Exclusive: Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment has hired longtime Turner casting executive Alexis Booth as head of casting. Her first day is today.
She will be working closely with the other department heads at Kapital: Traci Myman (BA), Michael Lohmann (Production) as well as Brian Morewitz and Melanie Frankel (Creative).
“We are so excited that Alexis chose to partner with Kapital,” Kaplan said. “She has an amazing eye for talent but also understands the nuances and the respect we must have for our creative partners when making deals in this multichannel universe. What a great way to start 2023!”
Booth began her career working as a production staff member on shows such as Scrubs and Desperate Housewives before segueing to television casting. She worked in Scott Genkinger & Deborah George’s office on Breakout Kings and Gigantic. Booth then moved to feature films with Roger Mussenden & Jeremy Rich to cast X-Men: First Class and Jack and Jill.
She will be working closely with the other department heads at Kapital: Traci Myman (BA), Michael Lohmann (Production) as well as Brian Morewitz and Melanie Frankel (Creative).
“We are so excited that Alexis chose to partner with Kapital,” Kaplan said. “She has an amazing eye for talent but also understands the nuances and the respect we must have for our creative partners when making deals in this multichannel universe. What a great way to start 2023!”
Booth began her career working as a production staff member on shows such as Scrubs and Desperate Housewives before segueing to television casting. She worked in Scott Genkinger & Deborah George’s office on Breakout Kings and Gigantic. Booth then moved to feature films with Roger Mussenden & Jeremy Rich to cast X-Men: First Class and Jack and Jill.
- 1/3/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Stay in the loop on industry and casting news with our write-up on who’s been slated for recent film and television roles! “Second Act”Jennifer Lopez is about to step back into the big-screen limelight: the singer-actor is lining up her next project, “Second Act," with director Peter Segal. J.Lo will play a woman who is passed up for a promotion after years of service at a big-box store and thrust into a world where college degrees trump street smarts. Tasked with developing an organic skincare line for a Madison Avenue company, the savvy blue-collar worker must prove her worth. Lopez is the only name attached to the project that is being cast by Roger Mussenden. Production is gearing up to start in mid-September and will carry on through the fall. While no exact location is currently known, the project is expected to take place in and around New York.
- 8/30/2017
- backstage.com
Academy invitee Eddie Redmayne in 'The Theory of Everything.' Academy invites 322 new members: 'More diverse and inclusive list of filmmakers and artists than ever before' The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has offered membership to 322 individuals "who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures." According to the Academy's press release, "those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy's membership in 2015." In case all 322 potential new members say an enthusiastic Yes, that means an injection of new blood representing about 5 percent of the Academy's current membership. In the words of Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs (as quoted in the press release), in 2015 "our branches have recognized a more diverse and inclusive list of filmmakers and artists than ever before, and we look forward to adding their creativity, ideas and experience to our organization." In recent years, the Academy membership has...
- 7/1/2015
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this week that the Los Angeles City Council, in a unanimous vote, approved plans for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Construction will begin this summer, and ceremonial groundbreaking festivities will occur this fall.
“I am thrilled that Los Angeles is gaining another architectural and cultural icon,” said Mayor Eric Garcetti. “My office of economic development has worked directly with the museum’s development team to ensure that the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will create jobs, support tourism, and pay homage to the industry that helped define our identity as the creative capital of the world.”
“We are grateful to our incredible community of supporters who have helped make this museum a reality,” said Dawn Hudson, the Academy’s CEO. “Building this museum has been an Academy...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this week that the Los Angeles City Council, in a unanimous vote, approved plans for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Construction will begin this summer, and ceremonial groundbreaking festivities will occur this fall.
“I am thrilled that Los Angeles is gaining another architectural and cultural icon,” said Mayor Eric Garcetti. “My office of economic development has worked directly with the museum’s development team to ensure that the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will create jobs, support tourism, and pay homage to the industry that helped define our identity as the creative capital of the world.”
“We are grateful to our incredible community of supporters who have helped make this museum a reality,” said Dawn Hudson, the Academy’s CEO. “Building this museum has been an Academy...
- 6/27/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Strangely dropping a press release on a historic day where the nation's attention is elsewhere, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed their annual list of new member invitees this morning. For those who criticize the makeup of the Academy there was some good news and the stark realization the organization still has a long way to go. The Academy has spent the last eight to 10 years attempting to diversify its membership and this year's class mostly reflects that. There are significantly more invitees of Asian and African-American descent, but the male to female disparity is still depressing. Out of the 25 potential new members of the Actor's Branch only seven are women. And, no, there isn't really an acceptable way for the Academy to spin that sad fact. Additionally, It's important to realize the 322 people noted in the release have only been invited to join Hollywood's most exclusive club.
- 6/26/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 322 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2015. “It’s gratifying to acknowledge the extraordinary range of talent in our industry,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “This year, our branches have recognized a more diverse and inclusive list of filmmakers and artists than ever before, and we look forward to adding their creativity, ideas and experience to our organization.” The 2015 invitees are: Actors Elizabeth Banks – “Love & Mercy,” “The Hunger Games” Choi Min-sik– “Lucy,” “Oldboy” Benedict Cumberbatch – “The Imitation Game,” “Star Trek Into Darkness” Martin Freeman – “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” “Hot Fuzz” Heather Graham – “The Hangover,” “Boogie Nights” Tom Hardy – “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Inception” Kevin Hart – “The Wedding Ringer,” “Ride Along...
- 6/26/2015
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
"Casting By," the critically acclaimed documentary about the role of the casting director in the movie-making process, makes its Hollywood debut this weekend at Arena Cinema. To celebrate, the filmmakers have scheduled Q&As with some of the industry's top CDs to follow this weekend's screenings: Nov. 15, 7:45 p.m.: Deb Aquila; Wally Nicita; Robin Lippin; Cathy Sandrich Nov. 16, noon: Gary Zuckerbrod, Marci Liroff Nov. 16, 2 p.m.: Richard Hicks; Jane Jenkins Nov. 16, 7:45 p.m.: Barbara McCarthy, April Webster Nov. 17, noon: Deb Zane; Roger Mussenden; John Papsidera; Julie Hutchinson; Deb Barylski Nov. 17, 2 p.m.: Ronna Kress, Heidi Levitt Nov. 17, 7 p.m.: Risa Bramon Garcia; Caroline Liem For updates and ticket information, visit arenascreen.com...
- 11/13/2013
- backstage.com
Interested in becoming an actor for a living or an extra on your favorite TV show or movie? If you’re attending Comic-Con next month, you’ll want to make time for The Casting Directors panel that will be taking place. A number of top casting directors will be on the panel, including The Walking Dead‘s Sharon Bialy.
The panel will be taking place on Friday, July 19th at Marriott Hall 2 from 2:20pm – 3:20pm. It will be moderated by Lora Kennedy (Warner Brothers, Evp, Features Casting. CD, Man of Steel) with the following panelists: Roger Mussenden (X-Men: Days of Future Past), Sharon Bialy (The Walking Dead), David Rapaport (Arrow) and Randi Hiller (Walt Disney Studios, VP Casting. CD, The Avengers).
New Comic-Con panels are being announced daily and we’ll have the full Comic-Con 2013 schedule in early July. We’ll be covering the event live from the...
The panel will be taking place on Friday, July 19th at Marriott Hall 2 from 2:20pm – 3:20pm. It will be moderated by Lora Kennedy (Warner Brothers, Evp, Features Casting. CD, Man of Steel) with the following panelists: Roger Mussenden (X-Men: Days of Future Past), Sharon Bialy (The Walking Dead), David Rapaport (Arrow) and Randi Hiller (Walt Disney Studios, VP Casting. CD, The Avengers).
New Comic-Con panels are being announced daily and we’ll have the full Comic-Con 2013 schedule in early July. We’ll be covering the event live from the...
- 6/27/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Lisa Soltau was living in Seattle when her friend Bonnie Gillespie sent her a book she had written called "Casting Qs," a compilation of interviews with casting directors. "I read it and I absolutely loved all the aspects of the job," says Soltau. "I loved the entertainment industry and movies and television. The process of casting sounded wonderful."She called one of the two casting offices in Seattle and ended up working as an intern there for about six months. But the CD told her she should move to New York or Los Angeles if she really wanted to pursue a career in casting. "I picked L.A. because I had lived there once for about three years and I thought it would be easier to acclimate there," Soltau says. "Plus I wanted to work on 'Six Feet Under,' which was airing at the time.
- 10/20/2010
- backstage.com
Casting directors came out from behind the curtain to be honored by their peers last night at the 25th Annual Artios Awards. The bi-coastal awards, which were held simultaneously at the new Times Center in New York City and the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, are presented yearly for outstanding achievement in casting in theater, film, and television categories on the criteria of originality, creativity, and contribution of casting to the overall quality of a project.Celebrity awards presenters in New York were Patrick Wilson ("Little Children," "Angels in America"), Carrie Preston ("True Blood"), Michael Shannon ("Revolutionary Road"), Jennifer Morrison ("House"), Bill Pullman ("Oleanna"), Christine Ebersole ("Grey Gardens"), Vincent Kartheiser ("Mad Men"), and Elizabeth Reaser ("Twilight"). Stanley Tucci and producer Daryl Roth presented the New York Big Apple Award to Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, whose "Love, Loss and What I Wore" recently opened Off-Broadway to rave reviews.
- 11/3/2009
- backstage.com
Producer Laura Ziskin, writer-director Nora Ephron, writer Delia Ephron and casting director John Frank Levey will be honored at the Casting Society of America's 24th annual Artios Awards.
Simultaneous awards ceremonies will be held in at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles and the New York Times Building in New York on Nov. 2.
Ziskin is set to receive the group's Career Achievement Award. The New York Apple Award will be presented to Nora and Delia Ephron. Levy is this year's recipient of the Hoyt Bowers Award.
Representing 425 members in the United States, Canada, England and Australia, Cas also announced its nominees in film TV and theater on Thursday.
In the category of big budget feature drama, Ellen Chenoweth scored two noms for "Changeling" and "Duplicity." The category nominees are John Papsidera for "The Dark Knight"; April Webster and Alyssa Weisberg for "Star Trek" and Avy Kaufman for "State of Play.
Simultaneous awards ceremonies will be held in at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles and the New York Times Building in New York on Nov. 2.
Ziskin is set to receive the group's Career Achievement Award. The New York Apple Award will be presented to Nora and Delia Ephron. Levy is this year's recipient of the Hoyt Bowers Award.
Representing 425 members in the United States, Canada, England and Australia, Cas also announced its nominees in film TV and theater on Thursday.
In the category of big budget feature drama, Ellen Chenoweth scored two noms for "Changeling" and "Duplicity." The category nominees are John Papsidera for "The Dark Knight"; April Webster and Alyssa Weisberg for "Star Trek" and Avy Kaufman for "State of Play.
- 9/17/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Disney's "I'll Be Home for Christmas", a routine seat-filler with no breakout potential and not fated to be in many theaters a month from now, is another sugary-sweet and family-safe yuletide comedy that tramples credibility and eschews coherent storytelling. As early presents sometimes go, it'll soon be discarded and forgotten.
Destined for a more enthusiastic reception on television and video, director Arlene Sanford's road movie goes nowhere fast, with the performers largely spinning their wheels. While Jonathan Taylor Thomas has the requisite boyish charms and mannish good looks, his teen scam-artist Jake is mild-mannered but selfish, not a jock but arrogant nonetheless. We've met his kind many times before, and Thomas is nothing special in the role.
Chipping away at the smug self-confidence that enwraps his better nature is the purpose of this exercise in episodic dumbness, starting with the setup. In a Pacific Palisades college that looks much like high school -- lockers and dorm rooms in the same institution? -- New Yorker Jake has a lucrative business helping jocks pass history tests but pays the piper when his customers are dissatisfied.
Jake's mature girlfriend and classmate Allie (Jessica Biel) is also a friend of the family, though she's not too enthusiastic when he cashes in his plane ticket home for two tickets to Mexico. She wants to go home for the holidays but has no plan to do so until Jake has a change of heart. Along with the ludicrous notion that his father (Gary Cole) would hand him a lovingly restored 1957 Porsche only if he makes it home by 6 p.m. Christmas Eve, Jake re-recycles his plane fare into two tickets home.
But this untidy resolution to the problem is forgotten when Jake is kidnapped and rendered unconscious by disgruntled business associates and left in the middle of the desert dressed in a Santa Claus suit with hat and beard glued to his face. Left waiting and understandably pissed off, Allie decides to hitch a ride with Jake's jerky rival Eddie (Adam LaVorgna), a sexist pig in the making, though she knows how to handle him.
From jokes about buzzards -- the real kind, as well as four female Tom Jones fans whom Jake rides with briefly -- to lovelorn cops and a 5K race for Santas only, "I'll Be Home" struggles to the finish line. Making the effort, though, gets Jake the car and the girl, and he even decides to be nice to his nervous new stepmom (Eve Gordon).
To keep things moving and help gloss over the many plot holes and jokes that don't fly, the filmmakers cram the soundtrack with seasonal tunes ("Blue Christmas", "Run Rudolph Run", etc.).
I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
Buena Vista
Walt Disney Pictures presents
A Mandeville Films production
Director: Arlene Sanford
Screenwriters: Tom Nursall, Harris Goldberg
Producers: David Hoberman, Tracey Trench
Executive producer: Robin French
Director of photography: Hiro Narita
Production designer: Cynthia Charette
Editor: Anita Brandt-Burgoyne
Costume designer: Maya Mani
Music: John Debney
Casting: Roger Mussenden, Karen Church
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jake: Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Allie: Jessica Biel
Eddie: Adam LaVorgna
Jake's Dad: Gary Cole
Carolyn: Eve Gordon
Tracey: Lauren Maltby
Nolan: Andrew Lauer
Max: Sean O'Bryan
Running time -- 86 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
Destined for a more enthusiastic reception on television and video, director Arlene Sanford's road movie goes nowhere fast, with the performers largely spinning their wheels. While Jonathan Taylor Thomas has the requisite boyish charms and mannish good looks, his teen scam-artist Jake is mild-mannered but selfish, not a jock but arrogant nonetheless. We've met his kind many times before, and Thomas is nothing special in the role.
Chipping away at the smug self-confidence that enwraps his better nature is the purpose of this exercise in episodic dumbness, starting with the setup. In a Pacific Palisades college that looks much like high school -- lockers and dorm rooms in the same institution? -- New Yorker Jake has a lucrative business helping jocks pass history tests but pays the piper when his customers are dissatisfied.
Jake's mature girlfriend and classmate Allie (Jessica Biel) is also a friend of the family, though she's not too enthusiastic when he cashes in his plane ticket home for two tickets to Mexico. She wants to go home for the holidays but has no plan to do so until Jake has a change of heart. Along with the ludicrous notion that his father (Gary Cole) would hand him a lovingly restored 1957 Porsche only if he makes it home by 6 p.m. Christmas Eve, Jake re-recycles his plane fare into two tickets home.
But this untidy resolution to the problem is forgotten when Jake is kidnapped and rendered unconscious by disgruntled business associates and left in the middle of the desert dressed in a Santa Claus suit with hat and beard glued to his face. Left waiting and understandably pissed off, Allie decides to hitch a ride with Jake's jerky rival Eddie (Adam LaVorgna), a sexist pig in the making, though she knows how to handle him.
From jokes about buzzards -- the real kind, as well as four female Tom Jones fans whom Jake rides with briefly -- to lovelorn cops and a 5K race for Santas only, "I'll Be Home" struggles to the finish line. Making the effort, though, gets Jake the car and the girl, and he even decides to be nice to his nervous new stepmom (Eve Gordon).
To keep things moving and help gloss over the many plot holes and jokes that don't fly, the filmmakers cram the soundtrack with seasonal tunes ("Blue Christmas", "Run Rudolph Run", etc.).
I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
Buena Vista
Walt Disney Pictures presents
A Mandeville Films production
Director: Arlene Sanford
Screenwriters: Tom Nursall, Harris Goldberg
Producers: David Hoberman, Tracey Trench
Executive producer: Robin French
Director of photography: Hiro Narita
Production designer: Cynthia Charette
Editor: Anita Brandt-Burgoyne
Costume designer: Maya Mani
Music: John Debney
Casting: Roger Mussenden, Karen Church
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jake: Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Allie: Jessica Biel
Eddie: Adam LaVorgna
Jake's Dad: Gary Cole
Carolyn: Eve Gordon
Tracey: Lauren Maltby
Nolan: Andrew Lauer
Max: Sean O'Bryan
Running time -- 86 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 11/13/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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