Kids Casting Networks

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Networks Casting

Networks Casting Services is one of the most experienced and respected, fast and friendly Entertainment Casting Services; hosting a complete searchable database of professional actors, models, stunt performers, musicians and background extras for a wide variety of entertainment projects.

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Blades of Dummies Hollywood Milieu ©2010

Written by Denny Dormody

Blades of Glory with Will Ferrel and John Heder

She’s small but loud. Small but obnoxious. She’s one of the wardrobe ladies from hell and we are moving out of her way.

We are the background extras. I don’t even have a pulse yet. It is 5:30 am. This promises to be about five days of work, so we are patient. We are waiting. You do a lot of waiting here in the movies. Here in LA.

We’re at USC, the University of Southern California, the great football school and site of so many Hollywood film shoots. About a block away is The Shrine Auditorium, also the location of many movie locations, the recent SAG awards and host to the Grammy Awards and the Academy Awards. Luckily, it’s located right off the 110 Freeway and only a few freeway minutes from Burbank. Read the rest of this entry →

One Night in Fresno Hollywood Milieu ©2010

Written by Denny Dormody

There’s not much to Fresno, California. Not much sitting looking at the four walls of The Vagabond Inn just off the Interstate. I can hear the din of the traffic as trucks shift gears as the moon and sun slowly trade places. Still I’m glad to be here. Here waiting for the 5:15 AM. shuttle to take us to the set. The set of the “Genre project.” The bus arrives. The bus gears groan into the still-dark morning. Some fog. A few minutes later we arrive.

Fresno Airport California Circa 1968

A wave of fog clears. A sign appears. The Fresno Airport. As we get off the shuttle bus, some of us head to wardrobe. I head to the craft service catering area for breakfast. A guy I’ve worked with before says, “Hey, I saw you last night on Curb Your Enthusiasm.” We shake hands. We talk. We network. As we inhale our breakfast we are whispering.
The whispering is all about today’s location shoot. On this show, it’s always been about whispers. A few weeks back at Western Costume the Hair and Makeup signs said “Genre.” The white vans shuttling we background extras around had “Genre” signs. Our paychecks had “Genre” on them. You know the Genre Project by its worldwide box-office name: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Indiana Jones IV. The movie gods and goddesses have smiled down once again. I lucked out, again. I’m happy to be here. A wardrobe guy in jeans with a plaid shirt is handing out our ’57 pre-fitted costumes. I’m a baggage handler dressed in blue. Read the rest of this entry →