John Adams mini - When it Rains it Pours?

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Or he can adapt and star in the award-winning play, "The Regina Monologues". Another Olivier award in the making........

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Don't get too excited on seeing this one just yet:

From HBO--

JOHN ADAMS will shoot through July 2007 and will air on HBO in 2008, with much of the production to film in Colonial Williamsburg. The producers have received unprecedented cooperation from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, which for the first time will allow a film production to shoot on its 301-acre historic area of restored, reconstructed and historically furnished buildings.

www.hbo.com/films/news/

the story is about 3/4 of the way down the page...

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2008?? Holy crap! That just doesn't seem fair at all! Ding Dang Doggit!

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Rock 'n' Roll is only a mere few months away... 3 whole hours of Rufus right there in front of you sweating and spitting and blowing your mind... It'll take until 2008 to get over that.

I'm still trying to get over London.

...so I can go to NY.

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Oh sure, rub it in, Maxx! I'm not sure if I really want to be spat upon.......even by Rufus! LOL

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Ah well you can sit back in Row O with me then. I don't go to the theatre for the 'all around sensory experience'.

I go for the acting.

I know. I'm boring but I like to watch the sweating and the spitting from afar. I find it distracting.

[rai]

Cruising around, I found an old TV newscast from January in Virginia.

www.nbc12.com/news/state/5091931.html

Shows some fake old-timey houses they put up in the Richmond area.

Also, from the Nancy thread, I too find the fake Mr. Big to be an insult to the idiots (like me) who read that stupid blog just to see if Roof is mentioned. Go home to your dog, Clare!!!!!

Rai

[rai]

Cruising further, found some pics of an extra and his day as a dreaded REDCOAT. ;D

Rai

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[rai]

I'll just keep posting JA stuff until someone begs me to stop.

Rai

www.dailypress.com/business/dp-73660sy0mar07,0,1192042.story?coll=dp-business-bothead

Adams to get a second term
"John Adams," returning to Williamsburg in three weeks, stands to get a $1.25 million incentive.
By VICTOR REKLAITIS | 223-5682
March 7, 2007
Two years ago, the Massachusetts Film Bureau complained about a $500,000 incentive that Virginia officials used to help bring HBO's "John Adams" project to the Old Dominion. With filming now under way for the miniseries, the amount of state money promised to "John Adams" has grown to $1.25 million.

The Virginia Film Office's director, Rita McClenny, argued Tuesday that the state needs to offer incentives to moviemakers in order to stay competitive with other states that are providing such sweeteners. She also called the $1.25 million incentive a "performance grant" that will get awarded in full only after a review this summer of the project's spending in Virginia.

"The reason that Virginia offers incentives is because it's now a part of the business model," McClenny said. "It's a part of recruitment, just like you're going after any economic development project."

The Adams miniseries - which stars actor Paul Giamatti and is based on David McCullough's bestseller - is being shot at sets in the Richmond area and at historic sites in Williamsburg. State officials estimated in 2005 that the project would have an economic impact of about $60 million.

McClenny said that $60 million estimate is still valid. But another Virginia Film Office staffer, spokeswoman Mary Nelson, has said the impact might be less than that, since producers have cut the miniseries down from 11 parts to seven. The estimate includes the money spent by producers on hiring Virginians as crew, as well as the money spent on essentials such as food, lodging and material for sets.

About 165 production crew members arrived at Colonial Williamsburg on Feb. 22 to film two scenes at the 301-acre living-history museum. The Adams project was expected to return in mid-March, but a CW spokeswoman said Tuesday that the return is currently slated for March 27. Overall, filming is expected to happen at CW off-and-on until late May.

On March 27, the Adams project is expected to use the grassy area in front of CW's Public Hospital as a stand-in for Harvard Yard in filming a scene set at a soldiers' encampment. The College of William and Mary's Wren Building also is slated to stand-in for Harvard exteriors and interiors in filming that day.

This part of Virginia could host more high-profile Hollywood projects, if the roughly nine-month-old Hampton Roads Film Office is successful in its marketing efforts. Jeffrey Frizzell, the office's commissioner, said the Norfolk-based agency is currently working on developing a database of local resources for moviemakers.

Frizzell said one high-profile project with a script by a writer from Hampton Roads has been put on the back burner by its production company, but it still could get filmed in the region. He declined to provide more details about the project.

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Even gossip columnist Liz Smith gets into the act.

Rai

HISTORIAN DAVID McCullough won the Pulitzer Prize for writing the biography of the second president of the United States, John Adams. I want to add that in addition to his literary talents, David is also a masterful speaker, one of the best. The other day McCullough was down near Richmond, Va., visiting the replica that HBO has created there of the famous Massachusetts house of Abigail and John Adams. When David walked into the "Braintree Cottage" set, he broke down and wept. It had taken him seven years to write the book "John Adams." After wiping away his tears, McCullough made an inspiring speech to the cast and crew. Tom Hanks is producing, with Paul Giamatti starring. And it's about his devoted wife, Abigail, as played by Laura Linney. Filming has just begun and will take all of the spring and summer. Right now, Hanks manages to get down to oversee his production at least once a month. ... Tom Hooper is directing. He started directing movies when he was only 13 years old and at age 18, made his first short film. Since then, he has Nancy Mitford's "Love in a Cold Climate" to his credit, directed the South African film "Red Dust" with Oscar winner Hilary Swank, shepherded a Helen Mirren "Prime Suspect" and directed the great Dame in "Elizabeth I," winning Emmys for his efforts, and recently racked up "Longford" for HBO. His target after "John Adams" will be the life of the Washington Post publisher Kay Graham. ... When the "John Adams" project was first mentioned to him, he simply assumed it was a subject already well covered for America. "But then I began to discover that there was no iconic series or film about the birth of the United States. As my friend the writer Joan Didion says, 'John Adams is tabula rasa.' When I met Laura Linney she sang me three of the songs from the Broadway musical '1776' and told me that for her generation, this was the version of the American Revolution that they carried in their heads. I watched the musical; it is a strange mix of seriousness and '70s camp. I find it fascinating -- the gap between rhetoric about the birth of this nation and the reality. Thomas Jefferson was a deep romantic who believed that people are perfectible and could become self-governing. John Adams had a pessimistic view of human nature. Coming from 1770s Boston, he feared the mob and believed people needed strong government. From the clash of these two views comes the whole American debate about more or less government. The debate that resounds today about the power of the executive."

www.variety.com/article/VR1117960323.html?categoryid=2062&cs=1

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please don't ever stop rai. I love all of this stuff!

[brennan]

greeneyestoo said:

admin said:

Unless it's actually Alice who landed a part in that movie... After all, he was ordering a skinny latte when he could have been at the Oliviers!

Well, he's definitely filming in Regina, and not just there for Alice - I sent an e-mail last night to Kerry Fraser, the Communications Officer of the Saskatchewan Film & Video Development Corporation, asking if he was filming there, and she replied today:

"Yes he is, and an official announcement is forthcoming"

well this might explain why he was in Calgary last week, but doesn't explain why he'd be flying out of Calgary two days in a row.

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rai said:

Fake snow indeed! Come up to Boston & I'll show you some real snow.

Rai

Calgary.. Definately Real Snow. <ducks>

[rai]

Maybe he was flying to LA to see his girlfriend.....Ioan.

from an interview with Mr. Gruffudd:

“I moved to LA because I wanted to be in movies. It was just a natural progression really. I loved my time in London but I haven’t looked back and I’m embracing my new adventure in Los Angeles. I’ve been welcomed with open arms out there, in the industry and in the city,” he explains – and the lifestyle certainly seems to agree with him.

“The difference is that I read my script in my hot tub as compared to reading my script in a cold, damp flat in Kilburn!” he exclaims, referring to the old north London flat he once shared with fellow Welsh actor Matthew Rhys.

But he hasn’t left too many of his old friends behind.

“Hollywood has always embraced British actors, now more than ever, and vice-versa – it’s a great sort of global community,” he says.

“There are always British actors coming in and out of town, working on projects. Every weekend there’s somebody passing through the house, saying hello. Damian Lewis I’m very close to, Michael Sheen, Rufus Sewell – I play soccer with Robbie Williams,” he adds of his somewhat star-studded five-aside tournaments in the LA sunshine.

“Everybody in LA is very excited because David Beckham is coming to live here,” Ioan says, adding mischievously, “I’m determined to become his acting coach.”

Rai


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rai said:

Maybe he was flying to LA to see his girlfriend.....Ioan.

“There are always British actors coming in and out of town, working on projects. Every weekend there’s somebody passing through the house, saying hello. Damian Lewis I’m very close to, Michael Sheen, Rufus Sewell – I play soccer with Robbie Williams,”

Yeah, I noticed it right away in Amazing Grace--the dinner party scene when I could see Ioan sneaking peeks at Roof and sighing ever so slightly. I didn't want to say anything since we aren't supposed to talk about Rufus' personal life here.

I'll bet they've got a little cabana in the Hollywood Hills...