The first trailer is out. I'm going to send you to the main site of JDMMs,
http://jeffreydeanmorgansmaniacs.org/id22.html
rather than the original site, http://movienews.ro/trailers/2009/04/30/taking-woodstock/ because the video is VERY slow loading, and it's a wee bit quicker on my site than it is on the original site, though neither version is dial-up friendly. ( So much so that of the 2 minutes and whatever odd seconds of the video, I have yet to see more than 30 seconds!) But the size and quality are very good, so to those with the patience....
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Review of Days of Wrath
Days of Wrath
By ROBERT KOEHLER
Posted: Mon., Oct. 20, 2008
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117938769.html?u=IMDB&p=H2BE&cs=1
Note- This review was written after Days of Wrath's world premier at the Los Angeles Latino Film Festival in September of 2008. As far as I know it still hasn't been picked up for distribution.
A Distributor and Production Co. presentation of a Foxy Films production. Produced by Celia Fox, Michael D. Schultz, Marie Cantin. Co-producers, Christine Sheaks, David L. Snyder. Directed by Celia Fox. Screenplay, Mitchell Kapner, Michael Markee, based on a screenplay by Fox.
With: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Wilmer Valderrama, Ana Claudia Talancon, Jesse Garcia, Amber Valletta, Lupe Ontiveros, Ricardo Antonio Chavira, Faizon Love, David Banner, Kurupt, Doug Hutchison, Shahine Ezell, Brandon T. Jackson, Taye Diggs, Laurence Fishburne.
(English, Spanish dialogue)
A vicious cycle of revenge overwhelms a brewing black-vs.-Latino gang war in "Days of Wrath," a full-bore genre item from director Celia Fox that should prove a reusable calling card for the Hollywood mainstream. Industry observers should note that, for little scratch, Fox and crew have produced an uncommonly slick gang-banger with a well-cast troupe of mostly young Latino and African-American thesp talent. Pages torn from the playbooks of both John Woo and John Singleton make this a familiar 'hood item that should draw more than average indie distrib interest for theatrical and vid.
In a Los Angeles street jungle plagued by thugs with guns, Danny Boy (Wilmer Valderrama) is a predator without conscience, and his senseless violence sets bad things in motion. His gang attack on a hip-hop star (Faizon Love) ends up killing the mother of fellow gang leader/chop-shop owner Mario (Jesse Garcia); the victim is also the former g.f. of local TV station manager Byron (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
Byron's other link to the gang life is through his ambitious young reporter, Samantha (Ana Claudia Talancon), who walked away from her gang allegiances a few years ago. (An awkward early scene intros Samantha lecturing high school kids about gangs with teacher Laurence Fishburne, in a cameo, lecturing even harder.) Looking on all these folks with disdain is Anita (Lupe Ontiveros, in an oh-so-colorful turn), who considers grandson Mario a failure and hates Byron, who turns out to be Mario's birth dad.
The interesting hook in Mitchell Kapner and Michael Markee's screenplay (credited as being based on Fox's screenplay) is that the usual gang-on-gang dynamic is abandoned for a bloody kind of gang unity -- all for one against Danny Boy. Early on, the question is who will get to Danny Boy first. Later, after Danny Boy proves to be fairly brilliant, elusive and utterly fearless, the question becomes: How is this guy still alive?
Amid typical setups and dialogue scenes, the requisite quota of T&A, and an unconvincing side plot involving Samantha's rivalry with a news anchor (Amber Valletta), "Days of Wrath" is built on a set of interlocking narrative gears that Fox allows to play out at full length. Even pistol-packin' granny Anita gets her piece of revenge in a delicious neo-Hitchcockian scene, and Danny Boy gets his just desserts on a scale worthy of Scorsese.
Christine Sheaks' casting, down to tiny roles, is generally spot-on, while the bigger roles held down by Morgan, Garcia and especially the impressive Valderrama, in a jet-black performance, are delivered with aplomb. Talancon, however, can't begin to suggest the former gang chick under Samantha's fresh makeover. Supporting standouts include Ontiveros; David Banner and Doug Hutchison as crime bosses; and a stunning Tasia Sherel as the tart-tongued mom of a son felled by Danny Boy. Taye Diggs, as a vet journo, seems to be in another movie.
Production package is certainly the film's neatest trick, with Steven Fierberg's widescreen lensing and David L. Snyder's production design creating a sheen more common in larger-scale studio fare.
By ROBERT KOEHLER
Posted: Mon., Oct. 20, 2008
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117938769.html?u=IMDB&p=H2BE&cs=1
Note- This review was written after Days of Wrath's world premier at the Los Angeles Latino Film Festival in September of 2008. As far as I know it still hasn't been picked up for distribution.
A Distributor and Production Co. presentation of a Foxy Films production. Produced by Celia Fox, Michael D. Schultz, Marie Cantin. Co-producers, Christine Sheaks, David L. Snyder. Directed by Celia Fox. Screenplay, Mitchell Kapner, Michael Markee, based on a screenplay by Fox.
With: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Wilmer Valderrama, Ana Claudia Talancon, Jesse Garcia, Amber Valletta, Lupe Ontiveros, Ricardo Antonio Chavira, Faizon Love, David Banner, Kurupt, Doug Hutchison, Shahine Ezell, Brandon T. Jackson, Taye Diggs, Laurence Fishburne.
(English, Spanish dialogue)
A vicious cycle of revenge overwhelms a brewing black-vs.-Latino gang war in "Days of Wrath," a full-bore genre item from director Celia Fox that should prove a reusable calling card for the Hollywood mainstream. Industry observers should note that, for little scratch, Fox and crew have produced an uncommonly slick gang-banger with a well-cast troupe of mostly young Latino and African-American thesp talent. Pages torn from the playbooks of both John Woo and John Singleton make this a familiar 'hood item that should draw more than average indie distrib interest for theatrical and vid.
In a Los Angeles street jungle plagued by thugs with guns, Danny Boy (Wilmer Valderrama) is a predator without conscience, and his senseless violence sets bad things in motion. His gang attack on a hip-hop star (Faizon Love) ends up killing the mother of fellow gang leader/chop-shop owner Mario (Jesse Garcia); the victim is also the former g.f. of local TV station manager Byron (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
Byron's other link to the gang life is through his ambitious young reporter, Samantha (Ana Claudia Talancon), who walked away from her gang allegiances a few years ago. (An awkward early scene intros Samantha lecturing high school kids about gangs with teacher Laurence Fishburne, in a cameo, lecturing even harder.) Looking on all these folks with disdain is Anita (Lupe Ontiveros, in an oh-so-colorful turn), who considers grandson Mario a failure and hates Byron, who turns out to be Mario's birth dad.
The interesting hook in Mitchell Kapner and Michael Markee's screenplay (credited as being based on Fox's screenplay) is that the usual gang-on-gang dynamic is abandoned for a bloody kind of gang unity -- all for one against Danny Boy. Early on, the question is who will get to Danny Boy first. Later, after Danny Boy proves to be fairly brilliant, elusive and utterly fearless, the question becomes: How is this guy still alive?
Amid typical setups and dialogue scenes, the requisite quota of T&A, and an unconvincing side plot involving Samantha's rivalry with a news anchor (Amber Valletta), "Days of Wrath" is built on a set of interlocking narrative gears that Fox allows to play out at full length. Even pistol-packin' granny Anita gets her piece of revenge in a delicious neo-Hitchcockian scene, and Danny Boy gets his just desserts on a scale worthy of Scorsese.
Christine Sheaks' casting, down to tiny roles, is generally spot-on, while the bigger roles held down by Morgan, Garcia and especially the impressive Valderrama, in a jet-black performance, are delivered with aplomb. Talancon, however, can't begin to suggest the former gang chick under Samantha's fresh makeover. Supporting standouts include Ontiveros; David Banner and Doug Hutchison as crime bosses; and a stunning Tasia Sherel as the tart-tongued mom of a son felled by Danny Boy. Taye Diggs, as a vet journo, seems to be in another movie.
Production package is certainly the film's neatest trick, with Steven Fierberg's widescreen lensing and David L. Snyder's production design creating a sheen more common in larger-scale studio fare.
Taking Woodstock at Cannes
Theater News
By: Brian Scott Lipton · Apr 23, 2009 · New York
http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/new....ilm_14778.html
Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock to Debut at Cannes Film Festival
Ang Lee's film Taking Woodstock, a big-screen adaptation of the memoir of Elliot Tiber, who played a role in helping the historic 1969 music fest unfold on his neighbor's farm, will make its world debut in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival in May, before officially opening in the United States on August 14.
Demetri Martin will play Tiber, an aspiring interior designer in Greenwich Village obliged to run a Catskills motel; Imelda Staunton and Henry Goodman will play Tiber's parents; Jonathan Groff will play Woodstock organizer Michael Lang; Emile Hirsch will play a recently returned Vietnam vet, Eugene Levy will play farmer Max Yasgur, Liev Schrieber will play a transvestite named Vilma; Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan will play a hippie couple attending the concert; Dan Fogler will play a local theater troupe head; and Mamie Gummer will play Lang's assistant.
Lee won the Oscar for Brokeback Mountain and has directed such films as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Note- As you can tell, Jeff's role in this film is quite small.
By: Brian Scott Lipton · Apr 23, 2009 · New York
http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/new....ilm_14778.html
Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock to Debut at Cannes Film Festival
Ang Lee's film Taking Woodstock, a big-screen adaptation of the memoir of Elliot Tiber, who played a role in helping the historic 1969 music fest unfold on his neighbor's farm, will make its world debut in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival in May, before officially opening in the United States on August 14.
Demetri Martin will play Tiber, an aspiring interior designer in Greenwich Village obliged to run a Catskills motel; Imelda Staunton and Henry Goodman will play Tiber's parents; Jonathan Groff will play Woodstock organizer Michael Lang; Emile Hirsch will play a recently returned Vietnam vet, Eugene Levy will play farmer Max Yasgur, Liev Schrieber will play a transvestite named Vilma; Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan will play a hippie couple attending the concert; Dan Fogler will play a local theater troupe head; and Mamie Gummer will play Lang's assistant.
Lee won the Oscar for Brokeback Mountain and has directed such films as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Note- As you can tell, Jeff's role in this film is quite small.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
The Resident shoots in New Mexico
Hammer Films to shoot Swank picture in NM
Friday, April 24, 2009
Read the full article here:
http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2009/04/20/daily64.html
Legendary British horror film company Hammer Films will shoot a movie starring Hilary Swank in New Mexico.
“Invasion of Privacy” is a suspense thriller with a second working title of “The Resident.” Hammer is producing the film for its parent company, Exclusive Media Group. A distribution deal is in place with Exclusive Film Distribution.
The production also stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan from “The Watchmen” and “P.S. I Love You.” It will film in and around Albuquerque from May 26 to July 17. The majority of the filming will be done at Albuquerque Studios.
True to Hammer form, the story line is designed to inspire fear and anxiety. This time, it’s geared toward single women who live alone.
A release from Gov. Bill Richardson’s office says the movie is inspired by “the fact that every year, millions of single women in America move into apartments for the first time. They do not know who lived in the apartment before them, they do not know their landlords and they don’t bother to change their locks. This is the story of one such woman.”
Friday, April 24, 2009
Read the full article here:
http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2009/04/20/daily64.html
Legendary British horror film company Hammer Films will shoot a movie starring Hilary Swank in New Mexico.
“Invasion of Privacy” is a suspense thriller with a second working title of “The Resident.” Hammer is producing the film for its parent company, Exclusive Media Group. A distribution deal is in place with Exclusive Film Distribution.
The production also stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan from “The Watchmen” and “P.S. I Love You.” It will film in and around Albuquerque from May 26 to July 17. The majority of the filming will be done at Albuquerque Studios.
True to Hammer form, the story line is designed to inspire fear and anxiety. This time, it’s geared toward single women who live alone.
A release from Gov. Bill Richardson’s office says the movie is inspired by “the fact that every year, millions of single women in America move into apartments for the first time. They do not know who lived in the apartment before them, they do not know their landlords and they don’t bother to change their locks. This is the story of one such woman.”
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Auction of Jeffrey Dean Morgan READ Posters
DonateJDM is auctioning off four of Jeff's American Library Association READ posters featuring Jeff holding a copy of Watchmen.These posters will be PERSONALIZED by Jeff, not just signed by him, as a thanks for supporting DonateJDM.
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/donatejdm_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/donatejdm_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ
Friday, April 17, 2009
DonateJDM's Live Journal site has posted some pictures of Jeff in his modeling days. Go here to take a look: http://donatejdm.livejournal.com/2538.html
This is just one of these shots... from 1987.
http://www.donatejdm.org/index1A.html
The Brittany Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charity dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, care and placement of homeless dogs.
Go, make a donation, help save some dogs!
Saturday, April 11, 2009
DonateJDM
There are only 9 days left to participate in the DonateJDM fundraising drive to benefit The Brittany Foundation. Any and all donations are gratefully accepted, and 100% tax deductible.
http://www.donatejdm.org/index1A.html
The Brittany Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charity dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, care and placement of homeless dogs.
We rescue all dogs, regardless of breed, and we often focus our efforts on the harder-to-place dogs such as seniors, disabled or abused dogs.
While in our care, the dogs are spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and given a thorough check-up along with any necessary medical attention. Our dogs are also microchipped. If dogs are not adopted, they will live at the sanctuary for their entire life. We run a no-kill facility.
http://www.donatejdm.org/index1A.html
The Brittany Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charity dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, care and placement of homeless dogs.
We rescue all dogs, regardless of breed, and we often focus our efforts on the harder-to-place dogs such as seniors, disabled or abused dogs.
While in our care, the dogs are spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and given a thorough check-up along with any necessary medical attention. Our dogs are also microchipped. If dogs are not adopted, they will live at the sanctuary for their entire life. We run a no-kill facility.
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