Filming has started on "Oz: The Great and Powerful" at Raleigh Michigan Studios in Pontiac, the Disney prequel boasting stars James Franco, Mila Kunis and Michelle Williams.
Heavy interest in the movie is making the Web all a-twitter about the slightest "Oz" details. This week, a photo with an "Oz" logo tweeted by cast member Abigail Spencer was spreading online like magic.
Spencer, best known as the schoolteacher who had an affair with Don Draper on "Mad Men," also posted a photo of herself at the Detroit Zoo looking cool in a hat that she later messaged was bought in Santa Fe while she was filming "Cowboys & Aliens," the sci-fi/Western hybrid with Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford that opens July 29.
On Monday, she tweeted that "5 different Detroitonians in 5 minutes" had complimented her on her pants, which reminded her that the world premiere of "Cowboys & Aliens" was five days away. It's screening Saturday in San Diego at the annual Comic-Con event.
Did we mention Spencer's latest movie is "Cowboys & Aliens"?
Wyatt Russell goes 'AWOL'
The latest young actor to join the heat-wave hot cast of "AWOL" is the scion of Hollywood royalty.
Wyatt Russell, son of Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, will appear in the Vietnam-era movie, which is shooting in the Ann Arbor area and has the University of Michigan of those protest-laden times as a backdrop.
The film already has landed a number of rising actors, including Liam Hemsworth, Austin Stowell, Aimee Teegarden and Teresa Palmer.
The screenplay is by U-M professor Jim Burnstein and Garrett Schiff.
Russell also has a role in, you guessed it, "Cowboys & Aliens." His dad, Kurt, was in west Michigan last year to film the football-themed drama "Touchback."
Local director a new indie star
Rola Nashef is one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film, an honor bestowed by Filmmaker magazine.
The local director is in post-production on "Detroit Unleaded," which is about a young Lebanese-American man who runs a gas station.
"Growing up I never saw people like me and my own experience in the movies," Nashef tells Filmmaker. "And I kept meeting these amazing characters who continue to inspire me. Our experience as Arab Americans makes for great storytelling. We need to be on a screen somewhere."
Glover joins 'Freaky Deaky' cast
"Freaky Deaky" just got a little freakier, in a good way.
The king of quirkiness, Crispin Glover, is joining the cast of the adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel, according to Variety.
The project is filming in and around Detroit.
The eccentric actor is replacing William H. Macy, who was previously attached to the project.
Glover was in the Motor City in 2010 to show two of his experimental art films at the Burton Theater. His decades-long career includes memorable roles in "Back to the Future," "Charlie's Angels" and, most recently, "Hot Tub Time Machine," in which he played a one-armed bellman. And, of course, he nearly kicked David Letterman in the head during a famous 1987 interview.
USA Today once said that his most magnetic quality was perhaps "his true, unabashed freakishness." Freaky, how this all worked out.
Source http://www.freep.com/article/20110722/ENT01/107220329/Michigan-Movie-Notes-Oz-Great-Powerful-starts-filming-Pontiac
Heavy interest in the movie is making the Web all a-twitter about the slightest "Oz" details. This week, a photo with an "Oz" logo tweeted by cast member Abigail Spencer was spreading online like magic.
Spencer, best known as the schoolteacher who had an affair with Don Draper on "Mad Men," also posted a photo of herself at the Detroit Zoo looking cool in a hat that she later messaged was bought in Santa Fe while she was filming "Cowboys & Aliens," the sci-fi/Western hybrid with Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford that opens July 29.
On Monday, she tweeted that "5 different Detroitonians in 5 minutes" had complimented her on her pants, which reminded her that the world premiere of "Cowboys & Aliens" was five days away. It's screening Saturday in San Diego at the annual Comic-Con event.
Did we mention Spencer's latest movie is "Cowboys & Aliens"?
Wyatt Russell goes 'AWOL'
The latest young actor to join the heat-wave hot cast of "AWOL" is the scion of Hollywood royalty.
Wyatt Russell, son of Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, will appear in the Vietnam-era movie, which is shooting in the Ann Arbor area and has the University of Michigan of those protest-laden times as a backdrop.
The film already has landed a number of rising actors, including Liam Hemsworth, Austin Stowell, Aimee Teegarden and Teresa Palmer.
The screenplay is by U-M professor Jim Burnstein and Garrett Schiff.
Russell also has a role in, you guessed it, "Cowboys & Aliens." His dad, Kurt, was in west Michigan last year to film the football-themed drama "Touchback."
Local director a new indie star
Rola Nashef is one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film, an honor bestowed by Filmmaker magazine.
The local director is in post-production on "Detroit Unleaded," which is about a young Lebanese-American man who runs a gas station.
"Growing up I never saw people like me and my own experience in the movies," Nashef tells Filmmaker. "And I kept meeting these amazing characters who continue to inspire me. Our experience as Arab Americans makes for great storytelling. We need to be on a screen somewhere."
Glover joins 'Freaky Deaky' cast
"Freaky Deaky" just got a little freakier, in a good way.
The king of quirkiness, Crispin Glover, is joining the cast of the adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel, according to Variety.
The project is filming in and around Detroit.
The eccentric actor is replacing William H. Macy, who was previously attached to the project.
Glover was in the Motor City in 2010 to show two of his experimental art films at the Burton Theater. His decades-long career includes memorable roles in "Back to the Future," "Charlie's Angels" and, most recently, "Hot Tub Time Machine," in which he played a one-armed bellman. And, of course, he nearly kicked David Letterman in the head during a famous 1987 interview.
USA Today once said that his most magnetic quality was perhaps "his true, unabashed freakishness." Freaky, how this all worked out.
Source http://www.freep.com/article/20110722/ENT01/107220329/Michigan-Movie-Notes-Oz-Great-Powerful-starts-filming-Pontiac
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