Northville, Michigan girl gets taste of Hollywood in the upcoming feature length horror movie, The Rain Chronicles, starring David Carradine.
City Pulse has a an interview with Michigan’s longtime Hollywood Ambassador Janet Lookwood.
Michigan Film Financing aims to help state’s film productions obtain funding
Also, here are a few other movies that have recently giving the “Great State Of Michigan” a staring role:
With a substantial number of films anticipated coming into Michigan in 2009, Fletcher Camera - Detroit and the International Cinematographer Guild, Local 600, will be putting on a Film Loader Workshop on Dec. 30th and Jan. 7th. This workshop will help prepare new assistants for potential job opportunities in the rapidly emerging Michigan Film industry. (learn more)
Here’s the brand new trailer for the ultimate modern day Detroit Rock documentary It Came From Detroit.
It Came From Detroit is an insidelook at the Detroit’s internationally renowned “garage rock” msuci scene. Produced over five years, the documentary chronicles the scene before and after the spotlight that came to town as the White Stripes rose to fame.
This trailer was edited by Derek Swanson at Mad River Post and conformed by Matt Meires of RingSide Creative. The film’s director/editor James R. Petix and producer Sarah Babila are currently looking for distribution, as well as planning worldwide screenings.
New PBS TV show to be shot at the Detroit Science Center
Variety examines Michigan’s new found film Industry
HBO’s new show Hung, the pilot was shot in Metro Detroit
Will the remake of the Crow be shot in Detroit? (the comic book is set in Detroit and was written by Detroiter James O’Barr.
Though the Big 3 are having trouble, Michigan’s film industry is growing:
S3 Entertainment Group creates $10 million financing fund for film
Cast & Crew Payroll opens new office in Ferndale
Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino makes it’s Michigan debut at the Birmingham 8 Theater. Gran Torino will hit movie screens on Dec. 25 in Detroit, New York and Los Angeles. It will open nationwide on Jan. 9
There is speculation all over the Internet on when the Weinstein company will release the adaptation for Elmore Leonard’s Killshot. Killshot, starring Mickey Rourk and Diana Lane was shot in and around Detroit, Michigan in 2008 and has a set release date of January 23, 2009. However, with the release date fast approaching, their is still no trailer for the movie.
Two-time Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank will be filming her next movie, Betty Ann Waters mid-January 2009 in Ann Arbor Michigan.
In the past year, high profile movies Youth in Revolt and Drew Barrymore’s Whip It have both filmed in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area
Academy Award winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr., stars as Detroit native Dr. Ben Carson in the TNT original movie Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story. Gifted Hands was completely shot in Detroit, MI and will air in early 2009.
Eastwood’s Gran Torino may be getting early luck warm reviews, but the National Board of Review has recently named Clint Eastwood Best Actor for his role in the film. Many suspect that Gran Torino could be Clint Eastwood’s last on screen acting role.
A independent movie producer is currently scouting out Grand Rapids for his new movie Hopeful Notes. Recently the upcoming Val Kilmer suspense thriller The Steam Experiment was rewritten to feature Grand Rapids landmarks.
The movie revolves around six people trapped and terrorized in an urban Turkish bathhouse. Kilmer plays a former university professor who overheats his hostages to prove that humans will self destruct under the pressures of global warming. He tells detective (Armand Assante) that their location will be revealed if his hypothesis is printed on a paper’s front-page.
The six victims are pro football player (Eric Roberts), actress (Megan Brown), nurse (Patrick Muldoon), waitress (Eve Mauro), restaurateur (Quinn Duffy) and writer (Cordelia Reynolds). As temperatures rise, the desperate detainees fight to survival.
The Rain Chronicles; a feature horror film starring David Carradine, recently shot at a museum in Troy Michigan. The film is part of MPI (Motion Picture Institute of Michigan) which is a hands on film school that uses it’s students for key production roles in their films.
