Jennifer Love Hewitt in Cafe

Hollywood’s latest couple Jamie Kennedy (Jamie Kennedy Experiment) and Jennifer Love Hewitt (The Ghost Whisperer) star in the independent film called Cafe which is about the interesting people and their lives in a coffee shop. Marc Erlbaum who is local to the area wrote the screenplay at West Philly’s Green Line Cafe (which is used for external shots). Daniel Eric Gold (Matt in Ugly Betty) and Alexa Vega (Carmen Cortez in Spy Kids) are also casts in the film. Sean Covel and Doc Wyatt, producers of Napoleon Dynamite, are producing with J. Andrew Greenblatt.

I played an Asian business man in the scene. Yeah I know. What a stretch right? I had to mimic the words “peas and carrots” but not actually say it otherwise it would bleed into the main dialogue. Afterwards, during lunch break, we had the choice of egg salad or tuna wrap. I chose the tuna wrap.

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Playstation Killed the Puppet is a new hilarious comedy film (and potential series) I am involved in. It was written by Charles Mosley and Marc Holley and directed by Charles Mosley. It is filmed in a documentary style about a world with living puppets and humans. I play one of the lead puppet character Lil’Ronnie’s friend by the name of Raj.

SYNOPOSIS

The puppet Lil Ronnie has to find another job because kids are not going to puppet shows. Ronnie has to reinvent himself though he faces discrimination because he is not human and because of his disability. This production is a spoof on American life if you have yet to get the picture.

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The trailer for the comedy Saddle Up with Dick Wrangler & Injun Joe is now available. I have a part as a business man and you can see me at the beginning of the trailer.  The story is about a has been Cowboy and Indian television duo struggle to make ends meet.

I appear at 0:14 lower right

It was directed by Todd Wolfe starring Tony Devon as Dick Wrangler, Peter Defeo as Injun Joe, with cameo appearance by Mickey Rooney.

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Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx was recently a victim of a non Law Abiding Citizen while shooting his film with Gerard Butler Center City Philadelphia. On March 22, a 48-year-old man allegedly broke into Foxx’s hotel room claiming to be Beyonce’s producer. Foxx overpowered the intruder and forced him out and shut the door. The man then escaped from the cops.

However, nine days after the incident, Foxx’s security staff saw the man and contacted police.  The alleged intruder is identified as Steven Taliver and has been charged with burglary, criminal threats, stalking, false imprisonment and harrassment according to TMZ. Can we add poor impersonation to the list?

Foxx commented on the incident to Access Hollywood, “I’m good now.”

“Sometimes you have to make sure every move you make in life is the right thing, and that you have people there to watch your back,” Foxx added.

The 41-year-old Academy Award-winning actor is in Philadelphia filming the crime thriller Law Abiding Citizen.

Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler in Law Abiding Citizen

I was there on set that day and all I can remember was how freaking cold it was. The coffee turned to ice!

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I was driving home one afternoon when I got the call from one of my casting directors that I was going to be in the Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler new psychological action thriller Law Abiding Citizen shot in Philadelphia. I was so excited that I had to pull over.

My scene was the first day shooting in late January. It was so a freaking cold windy day at 15 degrees Fahrenheit. My long johns did not help either. It took the whole day to setup the cranes, cameras, and lighting equipment. Jamie Foxx had to walk out of City Hall and into a police car. That was pretty much it.

SYNOPSIS
Jamie Foxx plays a District Attorney who accepts a plea agreement with a murderer that slips through the legal system.  300 star Gerard Butler plays the vigilante out to seek revenge for his wife and daughter as well as the DA. However, Foxx’s character also has his own personal career agenda.

Law Abiding Citizen is directed by F. Gary Grey who did the excellent Italian Job. It was written by Kurt Wimmer, a Hollywood veteran known primarily for his journeyman script work (Sphere, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Recruit) but beloved by cult audiences for his underrated Christian Bale sci-fi flick Equilibrium. He also wrote and directed Ultraviolet. Wimmer has also been long-rumored to be the director of an upcoming film based on the hit video game Metal Gear Solid. I remember playing Metal Gear on the old Nintendo 16 bit.

Frank Darabont was initially set to direct Law Abiding Citizen but has stepped out for unknown reasons. He is a three-time Oscar nominee for such film classics as The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and the horror flick The Mist. Darabont has also been busy recently developing an updated film version of the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451, which was going to star Tom Hanks until he dropped out earlier this year.

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I was cast as a business man in the comedy/drama Saddle Up with Dick Wrangler & Injun Joe. Mickey Rooney has a cameo in the movie. It is an independent Ultra Low SAG film shot in Philadelphia. My scene involved  sitting on stage at an award ceremony in which the two lead characters were guests trying to sell a Sexual Enhancement drug for a pharmaceutical company.  I was on stage with 10 old white men. Yeah, I fitted in perfectly. We had to laugh on cue and then look at the blue screens in which they will overlay in post production.

SYNOPSIS
A has been Cowboy and Indian television duo struggle to make ends meet.

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Director Rensil D'Silva

I was an extra on Rensil D’Silva’s new debute feature for Dharma Productions. It was a cold and long day shoot on Rensil D’Silva’s film as of yet still Untitled. It stars Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Vivek Oberoi. I can’t say much about the plot only that it’s a thriller.

The call was at 9am and we wrapped up at 4:30. The shot was on Arch Street in Philadelphia, PA between 4th and 6th streets. It had a lot of FBI cars running down the street. We also shot at different angle with a giant crane. The weather was crazy cold at 15 Fahrenheit and very windy.

Rensil D’Silva is best known for his  startling historically-challenged screenplay of Rang De Basant. Some of the other films that are in production at Dharma Productions currently are Wake Up Sid, Koochie Koochie Hota Hain and My Name is Khan.

During a break, I had a fortunate chance to speak with Rensil for a bit and I must say he is the nicest director I’ve worked with to date.

The expected release date is Fall 2009.

I got a call from one of my casting directors about working on Lebanon by Ben Hickernell (Writer/Director).  I was really excited because it featured Samantha Mathis (Vicki) whom I had a crush on since watching Pump Up The Volume. The film also starred Josh Hoskins (Will), Rachel Kitson (CJ), Ian Peakes (Andy), Mary Beth Hurt (Jeanette). They didn’t have enough people on set so I got to play several characters in highschool.

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SYNOPSIS
Will, a 35-year-old Philadelphia advertising exec, heads to Lebanon, PA to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his newly pregnant 17-year-old second cousin. As CJ struggles with what she will do next, Will feels responsible for someone else for the first time and has to face his own decisions regarding his priorities.

Lebanon is a bittersweet comic drama about the divisions in current American culture — pro-life vs. pro-choice, baby-boomer vs. Gen-Y, sushi vs. steakhouse. Briskly plotted and surprisingly moving, Lebanon explores the cultural divide in America through the lives of one extended family.

For more information on the film, visit Lebanon Movie.

A friend of mine recommend that I audition for this indie short film. It’s a short film about a young Asian struggling in his life with his dead end job and high maintenance girlfriend. It was written and directed by Joe Kim of Xploitation Films. He also runs the Philadelphia Asian Film Festival. I played an interviewee. The film premiered at 2008 Urbanworld Film Festival.

I played a townsmen in the film Controls (not the Ian Curtis biopic by Anton Corbijn)  written and directed by Matt Conant (also partner of the Project Twenty1 Film Festival & Competition). We shot this in the summer of 2007 in the posh district of Bala Cynwd, PA from 6pm – 12am. The cops later showed up asking for filming permits since we had power generators and lights all over the quiet park drawing attention from the million dollar homes in the area.  There were also tons of mosquitos everywhere. Very nice indeed.

SYNOPSIS
The indie short film is about video game journalist Zara Southard involved in her own video game adventure. A mysterious woman, Naomi Arroyo shows up at her door one day with an unusual request: to help determine the reason for the increasingly aberrant behavior of her husband Richard, an acclaimed game developer.

Naomi hopes that Zara’s insight into his world might reveal clues she overlooked. But as Zara begins to sleuth, Richard disappears. And Zara soon realizes that everyone involved, from Richard’s son Douglas, to his smooth-talking business partner Nick Meyer, exotic co-worker Jenna Tang, and even Naomi herself, has reasons to see that Richard stays missing.

Cast into a web of deceit where everybody’s motives are suspect, Zara soon realizes her own life, as well as Richard’s, is suddenly in tremendous danger. Welcome to the world of “Controls,” a feature-length neo-noir film coming soon from Cinevore Studios.