Cast It Systems

Cast It summer blockbusters keep rolling out, and this past weekend is no exception. Wanted opened strongly with over $50M in weekend ticket sales.

Mindy Marin, casting director on Wanted, used Cast It on this project, and over the course of almost a year, auditions, demo reels, and actors were viewed on the system by Mindy, the producers and Universal studio execs, from all over the world. Auditions were taped an uploaded from Los Angeles, Prague, New York, and from the UK. Congratulations to Mindy and Universal Pictures on this huge success!

Zohan hit the screens this past weekend. Congratulations to Sarah Finn and Randi Hiller on yet another big summer movie. Cast It served as the casting hub for this project with actors and auditions uploaded from Los Angeles, New York, London and Israel.

Under extremely tight security, actor information, reels and auditions for the new Indiana Jones feature were uploaded to Cast It for review by the production team and DreamWorks studio personnel. Cast It congratulates Debbie Zane, the casting director on this exciting new installment in the Indiana Jones series.

If you’re demanding DVDs from your casting directors, agents and managers, please take some time today to throw them into the recycle bin. And remember, Cast It is the online casting resource that helps to lighten up your production’s carbon footprint.

iPhone users can now view their auditions on Cast It. Of course, they will want to be using the phone in WiFi mode in order to get the video clips to play effectively. We already have a number of producers using their iPhones to view auditions from Cast It!

How big is the carbon footprint of your production? Think of all the energy consumption and waste just in the casting process alone. DVDs, DVD cases, tapes, actor packets, envelopes, paper, couriers, FedEx, and the gas required to move those auditions around town and the world.

Cast It totally eliminates the need to burn DVDs, duplicate tapes and then have them messengered to the various producers and executives who need to see them. The entire process now is online. Just think of the plastic you’ll save by using Cast It, and remember then how much petroleum it takes to make those discs and cases.

Make your production more environmentally sensitive. Do you absolutely need to see that audition on your TV that had to be burned to a plastic DVD, stuffed in an envelope and driven to your office?

Use Cast It and help save the planet.

After a hugely successful winter training session, we’re now currently planning this spring’s training seminar for new and advanced Cast It users. Learn about the system or go in-depth with Cast It experts to find out the best time-saving techniques to get your sessions online ASAP.

In case you missed it in December, Cast It made the InfoTech section of Business Week. Here’s the text of the article by Ron Glover:

HOLLYWOOD CLICKS AND A CAST APPEARS
Forget cattle calls. Hollywood now goes online to cast many movies and TV shows thanks to a MySpace for talent agents called Cast It Systems. At $4,000 for a feature film and $2,000 for a TV pilot, most Hollywood studios and two of the Big Four TV networks use the password-protected site to create pages devoted to hot projects. Barry Josephson, producer of the Walt Disney (DIS) film Enchanted, approved director Kevin Lima’s choice of Amy Adams for the lead role of Princess Giselle after seeing an online video of her reading a script. Created by film producer Eric Hayes and dot-com entrepreneur Chris Gantos, Cast It now is moving on to Broadway plays and ad spots.

—By Ronald Grover