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Calling all you music lovers in Atlanta: A music app is looking to cast people to star in a commercial in the coming days. Pay is $200 a day, according to project casting.
The scenes are slated to be filming on Friday, March 16 in Atlanta.
To audition for the upcoming music app commercial, check out the casting call breakdown below.
Music App Commercial Casting Call
IMMEDIATELY SEEKING! *VERY FEATURED* PLEASE SHARE
The following to work FRIDAY, 3/16 (TOMORROW). For a campaign for a popular music app. In the ATLANTA area. Must have FULL availability for the day. Locals only. Looking for outgoing, hip individuals!
Pay rate: $200/10.African American girl
Ages 10-15
SUBJECT: GIRLAfrican American Woman
Ages 26-35
SUBJECT: MUSICAfrican American Woman
Ages 50-75+
SUBJECT: COOLSUBMIT ASAP:
Name
CURRENT photos
Age/height/weight
Sizes
Location (city, state)
Contact numberFor minors: (MUST be submitted by parent/guardian)
Parent/Guardian Name
Child’s Name
Child’s Age/height/weight
Sizes
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One of the most revered horror cult comedy films of all time is having a showing in Atlanta in the coming days. “House” or more accurately, (ハウス “Hausu)” is a 1977 Japanese film of critical acclaim. On Thursday, it will play on the big screen at Atlanta’s oldest movie house, the Plaza Theater.
The movie, directed by eclectic filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi, centers on a schoolgirl who takes six of her classmates to her sick aunt’s rural home, where they each meet an untimely and supernatural death.
This is what Wiki says about the fear fest: “The film company Toho approached Obayashi with the suggestion to make a film like Jaws. Influenced by ideas from his daughter Chigumi, Obayashi developed ideas for a script that was written by Chiho Katsura. After the script was green-lit, the film was put on hold for two years as no director at Toho wanted to direct it. Obayashi promoted the film during this time period until the studio allowed him to direct it himself. The film was a box office hit in Japan but received negative reviews from critics. House received a wide release in 2009 and 2010 in North America, where it received more favorable reviews.”
“Hausu” is just the first in a series of cult films to be shown at the Plaza. Here are deets on the others. Get tix here.
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March 5, 2018
1 Min ReadRapper/actor/singer/producer Donald Glover announced Monday that his music alias Childish Gambino is going on tour nationally — and the first stop is Atlanta.
Pre-sale tickets went on sale Tuesday and the general sale begins Friday.
Glover, who was reared in nearby Stone Mountain, has been immersed in film and TV project the past two years, putting music on the back burner. But now it looks like music is coming back to the forefront.
Childish Gambino’s album “Awaken, My Love” exploded onto the scene in 2016 and snatched souls along the way. Hits such as “Redbone” and “Baby Boy” caught on in the national consciousness, especially when the former was featured prominently in Oscar-awarded “Get Out.”
Here is the list of cities for Childish Gambino’s 2018 North American tour, which will feature special guest Rae Sremmurd.
Sept. 6 — Atlanta
Sept 8 — Chicago
Sept. 10 — Toronto
Sept. 12 — Boston
Sept. 14 — New York
Sept. 18 — Philly
Sept. 19 — Washington, D.C.
Sept. 22 — Houston
Sept. 23 — Dallas
Sept. 26 — Los Angeles
Sept. 27 — Oakland
Sept. 29 — Seattle
Sept. 30 — Vancouver
Here’s how to get tickets.
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Will Smith is currently in Georgia filming his latest film, “Gemini Man.” The producers are looking for some fresh faces for background roles as well.
Smith, fresh off the success of his first Netflix venture, “Bright,”recently took to social media to complain about the gnats in Savannah. Wearing a net mask, the actor said that he loved Georgia but “you gotta rock this,” he said, pointing to the mask.
As we previously reported the film will be directed by Ang Lee and has been around Hollywood for more than a decade in various versions. It is about an assassin who finally meets his match, actually a younger clone of himself.
“Previous drafts were penned by a revolving door of scribes that included Brian Helgeland, Andrew Niccol and David Benioff. Previously, Tony Scott considered directing as well as Curtis Hanson,” according to Deadline.com. “Skydance acquired the project in 2016 with Jerry Bruckheimer attached to produce with David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger and Don Murphy and Chad Oman executive producing.”
Ha!! Big Will Smith is filming a movie in Savannah and apparently even the bugs are excited to see him. 😂 When you get finished come see us in Atlanta! Let's get it!! pic.twitter.com/OiiGscFQCg
— Fred Blankenship (@FBlankenshipWSB) February 28, 2018
Casting directors are now casting actors, models, and talent to work on scenes filming on March 5th and/or March 9th in Savannah, Georgia.
Producers are seeking the following types:
Gemini Man
Government Suit types
Clean cut / clean shaven
All Ethnicities / Age 45 and overDates: 3/5 and/or 3/9
Rate: 64/8
Location: Savannah GAIf you are available all of the dates then please email GMan@RoseLockeCasting.com. Include 3 pics (head, body and profile) age, ht, wt and all contact info.
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A star-studded movie based on a true story about a group of friends who have been playing a no-holds-barred version of the children’s game Tag for the last three decades is coming to the big screen.
The Atlanta-filmed flick features Jeremy Renner, Hannibal Burress, Ed Helms and Tracy Morgan.
To audition for a role in the new movie, check out the casting call breakdown below.
TAG Casting Call
TAG – STAND-IN $150/12 MULTI-DAY booking
Caucasian Male 5’11 and about 175lbs
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👨🏻💻
👨🏻🔧Seeking a CAUCASIAN MALE with brunette hair to work as a photodouble for one of our actors. We are specifically looking for someone who has model like features, between 5’10 and 6′, 160 to 190 lbs, ages 30’s to 40’s. You MUST have OPEN availability through the run of the shoot.
These are photo selected roles by the director, so please submit professional pictures – both headshot length and full-body length of yourself.
Date(s): Thursday, 3/1, and Tuesday, March 6 through Sunday, March 11
Rate: $150/12
Location: ATLANTA, GATo submit, please email 3 pictures, your name, age, height, weight, ALL OF YOUR SIZES, and cell phone number to Submissions@CatrettCasting.com
Subject: SANDWICH STAND IN
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Fresh off the success of its New Edition movie, BET is starting production on a related movie, “The Bobby Brown Story,” about the Boston-born singer with the same name.
The movie is set to be a two-night movie that chronicles Brown’s meteoric rise in the world of entertainment and his failures. The redemption story will feature portrayals of R&B megastar Janet Jackson, and of course, superstar Whitney Houston, according to BET.
Shooting will begin this week for some key roles, including actors in key parts. Check out the casting call breakdown below.
The Bobby Brown Story Casting Call
***NOW CASTING BABIES FOR NEW FILM, “THE BOBBY BROWN STORY”!
CAB Castings, LLC. is looking for 1 PAID AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE BODY DOUBLE for FRIDAY MARCH 16, 2018 on our project, “THE BOBBY BROWN STORY” filming here in Atlanta, GA .
*** 1 AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE (“R.T.” BODY DOUBLE)
(SEE PIC BELOW)
***MUST BE LIGHT BROWN SKIN TONE LIKE IN THE PICTURE!!!!MUST FIT THESE SPECIFICS:
5’6
140 lbs
Top – M/L
SIZE 9 SHOE-CALL TIME: TBD (SHOOT IN MABLETON,GA)
**WE ASK THAT YOU BE PREPARED FOR A 8HR DAY WORK SO PLEASE HAVE OPEN AVAILABILITY FOR THIS DAY!!!****The rate for DOUBLES on this production is $200/12hr, which you will receive in the form of a check in the mail.
If available, please email the information below to BBSTORYEXTRAS@GMAIL.com
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Also in late February, the movie was seeking babies. This was the casting call:
CAB Castings LLC. is looking for 2 SETS OF PAID AFRICAN AMERICAN BABY EXTRAS (1 WILL BE PLAYING NEWBORN BABY AND THE OTHER WILL PLAY A 1 YEAR OLD) for filming in Atlanta in March 2018.
****TWINS ARE A PLUS!!!! BUT ALSO ACCEPTING SINGLES!
REQUIREMENTS:
– BROWN COMPLEXION
* NEWBORN: ANY SEX
* 1 YEAR OLD: FEMALEFIRST SHOOT DATE:
– NEW BORN: MARCH 9, 2018.
– 1 YEAR OLD: MARCH 13, 2018
The rate for MINORS on this production is $100/10hr, which you will receive in the form of a check in the mail.
***BECAUSE OF AGE OF BABY THEY WILL RECEIVE THIS RATE FOR 2 HOURS ON SET!
If available, please email the information below to BBSTORYextras@gmail.com
w/ Subject Line: “NEWBORN”
OR
w/ Subject Line: “1 YEAR OLD”
– Name
– Number
– Age
– Height
– 2 Photos (1 Headshot/ 1 Full Body)
(PLEASE INCLUDE ALL INFORMATION ABOVE IN YOUR EMAIL!)
A member from CAB CASTINGS, LLC. will call you to book your attendance in a scene and confirm availability if interested in booking you for the show.***SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY.
Thanks so much and we look forward to seeing you all on set!
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After months of strenuous planning, Victoria Camblin strode around the Art Papers Auction & Party on this unusually balmy winter night recounting the awesome talents represented in this year’s show.
“Art Papers is cool because historically we haven’t been super-formal and it’s never been just about the recognized artists,” she says. “It’s also always been about artists just off the radar. Maybe because they’re not in New York or maybe somehow underrepresented or coming from a different educational background or no educational background at all.”
Art Papers Auction returns to Atlanta
In her fourth year as editor of the famous magazine and artistic director of the venerable organization, Camblin was game this night to serve as both host and herald. Soft music played in the background as guests looking to bid on some of the boldest and abstract art pieces you could imagine mingled with one another while enjoying hors d’oeuvres.
Atlanta’s art scene is alive and well, thank you, in large part to the years of service publications like Art Papers have done to promote it. Camblin says part of that has to do with the liberties the artists themselves have engendered.
“I think art is an interesting area in which to talk about important stuff in freer ways,” she says. “For instance, if you’re a scientist or politician or something, I feel that the constraints around those conversations you can have are a lot more strict, whereas an artist can go in there and talk about language, identity, geographies. They can talk about color and all these other things, and the potential for dialog and the potential for experimentation is just much bigger, but you can still be talking about very important issues.”This year’s event marked the group’s 19th auction and party. Held on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018, the event attracted some of Atlanta’s best-dressed movers and shakers to a huge entertainment space adjacent to the old Macy’s building on Peachtree Street downtown.“Some of the artists on the wall at Art Papers right now are talking about affordable housing, gerrymandering and other things,” she says, emphasizing the concept of art as a lens for the real world.Camblin, who studied in New York before moving to Berlin and being captivated by the art scene there, says that even in her early years she was interested in visual art, but only as a professional has she fostered a love for the contemporary variety.
Patrons at the Art Papers Auction & Party on Feb. 24, 2018. Photo credit: CJ Johnson. Top photo: Camblin, artistic director of Art Papers at the event’s annual auction and party on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018. In the background is a piece by Jaymerson Payton. Photo Credit: T. Waters. “In college, I studied philosophy and ended up double majoring in art history,” she adds.She credits Berlin’s avant garde cultural scene with exposing her to the wonders and possibility of contemporary art. “The art scene there was just exploding,” she says.Camblin says that Atlanta’s hip-hop scene and the energy around it reminds her of how Berlin’s art scene was. “It was just like that,” she says.Art Papers were founded in 1976 by artists in the Atlanta Art Workers Coalition, a nonprofit organization that formed to promote the local art scene and support its artists.As word grew, the group eventually produced a newsletter, the first one being a single-paged hand-typed flyer.The publication started off covering local artists, but quickly went regional, finally evolving into an international magazine. Today, the group, which has just a handful of employees, is a critical voice with immeasurable global prestige in contemporary arts circles.Camblin said the key to the organization’s longevity has been its ability to remain astute at keeping its pulse on Atlanta and other parts of Georgia, at the same time covering arts happenings across the country and the world.She says that she’s been encouraged by the support Art Papers has garnered through the years.“I think its very cool,” she says. “The community that has formed around the Art Papers is really impressive because they’ve really rallied around the organization for decades and there have been times — about once every 10 years — when things were really hard for arts organizations locally and people have just rolled up their sleeves and kept it afloat.”“That was one of the main reasons why I was attracted to Art Papers, actually, because people really seemed to care.”It’s also true that Camblin herself cares deeply about the arts. She says she’s vested in finding new and emerging artists in Atlanta and the surrounding region.“I personally go into a lot of young artists’ studios or, for instance, I’ll go into classrooms or programs, like at Georgia State [University], I’m in that art department a lot,” she says. “We’ve done some class visits at Agnes Scott, I did a workshop at Spelman and we did a little dossier about art that’s in the college’s collections. Also, our interns keep me plugged into the art scene,” she says. -
It’s been nearly two years since Prince’s death, but his timeless music has been playing nonstop ever since, thanks to The Revolution his most famous band.
The Revolution came to Atlanta Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018 and tore the roof down at the Tabernacle.
The whole gang, including Dr. Fink, Bobby Z, Wendy and Lisa, played hit after hit. Mint Condition frontman Stokely even moonlighted as lead singer on a few of the songs, including “Kiss,” “Party Up” and “1999.”
On acoustic guitar Wendy Melvoin did a stirring rendition of “Sometimes It Snows In April,” her voicing shaking from grief throughout the performance.
Prince’s old band The Revolution DESTROYED Atlanta last night. Doves cried! #concert pic.twitter.com/al7Unb5Qk4
— ATLHAPS (@atlhaps) February 25, 2018
Talking to Fox 5 Atlanta, bassplayer Brown Mark says he knew the music they were producing in the 1980s was good, but did he think it was special?
“No, I didn’t know it was something special. Because from the day I joined Prince’s band, recording was an everyday thing,” he told the TV station. “I mean, they had the full-blown studio in the rehearsal facility, and anytime we would get on a hot groove…[Prince ] would say, ‘Roll the tape,’ you know? So, constantly recording everything that we did.”
Alot of people don’t know it, but Prince first rose to prominence with a band called The Rebels, made up of several of the Revolution members. It featured Matt Fink and Gayle Chapman (keyboards), Bobby Z (drums), André Cymone (bass) and Dez Dickerson (guitar).
In the book The Rise of Prince: 1958-1988, Alex Hahn says the Rebels project took center stage right after Prince’s sophomore album was recorded, “The next task was to improve the strength and cohesiveness of Prince’s live band so that Warners would authorize a tour in support of the second album.”
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Clark Atlanta University graduate Amy Sherald became the first black artist to create an official, Smithsonian-commissioned portrait when she created one of former First Lady Michelle Obama.
That one, as well as one of former President Barack Obama, was unveiled Monday as part of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.
The former president’s portrait was painted by Kehinde Wiley, an artist known for black art. After getting her undergrad in ATL, Sherald left for Baltimore, where she got her master’s degree at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
She’s been doing art for more than 10 years but just recently got critical acclaim. She won first place in the Portrait Gallery’s 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.
The portraits were be available to be viewed by the public beginning next week.
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The Atlanta Beltline winds through some of the most picturesque areas of the city. And no wonder, since it is one of the most celebrated civic projects in the nation. And it’s about to get a lot more beautiful.
The Beltline is currently requesting proposals for Art on the Atlanta BeltLine’s ninth year. Artists are asked to submit to have their work displayed in the annual temporary exhibition along the Beltline’s many parks and trails.
Read more: MARTA seeks muralists for big project
Signaling a deeper commitment to the community, this year’s exhibition will have a more local flavor.
“The vision for Art on the Atlanta BeltLine 2018 will break with the traditional template of prior exhibitions,” Miranda Kyle, Beltline Arts and Culture program manager, said in a statement. “We intend to be responsive to our Atlanta BeltLine communities, building on the strength of Atlanta’s rich history and culture and reflecting the intersectionality of Atlanta’s diverse art scene.”
Artists, professionals and collectives are encouraged to submit works that are well-researched and relevant. Here are the components of the exhibition open to artists, as written by the Beltline:
- Atlanta BeltLine Walls – A two-week-long mural festival at the beginning of August. Artists will work on their walls side by side for the duration of the festival, culminating in a grand reveal and community celebration at the end of the festival.
- Performance Series – Artists are invited to perform along the Atlanta BeltLine corridor throughout the timeframe of the exhibition. These performances are not limited in number of times the performances may occur, nor are they subject to any specific dates on which performances must occur. These are designed to act as a pop-up style events to creatively activate and celebrate the corridor in many locations.
- Atlanta BeltLine Concert Series – Unlike its pop-up style counterpart, these may take place in several BeltLine parks including Historic Fourth Ward Park, Gordon White Park, the multipurpose field at Historic Fourth Ward Skatepark, and Piedmont Park. The Concert Series provides opportunities for artists that have technical requirements, and those who need a fixed location. The dates for these will be: August 18th and 25th, 2018.
- Inertia – Artists and Professionals are invited to submit proposals for this year’s sculpture exhibition along the Atlanta BeltLine corridor. Sculptures may simultaneously function as a bench, pavilion, or other infrastructural component.
- Lecture Series – Artists and Professionals are invited to submit proposals for panel or individual discussion to address topics related to Arts & Culture, Ethics & Responsibility, Equity, Affordability, Science & Education, and Transit.
- Special Projects – We invite Atlanta arts and culture organizations to submit proposals that use the Atlanta BeltLine to show your work/project, host a pop-up event, and many other exciting ideas.
Proposals are due March 16, 2018. Submissions will be accepted via art.beltline.org through callforentry.org. The complete proposal and more information is available at art.beltline.org.
