Month: July 2018

Chance Hurstfield – Welcome back to A Million Little Things

Chance has been busy shooting his recurring role on Season 1 of the ABC Series.

They say friendship isn’t one big thing, it’s a million little things; and that’s true for a group of friends from Boston who bonded under unexpected circumstances. Some have achieved success, others are struggling in their careers and relationships, but all of them feel stuck in life. After one of them dies unexpectedly, it’s just the wake-up call the others need to finally start living. Along the way they discover that friends may be the one thing to save them from themselves.

A Million Little Things stars David Giuntoli as Eddie, Ron Livingston as Jon, Romany Malco as Rome, Allison Miller as Maggie, Christina Moses as Regina, Christina Ochoa as Ashley, James Roday as Gary, Grace Park as Katherine, Stephanie Szostak as Delilah, Chance Hurstfield as and Lizzy Greene as Sophie.

DJ Nash is writer and executive producer; Aaron Kaplan and Dana Honor are executive producers; and James Griffiths is the director on the pilot and an executive producer, from ABC Studios/Kapital Entertainment.

“A Million Little Things” premieres WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 26 10|9c on ABC.

Disney Channel’s Freaky Friday movie celebrated with a red carpet film premiere July 30. You may have seen Freaky Friday before, but never like this – the new movie is also a musical!

Marlowe Percival (AKA Sarah Willey) and Jag Arneja will star in the new version of Freaky Friday.

Directed by Steve Carr, the music-driven contemporary body-swap comedy also stars Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Heidi Blickenstaff, as well as Ricky He, Alex Desert, Jason Maybaum, Kahyun Kim, Dara Renee, Jennifer Laporte and Isaiah Lehtinen.

There are no surprises when it comes to “Freaky Friday”. The message behind the plot is fairly straightforward: mother and daughter constantly butt heads before literally walking a day in each other’s shoes and come to understand and appreciate one another in a way they’ve never done so before.

It’s a well-loved story, with its roots in a 1972 children’s book of the same name before being adapted into a film by Disney in 1976 starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster. Since then, it’s been remade by Disney as a TV movie in 1995, a feature film in 2003 with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, and a stage musical in 2016.

The latest remake – a TV movie for the Disney Channel scheduled to air August 10 – is based closely off of the musical, which was developed two years ago by Disney Theatrical Productions and debuted in Virginia before moving to the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego in 2017. It even shares a lead in Broadway star Heidi Blickenstaff, who reprises her role as Katherine, Ellie’s perfectionist mother who’s in the midst of planning her own wedding. Ellie (played by Cozi Zuehlsdorff), in the meantime, is obsessed with participating in an upcoming all-night scavenger hunt, which is set to take place the same night as her mother’s rehearsal dinner.

“Freaky Friday” is timeless, and this new adaptation is a chance for Disney to tell that story with its new efforts in mind to accurately represent and reflect today’s youth.
Seeing it on the stage and seeing our demo – the 10-year-old kids in the audience – and how they reacted and feeling it in a theater, we [Disney Channel executives] walked out of it saying ‘We have to make this work as a movie,’” Adam Bonnett, executive vice president of original programming for Disney Channel, said.

Bonnett added that at the heart of every Disney Channel production – whether it’s a remake or an original – is the core belief that children and young adults want shows that are emotionally honest to experiences they can relate to. And in productions where songs and lyrics can convey emotions in a more obvious and direct way, adapting the “Freaky Friday” stage musical was a no-brainer for Disney.

“When I talk about the honesty of ‘Freaky Friday,’ there’s a little more of it in the stage musical because it was created and produced for a very broad audience – not just for kids, but adults as well,” Bonnett said. “I think that’s one of the things audiences walk away from our movie is really feeling that we tackle things that we may have been afraid to tackle in the past, but because of the way you dealt with it, it felt real and appropriate.”

In this new “Freaky Friday” adaptation, the musical stays true to the fun and energetic moods created in the past by original productions like “High School Musical” (in one scene, students in biology class perform a dance number while wielding iPads), but the film really hits an emotional crescendo during a song about the pain and hurt behind why parents lie to their kids.

It’s a moment, Bonnett said, that shows how carefully Disney Channel has always paid attention to it’s viewers.

“Kids today want to taste a lot of different flavors. They want a full course meal that isn’t just meat and potatoes, but has different flavors and different colors. You’re underestimating the audience if you just want to give them one thing,” he said. “We’re working hard to give them a diversity of content. I think kids really need to look at a show and say ‘That’s me up there! I’m about to go through that’ and to really see themselves in characters is so important.”

The film will premiere August 10 on Disney Channel.

TRAILERS:
Jag Arneja as teacher Señor O’Brien:
https://www.eonline.com/news/934837/your-first-look-at-disney-channel-s-freaky-friday-musical-adaptation-has-arrived

Freaky Friday | Disney Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhajYz6tH1A

LINKS:
From Broadway to Hollywood, ‘Freaky Friday‘ returns to The Disney Channel:
http://abc7ny.com/entertainment/from-broadway-to-hollywood-freaky-friday-returns-to-tv/3854733/

Marlowe Percival Talks Diversity On Set At Disney Channel’s “Freaky Friday” Premiere (@marlowepercival):
https://celebrityhautespot.com/2018/08/01/marlowe-percival-talks-diversity-on-set-at-disney-channels-freaky-friday-premiere-marlowepercival/

Nicolas Walter will be featured in a promotional spot for KiSS Radio Vancouver.  1 year usage on broadcast and web. 

Madeleine Arthur has been busy filming a role in an upcoming short “art piece” film entitled Enclosure shooting in Upstate New York.

Director: Rachel Rose
Producer: Animal Kingdom and David Kaplan

This project is set in 18th Century Britain, in an alternate universe in which the invention of paper money has sent society into possibly-revolutionary convulsions.

Storyline:
In the year 1766, the English King consolidates his power by seizing common lands from the people, but accidentally stimulates the economy by introducing a feverish kind of land speculation. While religious disputes tear the country apart, and the most far-sighted citizens seek to flee to the New World, farmers who fear imminent land seizures are preyed on by Road Babies, travelling con artists who try to buy (and re-sell) land one step ahead of the King’s Men, using forged cash to grease their forward path in life.

The film will premiere in 2019 at Luma Arles and then exhibit at the Park Avenue Armory in 2020.

Ava Frye has won a Young Artist Award in Hollywood for her performance as “Tatum Weckler” in the hit CW /Netflix TV series iZombie Season 3!!!

https://youngartistawards.org/
https://youngartistawards.org/2018winners

The Young Artist Awards (YAA) is Hollywood’s longest running awards show that recognizes and honors young talent under the age of 18 years. Through year-round support, participants are primed for greater achievements in their craft.

The Young Artist Awards is presented by the Young Artist Awards Academy (YAAA), which was founded by The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s (Golden Globes) recognized historian, Maureen Dragone. The foundation provides young artists with mentorship, experience, and accolades that are otherwise unavailable to young performers.

YAA has honored many young artists who have continued on to successful adult careers, becoming household names in the entertainment industry. Some notable examples include: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Bell, Natalie Portman, Drew Barrymore, Tori Spelling, Winona Ryder, Christina Applegate, Scott Baio, Jaleel White, Alyssa Milano, Justine and Jason Bateman, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Cory Feldman, Sean Astin, and Mario Lopez.

Congratulations to Dean Hinchey. He has just wrapped a role on The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Episode #401.

DC Legends of Tomorrow is an American action-adventure television series developed by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg and Phil Klemmer, who are also executive producers along with Sarah Schechter and Chris Fedak; Klemmer serves as showrunner. The series, based on the characters of DC Comics, airs on The CW and is a spin-off featuring characters introduced in Arrow and The Flash along with new characters, set in the same fictional universe. The season was ordered in April 2018, and production began in July.  The fourth season is set to begin airing on October 22, 2018, and is set to run for 16 episodes on The CW.

Legends of Tomorrow will feature dangerous magical creatures as the main villains in Season 4.

Warner Bros. Television has revealed the synopsis for the upcoming season of Legends of Tomorrow. It seems the DC team will be facing the consequences of letting time crumble in order to help defeat Mallus.

The Legends softened the barrier between worlds, allowing the mythical “Fugitives” from fairytales and legends to invade Earth. John Constantine will be joining and helping the team to defeat this new threat, “which is now returning to our world in droves and making a real mess of things,” according to WB.

The DC show has promoted Season 3 villain Nora Darhk to series regular.

Nora is the daughter of Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough) and appeared several times throughout Season 3 trying to release the demon Mallus. It’s not known yet if Nora will be the main villain in Season 4.

Matt Ryan’s John Constantine has also joined the show as a series regular, while Wally West (Keiynan Lonsdale) won’t be coming back.

Legends of Tomorrow Season 4 premieres on October 22 at 9 pm ET/PT and is set to run for 16 episodes on The CW

Season 4 Trailer:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoSjI3N3_rA