Friday, February 8, 2013
Plymouth Township home serves as backdrop of "Lee Martin's The Midnight Hour."
It is not every day that one’s house becomes a movie set. Yet for Dr. Debra Christian, a speech language pathologist living in Plymouth Township, it has become a fairly regular occurrence. In the last two years, Dr. Christian’s two-story colonial—perched high atop a hill overlooking trees, gardens and live roaming peacocks—has become a setting for local film and television producers. First and most recently was Lee Martin’s The Midnight Hour, the cult television series that has received national press over the years as the first sustained original scripted TV show to come out of Michigan. In 2010, the series filmed an episode called “Don’t Look Under the Bed” at Dr. Christian’s home. Now in its fifth season, the production returns on Feb…
Thursday, February 7, 2013
'Love and Honor,' by Plymouth Township screenwriter Jim Burnstein, is loosely based on experience of Plymouth Mayor Pro Tem Mike Wright.
Jim Burnstein thought he had heard all of his friend Mike Wright's best war stories from his time in Vietnam until his friend told him about the time he went AWOL. For Wright, mayor pro tem for the City of Plymouth, his AWOL experience was out of necessity—lodging costs were too high while on R&R in Hawaii and he and a friend had to find cheaper living. For Burnstein, a screenwriter from Plymouth Township, his friend's story provided enough inspiration to be his next big idea for a movie. While the events in Love and Honor—currently on video on demand on DirecTV and available Feb. 14 on major VOD services—differ from Wright's actual AWOL experience, the basis of a soldier going AWOL while on R&R was a suitable starting point for Burnstein…
Monday, January 28, 2013
He will be filming "How to Catch a Monster" beginning in May in Metro Detroit.
Hollywood hearthrob Ryan Gosling will be in town this spring to direct a film and is casting local actors for several parts. Gosling will be filming How to Catch a Monster, starring Mad Men's Christina Hendricks, beginning in May in Metro Detroit, according to WXYZ. This won't be the actor's first movie in Michigan; he filmed The Ides of March with George Clooney in 2011 in Michigan. However, it will be Gosling's directorial debut. [PHOTOS: Metro Detroit Goes Wild Over Clooney, Gosling] "How to Catch a Monster weaves elements of fantasy noir, horror and suspense into a modern day fairytale. Set against the surreal dreamscape of a vanishing city, Billy, a single mother of two, is swept into a macabre and dark fantasy underworld while Bones…
Rebecca Stojcevski
11:15 am on Thursday, February 7, 2013
Looking forward to watching it! I took a screenwriting class from Jim at U of M, and he's a great instructor. more ›