV making machine!
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Stacey Snider (C'82) and Steven Spielberg leave Dreamworks to work at their new Reliance Big Entertainment backed movie company ..and need a line of credit! More here
My past posts about Stacey here
More of my Penn "Film Producer" posts here
Mark Cronin (Eng'86) is a reality TV making machine!
- His second installment of "Charm School" Premieres on Sunday, October 12 at 9:00 PM ("Rock of Love Charm School") where he's putting 14 of the most memorable contestants from "Rock of Love with Bret Michaels" through Etiquette school with Sharon Osbourne.
- And then on October 20 at 9:00PM, Mark spins off more of his previous contestants into a show of their own. This one takes 'Real' and 'Chance' from "I Love New York" and puts them in a new show called "Real Chance of Love"
Per VH1.com,
"The tables have turned for these horse-breeding, music-producing entertainer brothers known as the "Stallionaires" who were just seen in the high stakes show "I Love Money" where they duked it out in an attempt to win the grand prize of $250,000. Real tried to find love on "I Love Money" after proposing to Hoopz but was sadly turned down once again. Now, Real and Chance are the ones in control and this time it'll be a gamble for 17 young ladies who will move into their ranch house to fight for their hearts."
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Friday, October 3, 2008
A bunch of Penn Hollywood news happening in film to report...
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Mike Karz (C'89, W'89) will be producing Sorority Row, a remake of the 1983 horror film The House on Sorority Row.
Per the Hollywood Reporter,
"The plot sees a group of sorority sisters try to cover up the death of their house-sister after a prank gone wrong, only to be stalked and killed by a serial killer."The film will star Carrie Fisher (still in negotiations), Rumer Willis, Julian Morris, Leah Pipes, Margo Harshman and Briana Evigan.
Past posts about Mike here
More of my Penn "Film Producer" posts here
Today, the film Blindness comes out.
Do you remember when Felisha Liu (W'09) our "Penn in Cannes" correspondent reviewed the film from Cannes back in June 2008?
Read her review from back in June here!
Todd Lieberman's (C'95, Mask and Wig, AEPi) film Beverly Hills Chihuahua comes out in theathers today.
Past posts about Todd here
More of my Penn "Film Producer" posts here
Set your DVR's for Friday, October 10 when Elizabeth Banks (C'96) will appear on The Letterman Show most likely to promote her Zack and Miri Make a Porno and W films.
Liz also appears in this new trailer below for The Uninvited, a horror film which comes out in January 2009. Per shocktillyoutdrop.com, the film's synopsis is as follows:
"Based on Kim Jee-Woon's 2003 Korean chiller, A Tale of Two Sisters, the story revolves around a pair of siblings who return home to their father after spending time in a mental institution. Their recovery is hindered by their cruel stepmother's obsessiveness and an interfering ghost."
My past Liz Banks posts here
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