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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Channing Tatum Filming ‘Foxcatcher’ in Connoquenessing

Area residents are going crazy trying to get a glimpse of “The Sexiest Man Alive.” Plus, leave your Tatum sightings in the comment section below.

Most days, the borough of Connoquenessing is a quiet, suburban community —except for when there are movie trailers in the area. Oh yeah, and hordes of eager young girls trying to catch a glimpse of People Magazine’s newly minted “Sexiest Man Alive,” Channing Tatum. That’s right, Tatum has been in the Connoquenessing area all week filming Foxcatcher, a Hollywood movie starring Tatum, Steve Carell and Mark Ruffalo. Based on a true story, the film is about John du Pont (Carell), a chemical fortune heir who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and went to prison for killing David Schultz (Ruffalo), a 1984 gold medal winning wrestler. Tatum Channing plays Mark, Schultz's younger brother. On Wednesday, there was security posted around …

A. Gullickson

1:35 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012

Agreed! Forget Tatum, Ruffalo's the REAL hero -- someone willing to take a stand for human rights!!! I hope while he's in the area he takes the opportunity to visit with our local victims of toxic fracking and to show solidarity with the fractivists who are working so hard to defend our clean air and water here in western PA. www.marcellusoutreachbutler.org and www.marcellusprotest.org   more ›

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Casting Alert! Extras Needed for Matt Damon Movie

"Promised Land," directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski is searching for paid extras.

Casting reps for Promised Land, a feature film starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski, are looking for extras to participate in bar and town hall scenes. Extras who are available for filming are asked to submit casual photos (no modeling shots) via email. A director will ultimately choose the faces, according to an announcement posted on the film's casting page on Facebook. Bar scene extras should be available to work four days in a row on May 15-18.  The town hall scene will take place over five days on May 21-25. Applicants can send a picture that includes the following stats: Height, weight, clothing sizes, age and telephone to promisedlandextras@gmail.com. Put “Bar” in the subject line or "Town Hall" depending on which you prefer to …

Christella Urago

2:50 pm on Sunday, May 27, 2012

"Promised Land" sounds good, but I wish to suggest a film for Matt to do. You may remember the Boston Blackie films of the '40s with Chester Morris as Blackie. Turner Classic Movies is airing them on Saturdays. (Other actors also portrayed Blackie in silent films and earlier talkies.) I know this is an unorthodox way to suggest this, but I know no movie producers nor of any more direct way to …   more ›

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