Author Archives: Maureen Goodwill

Parker Brando has booked a role on Lucifer, episode #221.

Lucifer is an American fantasy police procedural comedy-drama television series developed by Tom Kapinos that premiered on Fox on January 25, 2016. Fox renewed the series for a second season, which premiered on September 19, 2016.

On February 13, 2017, Fox renewed the series for a third season of 22 episodes.

Based on characters created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg, this series follows Lucifer, the original fallen angel, who has become dissatisfied with his life in hell. After abandoning his throne and retiring to Los Angeles, Lucifer indulges in his favorite things (women, wine and song) — until a murder takes place outside of his upscale nightclub. For the first time in billions of years, the murder awakens something unfamiliar in Lucifier’s soul that is eerily similar to compassion and sympathy. Lucifer is faced with another surprise when he meets an intriguing homicide detective named Chloe, who appears to possess an inherent goodness — unlike the worst of humanity, to which he is accustomed. Suddenly, Lucifer starts to wonder if there is hope for his soul.

Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpyVaZjg8yY

Chance Hurstfield is busy filming a lead role, and Deborah Finkel wraps a role in Hallmark’s MOW, “The Perfect Catch” – FKA ‘Safe at Home‘,
which will air Saturday, April 22nd AND Sunday April 30th.

When her high school boyfriend, a superstar baseball player, returns to town, a single-parent finds the inspiration to reinvent her struggling diner… and revisits the past to find something even better for the future. Stars Nikki Deloach and Andrew Walker.

Trailer:
http://www.hallmarkchannel.com/the-perfect-catch/videos

http://www.hallmarkchannel.com/the-perfect-catch/photos-from-the-perfect-catch/

The new action-horror series Van Helsing has been renewed for a second season on Syfy. The hour-long drama premiered Friday, September 23 and will return for 13 all-new episodes,  Production started Jan 2017.

Naika Toussaint will return in the role of  “Sheema” in “Van Helsing Season 2”

Sheema is a character that was introduced in episode 4 of Season One of Syfy’s Van Helsing . She is the sister of Mohamad and is a member of the Portland Human Resistance.

Van Helsing is an American-Canadian dark fantasy horror drama  The series was originally slated to premiere in Canada on Super Channel, but because of Super Channel’s ongoing bankruptcy proceedings the series was ultimately dropped from their schedule and instead premiered on Netflix on December 23, 2016.
Kelly Overton plays the titular character of the series, which was inspired by Zenescope Entertainment’s graphic novel series Helsing.

Vanessa Helsing, distant relative of famous vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing, is resurrected only to find that vampires have taken over the world.

Season 2 Teaser Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PhNY4hejnQ

Dean Hinchey books a role on “UnREAL” – Season 3.

UnREAL is an American drama television series that premiered on Lifetime on June 1, 2015. It stars Shiri Appleby as a young reality television producer pushed by her unscrupulous boss (Constance Zimmer) to swallow her integrity and do anything it takes to drum up salacious show content. The show was created by Marti Noxon and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, and was inspired by Shapiro’s award-winning independent short film Sequin Raze.

Unreal has received critical acclaim from critics  and was picked up for a second season in July 2015. The second season premiered on June 6, 2016.  On June 2, 2016, the series was renewed for a third season ahead of the season 2 premiere.

Reality shows are often full of drama, but in the case of dating show “Everlasting”, there may be more drama behind the scenes than there is in front of the camera. Executive producer Quinn commands her staff to get dramatic and outrageous footage for the show, which forces young producer Rachel to manipulate the relationships among the contestants to get the show’s final cut to match Quinn’s vision of it. As the show’s featured singles look for their dream mates, staff members deal with their own romantic predicaments behind the scenes.

Season 2 Trailer:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3314218/videoplayer/vi235582489?ref_=tt_ov_vi

Grayson Gurnsey books a Mercedes commercial!!! for U.S. and Canada markets.
Director: Peter Thwaites

Naika Toussaint is busy filming a role for the MOW “Christmas Solo (aka “A Song For Christmas“)” directed by Christine Will Wolf and written by Sheryl J. Anderson.

Storyline: Veterinarian Jennifer Flynn and her daughter Charlotte arrive in the small town of Brookfield to start a new chapter of their lives just as the holiday season is about to start. Although Charlotte has made a couple of friends at her new school, Henry and Audrey, she starts to make enemies when she goes up against Megan at the solo performance auditions for the Christmas Festival. Meanwhile Jennifer has met Nate (Megan’s dad) and becomes interested in dating him. Megan’s having a tough time adjusting to being a child of divorce and now has a threat to her friendship with Henry with ‘vet girl’ Charlotte in town. Henry and Audrey are thrilled when Charlotte wins but Megan seeks revenge not only threatening Megan’s chance to be in the choir but also her home life. To everyone’s surprise Charlotte takes the high road bringing everyone together at Christmas.

Congratulations to Eric Bempong for his role in the film, “Cypher” for the Crazy8s’ Film Festival.

Director: Lawrence Le Lam
Writers: Nach Dudsdeemytha, Lawrence Le Lam, Jerome Yoo

Story Line: Worlds collide when a young, unknown Korean rapper takes on the king of the local cypher…

Tensions still linger in 1997 Los Angeles between the Korean-American and the Black communities after the ‘92 Riots. After an incident in his father’s restaurant, Jay, a Korean-American high school student finds himself pulled into LA’s underground battle rap scene where the two worlds collide.

Crazy8s is an 8-day filmmaking event

Running since 1999, Crazy8s provides funding and support to emerging filmmakers to help them produce a short film. It was created to foster support for emerging filmmakers who have little or no access to funding for short films and to train crew and cast.

The event culminates in a Gala screening and party followed by film festivals and distribution.

It’s fast! It’s fun! It’s Crazy8s!

Link (Crazy8s’ Film Festival) – https://youtu.be/z58WinWhkvo

http://crazy8s.film/

Congratulations to Mike Li for his role in “Anh Hung“, a short film at the Crazy8s’ Film Festival.

Director – Lelinh Du
Writers –  Lelinh Du & Frazer MacLean

Story Line: Jenny, a young Vietnamese girl growing up in Vancouver, struggles to maintain a normal childhood when she discovers the truth about her older brother…

Synopsis: Jenny is a nine year old Vietnamese girl growing up first generation in Canada. Her brother Tuan, whom she looks up to as her hero, slowly reveals truths that he is not who he seems when she secretly disobeys his rule to stay home and joins him for a night out.
Crazy8s is an 8-day filmmaking event.

Running since 1999, Crazy8s provides funding and support to emerging filmmakers to help them produce a short film. It was created to foster support for emerging filmmakers who have little or no access to funding for short films and to train crew and cast.

The event culminates in a Gala screening and party followed by film festivals and distribution.

It’s fast! It’s fun! It’s Crazy8s!

Link (Crazy8s’ Film Festival) – https://youtu.be/z58WinWhkvo

http://crazy8s.film/

Congratulations to Bracken Henke for booking a role on UPtv’s latest original series “Date My Dad“, Episode 106 – “Bingo“.

Date My Dad is a new 10-episode dramedy series from UPtv staring Barry Watson (7th Heaven, Hart of Dixie, Gossip Girl) as Ricky Parker. Once a pro baseball player, Ricky is now a single father raising his 3 daughters after the love of his life passed away.

UPtv will premiere Date My Dad later this year. The show is currently in production with North American producer 50?North, in association with EveryWhere Studios in LA.

Content Media and Palatin Media have secured joint international distribution rights to the series, which will make its debut in the global market at MipTV next month.

Created, written and executive produced by Nina Colman, it stars Barry Watson (Samantha Who?) and Raquel Welch (The Three Musketeers) and tells the story of a single dad raising his three daughters after their mother dies.

“With its contemporary storylines, well-developed characters and acclaimed talent both on- and off-screen, Date My Dad holds great appeal for the international market,” Greg Phillips, president of distribution at Content Media.

Congratulations to Darcy Fehr for booking a role in a Feature Film, “Break My Heart 1000 Times“.
Set to shoot March 16-April 30th

Hailee Steinfeld is set to star in supernatural romantic thriller Break My Heart 1,000 Times for Gold Circle Films. Based on the YA novel by Daniel Waters, Break My Heart is described as a combination of The Fault In Our Stars and The Sixth Sense and is considered a springboard for a possible franchise. Jason Fuchs will adapt the screenplay and Scott Speer is attached to direct.

Set nine years after an apocalyptic event that killed millions and left the world inhabited by ghosts, a teen girl attempts to navigate through ordinary life as she’s haunted by the ghosts of her dead father and a teen boy she never met but who might hold the key to changing everything.