Casting Chinese Actors for new TV series from major blockbuster film company

CHINESE ACTORS WANTED CASTING NEW TV 
SERIES FROM MAJOR BLOCKBUSTER 
FILM COMPANY 

We are searching NATIONWIDE for CHINESE ACTORS (male and female,
ages 18-40) for a new television docu-series from a major blockbuster film company.

This new documentary television series is on a mission to find the very best
Chinese actors - to star in their next Hollywood blockbuster movie!

Applicants MUST speak fluent Mandarin and display a broad range of acting styles.

Those selected will appear in a series of short films shot in China and Hollywood
(all travel and accommodations covered).

There is pay if you're selected to be in the TV show - Winners will be cast in a major
Hollywood film - this is a HUGE opportunity!

TO SUBMIT:
Be sure to mention you heard about this from BILLBOARDCASTING.com, and
email ALL the information requested below to:
chinastarcasting1@gmail.com
Be sure to include:
1.  Your name (first and last)
2.  Age
3.  Contact phone number
4.  City/State where you live
5.  Brief bio about you
6.  What is your level of proficiency in Mandarin?
7.  Acting Resume (as text within the email, or attached as a pdf)
8.  Headshot (jpg format please)
9.  Link to your acting reel, website(s), etc.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt finally tie the knot

The couple, together for nearly a decade and engaged since 2012, said "I do" in France this past Saturday

After nearly a decade together, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have finally tied the knot. The couple had been engaged since 2012.

The marriage announcement came succinctly in a 140-character tweet from the AP: "Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were married Saturday in France, says a spokesman for the couple." The wedding was reportedly a

private,nondenominational civil ceremony that took place at a small chapel in Correns, France's Chateau Miraval, the AP reports. Hollywood's most famous couple has been together since 2005 and are the parents of six children, each of whom took part in the wedding.

The Pitt-Jolie wedding has been a tabloid favorite since they first announced their engagement: The pair was rumored to have secretly married as far back as Christmas 2012. As the AP reports, Jolie and Pitt obtained a marriage license from a local California judge, who then also conducted the ceremony in France. Only a small number of family and friends were in attendance.

When asked about her wedding earlier this year, Jolie told E!, "We don't have a date, and we're not hiding anything, but we really don't know. We talk to the kids about it once in a while.… And one of them suggested paintball. And we thought, ‘Well, different.' So who knows? I think the important thing is that whatever we do it's that the kids do have a great time, and we all — you know, take seriously the love, and the connection between all of us. But also just get silly and do something memorable."

In what could be viewed as perfect timing, Pitt and Jolie were set to begin filming By the Sea together, their first big screen partnering since they first hooked up on 2005's Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Jolie wrote and will direct By the Sea, which the Daily Mail reports is an "intimate character-driven drama" that features "crazy sex scenes." Jolie and Pitt will play a married couple in the film as well.

Nick Cannon Confirms Separation From Mariah Carey

Host admits there's "trouble in paradise" for the couple.


Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey are indeed separated, the Real Husbands of Hollywood star confirmed on Thursday. One day after reports surfaced that the couple of six years are headed for a split, Cannon tells The Insider that he and his wife have been living apart for some time.

"There is trouble in paradise," Cannon, 33, told The Insider of his marriage to the Grammy-winning pop diva. "We have been living in separate houses for a few months."

While Cannon wouldn't elaborate on the cause of their separation, he did dismiss the idea that his rumored infidelity was a factor. The actor/comedian/host also added, "my main focus is my kids."

Cannon and Carey tied the knot in a surprise ceremony in the Bahamas in 2008 after less than a month of dating. The couple have two children, twins Morroccan and Monroe.

Erin Tomasello Casting Director how to avoid a CASTING SCAM

Homelessness in Los Angeles County

According to the Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart Center, an estimated 254,000 men, women and children experience homelessness in Los Angeles County during some part of the year and approximately 82,000 people are homeless on any given night. 

Unaccompanied youth, especially in the Hollywood area, are estimated to make up from 4,800 to 10,000 of these.

Although homeless people may be found throughout the county, the largest percentages are in South Los Angeles and Metro Los Angeles.  Most are from the Los Angeles area and stay in or near the communities from which they came. About 14 to 18 percent of homeless adults in Los Angeles County are not U.S. citizens compared with 29% of adults overall. A high percentage - as high as 20 percent - are veterans. 

African Americans make up approximately half of the Los Angeles County homeless population - disproportionately high compared to the percentage of African Americans in the county overall (about 9 percent).

Hal Douglas, legendary movie trailer voiceover artist, dies at 89

Voiceover artist Hal Douglas has died. His booming voice and phrase "audiences everywhere" were known to generations of moviegoers and TV watchers. He was 89.

Douglas' daughter Sarah told The New York Times that the Connecticut native with the famous baritone died of pancreatic cancer last week. Douglas' craggy, ominous narration, which brought promises of brand new worlds and mayhem in our own, introduced films both epic and Oscar-worthy, with a list of credits that range from "Philadelphia" to "Con-Air" and everything in between. He even spoofed himself, with a starring role in the trailer for the Jerry Seinfeld documentary, "Comedian," in 2002. His famous catchphrase — or one variation of it, anyway — was also the inspiration for the title of Lake Bell's 2013 comedy about the voiceover industry, "In a World," in which she played the daughter of a legend in the niche industry trying to make it on her own. Ken Marino played a young voiceover actor whose deep voice certainly owes a debt to Douglas. Douglas was one of three major trailer voiceover artists, along with the late Don LaFontaine and Don Morrow. Douglas was featured in a short documentary about his life and craft, "A Great Voice," last year.

Oscar History "First black director to receive this honor" 12 Years a Slave

“12 Years a Slave” won the best picture Oscar at the 86th Academy Awards on Sunday night, the first time Hollywood conferred its top honor to the work of a black director. “I’d like to thank this amazing story,” said Steve McQueen, the British-born filmmaker who grasped a prize that has eluded African-American directors and their movies since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave its first Oscars in 1929. “Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live,” said Mr. McQueen, who dedicated the film to those who had endured slavery, both in the past and in the present. Only minutes before, Mr. McQueen had been overlooked for the directing award, which went to Alfonso Cuarón for “Gravity,” a 3-D blockbuster whose story of survival in space had been locked with Mr. McQueen’s film and David O. Russell’s “American Hustle” in a ferocious contest for the best picture statuette. Ellen Degeneres hosting the 86th Academy Awards. In the end, Fox Searchlight, which distributed “12 Years a Slave,” about a 19th-century man, Solomon Northup, who was kidnapped into slavery, carried the day with the help of an advertising slogan that reminded Oscar voters of their chance to make history. “It’s time,” said the ads. “12 Years a Slave” won only three awards, including best supporting actress and best adapted screenplay, while “Gravity” won seven, the most of any film. Diversity was a leading motif for ceremony that was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, a happy-go-lucky lesbian who spent most of the evening in a tuxedo, and which also honored Jared Leto as best supporting actor for his role as a transgender AIDS patient in “Dallas Buyers Club.” The best actress award went to Cate Blanchett for “Blue Jasmine,” despite a late-season challenge by Dylan Farrow, who publicly wrote that its director Woody Allen and his films should be shunned because he had, by her account, sexually molested her as a child. Mr. Allen, her adoptive father, has strongly challenged the charge. “Thank you so much, Woody, for casting me,” said Ms. Blanchett, who never mentioned the blowup, but made a point of thanking Mr. Allen for using “Blue Jasmine” to tell a woman’s story. Jennifer Lawrence followed minutes later to present the best actor award to Matthew McConaughey for “Dallas Buyers Club.” “Why are you laughing?” Ms. Lawrence challenged the audience, which has come to expect a trip, fall or charming faux pas every time she takes the stage. But she pulled it off without a hitch, and Mr. McConaughey thanked God and everyone else with a movie star smile. John Ridley, who won the best adapted screenplay Oscar for “12 Years a Slave,” invoked the suffering individual at the heart of his story. “All the praise goes to Solomon Northup,” said Mr. Ridley. “These are his words, this is his life.” Spike Jonze won the original script Oscar for “Her,” a Warner Bros. film that had a powerful following, particularly among young viewers, who responded to its quirky story of one man’s love affair with his digital operating system. It was the only win for “Her,” but that was enough to lift it above “American Hustle,” which was slammed hard by the voters. Widely seen as one of three films in contention for the top honors, it left empty-handed, a humiliation for a film with 10 nominations and one of the better box office totals, with about $146 million in ticket sales. No one could accuse this show of taking itself too seriously. At Ms. DeGeneres’ behest, a stack of pizzas arrived with a red-hatted delivery guy at the two-hour mark, and both Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts were among those who dug in. At the halfway mark, Ms. Degeneres, now in a white suit, prowled the audience like a cat, handing out lottery tickets to runners-up, and trying to break a record for retweets with a “selfie” that found her stacked with movie stars, including Ms. Lawrence, Ms. Streep and Kevin Spacey. Twitter’s website went down soon afterward, with early reports indicating that it failed to handle the pop of traffic. Later reports said Ms. DeGeneres’s “selfie” was retweeted more than 1 million times, breaking the site’s previous record, which was set by President Barack Obama after his re-election. “We have made history tonight,” said Ms. DeGeneres. Lupita Nyong’o, who had been charming Oscar voters with her fresh face and mostly modest demeanor for months, cut loose just a little bit backstage. “I think it belongs to me!” Ms. Nyong’o replied to a question about who deserved credit for the “golden man” in her arms. In sharp contrast to last year, winners weren’t somewhat rudely piped off when they went long. And one or two were even entertaining in their gratitude. “Happy Oscars to you, let’s do ‘Frozen 2’ ,” sang Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, as they picked up an award for their song from the movie “Frozen.” Less happily, Leonardo DiCaprio got nothing for his work, both on the screen as an actor and off-screen and as a producer, on “The Wolf of Wall Street.” But “The Great Gatsby,” in which he had starred back in the early part of the year, won awards for production and costume design. “Captain Phillips” also came up empty-handed, a disappointment for both Sony Pictures, which distributed the film, and Tom Hanks, who had once seemed a likely best actor candidate for his performance as a real-life captain hijacked by pirates. Mr. Hanks, in the end, hadn’t even been nominated, and the film slipped into the peculiar twilight reserved for movies, like “True Grit,” that shine brightly, then mysteriously fade on Oscar night. If there were the usual number of winners, it felt like a year of heavy losses as the annual memorial sequence scrolled through a list of film figures who died since the last show. Harold Ramis, Karen Black, Hal Needham, Saul Zaentz, Elmore Leonard, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Shirley Temple Black were just a few of those remembered, and, with them, not one golden era, but several, seemed to be passing. Weirdly, the night’s proceedings were punctuated by a theme of movie heroics, though the year’s films were populated more by survivors, as in “12 Years a Slave” and “Captain Phillips,” or antiheroes, as in “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “American Hustle.” The show featured a montage of classic movie heroes crammed mostly with references to characters portrayed in films past — Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, Harvey Milk and a dozen or so others. Oscar lore has it that the Academy has a soft spot for Holocaust stories, like “Schindler’s List,” the best picture winner in 1994. This year, it bestowed a documentary short Oscar on “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life,” about Alice Herz Sommer, a 110-year-old Holocaust survivor who died just days before the ceremony. The best documentary feature was “20 Feet From Stardom,” a film about backup singers decidedly more fun than the issues-heavy fare that often dominates the category. And it brought a welcome win to the Weinstein Company, which distributed the film through its Radius-TWC division, and which saw several of its other contenders this year — “Philomena,” “August: Osage County,” “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” — fall short of the biggest awards. In what has become a secondary category — few here will watch subtitled films — there was no surprise when Italy picked up another best foreign film Oscar, its 11th, for “The Great Beauty.” The film, about the life-reckoning of a literary Roman, had been picking up pre-Oscar awards all season, though it had taken in just $2.2 million at the domestic box office since its release by Janus Films in November. The season had brought an unusual surge of black-themed Oscar contenders — “Fruitvale Station,” “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” and “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” among them. But in the home stretch, only “12 Years a Slave” was left standing, as the obvious choice for Academy members who might agree with Fox Searchlight, that it was, indeed, time for a black filmmaker to claim the best picture statuette. By the end of the night, with most of Hollywood eager to move past the pageantry, the rainstorms that pounded Los Angeles on Friday and Saturday even seemed appropriate: Enough with this Oscar business. Here comes Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah” and the blockbuster season. Certainly, the movie going audience was looking forward. This weekend, an action thriller, “Non-Stop,” and a religious drama, “Son of God,” sold more tickets than the best picture nominees “Nebraska,” “Her” or “Dallas Buyers Club” had scraped together since their releases.

Kendall Jenner Models Nude & More

Get down girls, go ‘head get down! Over the years the Kardashian-Jenner sisters have proven that they aren’t afraid to flaunt what Kris Jenner gave them, from Kendall taking it off for ‘W’ to Kim K getting nude in ‘Playboy.’ These ladies certainly have a “No shirt, no problem” policy! It’s no secret that the ladies of the Kardashian-Jenner household don’t mind being in the spotlight, and there may not be any greater symbol of that than this list of the many times the sisters (and the mother!) have stepped in front of a camera without their tops on. From the sexy magazine covers to the tantalizing Instagram shots, strap in for a roller coaster ride, because these girls know how to take a shocking, stunning topless pic! And we know where the siblings got it from — their momma, Kris Jenner! She may be the most provocative girl in the entire family, as we found out in Mar. 2012 when the momager posted a picture of herself very pregnant and very topless on her official website. Was it sexy? Probably not. But did it grab our attention? DEFINITELY. And the apples didn’t fall far from the tree. Though Khloe and Kourtney have had their fair share of skintastic moments, Kim Kardashian has been the most daring of all the sisters, and she’s been dominating the topless game for years now. She made her first bold topless move by posing in W magazine totally naked in Nov. 2010. The reality star was only covered by some spare text and some metallic body paint. And of course, she went all the way when she posed for Playboy years before that in 2007. More recently Kim has taken it all off for her fiance Kanye West, sexily straddling him and a motorcycle in the “Bound 2″ music video.

SPOTLIGHT: Lupita Amondi Nyong'o

Lupita Amondi Nyong'o (born 1 March 1983) is a Mexican actress, Of Kenyan descent film director, and music video director. She made her American film debut in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013) as Patsey, for which she received critical acclaim. For her role Nyong'o won the Screen Actors Guild and Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and was nominated for the Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Boston judge: Federal ban gay marriage unconstitutional

A Boston judge has fired the latest salvo in the battle for gay marriage, ruling Thursday that a federal ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional because it violates states' rights.

U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro ruled in favor of gay couples' right to marry, the AP reports, challenging the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) on the ground that it interferes with a state’s right to define marriage.

Same-sex unions have been legal in Massachusetts since 2004, but the state argued that DOMA discriminated against gay married couples by denying them access to the same benefits as heterosexual married couples.

Tauro agreed, ruling on two separate challenges to the law that the act forced Massachusetts to discriminate against its own citizens.

"The federal government, by enacting and enforcing DOMA, plainly encroaches upon the firmly entrenched province of the state, and in doing so, offends the Tenth Amendment," Tauro wrote in a ruling. "For that reason, the statute is invalid."

In a second case, filed by Gays & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, Tauro ruled that DOMA also violates the Constitution's equal protection clause.

Advocacy groups embraced Tauro's ruling Thursday. "We've maintained from the very beginning that there was absolutely no basis for this law treating one class of married Massachusetts couples different from everybody else and the court has recognized that," said Gary Buseck, GLAD's legal director.

Supporters of same-sex marriage also took to Twitter to cheer on the ruling, posting tweets like "Yessssss!!!!!!!", "RIGHT ON!", and "Holiday, celebrate! So, U.S. Judge in Boston rules that a federal gay marriage ban is unconstitutional... Party in Boston!"

The Justice Department argued that the federal government has the right to set eligibility requirements for federal benefits such as Medicare - including requiring that those benefits only go to couples in marriages between a man and a woman, the AP reported.

The lawsuit challenges only the portion of the law that prevents the federal government from affording pension and other benefits to same-sex couples.

Congress put DOMA on the books in 1996 when it seemed that Hawaii was on the brink of legalizing gay marriage, and opponents feared that the movement would become a nationwide trend.