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Extra Casting In Michigan For Lifetime Film “Close Quarters: With Catherine Bell

http://www.beforethetrailer.com/2010/10/extra-casting-in-michigan-for-lifetime-film-close-quarters-with-catherine-bell/

Jolène Rice a twitté qu'ils avaient trouvé l'acteur qui jouerait le mari de Catherine Bell dans Close Quarters.
Il s'agit d'Anthony Michael Hall

Voici une photo de lui :


Anthony Michael Hall





Un petit air de Terry Serpico...vous trouvez pas?? Bon Terry c'est le plus beau de toute façon :p

Oui je me suis faite la même réflexion en voyant sa photo sur Imdb hier quand Jolène a annoncé la nouvelle.

“Close Quarters” Extras Casting Call for Lifetime Movie (Michigan)

http://michiganacting.com/acting/auditions-casting-calls/close-quarters-extras-casting-call

Ca y est le film est officiel

Lifetime Enters Action Movie Genre With 'Close Quarters'
BY NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 9, 2010 @ 4:57pm PST
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EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime, which has built its original movie brand with biopics and films based on headline-making true stories, is venturing into the action thriller genre with Close Quarters, a telefilm from producer Gale Anne Hurd and Sony TV. Lifetime star Catherine Bell (Army Wives) toplines the movie, about Abby, a happy suburban wife and mother who has been concealing her dark past as a military-trained special-ops agent. But when her husband is mysteriously kidnapped, Abby's past returns to haunt her and she must risk everything to protect her daughter and save the man she loves. "It's turning her role in Army Wives on its head -- in this she is a capable special ops agent with a military background and expertise in technology who holds her ground in the action area," Hurd said, adding that the film for the first time will showcase Bell's extensive martial arts training.
Tapped to co-star in Close Quarters are Anthony Michael Hall as Bell's husband and Mekhi Phifer as a special ops agent Bell served with in Afghanistan. Ernest Dickerson (Dexter, The Wire) will direct the teleplay by Jolene Rice (Lifetime Movie Network’s Still Small Voices) and Adam Beason. Close Quarters originated from an idea by Bell who worked on it with her husband Beason and Rice. They took the treatment to Lifetime as part of Bell’s relationship with the network through Army Wives, and Hurd was brought in because of her background in the action and thriller genre. Close Quarters is being produced by Hurd's Valhalla Entertainment and Sony TV. Dickerson most recently directed an upcoming episode of AMC's breakout hit The Walking Dead, which Hurd executive produces. This the second Lifetime movie produced by Hurd and Sony this year following the Julia Ormond starrer The Wronged Man, which premiered in January on the Lifetime Movie Network. Bell is with Gersh and Brillstein; Hall is with Innovative and MBST; Phifer with WME and Brookside.

http://m.deadline.com/2010/11/lifetime-enters-action-movie-genre-with-close-quarters/

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TV movies like Lifetime's 'Close Quarters' are quietly grabbing a big share of production work in Michigan
By JULIE HINDS
Free Press Staff Writer


On a chilly night in November, inside a vast building at the Gateway Industrial Center in Detroit, the cast and crew of "Close Quarters" are shooting a scene with actors dressed in combat gear.


The set consists of a small makeshift structure with rugs and a couch inside and dirt spread on the ground outside. When the cameras roll, a burst of fake gunfire can be heard. Nearby, Anthony Michael Hall of "The Breakfast Club" fame, who's costarring in the made-for-TV movie, watches as the action unfolds.
As Hall points out, this is a little bit of movie magic. Metro Detroit is doubling for Afghanistan -- and, in other scenes, for Alexandria, Va. -- in the Lifetime original movie, which will air in 2011.
In "Close Quarters," Catherine Bell of Lifetime's "Army Wives" plays a suburban wife and mother who has kept quiet about her previous life as a military special-ops agent. But she must confront her past when her husband (Hall) is taken hostage and she sets out to save him.
This isn't your typical woman-in-peril movie -- it sounds more like a small-screen cousin to Angelina Jolie's "Salt." And the behind-the-scenes crew has several feature film veterans. The director is Ernest Dickerson, who has helmed many TV shows and movies and also did the cinematography for "Do the Right Thing" and other Spike Lee films. The cinematographer is Steven Bernstein, whose movie work includes 2003's "Monster" with Charlize Theron and 1992's "Like Water for Chocolate." The cast includes Mekhi Phifer, who starred with Eminem in "8 Mile."
The executive producer is Gale Anne Hurd, whose credits include the "Terminator" movies, "Aliens" and "The Incredible Hulk." Recently, she has been working on AMC's hit series "The Walking Dead."
Small budgets, critical acclaim
"Close Quarters," which has wrapped production here, is more than an action thriller with impressive credentials. It's one of a number of TV movies being made in Michigan, often without much fanfare.
When a big feature film like "Real Steel" with Hugh Jackman comes to town, it's a hot topic of conversation. But TV movies sometimes come and go without attracting much attention, like "Secrets in the Walls," a scary movie that aired in October on the Lifetime Movie Network; "Perfectly Prudence," a Jane Seymour film that hits the Hallmark Channel on Jan. 8, and "Smooch," which premieres Feb. 5 on the Hallmark Channel.


Like independent films, basic cable movies have smaller budgets -- usually they're in the $2 million to $4.5 million range, according to Hurd. But TV movies shot here under the state's tax incentives probably have won as much critical acclaim as larger feature film productions.


Lifetime's "Prayers for Bobby" and TNT's "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story" received Emmy and Screen Actors Guild nominations -- and Sigourney Weaver of "Prayers for Bobby" also got a Golden Globe nod. Ruby Dee's performance in Lifetime's "America" was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award. HBO's "You Don't Know Jack" won two Emmys and is competing for Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe prizes in January.
Hurd compares the writing on television now to the golden age of TV drama and points to acclaimed directors working in the medium, like Martin Scorsese of "Boardwalk Empire" and Frank Darabont of "The Walking Dead."
"You find more of an independent voice, I think, on television now than you do in features," she says.
Investment in talent
During a night of filming on "Close Quarters," time isn't wasted. When one scene ends, Dickerson and crew members walk to a nearby set in the same building to begin work on another scene.
Hurd, who worked on 2010's "The Wronged Man" with Julia Ormond for the Lifetime Movie Network, was drawn to Michigan by an influential Hollywood opinion shaper -- word of mouth. Her husband, Jonathan Hensleigh, was here in 2009 directing "Kill the Irishman," a 1970s period piece about gangsters in Cleveland. "He's the one who recommended that we come here," she says.
The script for "Close Quarters" is by Jolene Rice and Adam Beason, who is Bell's real-life husband. It's a chance for Bell, who has studied martial arts, to play an action role. "I love being a female 'Bourne Identity'-type character," she says.
Bell says having Hurd on board was a sign that the project was going to be something different. "I thought, wow, this is cool, because this is a female action hero and the woman that knows female action heroes more than anyone else is Gale Ann Hurd," says Bell between scenes.
Hurd says Michigan's filmmaking incentives should be thought of as an investment in the future. "There's an infrastructure that's developing now and there's terrific acting talent here," she says, noting that it takes time for any state to build a workforce of many movie crews with filmmaking experience.
"It takes years. I started working for Roger Corman in his sort of Corman school," she says, referring to the producer-director originally from Detroit who helped launch the directing careers of Francis Ford Coppola and Ron Howard, among others. "And you don't learn it overnight."



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vivement 2011 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The show: Close Quarters
The producer: Sony Pictures Television, Valhalla Pictures

Concept: Action thriller from The Walking Dead producer Gale Anne Hurd about a suburban housewife whose past as a special forces agent comes back to haunt her
The distributor: TBC

Airing: Lifetime (US)



Off the back of the success of The Walking Dead, Gale Anne Hurd is one of the hottest TV producers around at the moment. Her latest project, ahead of the second series of the zombie series, is a TV movie for female-skewing US cable network Lifetime.


"It's about a suburban housewife and her husband and young daughter who live outside Washing DC - and they find her past as a military operative in Afghanistan gets found out and puts her and her family under threat," Hurd explains.



The action thriller focuses stars Catherine Bell, one of the stars of CBS' drama series JAG and another Lifetime show Army Wives.


The drama unfolds as Bell's husband is kidnapped and she is forced to find out who has him and use her special forces training to attempt a rescue.



Jolene Rice and Adam Beason, also an actor on JAG, wrote the original screenplay and Mekhi Phifer (8 Mile) and Anthony Michael Hall (The Dark Knight) will co-star in the film. It will be directed by Ernest Dickerson, a colleague of Hurds after directing a couple of episodes of The Walking Dead.



The show is the second produced by Sony Pictures Television and Hurd's Valhalla for Lifetime after The Wronged Man.



The international distributor has yet to be confirmed. International sales will almost certainly land SPT or AETN International.


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Ce sont des captures d'écrans, j'ai fais ce que j'ai pu ^^.
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“I wanted to be sort of, the female Bourne Identity,” admitted Catherine Bell on the set of Close Quarters, a first-ever action movie made for the Lifetime network.


Sporting a bullet-proof vest, Bell (Jag, Army Wives, Bruce Almighty) reflects certain aspects of her character, Abby Collins. “I wakeboard and ride motorcycles, so for me this is great. It’s kinda how the whole thing came about - my husband and I wanted to do something where I’m an action hero.”


The custom-made project quickly evolved, attracting several accredited industry players including Executive Producer, Gale Anne Hurd, who is behind hits such as Terminator, Aliens, and The Abyss.


“I am traditionally drawn to films that deal with strong female protagonist people that you can relate to. They are generally ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, so there’s a great deal of that behind this,” Hurd explained.


“It really started with Catherine Bell’s husband, Adam Beason, who’s one of our writers along with Jolene Rice, writing a terrific role for his wife, who has a martial arts background and is one of the best drivers you will ever see. She actually races in pro and celebrity car racing,” Hurd continued, “It was the perfect combination - Lifetime felt that it was time to do something new and take some chances.”


Hurd summarized the action-packed plot behind Close Quarters:


“Abby Collins is a woman who used to be a military operative many years ago. She since put that in the past, and is now essentially a soccer mom and wife of Nick Collins, a veterinarian. Unfortunately, the secrets of your past sometimes come back to haunt you. Her past puts her husband and family in jeopardy and only she can save them.”


The script called for a wide variety of locations, which initially raised questions on where to shoot, but it didn’t take long for the production to settle on Michigan.


“A number of sequences actually take place in Afghanistan, and when we were entertaining the idea of coming to Michigan we thought, ‘Ok. Where in Michigan are we going to find Afghanistan?’ and we actually did,” Hurd eagerly described the location discovery.


“I challenge all of you to look at it and think it was shot anywhere but Afghanistan. There’s a quarry up around Oxford, where we filmed, that is a dead ringer for Afghanistan. That was another thing that was really particularly exciting to us.”
The adrenaline is present on the set MMM was invited onto, which was inside a massive warehouse located in Southfield, Michigan.


Hurd explained, “We found this terrific space which is doubling as interior Afghanistan… a cargo container area, and it’s about to double for yet another location; a meeting spot between two of our leads, Abby Collins, and Jeremy Davis, played by Mekhi Phifer (8 Mile, ER, Dawn of the Dead).”


As Abby’s former platoon mate, Phifer, described how this ex-military character compares to previous roles. “[I’m] pretty well versed with guns… I’ve done fight scenes and stuff like that. We have been rehearsing - getting some practice and choreography in for the fight scene.”


Anthony Michael Hall (The Breakfast Club, Stephen King’s Dead Zone, The Dark Knight), who portrays the husband-in-distress, Nick Collins, is less involved in the action than his on-screen spouse, but is equally as enthusiastic about working on the project.


“She’s [Bell] really kicking a** in this! And I think it’s cool to see films like that, or TV shows recently, where women are the heroes,” Hall smiled, “Because we’re men. We need help – let’s be honest.”


“It’s current for people who are in the military, and at the same time… it’s a very interesting thing for Lifetime. What attracted me, really, was the people. This great producer, Gale Ann Hurd; successful, and proven, and such a smart lady. Ernest Dickerson, I couldn’t say enough about; he’s just a great director. He’s shot [many of] Spike Lee’s movies when he was just a cinematographer. He’s one of the finest; I’m really happy to work with him.


And Catherine Bell… she’s a fine actress; been a TV star for a long time… and Mekhi Phifer, he’s a great guy. The cinematographer’s fantastic, Steven Bernstein, he shot Monster. [Close Quarters has] some really top notch film people. I think you see that more and more in TV now; you’re getting better and more talented people than ever, doing television.”
The cross-over of film veterans combined with genre innovation is gearing up Close Quarters to stand out among films made for both TV and the silver screen.

“I like this because it’s the kind of film that hasn’t been done too much in the United States,” Ernest R. Dickerson (Juice, Bulletproof, Our America) observed. “You find these kinds of films coming out of Asia… and Europe, but not many American films have really fabulous lady warriors; and that’s what we’re trying to bring here.”

The director continued, “I think what is great about this character [Abby Collins], we made her like an ordinary, everyday person. Hopefully, most ordinary, everyday ladies will be able to identify with her and see themselves in her. Then when she does some pretty amazing things, you know, they’ll put themselves in that situation and say, ‘I’d like to be able to do that.’”
In addition to the potential idea of a Close Quarters sequel, the overall production experience has inspired those involved to evaluate the Michigan film industry as a whole.


“My husband actually shot here last year, Jonathan Hensleigh, the writer/director of Kill The Irishman,” said Hurd. “He is the one who recommended Michigan to me as a location. It’s so tremendous to have great word of mouth, from happy producers, directors, who shot here before.”


The executive producer further expressed the importance of industry feedback, “I’m on the board of the Producers Guild and we have a Film USA program, where we keep all of the information up to date on film incentives. We share information so people who have shot in Michigan, who are members of the PGA, share that information with others who are interested in coming here.”


While word-of-mouth is seen by many as a way to make or break someone in the movie biz, the accumulation of positive remarks is encouraging to anyone involved in the state’s developing industry.


“My stay in Michigan has been great,” Dickerson confirmed. “Last time I was here I did a GM commercial. It’s really nice to see… the variety of locations. I love being in a city where the history is still there for everybody to see... I live in Los Angeles and a lot of history has been replaced by shopping malls.”


In regards to the film tax incentive, the director explained, “It made it very possible for us to do this show with the budget we had. It actually gave us a couple more days of shooting because we need it… I’d like to see more films come here. I really would. I think it can bring a lot of money here, and there are crews here that are really eager to work.”


With the utmost sincerity in her voice, Hurd impressed the importance of recognizing the state’s potential. “I certainly hope that the incentive stays, because it is so important to boost filmmaking here and to create a real infrastructure. That will really allow this to be one of the filmmaking capitals of the United States.”


http://michiganmoviemagazine.biz/component/content/article/60-sidebar/253-close-quarters-a-new-territory-for-lifetime.html

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