The entertainment industry is constantly changing, and it's important to stay aware of what’s going on. Want to find out who’s casting? What projects are happening? What’s coming up? Call Sheet highlights will help you stay in-the-know: “School of Rock,” the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical adaptation of the Jack Black career-making film, has found its venue and it’s headed straight for Broadway. The Shuberts’ Winter Garden Theatre will welcome the production starting Dec. 6. Former casting associate Caitlin Jones has been upped to casting director at Liz Lewis Casting Partners. John Travolta has landed the role of lawyer Robert Shapiro in Ryan Murphy’s new FX series “American Crime Story: The People Vs. O.J. Simpson.” Production is scheduled to start early this year in Los Angeles. The hotly publicized “Steve Jobs” biopic has deemed San Francisco its primary filming location. Shooting is tentatively scheduled to begin on Jan.
- 1/8/2015
- backstage.com
Scott Genkinger and Deborah George have split with Junie Lowry-Johnson Casting and launched their own Studio City office. Genkinger is currently casting the NBC pilot “The Mysteries of Laura,” which follows the life and relationships of a female homicide detective on. Other NBC pilots with casting directors attached includes “A to Z,” a comedy about modern dating as it’s viewed from the staff of an online dating company, to be cast by Lisa Ystrom; 1960s-set “Mission Control,” about a strong woman confronting a macho astronaut in the race to land on the moon, (Julie Tucker and Ross Meyerson will cast out of New York and Susie Farris out of Los Angeles); and the comedy “Ellen More or Less,” about a formerly obese woman who has recently shed weight, being cast by L.A.-based Brett Greenstein and Collin Daniel. Meanwhile, the drama “Coercion,” about a man who discovers his parents are former spies,...
- 1/31/2014
- backstage.com
Five CBS pilots now have casting directors attached, Backstage has confirmed.The high-profile pilot for “Beverly Hills Cop,” an hour-long comedic action drama that continues the Eddie Murphy film franchise on TV, will be cast by Wendy Weidman and Rebecca Mangieri of Creative Casting. The project from “The Shield” creator Shawn Ryan stars Brandon T. Jackson as police officer Aaron Foley, the son of Murphy’s iconic character Axel Foley. Murphy is expected to make a cameo in the pilot to help launch the potential series. The shoot date and location are still to be determined, but the casting directors are based in L.A.Casting is also underway on four CBS comedy pilots. The first is “The McCarthys,” a single-camera comedy about a loud, tight-knit, sports-crazed Boston family, written by former Backstage “Comic to Watch” Brian Gallivan. Los Angeles-based casting directors Tim Payne and Lisa Ystrom, who also cast...
- 1/30/2013
- backstage.com
Actors looking for a good time should call Tim Payne and Lisa Ystrom. The duo at Payne/Ystrom Casting in Toluca Lake are the CDs for the new ABC pilot “Super Fun Night.” The show was originally set to be a multi-camera sitcom developed for CBS and been cast by Julie Ashton. It didn’t make the cut, though, and instead found new life in a single-camera format at ABC. The plot revolves around three friends, including Rebel Wilson (pictured) of “Bridesmaids” fame, who make a weekly Friday-night appointment to have the best-ever night on the town. It’s being produced by Conan O’Brien with John Riggi signed on as showrunner. It starts shooting in November. Another comedy set to shoot in November is Nick at Nite’s “Instant Mom,” which will be cast by Vickie Thomas. The plot centers on a 20-something party girl—set to be Tia Mowry...
- 10/12/2012
- backstage.com
With some of the major networks' fall shows scheduled to go into production as soon as July, the process of hiring casting directors has begun in earnest. Due to their generally lower cost and smaller scale, the comedies tend to gear up first, and several CDs have already put pen to paper.Among those sticking with their pilots are Lisa Miller Katz, who will be casting "Don't Trust the Bitch at Apartment 23" for ABC (she's also doing the TBS comedy "Wedding Band," for which she also cast the pilot); Tim Payne and Lisa Ystrom, who are sticking with "Suburgatory" for ABC (good move, at least judging from the trailer); Koczara/Shevchenko, who are doing ABC's "Work It" (all two episodes of it before it gets canceled); Susie Farris, who has signed on to "Whitney" for NBC; Anya Colloff, who will cast CBS's "How to Be a Gentleman" sans former partner Amy.
- 6/13/2011
- by help@backstage.com (Pete Keeley)
- backstage.com
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