Turner Broadcasting announced today that D.B. Sweeney has been cast to play the lead in Electric Entertainment’s pilot set in Portland titled “Brain Trust”. Here’s the info on the pilot. Dean Devlin will be directing the pilot which is due to shoot in Portland in December for two weeks. We were thrilled to have Electric bring a second project to Oregon and even more excited to hear that they made the decision to re-write this pilot for Portland. The original script had set the pilot in Washington D.C. Continue reading... “D.B. Sweeney to star in new TV pilot set in Portland”
A few months back I was contacted by the PR executives at TNT regarding a profile that Costco was looking to do on “Leverage”. I was curious why Costco of all companies was interested in talking about Oregon Film and Video but when I found out that their Costco Connections gets sent out to over 8,000,000 people nationwide, I realized it didn’t really matter why they were interested, it was great exposure for our state and this industry.
I was sent this website today which has some great material from the show. Lots of behind the scenes footage which shows off Portland in a great way. Even Jim Clark from Hive FX made an appearance in the clip about the skateboarding scenes.
In today’s Oregonian Kristi Turnquist writes about IFC’s announcement of “Portlandia’s” premiere date. I’ve had several conversations with IFC about their plans for promoting the show and I can say that the cable network is 100% behind “Portlandia”. Expect to hear of some cool promotional efforts surrounding the show soon! In the meantime, set your DVR’s for January 21 for the premiere episode!
This past week there were two news articles of note; one in the Eugene Register Guard and the other in the Ashland Daily Tidings. In Eugene writer Mark Baker profiled Katherine Wilson’s efforts to start a film museum in the Willamette Valley. For those of you who have seen Katherine’s photos from the days of “Animal House” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, you know she’s collected a lot of film history on her own – here’s the article. Continue reading... “Fun Film News out of Ashland and Eugene”
In case you haven’t already caught Aaron Mesh’s profile on Carrie Brownstein, here’s a link to the article. Carrie’s diverse talents as musician, writer and actor make her a perfect representation of Portland’s creative class. I don’t know if it’s because you need to be versatile to make a career in a small market like Oregon, or if it’s in the fabric of the region that creative professionals have many talents.
Our office was contacted by the staff of the Oprah Winfrey Network about an episode of “Carson Kressly Is Making Over America” that they intend to shoot in Hillsboro. We have posted the body of their flyer here.
Would you love some time and attention from America’s top stylist?
CARSON KRESSLY is on a makeover road trip across the nation and he may be coming to your town!
Just wanted to send out a thank you to all the organizations and companies so far who have committed to sponsoring the “Brave New World of Media” event on November 17.
Brad Smith and his Webvisions team has done an amazing job so far reaching out to the community and getting spons0rs. It’s been a pleasure so far working with someone who knows how to put together a first class event. I’m also thrilled to know that this is the first of what I hope is many more “Backstage Pass” events. Continue reading... “Thank you to all the Brave New World Sponsors”
This Sunday Extreme Makeover Home Edition is airing its episode featuring Oregon’s School for the Deaf. We covered this production back in September when the show was in Salem shooting the episode. Here are a few links to those posts:
Word from everyone who participated was that the shoot was a huge success. The Oregonian recently covered the story with a little more reflection on what the show did for the school. Here it is. I was particularly struck by two things in the article – the student’s communication skills are up since they took their trip to a special hearing institute in Minnesota and attendance is up this year for the school’s Nightmare Factory which is a big fundraiser for the school. Continue reading... “Oregon Episode of Extreme Makeover Airs on Halloween”
Yesterday in the New York Times Arts Section Adam Kepler wrote a piece about the new “Tron: Legacy” Motion comic that is out in conjunction with the feature release. I bet you didn’t know that this was produced by an up and coming company here in Oregon. Double Barrel Motion Labs is a growing company that has a base here in Portland and recently has shown interest in having even more of a footprint in Oregon. Chief Executive Jeff Kreilitz called our office earlier in the year as his company started to line up a slew of new projects. Continue reading... “Part of the Tron franchise produced in Oregon”
