The largest police union in the United States reveals they have a “surprise” for Quentin Tarantino in a statement that sounds more like a threat than a warning.
Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police recently spoke with The Hollywood Reporter, about what they have planned for the Pulp Fiction director saying, “We’ll be opportunistic.”Pasco added, “Tarantino has made a good living out of violence and surprise,” says Pasco. “Our offices make a living trying to stop violence, but surprise is not out of the question.”
The Fraternal Order of Police has over 330,000 sworn officers and reportedly, the group has something “in the works”.
“Something is in the works, but the element of surprise is the most important element,” says Pasco. “Something could happen anytime between now and [the premiere]. And a lot of it is going to be driven by Tarantino, who is nothing if not predictable.
Quentin Tarantino released a statement as well addressing the controversy for the first time, telling the Los Angeles Times that he would not be intimidated by police boycotts.
“Instead of dealing with the incidents of police brutality that those people were bringing up, instead of examining the problem of police brutality in this country, better they single me out,” Tarantino said to The Hollywood Reporter.
“And their message is very clear. It’s to shut me down. It’s to discredit me. It is to intimidate me. It is to shut my mouth, and even more important than that, it is to send a message out to any other prominent person that might feel the need to join that side of the argument.”
This news comes as Quentin Tarantino released a new trailer for the upcoming feature film The Hateful Eight. And in less than 24 hours, the trailer has nearly a million views.
Overanalyzers TV pilot open casting call in Atlanta, Georgia
Extras Casting Atlanta is looking for extras to work on the new Comedy Central TV pilot, Overanalyzers filming in Atlanta, Georgia.
Overanalyzers will star Echo Kellum (Ben and Kate) and will center on the misadventures of a diverse group of friends in their twenties, as the try to navigate through the cultural changes that make life a “hilarious nightmare.”
Casting directors are looking for extras to play business types, attractive mom types, and dive bar patrons. Filming will take place next week between Monday through Wednesday in Atlanta, Georgia.
To audition for a role on Overanalyzers, check out the casting call details below:
Overanalyzers Casting Call
This upcoming pilot will be using union BG if you are SAG/AFTRA and interested in being an extra Monday – Wednesday of next week. Please email a recent photo and all contact info to: [email protected]
We are looking for some business types, an Attractive 30’s mom types, some dive bar patrons – 40’s to 60’s and some 20’s party folks — Again for all email to: [email protected]
If you are not local and/or do not fit the description, do not apply
Do you think you are perfect for this role? Leave us a comment below and tell casting directors why you should be selected!
Healthcare Commercial Casting Call for Extras in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvnia
Mosser Casting is looking for extras to work on a healthcare commercial filming in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Casting directors are looking for extras to work on a scene filming between Thursday, November 12th and Monday, November 16th.
Models that are selected will be compensated $100 to work on the commercial.
Producers are looking for kids and men and women to play hospital staff.
To audition for a role on the upcoming health care commercial, check out the casting call details below:
Health Care Commercial Casting Call
Mosser Casting is looking for Extras for a Healthcare commercial! It will shoot 1-2 days between Thursday, November 12th to Monday, November 16th in the Pittsburgh area. Will pay $100. 10 hour day.
**MUST NOT HAVE BEEN FEATURED IN A HEALTHCARE COMMERCIAL IN THE PAST YEAR MEANING THAT YOUR FACE CAN BE CLEARLY SEEN IN THE SPOT.
Looking to find the following talent:
Men and Women – 25-80 years old. Any ethnicity. Playing Doctors, Hospital Staff and Patients. PUT “ADULT” IN THE SUBJECT LINE WHEN SUBMITTING.
Kids – 7-12 years old. Caucasian and African American. PUT “KID” IN THE SUBJECT LINE WHEN SUBMITTING.
If interested and available, Please send a RECENT Photo to [email protected]. Pictures should be as professional looking as possible and you should NOT be wearing a hat or sunglasses. Please be looking at the camera. No pictures showing your profile or pictures that don’t show you from at least the waist up. NO extremely Close-Up shots!
Please include your NAME, LOCATION, AGE and PHONE NUMBER. Also include your HEIGHT and WEIGHT.
***DENOTE IF YOU ARE REPRESENTED BY A LOCAL TALENT AGENT
If you are chosen by the client, we will be in touch! Thanks!
If you are not local and/or do not fit the description, do not apply
Do you think you are perfect for this role? Leave us a comment below and tell casting directors why you should be selected!
The Vampire Diaries is looking extras for a restaurant scene in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Vampire Diaries is looking for extras to work on a scene filming on November 6th in Decatur, Georgia. Producers are looking for actors, models, and talent to play upscale restaurant patrons, waitresses and other featured roles.
Casting directors are looking for extras between the ages of 18 to 40 to work on the scene.
Season 7 of The Vampire Diaries centers around the departure Elena. Season seven begins with some characters will recover while others can’t move on. As Lily tries to drive a wedge between the Salvatore brothers, we’ll see if Stefan and Caroline’s love story is strong enough to survive.
If you have any experience as an actor or as a waiter and are interested in working on The Vampire Diaries, check out the casting call breakdown below:
The Vampire Diaries Casting Call
VAMPIRE DIARIES (PLEASE READ CAREFULLY) is looking for extras to work FRIDAY November 6th in DECATUR, GA. Will work a min 6-8hrs. Expecting afternoon/evening call.
UPSCALE RESTAURANT PATRONS: ages 18+; male/female; open ethnicity
WAITRESS: age 24-40; open ethnicity (note serving exp. in submission)
If available email recent photo, include name, age, phone, height, weight, all clothing sizes, (including shoes), [email protected]; MUST LIVE IN ATLANTA AREA:
SUBJECT LINE: “FRIDAY” (Include the role you are submitting for in the SUBJECT LINE as well)
(Please indicate whether or not you live in Atlanta if you have an out of state number)
Rate $60/8hrs; overtime after 8hrs
If you are not local and/or do not fit the description, do not apply
Do you think you are perfect for this role? Leave us a comment below and tell casting directors why you should be selected!
Commercial casting call for real chefs in Chicago, Illinois.
Paskal Rudnicke Casting is looking for real chefs to work on a commercial filming in Chicago, Illinois on November 16th through November 18th.
Casting directors are looking for chefs with great knife and whisk skills. Auditions start on Monday, November 9th in Chicago.
To audition for a role on the upcoming commercial, check out the casting call details below:
Chicago Commercial Casting Call
HEY EVERYONE – If you know any real chefs – please send them our way via this flier! We’re casting chefs for a SAG Packaged Goods commercial shooting in the Chicago area 11/16-11/18. All interested chefs must have great knife and whisk skills and be available to audition this upcoming Monday 11/9 at our office!! See below for specific instructions and spread the word!
If you are not local and/or do not fit the description, do not apply
Do you think you are perfect for this role? Leave us a comment below and tell casting directors why you should be selected!
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Noomi Rapace is currently in talks to play the soulful singer in a movie called Amy Winehouse which will be written and directed by Kristen Sheriden.
Casting directors are currently casting Amy Winehouse’s father, Mitch Winehouse, who had a major role in her life and in the movie as he is the guy who handled her personal estate and music rights.
Amy Winehouse was a hit singer when she released her first album Frank, but her follow up album in 2006, made her an international star. However, behind the scenes the actress struggled with drug and alcohol use as well as an abusive relationship with her husband Blake Fielder-Civil.
Amy Winehouse’s album, Back to Black gave her five Grammy nominations and three grammy wins including awards for best new artists, record of the year and song of the year for the hit song “Rehab.”
Amy Winehouse would later die from alcohol poisoning in July 2011 at the age of 27. Following her death, the album Back to Black became a billboard hit movie with over 20 million copies sold to date.
Noomi Rapace is the actress who starred in the box office flop, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Since then she starred in several other box office disasters such as Prometheus and Child 44. However, she is expected to star alongside Christian Bale in an upcoming biopic of Enzo Ferrari.
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Hopefully, Amy Winehouse documentary will do better than the recent Steve Jobs movie, which bombed in the box office several weeks ago. Especially with an actress who has never had a hit movie in her entire acting career.
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 casting call for models to work on a make-up tests in Atlanta, Georgia.
Tammy Smith Casting, the extras casting director behind Guardians of the Galaxy 2, is now looking for attractive women with good and clear skin to audition for a background extra role in Atlanta, Georgia.
Marvel casting directors are looking for women between the ages of 20 to 40. Filming will take place on Saturday, November 7th and Sunday, November, 8th. This is for make-up tests for prosthetics and face painting.
Talents that are selected will be compensated “$68 for 8 hrs with O.T. after that. plus $35 – 50 add’l”.
The first Guardians of the Galaxy featured Chris Pratt, Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana and Vin Diesel. It would later become a box office hit making nearly $775 million dollars worldwide. The release of Guardians of the Galaxy 2 is scheduled to hit theaters on May 5, 2017. Details surrounding the new Guardians of the Galaxy movie have not been revealed.
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Casting Call
CASTING for attractive WOMEN with GOOD/CLEAR SKIN
-ages 20 to 40,
– any ethnicity
– hair can be any color, or even a bald woman would be great too!
**This is for Make-Up tests for Prosthetics, face painting etc…**
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-Works this SAT 11/7 AND SUN 11/8- both days,
from 9am until 5pm!
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-works in Atlanta
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-Pay rate is $68 for 8 hrs with O.T. after that. plus $35 – 50 add’l
for various make-up levels applied
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Note: If you were planning on coming to the open call, we can take your photo at these tests instead, not to worry
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PLEASE SUBMIT TO: [email protected]
and put “GOOD SKIN” in the subject line
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PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING PHOTOS:
CURRENT, CLEAR, PHOTOS !!! (one of from shoulders up and one from the knees up- current photos PLEASE- include a GOOD selfie if you have professional photos only.
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Then please List the following:
First and Last NAME
PHONE NUMBER (s)
CITY & STATE where you live (where you will be coming from!)
AGE
Height
Weight
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List ANY TATTOOS you have – approx. size and/or location on your body
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You MUST be LOCAL to the GREATER ATLANTA, GEORGIA AREA (or willing to work as a local hire)
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If you are not local and/or do not fit the description, do not apply
Do you think you are perfect for this role? Leave us a comment below and tell casting directors why you should be selected!
The film industry is filled with scams and scam artists, here’s how you can tell if a production is legitimate.
Typically, scam artists try to use a person’s hopes and dreams in order to trick them leaving an aspiring actor open to being a victim of identity theft or even worse sexual assault.
In an a recent video with Arvold Casting, casting director Erica Arvold shared quick tips on how to prevent getting scammed in the entertainment industry.
In the video she highlights doing your research, asking friends, and basically judging the project before ever signing on the dotted line.
You can check out the video below:
If you have anything you’d like answered, please send Arvold Casting an email at [email protected].
Fox’s Empire season 2 is now casting a new speaking role for an upcoming episode filming in Chicago, Illinois.
Simon Casting, the official casting director behind Fox’s Empire, is now looking for 12 year old rappers that have a real street feel to audition for a role on the hit TV show. Casting directors are looking an African American kid rapper to play someone that is supposed to be from the Brownsville projects.
‘Empire’ centers around a hip hop music and entertainment company, Empire Entertainment, and the drama among the members of the founders’ family as they fight for control of the company. The hour-long family drama was created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong, and stars Terrence Howardand Taraji P. Henson.
Auditions start this week. To audition for a role, check out the casting call details below:
Fox ‘Empire’ Season 2 Casting Call
EMPIRE SEARCH ALERT:
Seeking a 12 year old African African boy with a real street feel (supposed to be from the Brownsville projects), and he MUST BE ABLE TO RAP!!!
Seeking submissions ASAP, please email a picture and contact info to [email protected] with the subject line: EMPIRE NEIGHBORHOOD BOY.
Update: Casting directors are also looking for African American girls to audition for a lead role in the upcoming feature film. Producers are looking for a 10 year old African American girl with a “real street feel”.
For more details check out the casting call details below:
Seeking a 10 year old African American girl with a real street feel.
Please email picture with contact info ASAP to [email protected] with the subject line: EMPIRE YOUNG GIRL.
If you are not local and/or do not fit the description, do not apply
Do you think you are perfect for this role? Leave us a comment below and tell casting directors why you should be selected!
Here are five pay bumps you should know about if you’re working as a background extra.
In every movie or TV show, some scenes include bars, parks, offices, and even street corners. Producers hire background actors to make settings look more believable.
Many of today’s A-list actors started working as a background extra. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon both started their acting career as background extras before they made their critically acclaimed movie, Good Will Hunting. Sylvester Stallone worked alongside Woody Allen before landing his first-ever speaking role. Brad Pitt also worked as a background extra before making it in Hollywood. It is a great way to make some extra cash between auditions and networking opportunities. The way to make some extra cash is with pay bumps.
Pay Bumps for Background Actors Summary:
Atmosphere pay bump – $14/day
Make-Up Pay Bump – $18/day
Costume Pay Bump – $18 to $36/day
Car Pay Bumps – .30cents/mile round trip
General Props – $5.50 to $23 a prop
Background extras, background actors, are all paid for their work on a movie or TV show. However, how much the average background actor gets paid depends upon their union status, what they do, and, most importantly, pay bumps.
There are two types of background extras Union and Non-Union extras.
Background extras who are non-union tend to earn minimum wage for the state in which they perform. In 2012, the rate was $8 an hour, or $64 a day. Production companies tend to pay extras daily rates, even if they work for less than eight hours.
Productions pay Union background actors more money than non-union. Union rates for background extras, as of 2012, are about $145 per day, with weekly rates of five times the daily rate, according to Chron.com. Stand-ins make $160 a day, and actors with unique talents such as dancing, playing golf or driving a car, earn $155 a day.
But, anyone that has worked as a background extra in California will tell you, extras make the most money in pay bumps.
Here are five pay bumps every extra should know
Atmosphere pay bump – $14/day
Union background extras get a pay bump when appearing as general extras and performing everyday actions. Such as getting wet, being exposed to smoke
Make-Up Pay Bump – $18/day
When makeup is applied to over 50% of your body, such as appearing as a zombie, union extras receive $18/day.
Costume Pay Bump – $18 to $36/day
When extras bring their wigs, costumes, clothing, outfits, etc. Producers pay between $18 to $36 extra a day. Also, every wardrobe change is $9 per day for the first change and $6.25 per day for each additional change.
Car Pay Bumps – .30cents/mile round trip
Cars that are used on set are paid .30cents/mile round trip plus cars earn $35, trailers earn $19, mopeds earn $15, motorcycles earn $35, police motorcycles earn $50.
General Props – $5.50 to $23 a prop
Pets, golf clubs, luggage, tennis racquets, and any other accessory allows for background extra to get a pay bump. Typically these pay bumps depend upon how large of a prop it is. For instance, a pet pay bump is $23/day, while a purse pay bump is only $5.50.
While union background extras get paid for all of these pay bumps, it is also generally assumed that non-union background extras will receive pay bumps, but at a discounted rate.
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If acting talent does not matter, what’s the point of acting classes?
Most likely to gain the attention of the casting director, producer or filmmaker. But, in actuality, it is important to note that a majority of Hollywood’s biggest actors did extremely poorly in acting classes, many casting directors believe acting talent no longer matters, and if you’re not going to a drama school in the UK, your classes are probably worthless.
In 2013, the director of the National Youth Theatere said that drama schools and acting classes are a waste of money for a majority of actors. In fact, during a conference he told a crowd ,that most actors wouldn’t benefit from three years of acting training and would be better off focusing on how to sell themselves in the film industry.
“Drama schools are incredibly expensive and the majority of actors don’t need three years’ training. They need various modular courses every so often to go to. But they don’t need three years. You don’t need to learn how to act, you need to learn how to sell yourself. You can either act or you can’t.”
Which begs the question? What’s the point of acting classes?
If you look around every casting director, actor, background extra, even crew members offer some sort of acting class. For $300/month, you can take acting classes with James Franco and learn the Meisner technique. If the Meisner technique is not your cup of tea, you can take online acting classes with actor Dustin Hoffman for $90. That’s right, you can learn how to become an actor from the comfort of your living room.
But, does acting talent even really matter?
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Emma Watson said in an interview that she is the worst student in her acting class. ‘It was just awful,’ she told Vanity Fair magazine. “I was like, I must be mad. Why am I doing this?”
Or, James Franco, who as I pointed above is now offering acting classes, received a D in drama school.
However, despite their self-admitted lack of talent, these actors are cast time and time again for major motion pictures. James Franco is currently working on a HULU TV series, and Emma Watson is doing a live-action version of Beauty and the Beast.
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Even casting directors admitted that acting talent doesn’t matter. During a live-panel discussion with some of Hollywood’s biggest casting directors during last year’s South by South West, CDs revealed that Instagram followers are more important than actual acting talent.
In fact, Disney’s head of casting, Randi Hiller, said that acting talent makes up for about 7% of their decision to cast that actor for a movie or TV role.
To an audience including a high proportion of actors and filmmakers, Hiller said that actors should take comfort from the fact that there are many variables besides talent determining whether or not they got a particular part. Acting talent, she said, may only account for 7% of the reason a particular actor would be cast in role, citing other factors ranging from age and ethnicity to “box office value in China”.
Which still begs the question, why are acting classes so expensive? Some of these same casting directors offer acting classes to aspiring actors every year at $45 to $100 a workshop.
Maybe acting classes are just for the rich and wealthy?
But, have you ever really wondered why so many of the actors you see on TV or in the movies are British?
Well, a lot of it comes from the huge drama programs in London. Where classes cost about $10,000/year.
Private schools such as Eton and Harrow are among the most popular and the most expensive.
Eton College
Here are just a few of Hollywood’s A-List actors that attended private elite acting school.
Eddie Redmayne
Benedict Cumberbatch
Dominic West
Damian Lewis
Tom Hiddleston
Henry Cavil
Tom Hardy
Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench once said that the high cost to attend acting schools makes it impossible for working class men and women to land a job in the film industry. “Anyone who’s in the theatre gets letters countless times a week asking for help to get through drama school. You can do so much, but you can’t do an endless thing. It is very expensive.” Dench added that “where you went to learn and make your mistakes and watch people who knew how to do it”
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British actor James McAvoy also called out Hollywood’s obsession with British trained acting students and how expensive it is to make it in the film industry. It is important to point out that James McAvoy was a true definition of a “struggling actor”.
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McAvoy paid his way through drama school by working in a bakery but, now the actor suggests that privately educated actors are ruining the industry. McAvoy argues that everyone cannot get the same opportunities to work in the film industry.
“Whenever we talk about this, we have to be very very clear. There’s a lot of posh actors that have been to boarding school and all that who are feeling very embattled, sort of cornered,” he said, adding: “[N]obody has got anything against an actor who is posh and is doing really well.” [via]
McAvoy believes that if this trend continues, the only actors would come from the world’s top 1%.
Have you ever had a really bad day? Just one of those days where you just wanted to stay in bed because you feel like the whole world is against you?
It appears as though Lil Wayne is having one of those days.
According to TMZ, authorities raided Lil Wayne’s home on Tuesday and seized several of his possessions, because the singer had not paid a $2 million judgement that he owes to a jet rental company.
Lil Wayne did take to Twitter to address the situation.
It’s days like 2day dat make me ? everything,even myself But I guess dis is da thx I get. Sum times it’s tough 2b tough & even tougher 2b me
Box Office poison – Here are 10 actors you want to avoid when you are deciding to cast them for your next motion picture.
Despite millions of dollars in marketing, post-production, and other filmmaking scouts, the success of a movie can lay on the shoulders of the cast.
But, when a certain actor appears in a movie they can either increase box office sales or drastically hurt the movie’s earnings. If an actor appears in several movies and box office sales are constantly under expectations, then that actor can be labeled as “box office poison” – a term no actor wants to be labeled as.
Box Office poison makes actors less likely to land major roles in movies and often times these actors lose their A-list status.
These 10 actors, regardless if their films were actually any good, just seem to poison box office numbers. Ultimately, if you cast any of them in your movies, there is a pretty good chance that the movie is going to bomb in the box office.
Johnny Depp used to garunteed a great box office return. But, audiences failed to care about his latest movies. His last several movies including, The Tourist, The Lone Ranger, and Transcendence have all bombed in the box office. Making Johnny Depp more of a has-been instead of a must watch actor.
Outside of his crazy antics, Shia LaBeouf is a struggling actor trying to stay relevant. There was a point in time when LaBeouf was a popular actor. The Transformers series helped launched his status in Hollywood. But, since then every movie he lands a leading role does pretty bad in the box office.
It’s hard to say if Taylor Kitsch was ever an A-list actor. But, there is one thing for certain, Kitsch hasn’t had a hit movie in years. John Carter, Battleship, and Savages all bombed in the box office, failing to even break even in the box office.
As much as you want to love Katherine Heigl since her Grey’s Anatomy days, she hasn’t had much success in the box office. Katherine Heigl ‘The Killers,’ despite co-starring Ashton Kutcher, was a flop. Since then, only ‘Life As We Know It’ has made money.
Eddie Murphy was the go to comedian actor in Hollywood. Since Saturday Night Live, the comedian was rocking audiences with hit movies such as The Nutty Professor. But, his last movie The Adventures of Pluto Nash, bombed in the box office. In fact, his last hit movie was Shrek and that movie came out three years ago.
Nicholas Cage has become one of the most liked actors on the Internet. If you do a quick google search of Nicolas Cage you will find hundreds of memes depicting the over top method actor. However, his last movies all bombed in the box office. Ghost Rider bombed, Drive Angry flopped, and barely anyone watched Left Behind.
Daniel Craig has not had much luck in Hollywood outside of the James Bond franchise. For example, Cowboy and Aliens was a box office disaster. The Golden Compass did poorly in the United States and I don’t know a single person that watched Defiance. Even the internationally popular book series turned into movie, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo failed to make a dent in the box office.
Jessica Biel used to be a hit actress with a popular TV series and feature films such as ‘I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry,’ but since then every movie she appears in fails to do well in the box office. For example, ‘New Year’s Eve,’ ‘The A-Team,’ ‘Next,’ and the ‘Total Recall’ remake all flopped.
Ryan Reynolds was the go to Canadian actor for all of your romantic comedy and adventure flicks. But, in the last 10 years his movies failed to do well in the box office. Green Lantern, The Change-Up, R.I.P.D, and Turbo all flopped in the box office and didn’t even break even.
However, things may look up for Ryan Reynolds as he is supposed to star in the upcoming Deadpool motion picture after a viral campaign.
Michael Cera has a history of box office failures. Including Youth in Revolt, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Year One, Paper Heart, Magic Magic and Crystal Fairy didn’t do well in the box office.
It is sad to say to that Michael Cera may be the actor you want to avoid in your feature films because his long history of people not showing up to see what he can do in front of the screen.
Here’s how much the average actor gets paid and it’s less than you think.
Millions of people dream of becoming an actor but, a small fraction of those aspiring of making it in Hollywood know how much the average actor gets paid.
While Robert Downey Jr. makes hundreds of millions a year, you would be be surprised to find out how much the average actor gets paid in the entertainment industry.
Like salaries for most careers, the amount of money that actors make each year, for the most part, are not public knowledge.
Even though Forbes investigates and lists the biggest earners in Hollywood, little is known for the other actors in the film industry.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistic, it is not nearly as much as Channing Tatum, Jennifer Lawrence or Robert Downey Jr.
In their latest report on employment and wages, the Bureau of Labor Statics released the average salary for several jobs within the entertainment industry including actors, producers and directors.
Of the 155,740 actors, directors and producers included in the survey by the Department of Labour, the average person made about $89,000 in 2013, which equates to about $42.80 an hour.
The median is actually quite lower at $30.48/hour. But, it gets worse for actors.
According to the report, the median hourly pay for an actor is about $22.15 or $52,000.
This number is extremely important because it is a median, since there are an equal number of actors that make higher and lower. But, this is the most common pay for actors in the film industry.
Here are a list of 30 other jobs that pay more than actors, according to Career Builder.
Loan officer
Self-enrichment education teacher
Forensic science technician
Writer and editor
Radiologic technologist and technician
Medical scientist
Producer and director
Detective and criminal investigator
Financial analyst and adviser
Health educator
Actors such as Robert Downey Jr. and Channing Tatum make it look like the average actors get paid way more.
Actress, Tanya Roberts, reveals she never landed a leading role in a movie after appearing in the James Bond movie A View to a Kill.
For many aspiring actors, it is their dream to make it on the big screen. Especially, if it’s for a major feature film such as the 007 James Bond franchise series. But, one actress reveals that after landing the role of the Bond Girl, she never landed a leading role in a movie ever again.
Tanya Roberts, 60, played Stacey Sutton in the 1985 hit James Bond movie, A View to Kill with Roger Moore playing James Bond.
But, nowadays she is warning other aspiring actresses to stay away from the series. According to the actress, she believes that the role left her stuck and casting directors stopped casting her for other movies.
‘I sort of felt like every girl who’d ever been a Bond Girl had seen their career go nowhere, so I was a little cautious,’ said Roberts to DailyMail.com
Since then Roberts, who was a Charlie’s Angel member, has worked on smaller productions including That 70s Show playing Laura Prepon’s mother, Midge Pinciotti.
Currently, Léa Seydoux and Monica Bellucci will play the latest bond girls in Daniel Craig’s new Spectre movie.
Filmmaker behind Enter the Void bashes Kanye for ripping off his movie for the music video All of the Lights.
The music industry has been with with several major lawsuits this week. Taylor Swift was accused of stealing Shake it Off. Demi Lovato was caught stealing lyrics, and now Kanye West is getting bashed by director and filmmaker Gaspar Noe over the music video All of the Lights.
Kanye West All of the Lights
In a recent interview with The Daily Beast, Noe bashed the music video director Hype Williams for allegedly stealing ideas for All of the Lights from Noe’s movie Enter the Void.
The issue centers around Enter the Void’s credit scenes, which is allegedly just like Kanye West’s All of the Lights music video.
From The Daily Beast:
“The director [Hype Williams] was someone else who ripped off the titles to my movie,’ he said. ‘I was more shocked by the fact that that guy who copied all the typography of my titles put his name in it—Hype Williams—when you never usually see a director’s name in a music video. He was putting his name on it over and over! It was so weird that he was not only copying it, but adding his name into the credits over and over again…”
‘The truth is that when you put something out there, if you put any idea out there that’s kind of flashy, you have many, many people that are going to be copying it.’ ”
You can watch the music video and the credit sequence below in this YouTube video:
But, who is Gaspar Noe?
In 2009, director Gaspar Noe released Enter the Void starring Nathaniel Brown and Paz de la Huerta. The movie centers around Oscar, a drug dealer who gets shot by the police. But, after getting shot, he has an out-of-body experience that allows him to see what happens after.
The movie was original in the sense that it was shot from a first-person-perspective.
The Walking Dead disease may actually be real. As a the Cotard Delusion makes people think they’re zombies.
The Walking Dead is currently the most watched TV show on television. Bringing in millions of viewers a week, AMC has acquired and produces one of the biggest zombie dramas in history. But, did you know that there is rare mental illness that convinces people to think that they are actually zombies?
Truth is always stranger than fiction. In a recent report by the Washington Post, a rare disease called Cotard’s syndrome makes people believe that they are zombies.
“I was convinced that I had died on that flight, and I was in the afterlife and hadn’t realized it until that moment,” said Wang, now 32, who was convinced her husband and their dog Daphne were dead as well. “That was the beginning of when I was convinced that I was dead. But I wasn’t upset about it, because I thought that I could do things [in my life] over and do them better.”
This rare mental illness, in which an affected person has delusions that makes believe that they are dead.
The disease was first discovered by French neurologist Jules Cotard and he called the disease “The Delirium of Negation” or Le délire des négations.
Many people that experience Cotard Syndrome believe that they do not have certain organs, body parts, blood or both.
While the disease is not present in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems as well as the World Health Organization all classify Cotard Syndrome as a real disorder.
Symptoms of the zombie disease?
According to a case study on Cotard Syndrome, here are a list of signs and symptoms in case you come across a zombie someone experiencing Cotard delusions:
Distorted reality
Chronic Sadness
Decreased Physical Activity
Social Withdrawal
Disturbed Biological Functions
Is there a cure?
But, how do you fix Cotard Syndrome? According to Scientific American, it’s not that easy. The cause of Cotard’s Syndrome is “misfiring in the fusiform face areas of the brain, which recognises faces, and also in the amygdala, which adds emotions to those recognitions.” This ends up causing lack of emotion and disconnection with reality. Typically, doctors prescribe anti-depressants and anti-psychotics along with Electroconvulsive therapy. But, nobody really knows for sure how to solve it.
Woman caring for Bobbi Kristina Brown at the hospice was not a licensed nurse.
According to a police report obtained by the AP, the woman who was in charge of caring for Bobbi Kristina Brown at the hospice where she died was impersonating a nurse and face charges including nursing without a license and identity fraud.
Bobbi Kristina Brown died July 26th at Peachtree Christian Hospice in Duluth, Georgia. Six months after being found unresponsive in a bath tub.
The case involving Sobamowo began in September, when investigators in Forsyth County began looking into her background after they received a tip raising questions about Sobamowo, who had worked at an assisted living facility, sheriff’s Deputy Epifanio Rodriguez said Tuesday.
Sobamowo faces charges of first-degree forgery, identity fraud and practicing nursing without a license in Forsyth County, Rodriguez said.
On Oct. 27, Forsyth County sheriff’s Detective Cpl. Jeffrey Roe contacted Duluth police “in reference to a high-profile case” that Duluth has some jurisdiction over, Duluth police wrote in their report.
Roe said Sobamowo had stolen the state-issued RN number of a real nurse at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
“We had no reason to believe that she was anything other than a good nurse with proper credentials,” Homestead Hospice CEO Mallie Sharafat said in a statement. “As soon as the credentialing discrepancy was discovered by one of our employees, we immediately took action and notified the appropriate authorities.”
Nothing suggests in the AP report that Sobamowo’s care for Brown may have been affected by being an uncredited nurse. The Fulton County Medical Examiner said in December that the root cause of Brown’s death had not been determined.
Police say the Brown’s death is still under investigation.
Quentin Tarantino finally responds to the police boycott against The Hateful Eight.
After keeping quiet for over a week and several police unions organized a boycott of all Quentin Tarantino movies, The Weinstein Co. is finally opening up on Quentin Tarantino’s comments on police brutality.
According to an exclusive statement to The Hollywood Reporter, The Weinstein company expresses their respect for the filmmaker but, shows that they do not speak for the director.
“The Weinstein Co. has a long-standing relationship and friendship with Quentin and has a tremendous amount of respect for him as a filmmaker,” a Weinstein Co. representative told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement. “We don’t speak for Quentin; he can and should be allowed to speak for himself.”
But, Quentin Tarantino released a statement as well addressing the controversy for the first time, telling the Los Angeles Times that he would not be intimidated by police boycotts.
“Instead of dealing with the incidents of police brutality that those people were bringing up, instead of examining the problem of police brutality in this country, better they single me out,” Tarantino said to The Hollywood Reporter.
“And their message is very clear. It’s to shut me down. It’s to discredit me. It is to intimidate me. It is to shut my mouth, and even more important than that, it is to send a message out to any other prominent person that might feel the need to join that side of the argument.”
It is important to point out that Quentin Tarantino wanted to let the world know that he did not call all cops “murderers”. “All cops are not murderers. I never said that. I never even implied that.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Quentin Tarantino revealed that Tarantino was receiving a ton of pressure from the studio.
Behind closed doors, sources say TWC board members have been pressuring co-founder Harvey Weinstein to clean up the mounting mess that has emerged in the wake of Tarantino calling police officers “murderers.” Sources say some on the board are fearful that the company’s upcoming Tarantino film, The Hateful Eight, will take a direct economic hit thanks to a widening police boycott of the director
This controversy all started when Tarantino attended an anti-police brutality rally in New York City on October 24th. He told the crowd, “When I see murders, I do not stand by. … I have to call a murder a murder, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.”
Since then, several police unions have boycotted all future Quentin Tarantino movies.
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