We’re starting to look for some young movie stars for Mustapha Kseibeti‘s next short film MOHAMMED.

MOHAMMED is RAIN MAN meets SUPERBAD – a kids comedy action adventure. 12-year old Adam finds his 31-year old, WWF Wrestling obsessed brother with learning difficulties a TOTAL nightmare – until he sees a chance to use him to gain friends.

This comes from the same team behind the shorts PAINKILLER (that we cast) and SKATEBOARDS AND SPANDEX.

The film is being financed through the prestigious BFI Shorts scheme and is scheduled to shoot in March 2013, most likely in West London.

The roles we are looking for are:

ADAM – 12 – 14 years old
Fair skin – Asian. Mixed race – needs to pass off as half Pakistani half English. Slim build. We need an actor as good as Elliot in E.T. or Mikey from Goonies. Clean cut. Sheltered. Tries to be cool but fails miserably.

HAROON – 12 – 14 years old
Fair skin – Any race except not black or white. He’s a plastic bad boy. Still needs to look innocently boyish but he tries to act like a man. He’s the leader of the cool gang – a bit gangsta, but West London gangsta not East End gangsta – more ADULTHOOD than LOCK STOCK.

KIERAN – 12- 14 years old
Afro Caribbean Male. A little slow. Taller then the other kids but with a large build. A meathead, the muscles of the group. But he’s got to be funny looking. Not menacing. Big nostrils a plus. A dumb Will Smith.

Ideally we are looking for West London based actors.

Email submissions can be made to mo at purocasting.com – please send a photo and details of acting experience (if any). Auditions will be held in central London over the coming week and we will also invite certain candidates to self-tape.

Thanks for looking!

THANK YOU TO ALL OF THOSE THAT SUBMITTED!

We are looking for genuine Colombian male actors based in London to take part in a feature film shooting from November 19th 2012. Any age but must be genuine Spanish-speaking Colombians.

Please get in touch using the form below – all messages remain private and are not published on this site!

Thanks.

We are looking for one male and one female reader to help out at feature film auditions that will take place on the afternoons of October 1st and 2nd – 2pm to about 5pm.

Ideally late 20s to early 30s, and if possible (and willing!) available for both days.

Please let us know if you are interested by filling out the form below (it remains private) – we do try to respond to everyone but some times get overwhelmed!

Thanks in advance.

To help read in at a feature film audition to be held in central London from 2pm to 5pm.

Please contact us ONLY using the Leave A Reply Box below (note – all replies remain private and are not posted on this website). Please do not send emails in this instance.

We usually get lots of applications so may not be able to reply personally to everyone.

Many thanks!

We are looking for an actor or actress to help read in at auditions to be held in central London on Monday April 30th from 11am to 5pm.

If you want to see the audition process from the other side of the camera and are available please send us an email or use the Leave A Reply box below (note – all replies remain private and are not posted on this website).

We usually get lots of applications so may not be able to reply personally to everyone.

Many thanks!

Playing age 27-35, fluent in English, charismatic and effortlessly cool.

If that sounds like you or someone you know then please get in touch via this website.

It’s for a project that films the last week of May 2012. Ideally UK based.

Thanks!

Here’s an interesting article from The Playlist:

Why are there so few reliable leading men?

It is indeed shocking that the list of truly bankable movie stars is the same as it was 10 years ago. Sure, during that time lots of films have made lots of money, some franchises have thrived, some actors have received handsome paydays that would indicate that they are movie stars – but audiences seem less receptive to seeing them in roles outside of the ones that made them well known.

We wish we had the answer – but it goes back to nobody knows anything.

What it does mean though, is that it is an exciting time to be an actor – recent hits like CHRONICLE and PROJECT X that have succeeded without movie star names means  there’s never been a better time for talented actors to secure leading roles.

It will still take hard work, smart choices and some luck – but it’s all up for grabs.

NORTHERN SOUL is the directorial feature film debut of world renowned photographer Elaine Constantine. Shooting this summer, it is an uplifting tale about two friends whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music in the mid 1970s.

Here is a fantastic teaser:

We are looking for various bright, articulate and fun actors and actresses with genuine northern accents – ideally Mancunian – to help out at a script read-through in London on Friday March 9th 2012.

If you are interested and available please send us an email or use the Leave A Message section below. A Spotlight link would be very useful.

Many thanks in advance.

Here is the trailer to a beautiful short film we cast for a National Film and Television School  graduation film. Set in a foggy post-apocalyptic wasteland, it tells the story of a crackpot father and his patient son who attempt to build a flying machine to take them above the clouds.

It was written and directed by Jamie Stone, a fantastic young talent with vision to burn. Producer was the ever supportive Len Rowles. They are a team to watch.

Many thanks to the incredible and generous Bob Goody, Perry Millward and Louis Mertens for their sterling work in bringing the characters to life.

You can find out more about the film by clicking here.

That was legendary screenwriter William Goldman‘s view on the entertainment industry, and he was referring to the fact that no-one really knows how well a film will do until it is released.

You can line up all your ducks to give yourself the best chance: you can get one of the biggest movie stars in the world (Johnny Depp) pair him up with the biggest female movie star in the world (Angelina Jolie), throw in exotic locations and the director of an Oscar winning film (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and THE LIVES OF OTHERS) and what do you get? A film that just didn’t do the box office business expected – THE TOURIST.

And so the last couple of weekends at the UK box office have raised a few eyebrows in the film industry – and in particular the performance of THE WOMAN IN BLACK starring Daniel Radcliffe.

The film itself was generally well reviewed, but it was seen by many observers as a bit of a gamble – would Radcliffe be able to make the transition from Potter to a leading man who could open a movie? After all, his only other non-Potter effort THE DECEMBER BOYS hardly set the box office alight. Would his fans turn out to see him in an adult role in a horror film – playing a widower with a young son?

Well, turn out they did – and in it’s first week of release the film was top of the UK box office (it opened a week earlier in the US in second spot, marginally behind CHRONICLE). While it didn’t break box office records, it was a solid start. But it couldn’t last, could it? Once the Potter fans had seen it it attendance was expected to drop sharply.

But incredibly in it’s second week of UK release the figures went up. Current 10-day figures now stand at a very healthy £10.49m.

You can read Charles Gant’s UK Box Office analysis here at The Guardian website (where interestingly another sure-fire slam-dunk hit starring Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock and directed by three time Oscar-nominee Stephen Daldry has failed to open in the UK Top 10).

So congratulations to Daniel Radcliffe, director James Watkins, his terrific cast and crew, producers Hammer Films and distributors Momentum – perhaps a few people know something after all.