Casting calls for 'The Frozen Ground' starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, and Vanessa Hudgens

"The Frozen Ground" will be hiring speaking roles and hundreds of extras in Alaska.

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The feature film "The Frozen Ground" will begin shooting in Anchorage, Alaska on October 17, 2011. The casting director is hiring as many as 45 Alaska actors for speaking roles, as well as several hundred background extras. They are especially seeking state troopers and members of the police department who are interested in acting and extras roles. The film's main starring roles are being cast out of Los Angeles.

Written by New Zealander Scott Walker, who will also make his directing debut, the film is based on the true story of Alaska's most notorious serial predator, Robert "butcher baker" Hansen, who abducted some two dozen women and flew them into the Alaskan wilderness where he released and then hunted them. John Cusack plays the role of Robert Hanson, Nicolas Cage plays the State Trooper who hunts Hanson, and Vanessa Hudgens plays a victim of Hanson's who survives and helps bring him to justice.

Brandt Andersen will executive produce with a $27 million budget for Emmett/Furla Films while George Furla and Randall Emmett will produce for the company. Jane Fleming and Mark Ordesky will produce for Amber Entertainment. Curtis "50 cent" Jackson has come onboard to play a substantial role as a 1980s-era pimp, and will also executive produce the film with Envision.

Principal Actor Casting

See the post titled Headshot and Resume Information regarding how to submit for acting roles.

Please submit photos and resumes by mail or email only.
No phone calls or personal drop-offs.

Los Angeles:

Anne McCarthy
"The Frozen Ground" Casting
c/o Engine Media Group
PO Box 1859
Venice, CA 90291
(casting lead and supporting roles only)

Alaska:

Deborah Schildt
"The Frozen Ground" Casting
11050 Cange Street
Anchorage, AK 99516

Frozen Ground is asking that those interested in auditioning first e-mail an acting resume and headshot, plus contact info. IF you match the description of who is being cast, you will be given lines to memorize and a specific appointment to audition (about a 15 to 30 minute process). They are auditioning those with acting resumes first.

The casting e mail is: frozengroundcasting@gmail.com

Write "Actress" or "Actor" in the subject line.


Extras Casting

Alaska:

Deborah Schildt
"The Frozen Ground" Extras Casting
11050 Cange Street
Anchorage, AK 99516

If anyone wants to be an extra - you do not need to audition. In that case, you still need to send an e-mail with a current snapshot and contact information. Again, if you match the look of the extras they need AND have a very flexible schedule and availability of at least 12 open hours in a day (not weekends), then you MAY be called in for extras work.

The casting e mail is: frozengroundcasting@gmail.com

Write "Extra" in the subject line.


Production Companies:

Do NOT send photos and resumes to the production companies, as they will most likely end up being thrown away. They do not cast the films, rather they hire casting directors who sort through the thousands of submissions.

"The Frozen Ground"
Production Office
1001 Northway Drive
2nd Floor
Anchorage, AK 99508

Voltage Pictures
662 N. Crescent Heights Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048

Amber Entertainment
6030 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Emmett/Furla Films
8200 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 300
Beverly Hills, CA 90211

Producers:

Randall Emmett
George Furla
Jane Fleming
Mark Ordesky
Curtis Jackson

Writer/Director:

Scott Walker

Starring:

Nicolas Cage
John Cusack
Vanessa Hudgens
Curtis Jackson

Story:

Based on true events surrounding Alaska's most notorious serial predator, Robert Hansen (John Cusack), a respected family man, who over the course of twelve years abducted, tortured and raped over twenty four women, flying them to the Alaskan wilderness and hunting them down before killing them. Story will follow an Alaska State Trooper (Nicolas Cage) who finds one of Hansen's victims (Vanessa Hudgens) alive on the street who becomes the key in an unlikely partnership that brings Hansen to justice. Hansen was arrested in 1983 and charged with four murders and, as part of a plea bargain, agreed to show police where the graves of the murdered women were. He was sentenced to 461 years in prison and is currently imprisoned at Spring Creek Correctional Center in Alaska.

Universal Pictures auditions and casting calls for 'The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking' starring Vin Diesel

Vin Diesel's character is more powerful and dangerous in "Riddick".

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The upcoming Universal Pictures Vin Diesel science fiction thriller film "The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking" is set to begin filming in Montreal, Canada in mid-October, 2011. The films casting directors in Los Angeles and Canada are auditioning principal actors for supporting and day player roles, while the extras casting director in Monteal, Canada will be casting extras throughout filming. Additional shooting locations scouted include Regina, Saskatchewan in Canada.

Although "Pitch Black" and "The Chronicles of Riddick" are the first two films in the Riddick series, this next installment is actually a direct sequel to the "Pitch Black" film. The events in "The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking" return to the mystery and monsters at the center of "Pitch Black." The script for "The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking", is a tighter, intimate and more suspenseful ride than the last film in the series - "Chronicles of Riddick". The story has Riddick left for dead on a desolate planet fighting for survival against alien predators. Bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy soon descend, only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge.

David Twohy will direct "The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking" from a screenplay that he wrote himself. Twohy also wrote and directed the films "Pitch Black" and "The Chronicles of Riddick". He also wrote the script and scenario for the "The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay" video game. Universal Pictures has agreed to let Twohy direct "Riddick" as an R-rated film.

Samantha Vincent and Vin Diesel will produce "The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking" under the banner of Diesel's company One Race Productions, which was established in 1995. The companies production credits include "A Man Apart," "The Chronicles of Riddick," "Find Me Guilty," "Fast & Furious", and "Fast Five" among others. Scott Kroopf and Ted Field will produce for Radar Films.

Principal Actor Casting

See the post titled Headshot and Resume Information regarding how to submit for acting roles.

Please submit photos and resumes by mail only.
No phone calls or personal drop-offs.

Los Angeles:

Anne McCarthy
"The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking" Casting
c/o Engine
PO Box 1859
Venice, CA 90291

Montreal:

Randi Wells
"The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking" Casting
c/o Andrea Kenyon and Associates
7535 rue Saint-Denis
Montreal, QC H2R 2E7
Canada

Extras Casting

Montreal:

Johanne Titley
"The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking" Extras Casting
c/o Casting Quarters
7301 Beaubien East
Suite 407
Montreal, Québec H1M
Canada

Production Companies:

Do NOT send photos and resumes to the production companies, as they will most likely end up being thrown away. They do not cast the films, rather they hire casting directors who sort through the thousands of submissions.

"The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking" Production Office (Montreal)
1777 Carrie-Derick
2nd Floor
Montreal, PQ H3C 6G2

"The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking" Production Office (Los Angeles)
3000 Olympic Blvd.
Suite 1433
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Lionsgate
2700 Colorado Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90404

One Race Productions
9100 Wilshire Blvd
East Tower
Suite 535
Beverly Hills, CA 90212

Radar Films
10900 Wilshire Blvd
Ste 1400
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Universal Pictures
100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City, CA 91608

Producers:

Ted Fields
Samantha Vincent
Vin Diesel
Scott Kroopf

Writer/Director:

David Twohy

Starring:

Vin Diesel

Story:

Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick (Vin Diesel) fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.

Warner Bros. Pictures feature film 'Gangster Squad' auditions and casting calls

"Gangster Squad" stars the awesome trio of Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, and Josh Brolin.

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The major feature film "Gangster Squad" has begun production in Los Angeles and the casting directors are casting day players, extras, photo doubles, and stand-ins. The Warner Bros. Pictures film has an all star cast that includes Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, and Nick Nolte. "Gangster Squad" chronicles of the LAPD's fight to keep East Coast Mafia types out of Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s.

Ruben Fleischer will direct the period crime film from an adapted screenplay written by former LAPD officer Will Beall. The script is based on actual events, chronicled in a series of articles featured in the LA Times in 2008. Fleischer is best known as the director of the critically acclaimed and financially successful "Zombieland," his first feature film. He followed it by making "30 Minutes or Less". Prior to directing feature films, Fleischer was a prolific director of television commercials and music videos, working for such brands as the Cisco, Eurostar, ESPN, and Burger King.

John Papsidera cast the film with his colleague Jennifer Cram at Automatic Sweat. Papsidera has won two Primetime Emmys Awards and was nominated for another two Primetime Emmys. He has also been nominated for twelve Casting Society of America Artios Awards, of which he has won four times. Some of Automatic Sweat's past and current credits include "Enchanted," "The Dark Knight," "Inception," "The Dark Knight Rises," and "Oz: The Great and Powerful".

Michael Tadross will oversee production for Warner Bros. Pictures, Dan Lin and Jon Silk are producing for Lin Pictures, and Kevin McCormick will produce for Langley Park Productions. Shooting will take place at The Lot Studios in Los Angeles and various outdoor locations around Southern California. The Lot Studios is the re-branded renovated version of Warner Hollywood Studios and can trace its history back to 1920.

Principal Actor Casting

See the post titled Headshot and Resume Information regarding how to submit for acting roles.

Please submit photos and resumes by mail only.
No phone calls or personal drop-offs.

Los Angeles:

John Papsidera
Jennifer Cram
"Gangster Squad" Casting
c/o Automatic Sweat
5243 W. Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90016

Extras Casting:

Brandi S. Hawkins
Central Casting
220 S Flower St
Burbank, CA 91502
Do not send photos and resumes to Central Casting.
You must register in person.
Registration Info: (818) 562-2755

Production Companies:

Do NOT send photos and resumes to the production companies, as they will most likely end up being thrown away. They do not cast the films, rather they hire casting directors who sort through the thousands of submissions.

"Gangster Squad"
Production Office
1041 N. Formosa Avenue
Pickford Building
West Hollywood, CA 90046

Warner Bros. Pictures
4000 Warner Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91522

Langley Park Productions
4000 Warner Blvd.
Bldg 144
Burbank, CA 91522

Lin Pictures
4000 Warner Blvd
Bldg 143
Burbank, CA 91522

Producers:

Dan Lin
Kevin McCormick
Jon Silk

Director:

Ruben Fleischer

Starring:

Sean Penn
Mirielle Enos
Ryan Gosling
Josh Brolin
Anthony Mackie
Michael Peña
Giovanni Ribisi
Holt McCallanyRobert Patrick
Sullivan Stapleton
Mireille Enos
Frank Grillo
Jon Polito
Nick Nolte
James Carpinello

Story:

About the Los Angeles Police Department's off-the-books squad of mercenary cops who tried to chase infamous gangster Micky Cohen (Sean Penn) out of town in the 1940s. Cohen, started out as hired muscle for Al Capone in Chicago, but blossomed as a mogul after being sent to Los Angeles by Murder, Inc. kingpin Meyer Lansky to surveille Bugsy Siegel, who Cohen helped set up the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas and ran it's sports betting operation. He also ran a panoply of L.A. businesses, presumably as fronts to launder money — including floral shops, paint stores, nightclubs, casinos, gas stations, a haberdashery, and an ice cream parlor — before getting busted for tax evasion in 1950 and serving four years in federal prison.

Auditions and casting calls for 'The Great Gatsby' starring Leonardo DiCaprio

"The Great Gatsby" will film for seventeen weeks in Australia.

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The feature film "The Great Gatsby" starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire will be filming for 17 weeks beginning mid-late September 2011 near Sydney and Moore Park, New South Wales, Australia. The casting directors are casting supporting roles, day players, extras, photo doubles, and stand-ins to work various dates during production. Over 400 cast and crew are being employed during principal photography.

Also starring in the film is the beautiful and talented Academy Award nominated British actress Carey Mulligan, who has starred in such hit films as "Pride & Prejudice," "Public Enemies," "Brothers," "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," "Drive," and the recently completed "Shame". Mulligan is considered one of the most highly sought after actors today.

Academy Award nominee Baz Luhrmann is directing "The Great Gatsby" from a screenplay that he wrote with Craig Pearce. Luhrman is also producing with his Luhrmann/Bazmark Films partners Catherine Martin (who is also his wife) and Catherine Knapman, and Red Wagon partners Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher. Luhrmann has decided that he wants to shoot "The Great Gatsby" in 3D, and it has become one of the hottest upcoming films in Hollywood.

The film was originally slated to shoot in New York where writer F. Scott Fitzgerald's highly praised 1925 novel of the same name takes place. Director Bazz Luhrmann even moved with his family from Australia to Chelsea, New York in in September 2010. However he made the decision to film "The Great Gatsby" in New South Wales, and transform the Moore Park sound stages into an enclave of the super rich, Long Island in the summer of 1922. Scenes shot in Sydney will recreate New York's Plaza Hotel and Long Island's magnificent mansions. The movie will earn the New South Wales economy over $120 million.

In 2010, it was reported that the film would be set up by Sony Pictures Entertainment, but in early 2011 Warner Bros. Pictures closed a deal to finance and take over worldwide distribution of "The Great Gatsby".

Principal Actor Casting

See the post titled Headshot and Resume Information regarding how to submit for acting roles.

Please submit photos and resumes by mail only.
No phone calls or personal drop-offs.

Los Angeles:

Ronna Kress
"The Great Gatsby" Casting
333 S. Beverly Drive
Suite 109
Beverly Hills, CA 90212

Australia:

Nikki Barrett
Barrett Casting
"The Great Gatsby" Casting
3rd Floor
Regent House
61-63 Great Buckingham Street
Redfern NSW 2016
Australia

Extras Casting:

Australia:

"The Great Gatsby" Extras Casting
2 Darley Street
Darlinghurst NSW 2010
Australia


Production Companies:

Do NOT send photos and resumes to the production companies, as they will most likely end up being thrown away. They do not cast the films, rather they hire casting directors who sort through the thousands of submissions.

Luhrmann/Bazmark Films
"The Great Gatsby" Production Office
2 Darley Street
Darlinghurst NSW 2010
Australia

Red Wagon
10202 W. Washington Blvd.
Hepburn Building West
Culver City, CA 90232

Warner Bros. Pictures
4000 Warner Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91522

Producers:

Catherine Martin
Catherine Knapman
Douglas Wick
Lucy Fisher

Producer/Writer/Director:

Baz Luhrmann

Starring:

Leonardo DiCaprio - Jay Gatsby
Isla Fisher - Myrtle Wilson
Carey Mulligan - Daisy Buchanan
Tobey Maguire - Nick Carraway
Joel Edgerton - Tom Buchanan
Jason Clarke - George Wilson
Elizabeth Debicki - Jordan Baker

Story:

The story is presented as a recollection of Nick Carraway (Toby Maguire), a young man from a patrician Midwestern family who lived in New York after graduating from Yale in the early 1920s. Nick declares that, following his father's advice, he avoids judging people: a habit that has caused trouble, exemplified by events concerning a man named Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio).