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Valentine’s Day director Garry Marshall is back with another star-studded ensemble movie, “New Year’s Eve.” The film centers on the intertwined lives of several couples and singles in New York on the last night of the year.
The cast includes a slew of A-listers, including “Valentine’s Day” stars Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Biel and Hector Elizondo along with Robert De Niro, Halle Berry, Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Lea Michele, Zac Efron, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vergara, Alyssa Milano, Hilary Swank, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Abigail Breslin, Ice Cube, Seth Meyers, John Stamos, Jon Bon Jovi, John Lithgow, Ludacris and Ryan Seacrest, who plays himself.
“There’s going to be more celebrities here than rehab,” Heigl’s character says at one point, though she might as well be referring to the movie itself.
“New Year’s Eve” is set for a Dec. 9 release via Warner Bros.
In Hollywood, it used to be you had to produce before you produced. But it’s not the case anymore with a crop of teenage and young adult stars who are moving onto the backlots of Tinseltown with production companies. Selena Gomez, 19, who is starring in “Monte Carlo,” has a development deal.
Gomez is just one of several young actors – including 23-year-old Zac Efron and 19-year-old Taylor Lautner – producing their own movies. These actors have their own production companies, but they’re not necessarily calling the shots in Hollywood – yet.
According to one veteran producer, for many young actors, production deals provide a way to pay a manager or family member who’s been an informal adviser without having to take money out of the actor’s salary. And producing is a way for the actors to select some of the movies they make.
“This provides an element of control, and in this business, every inch of that is pretty powerful,” Efron said in an interview last year.
Studios often cut production deals with actors as a way to sustain a relationship with someone they want to star in their movies. But these young actors may not even be doing the actual producing. Taylor Lautner’s dad, Dan, with whom Taylor partnered with to open his production company, is listed as the producer of their company’s first movie, this fall’s “Abduction.” And Gomez’s mom reportedly runs her production company.
“There are tons of production companies headed up by talent. The studios will give them a deal, overhead and office space, but most of the pictures never get made,” says one entertainment attorney.
Still, Universal reportedly just acquired a project for Gomez’s two-and-a-half-year-old production company earlier this year. And Efron has seven projects in development.
Ultimately it’s up to the actor to determine whether their production pact becomes a mere vanity deal or a significant business venture. Natalie Portman, who just turned 30, has begun to establish herself as a successful actor-producer, releasing three films that she starred in and produced, including “No Strings Attached,” a $25 million movie that made nearly $150 million at the global box office. [Source]
Zac Efron made his name playing a singing high school heartthrob, but as his newly announced film indicates, the “High School Musical” star has clearly graduated.
Deadline reports that Efron has signed on to play a hard-partying college student in an R-rated comedy, starring opposite Seth Rogen, whose character lives nearby Efron’s frat house and has his life turned upside down as a result. It’s standard fair for the delightfully filthy mouthed Rogen, and a huge step in a new direction for Efron.
Since finishing his Disney days, Efron has worked to establish a new, more mature identity. He danced with adults in “Hairspray,” and then there was the well reviewed indie period piece, “Me and Orson Welles,” in 2008, and while the 2009 comedy “17 Again” cast him back in high school, he was able to perform in a different context, with more adult themes sprinkled throughout, and its relative success – the film grossed $136 million worldwide – helped launch a varied next two years.
Efron then went melodramatic in the Ben Sherwood ghost romance adaptation, “Charlie St. Cloud,” before going off to war in the upcoming, “The Lucky One,” and joining a whole host of stars in the ensemble romcom, “New Year’s Eve,” which is out this winter. He’ll then take on “The Paperboy,” a sexual thriller with Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman and others.
As for Rogen, he also started his career in high school, though his belated, beloved “Freaks and Geeks” certainly had a different tone than Efron’s Disney world. Breaking out as a superstar in “Knocked Up,” he’s owned, in large part alongside director/producer Judd Apatow, the R-rated comedy the past half decade, writing and starring in “Superbad” and “The Pineapple Express,” as well as taking lead in “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” for Kevin Smith and going heroic in the mildly disappointing “The Green Hornet.”
Rogen will next be seen in the real-life cancer dramedy, “50/50,” a story written by his real life best friend Will Reiser about his true story struggle with the disease. Just like in real life, Rogen plays the patient’s best friend; in the film, Joseph Gordon-Levitt takes on the lead role. Then, Rogen will co-star with Barbra Streisand in “My Mother’s Curse,” a raunchy road trip movie.
The announcement of the film comes after a proliferation of hit R-rated comedies this summer, with plenty more on the docket for the remaining heated months. “Bridesmaids” and “The Hangover, Part II,” each set box office records, while “Bad Teacher” and “Horrible Bosses,” both performed above expectations. This weekend’s “Friends With Benefits” is performing well at the box office, while early August’s “The Change-Up” promises good returns with Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds in the lead roles. [Source]
Zac Efron had anything but a quiet Sunday night in Chicago: after a late dinner, the actor stopped in for a drink by the bar at Sunda before heading over to the Underground for the club’s weekly dance party. Efron held court at a table near the deejay booth – but soon moved to the dance floor, where he got down to a five-minute medley of Michael Jackson tunes spun by DJ Rock City. [Source]
You may have missed your opportunity for a cameo in “High School Musical,” but today you have a chance to show your face in another Zac Efron flick. The 23-year-old stars alongside actor Dennis Quaid in a new untitled film, and at least one scene will be filmed this afternoon during the Prairie Meadows 200 ARCA Series race at the Iowa Speedway in Newton. We’ve answered five burning questions you may have about today’s shoot.
Zac Efron is filming in Iowa? What’s this movie all about?
The untitled drama is directed by Ramin Bahrani, who critic Roger Ebert called “the director of the decade.” Zac Efron plays an Iowa teen whose plans to become a race car driver are in conflict with those of his farming father, played by “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” star Dennis Quaid. Film producer Pamela Koffler estimates the movie will be released in 2012.
Iowa Speedway president Jerry Jauron expects his Newton venue to be featured prominently in one scene. “Efron’s character catches a big break to race, and it just so happens that he races in the ARCA races at the Iowa Speedway,” Jauron said.
If you attend today’s race, will you really be on camera?
Well, you might be. Film cameras are expected to capture Quaid cheering from the speedway’s stands along with sweeping shots of the 30,000 capacity grandstand crowd at the Newton track. Still, fans can experience the action of being on a set.
“The one thing this film offers is the opportunity for a large group of people to be able to be in the process,” Jauron said.
Jauron guarantees that everyone who shows up today will be able to purchase a ticket and advises attendees to be seated by 3:15 p.m. The race begins at 4:15 p.m.
Amanda Emerson, 25, of Des Moines, has tickets to today’s race – and stars in her eyes. “I have never been in a movie scene before,” she wrote in an email. “How awesome would that be to say you were in a movie starring Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid?”
Zac Efron wore a racing uniform while shooting scenes for his new film the “Untitled Ramin Bahrani Project” in Iowa. The film also stars Dennis Quaid, Red West and Maika Monroe. Enjoy the pics!
Officials with the Iowa Speedway in Newton said that a movie crew and two big-name Hollywood stars are shooting part of a movie at the racetrack on Saturday.
“It’s controlled chaos here at Iowa Speedway this weekend. We’ve been working on this project just over a month and actually got the go-ahead less than 10 days ago or 11 days ago. So now, we have to squeeze a lot in the next 48 hours because most of the film that’s shot here is going to be done today and tomorrow when the race fans are in the grandstands,” said Jerry Jauron, Iowa Speedway president.
Actors Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid are at the racetrack to tape scenes for a new, as-yet untitled racing movie.
“This is big stuff. You got A-list Zac Efron, Dennis Quaid right here at the Iowa Speedway. Chance of a lifetime to be part of a movie,” said Jauron.
Fans are invited to be part of the movie magic.
“One hundred lucky ticket holders are going to be chosen tomorrow, pulled out of the grandstands so they can be in front of the stage when we do the pre-race experience, so they’ll be 20 to 25 feet from the stars,” said Jauron. “We need the fans to play off the racing. The racing to play off the stars. I mean, all three of them are coming together.”
Tickets for the Prairie Meadows 200 ARCA Series Stock Car and Coca-Cola 200 presented by Hy-Vee NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races are on sale for $25.
Fans purchasing tickets online will be entered into a drawing, and 100 lucky winners will have the chance to participate in the pre-race festivities and could appear in the crowd scenes in the movie, speedway officials said.
The film is an Iowa-based movie starring Efron as a rural teen aspiring to become a professional race car driver. Quaid plays Efron’s father in the film.
Producers will shoot Efron walking across the pre-race stage, Quaid cheering from the stands and stock car racing footage during the Prairie Meadows 200 scheduled to begin at 4:15 p.m.
“There are a lot of racetracks in America and we are very excited that Mr. Bahrani chose Iowa Speedway as the set for his movie,” said Iowa Speedway President Jerry Jauron. “I hope fans will take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see A-list celebrities and be part of a movie. Let’s show the film crew what Midwestern hospitality is all about!” [Source]
John Cusack is set to join the cast of the upcoming drama “The Paperboy,” says a story at Variety.
Written and directed by Lee Daniels (Precious), the film stars Zac Efron and (in negotiations) Matthew McConaughey and Nicole Kidman. The story deals with a pair of brothers (Efron and McConaughey) who work together to save the life of a death row inmate (Cusack) after a woman (Kidman) brings his particular case to the attention their attention.
Cusack will replace Tobey Maguire, who recently had to drop out of the project. [Source]
“I have no idea. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't know what I'm going to be like in a year, so I can't really make a 20-year plan. I'm pretty sure I can be a million places. For some reason, being 17 feels like a long time ago. That's so weird. I think when I was 17 we started 'High School Musical.' That was very much the beginning. I didn't know what I was getting into at all. I was a pretty standard teenager, I'm not just saying that. I had a very standard high school experience for a typical guy.”
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