Rych McCain Hollyhood Notes

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Goldie - Rick James Tribute Show

By Rych McCain International/Nationally Syndicated Entertainment Columnist


Goldie Performing Rick James Tribute Show

Rick James Tribute Show:

Singer/frontman “Goldie” has a new show that is a tribute to the late, great, Rick James. He performs all of James’ biggest hits and his band is an exact duplicate of The Stone City Band. He even has a Teena Marie sound-a-like. Go on YouTube.com and put RJ2Goldie in the search to check him out. Or click on direct http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uTARl4ic44&feature=plcp

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

HollyShorts - Film Festival

by Rych McCain International/Nationally Syndicated Entertainment Columnist

The 8th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival (www.hollyshorts.com) wrapped last week with a standing room only awards ceremony at Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood. The ceremony was hosted by Amy Paffrath, host of MTV’s Jersey Shore After Hours. The HollyShorts Best Overall Short Film prize, which wins a $10,000 in post production and finishing services package from Company 3 went to "ASAD". Director Bryan Buckley was on hand to accept. The HollyShorts Best Director Award which wins a $10,000 post production and finishing services package from Company 3, went to Grainger David for his short film “The Chair.” Best Documentary Short went to Stephanie Butler's “Bo.” The Method Studios Best VFX Award went to “The Wheel” by John Roberts. The Best Student Short went to Terrence Heuston’s “Maddoggin,” while Igor Aleksov took home the Best International Short prize for “Episodizt.” Best Animation Short went to “Luminaris” by Juan Pablo Zaramella.

The 8^th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival had the most attendance in the festival’s history. Highlights include an opening night ceremony at the history Chinese Theatre that drew nearly 1,000 attendees and fest screenings, panels and post receptions taking place in venues throughout Hollywood during the entire week. The organizers also announced last night that the festival will extend its dates next year from 7 days to 10 days. The 9^th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival will take place August 15-25, 2013. Submissions begin in December and filmmakers will vie for the festival’s top 2013 prize, two tickets to visit Weta Digital Studios in New Zealand to present their film courtesy of Starnow. Each HollyShorts 2012 winner receives a 1^st look distribution deal with the ShortsHD television channel. You film makers reading this should submit your shorts for next year. It is well worth it!

List of The 2012 Winners

Jury Honorable mention: “92 Skybox Rookie Card”-Maury Steinman
Jury honorable mention: “The Queen”- Adam Rose
HollyShorts/NociCortinfestival Jury Award: “Oroverde”- Piereluigi Ferrandini!

Best Actor-Robert Chester Smith for “The Hiccup”
Best Actress - Grace Kaufman for “Buttons in the Ground”

Best Animation -Luminaris-Juan Pablo Zaramella
Best Cinematography - "Asternauts-Xiaosu Han, Andreas Thalhammer
Best Comedy –Love and Germaphobia-Tyler Spindel
Best Documentary-Bo-Stephanie Butler
Best Editing-Sin Dolor-Joe Greco
Best Horror Fearnet Award -Mo-deon-pae-mil-li (Modern Family)-Kwang Bin Kim
Best International-Episodizt-Igor Aleksov
Best Score - Tumbleweed-Edison Jarrin
Best Narrative - Cherry Waves-Carey Williams
Best Drama -Prora-Stephane Riethauser
Best Female Director -Noeima-Moema Umann
Best Producer “Atlantis”- Stephanie Scire
Best Sci Fi -The End-Ted Marcus
Best Student –Maddoggin-Terrence Heuston
Best Action-The Crocodile - Steve Acevedo
Best Web Series –Sitting Babies- Cameron Fay
Showbiz Future Filmmaker Award -Sin Dolor-Joe Greco
Best Commercial - True Power-Karel van Bellingen
Best Music Video-Kindness Boomerang-Orly Wahba
Method Studios Best VFX-The Wheel-John Roberts
BEST DIRECTOR-“THE CHAIR”- Grainger David
BEST SHORT FILM “ASAD”-Bryan Buckley

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Monday, August 20, 2012

Terry Crews - Movie

By Rych McCain International/Nationally Syndicated Entertainment Columnist

Terry Crews

An Expendable Super Hero!

Superheroes are characters from the comic books who are portrayed to have special abilities to perform superhuman feats. They are also people with special skills and abilities who are shown on screen as the saviors for the good to combat the sinister forces of evil. In his latest movie role as Hale Caesar in “The Expendables 2,” actor Terry Crews has firmly established himself as a superhero, extending from his role in the first “Expendables” movie.

After retiring from the NFL as a defensive back, Crews became a mainstay on TV and in movies.When asked to describe the similarity of his experiences with the NBC reality show “Stars Earn Strips” and making “The Expendables 2,” crew’s breaks it down saying, “The thing with “Stars Earn Strips” as opposed to “The Expendables” is that you do have blanks. However, the explosions are real explosions. Fire is fire so be careful, that’s not CGI. That wave of heat is real!

Crews & Sp. Ops Dale Comstock NBC photo

On the TV show they teamed us up with actual special ops and it made me realize how true the Expendable’s action is to real life. Whereas in movies you have the superheroes who jump, fly, have shields and all this other stuff. I had an op, that they would leave him in Afghanistan for six weeks. He would find people, train them, go on missions, free people out of prison, break them out then radio in and they come get him out of nowhere. That’s an expendable’s mission. That’s what we were doing at the beginning of the movie. Exactly what was happening at the beginning of the movie is what our special ops of the American military do everyday. You don’t hear about it, you don’t see it and the reason I did this show (Stars Earn Strips), was to really bring light to these real, real heroes who are doing this stuff so we can all sleep good.”

Crews with telescope Lionsgate photo

In terms of the weapons training that the actors receive before shooting “The Expendables, “ Crews gives a couple of tips explaining, “One thing with a shotgun, you don’t really aim it, you point it. So it was about the look, the camera, where you want it and all of that stuff. But when you’re talking about a real live operation where it has to be in sync or someone else is going to get hurt. The people that you are with, if you don’t know what you are doing, that’s a total different thing. Whereas it is a lot more containing on a movie set. There are so many people to tell you exactly how to hold it, what to do; then you get that one moment of action --- you’re pretty good.”

Crews with the AA-12 Lionsgate photo

Crews’ weapon in both Expendable movies was the rare AA-12 shotgun which is an automatic12-gauge shotgun that shoots off of a 100 round drum which makes it a pretty incredible weapon. When filming the first Expendable movie, Crew’s gun was experimental and he had one of only six that existed at the time. It actually became a character of itself in both movies. Crew’s laughs that of all the weapons available to him, Schwarzenegger had to insist on the AA-12. Luckily there were two on set because Crews was going to give up his.

Couture, Lundgren, Crews, Lionsgate photo

“The Expendables” is not computerized, high tech, superhero schtick but is old fashion, real life, boots on the ground, shooting and fighting As Crews puts it, “When you look at the superhero movies, there’s nobody who looks like we do. I got my body from hitting guys at 20 mph on a football field. There’s only one way to get it. Now I love comic books and the whole thing but they put the muscles on then they rip them off. There’s a place for that but I think there’s a place for us. America loves a come back!


Crews always crosses the street for fans from the red carpet IF photo

Crews on premiere red carpet IF photo

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