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The adorable twins
SOPHIA and LAUREN BOSLEY are featured in  “PROJECT A” – “WAKE UP” – an insurance commercial for North America TV and  internet markets.

ISABELLE BEECH and EMILY  GIANNOZIO have wrapped on the commercial
SMART TECHNOLOGY – for internet, which promotes new technology products that help kids learn, and teachers teach!

ERIC BEMPONG books “PROJECT FLAIR” aka COCA COLA commercial for North American markets in the vignette: “KINDNESS – BODEGA.”

MAX CHADBURN booked and wrapped on a Canadian National commercial for McDONALDS.

PARKER BRANDO has finished shooting “PROJECT EYES” – An eyewear commercial for US markets in the spot “ANTHEM.”

Yuki Morita has wrapped on the Indie feature
DARC which is now shooting in Vancouver and
will soon go to Japan. 

This epic gangster film about human trafficking stars the Emmy-winning actor Armand Assante who will portray an agent who makes it his mission to seek revenge on the Yakuza after they kidnap the daughter of an Interpol agent. He solicits the services of a violent criminal — to be played by the film’s writer, Tony Schiena, an expert for counter-terrorism training and defensive tactics for Special Forces operators.

Nick Powell, whose credits include stunt work on well-known films such as Braveheart, Bourne Identity and Cinderella Man, will direct the project. Several notable Japanese actors and actresses, including Tetsu Watanabe, Kippei Shiina and Sho Ikushima, have also joined the cast.

Tori Katongo recently wrapped on “A Perfect Wedding” – a movie for television on the Hallmark Channel.

Danica McKellar stars as a wedding planner extraordinaire who plans everything to perfection. However, wedding bells clash when she and a spirited and adventurous competitor are both brought on board to plan a wedding, only to discover that opposites can produce the most unexpected and incredible results.

Written by award nominated screenwriter, producer and co-executive producer Jenna Bans (Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal) and directed by Paul McGuigan, Scottish film director (Lucky Number Slevin and Smash) will direct the pilot.

The ABC pilot follows the return of a politician’s son, presumed dead after disappearing over a decade earlier, shocking his tight-knit family. As he is welcomed back into his community, the neighbor jailed for his murder is released and the cop responsible is forced to re-examine what happened so many years ago.

Tony-award winning actress Joan Allen will play politician Claire Warren, while Rupert Graves will play her handsome and charismatic husband. Liam James (The Way,Way Back,The Killing and Psych) has landed a key role as Adam Warren, the returned son who was presumed dead. Having been gone for so long, he maintains much of the behavior and mannerisms of an 8-year-old boy. Madeleine Arthur plays the young Willa Warren, who becomes frantic when her little brother Adam goes missing.
Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights) plays Adam’s self-destructive older brother Danny and Andrew McCarthy will play Hank, Claire and Peter’s former neighbor who spent 12 years in prison for Adam’s murder.

Eric Bempong books a “Lead” role in MOW “Suckers,”
directed by Vince Marcello and
produced by Amy Sydorick.

16 year old Davis has always felt invisible, and when he moves to a new school, he doesn’t expect anything to change. But through a series of coincidental circumstances, Cameron Crisp, the most popular girl in school and a dedicated journalist, notices something unusual about Davis—his skin seems to sparkle when he walks in the sun, he doesn’t appear to have a reflection, and he has the coolest haircut anyone has ever seen, which means… Davis must be a VAMPIRE!

 Aiden Longworth has just completed filming a role on “Strange Calls,” NBC/Twentieth Century Fox TV’s paranormal comedy pilot.

The single-camera comedy is a remake of the Aussie comedy, “The Strange Calls,” which centers on lead Danny Pudi (Community) playing an eager young cop who fears he’s landed the world’s lamest post when he’s transferred to a sleepy coastal town straight out of Northern Exposure. Those fears are short lived when he realizes the idyllic little town is secretly home to the most bizarre paranormal activity on the planet.

And the one thing stranger than his cases is the eccentric local groundskeeper played by Patrick Brammall, who is determined to be his partner.

Blake McCormick (Cougar Town) is the writer of the pilot as well as exec producer with “Secrets & Lies’” Aaron Kaplan and Tracey Robertson. Twentieth Century FoxTV, Kapital Entertainment and Hoodlum Entertainment will produce.

Michael Denis books role on NBC medical pilot “Heart Matters.”

Inspired by the life experiences of Dr. Kathy Magliato, the show follows a talented female heart transplant surgeon, Alex Panttiere, who balances her work with the complications of her romantic and personal life.

Melissa George was cast as the lead and Dave Annable will co-star as her boyfriend.

Jill Gordon penned the pilot. “Private Practice” star Amy Brenneman will exec produce with Gordon and Brad Silberling. Robbie Duncan McNeill will direct the pilot. Universal Television is the studio.

Mike Li, Max Chadburn, and Dexter van der Schyff will star in
TNT’s drama pilot Breed, a supernatural drama about a string of murders in the Pacific Northwest that are being committed by beings that not quite human.

Written by John Scott Shepherd and set to be directed by Scott Winant (True Blood, Fargo), Breed follows the primary antagonist, Detective Cooper Wells played by Justin Chatwin (Shameless) as he follows the trail of murders. Realizing that the serial killer may be some sort of barbaric race of creatures, Wells seeks out the help of a female assassin to hunt the perpetrators down. Nadia Hilker (Spring) and Amber Clayton (St. Vincent) are set as the female leads.