Online open calls have been launched for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse movie. These open calls are powered by ActorCast, Cast It’s actor and talent rep services site. If you are interested in auditioning, please visit: http://www.eclipseopencasting.com.
Cast It has launched a talent rep and actor services web site called ActorCast. Talent reps and actors can create profiles, manage packages that combine headshots, resumes and reels, and submit to roles made available by casting directors using Cast It.
Cast It has built the most robust, full featured online casting service available that allows casting directors, studios, directors, producers, and productions to share, view and comment on actors, auditions and reels.
Cast It is used by every major film studio, the big five television networks and studios, and over 400 casting offices worldwide. Over 4,000 studio executives, production executives, producers and directors have Cast It accounts.
Cast It Founders Chris Gantos & Eric Hayes
Cast It was written up in the Business section of the New York Times this past Sunday. Click here to view the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/business/media/28steal.html?ref=media
HBO’s new series Hung starts Sunday night. Congratulations to CFB Casting in Los Angeles and Pound-Mooney Casting in Detroit. Both casting offices use Cast It to upload auditions for review by the producers, the episode director and HBO executives.
The Proposal won the top grossing slot this past weekend. Congratulations to Cathy Sandrich-Gelfond and Amanda Mackey-Johnson! Cast It was used by the casting offices in New York, Los Angeles and on location in Boston.
Online open calls have been launched for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse movie. These open calls are powered by ActorCast, Cast It’s actor and talent rep services site. If you are interested in auditioning, please visit: http://www.eclipseopencasting.com.
Four of the top five grossing movies from this weekend used Cast It to manage the audition process online. Hangover scored the top spot for the second straight weekend. Congratulations to Juel Bestrop and Seth Yanklewitz, the casting directors on Hangover.
Eight of the top ten weekend grossers used Cast It to manage the audition and casting process. Producers, directors, and studio executives log in to Cast It to view roles, actors, auditions, reels and screen tests posted by their casting teams from multiple locations.
The top four grossing feature films from last weekend all used Cast It to manage the auditions process online. Congratulations to Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins and everyone at The Casting Company for their work on Angels and Demons!
Nearly mid-way through the casting process, production shut down when the WGA went on strike. Once the strike was over, casting quickly jumped back on track, thanks to Cast It’s archiving capabilities. Roles, lists, actors, auditions and a complete history of the where the casting team left off before the strike were immediately available to the directors, producers and executives.
The summer boxoffice season officially kicked off this weekend. X-Men Origins: Wolverine opened big with Ghosts of Girlfriends Past coming in second. Both productions used Cast It to manage the online audition process. Congratulations to Fox and New Line Cinema.
Cast It Systems today announced that it has been selected to the 2009 OnHollywood 100 List. The OnHollywood 100 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies in the media and entertainment industries. Cast It was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on demonstration of growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction.
“This year’s OnHollywood 100 companies represent the future of entertainment and spotlight how technology and digital media have and will continue to deeply impact the entertainment industry as we know it,” said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. “Despite the economic downturn, the pace of innovation continues to progress, making this year’s selection even more difficult. We are pleased to see what 2009 has in store for the entertainment industry and we are happy to reveal the 2009 OnHollywood 100.”
The OnHollywood 100 winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2009 list.
A full list of all the OnHollywood 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/31890
Earlier this week, Cast It was mentioned in The Hollywood Reporter in a piece that they wrote on current trends in the casting industry. The article opens with a quote from Victoria Burrows of Burrows-Boland Casting:
“Like many of today’s top casting directors, Victoria Burrows got her start when personal computers were nonexistent, FedEx was in its infancy, faxes and videotape machines were rare, and black-and-white glossies were everywhere.
“It used to be hard-copy pictures, then sit down and meet an actor,” Burrows says with little nostalgia. “You would just read them and do call-backs.”
Now, working on such motion-capture films as Disney’s A Christmas Carol and Mars Needs Moms! she spends her days in casting sessions with partner Scot Boland, calculating how actors’ performances will translate in neoprene wet suits covered with white dots and subsequently rendered by 3-D animation software. The auditions are uploaded to a computer and stored with other information on the servers of Cast It, a popular database management system that allows them to be viewed instantly by anyone with a password to the company account, from a Beverly Hills agent to a director on location in Bulgaria.”
If you would like to see the full text of the article, go to:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i8f701cf03395deca16d218e6475296e6
