Nina Dobrev Tagged Articles at Cinematical
MTV Becomes 'The American Mall'rat
Filed under: Music & Musicals », Casting », Deals », Distribution », Family Films »
If a musical in high school wasn't enough for you, the producers of High School Musical, Bill Borden and Barry Rosenbush, are going to bring you music outside of the education setting. The Hollywood Reporter has posted that the producers, along with MTV, will air their own original musical called The American Mall -- a project that will air next summer on the channel and have an immediate DVD release. This concept came around before the days of High School Musical, and was originally a feature for Columbia Pictures. Funny enough, the feature will star a Bulgarian-born Canadian actress, Nina Dobrev -- Mia Jones from Degrassi: The Next Generation. Her hottie co-star is Rob Mayes, who is pretty new to the film and television world, but was last seen in The Horror Convention Massacre.The film will focus on a high school grad named Ally (Dobrev), "a singer-songwriter battling to save her mother's music store and to keep the boy she loves, Joey (Mayes), a musically gifted young janitor who fronts a garage band." Wait... MTV is putting on a musical allllll about music? Wow! The production, which will start shooting next month at a mall in Provo, Utah also stars Wade Allain-Marcus (Friends with Money), Bianca Collins (Unfabulous), Rodney To (Betaville), Neil Haskell (One Life to Live), Brooke Lyons (Dark Reel), David Baum, Blythe Auffarth (The Girl Next Door), Yassmin Alers (Across the Universe), Bresha Webb (Lincoln Heights), and Al Sapienza (Brotherhood). The film is being directed by Shawn Ku, the man behind the musical Sundance short Pretty Dead Girl. Are you ready for some musical mall madness?
Toronto Becomes Poland for the Historical Romance The Poet
Filed under: Drama », Romance », Casting », ThinkFilm »
Over the years,
But The Poet is going to do all of them one better. The film, which just began shooting, is a period piece set in occupied Poland during World War II. Damien Lee is directing the feature, which is adapted from a story by Jack Crystal. You might be familiar with Lee's work on such cinematic powerhouses as Baby on Board or Ski School, or maybe Corey Haim's Watchers, which Lee co-wrote with Bill Freed.
The Poet is a bit different. It's a romance about a German officer who falls in love with the Polish daughter of a rabbi, who is set to wed a doting, Orthodox Jewish man. Ah, the classic story of the lure between bad passion and boring sweetness. The theme might be over-done, but the cast looks promising. The leads are less well-known -- prolific bit-part actor Jonathan Scarfe is the German officer, and Nina Dobrev of Sarah Polley's Away From Her is the young woman. However, the supporting cast makes things a touch more intriguing – Daryl Hannah, Colm Feore and Roy Scheider.
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