Smosh, the banner by which BFFs Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla have been entertaining online video audiences and Pokemon enthusiasts since YouTube’s inception, has amassed over 1.3 billion views and over 4.5 million subscribers on the world’s largest video sharing site in the past six years. That’s one heck of a fan base. Hecox, Padilla, Smosh-owner Alloy Digital, Smosh President and Alloy Digital Evp Barry Blumberg, and the world’s largest video sharing site believe that fan base wants to watch cartoons in addition to the familiar erratic comedy and user-driven reality stylings of two talented young twentysomethings. Shut Up! Cartoons is Smosh’s soon-to-debut animated YouTube channel, which is one of the 96-or-so that make up the first round of the YouTube Originals Initiative. It was conceived of by Blumberg, who, before joining the Smosh team back in 2006, was responsible for the development and production of notable...
- 4/16/2012
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Apple have debited the first trailer and poster for new indie movie from Freestyle Releasing/ Secret Handshake. It’s called A Little Help and from the trailer looks like it could have some potential. It’s directed by Michael J. Weithorn and stars Jenna Fischer, Chris O’Donnell, Rob Benedict, Daniel Yelsky, Kim Coates, Brooke Smith, Lesley Ann Warren, Ron Leibman , Zach Page, Arden Myrin, Aida Turturro, Michelle Hurst , Michael J. Weithorn, Dena Hysell and Joe Gressis.
Synopsis: A Little Help is the story – funny, touching, sad, and real – of an ordinary person, engulfed by ordinary events, making an extraordinary emotional journey.
No Us or UK release dates as yet but we’ll keep you posted.
Synopsis: A Little Help is the story – funny, touching, sad, and real – of an ordinary person, engulfed by ordinary events, making an extraordinary emotional journey.
No Us or UK release dates as yet but we’ll keep you posted.
- 5/24/2011
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Although we all know her from The Office, Jenna Fischer and dipped her toe into the film world with supporting roles in such films as Blades of Glory, Walk Hard, and most recently, Hall Pass. Her next film, in wihch she has a lead role, actually did a festival run in 2010 and will now see a limited release. From The King of Queens executive producer and writer Michael J. Weithorn comes A Little Help. It looks like a perfectly harmless, if predicable, light comedy. I don’t trust any recommendation from Pete Hammond, but I may eventually check this out.
Fischer stars next to Chris O’Donnell, Rob Benedict, Daniel Yelsky, Kim Coates, Brooke Smith, Lesley Ann Warren, Ron Leibman , Zach Page, Arden Myrin, Aida Turturro, Michelle Hurst , Michael J. Weithorn, Dena Hysell, and Joe Gressis. Check out the trailer and poster below via Apple.
Synopsis:
A Little Help is the story – funny,...
Fischer stars next to Chris O’Donnell, Rob Benedict, Daniel Yelsky, Kim Coates, Brooke Smith, Lesley Ann Warren, Ron Leibman , Zach Page, Arden Myrin, Aida Turturro, Michelle Hurst , Michael J. Weithorn, Dena Hysell, and Joe Gressis. Check out the trailer and poster below via Apple.
Synopsis:
A Little Help is the story – funny,...
- 5/24/2011
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
If you’re looking to make a demo reel or have your current one updated, look no further than Joe Gressis at Secret Handshake Entertainment.
Joe has been editing for years and he is the go-to-guy for several big agencies when they want their actors to update their reels.
Why is Joe so great? Because he is also a producer (A Little Help starring Jenna Fischer and Chris O’Donnell will be released soon) and looks at reels from that perspective.
And check below for some reels of well-known actors!
At what point should an actor get a reel?
Pretty quickly. As soon as they’ve got enough material to support it, basically, because so much of casting is now done online and with DVDs. They go through so many people that as soon as you have it the better. As soon as you have the material to support. And sometimes,...
Joe has been editing for years and he is the go-to-guy for several big agencies when they want their actors to update their reels.
Why is Joe so great? Because he is also a producer (A Little Help starring Jenna Fischer and Chris O’Donnell will be released soon) and looks at reels from that perspective.
And check below for some reels of well-known actors!
At what point should an actor get a reel?
Pretty quickly. As soon as they’ve got enough material to support it, basically, because so much of casting is now done online and with DVDs. They go through so many people that as soon as you have it the better. As soon as you have the material to support. And sometimes,...
- 2/10/2010
- by Lance Carter
- DailyActorMedia
Mickey Rourke is going from taking hits in the ring to doling out hits himself.
The Oscar nominee for "The Wrestler" is set to star in "St. Vincent" for Occupant Films and Secret Handshake Entertainment.
He'll play a hit man who returns to New York to complete a botched hit. Masquerading as a priest, he finds himself hearing the confession of the man who he is targetting.
Walter Hill, who directed Rourke in the 1989 gangster tale "Johnny Handsome," is helming the project, based on an original script by Cameron Young.
Production is slated to begin later this year. Stuart Ford's Im Global is currently selling international rights outside of North America, while Icm, which also reps Rourke and Hill, handles North American rights.
Occupant's Keith Calder, Joe Neurauter and Felipe Marino and Secret Handshake's Dena Hysell and Joe Gressis will produce.
L.A.-based Occupant most recently produced the...
The Oscar nominee for "The Wrestler" is set to star in "St. Vincent" for Occupant Films and Secret Handshake Entertainment.
He'll play a hit man who returns to New York to complete a botched hit. Masquerading as a priest, he finds himself hearing the confession of the man who he is targetting.
Walter Hill, who directed Rourke in the 1989 gangster tale "Johnny Handsome," is helming the project, based on an original script by Cameron Young.
Production is slated to begin later this year. Stuart Ford's Im Global is currently selling international rights outside of North America, while Icm, which also reps Rourke and Hill, handles North American rights.
Occupant's Keith Calder, Joe Neurauter and Felipe Marino and Secret Handshake's Dena Hysell and Joe Gressis will produce.
L.A.-based Occupant most recently produced the...
- 2/6/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rick Pagano is a well-rounded casting director. He boasts credits in big-budget studio extravaganzas, intimate independent fare, popular television series, and acclaimed stage productions. But that's not all there is to his artistic life: Pagano is also a playwright and director, exploring complex characters with actors from yet another angle. His current production, a two-character play called Women With Dogs, details the highs and lows of an evolving relationship. "It's a play that's a good example of the kinds of things I love in actors," he says. "It's about the simplicity of making connections with people and being willing to turn corners in the middle of a scene — how interesting it is to have an emotional change in the middle of a scene instead of just playing one color the same way throughout a scene." Pagano is usually around for performances of the play, currently running at the Lex in Hollywood,...
- 10/24/2008
- by Sarah Kuhn
- backstage.com
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