Wednesday, July 18

• M. Night is Happening

  Super-secretive thrill-monger M. Night Shyamalan is at it again. The writer-director is putting together his next movie, The Happening, a thriller about a man (Mark Wahlberg) who tries to save his family when a natural disaster threatens to end the world.

  John Leguizamo and Spencer Breslin (brother of Little Miss Sunshine cutie Abigail) have recently joined the cast.

  As anyone who watches Entourage knows, Shyamalan is notoriously hush-hush about his projects (neurotic paranoia might be a better description). Thus, not much else is known about the movie--other than it begins filming next month in Philadelphia (of course).

  
  

  Posted 07/18/2007 by Heather

  John Leguizamo | M. Night Shyamalan | Mark Wahlberg | Spencer Breslin | Zooey Deschanel

Wednesday, March 28

• Is the world ready for the first social network-produced movie? It better be.

  LiveMansion.com is a social networking website (a la MySpace and Friendster) with over 100,000 members. Keeping in line with the creative community whose interests it serves, Ckrush Enertainment will be producing Live Mansion: The Movie.

  And just what is so exciting about that? Well, Live Mansion: The Movie is going to be the first film produced by a social network. There are 24 finalists for 8 lead roles. LiveMansion.com members earn "producer points" for participating. Over 600,000 votes were cast during the competition for the movie's director.

  

  Actors John Leguizamo (Ice Age: The Meltdown, Moulin Rouge) and Cara Buono (Third Watch, Beer League) will judge the final round of casting for the 8 lead roles.

  I was all ready to say something snarky about how this doesn't exactly seem like a very promising concept for a movie, but then Leguizamo went and said this: "I thought it would be a great opportunity to help actors that are trying to make it in this industry."

  Damn him, and his generous Latin heart.

  
  
  Next Showing: Live Mansion: The Movie is set to begin production this summer

  Posted 03/28/2007 by Heather

  John Leguizamo | Cara Buono