Monday, November 24, 2008

377 bloggers find new home

Posted by John Stoehr on Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:00 PM

Lowcountry Bloggers, a local community blog site, boasts a whopping 377 writers, commentators, and speechifiers on its Big Blogroll. If it's not the biggest site of its kind in the area, it's close. It used to be a part of The Post and Courier's web domain. Since August it's earned its independence and, organizers says, it's poised to become a viable commercial enterprise. Heather Solos, web mistress, says the site's depth, frequency, and variety of voices — from knitting to politics to cars to personal musings all day everyday — makes it an ideal product for creating an advertising network. "Our content is more than 80 percent local," Solos says. "We're perfect for car advertising, politicians, and everything else." Many details remain to be ironed out, Solos says, but she and her partners plan to offer a loose proposal for an ad network some time in January. —John Stoehr

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2,000 @ KK3

Posted by John Stoehr on Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:40 PM

Organizers of Kulture Klash 3 estimate that about 2,000 people attended the arts and culture party at the Old Navy Base earlier this month.

The news marks a significant step for the grass-roots project. The first Kulture Klash drew about 800. The second one, last spring, drew about 1,300. If the trend continues, Kulture Klash 4, which organizers say will likely be in the spring of 2009, is on pace to attract about 2,600 people to 10 Storehouse Row.

Gustavo Serrano, one of four figures behind the event and owner of retail stores B’Zar and Suite Sole, says the next installment will be kept under wraps until much closer to April 20, Earth Day. He did mention, however, that perhaps there will be more of a fashion focus to KK4.

The success of Kulture Klash has inspired imitators, including Blume and A Homegrown Art Gathering, trying to carve their own niche in the art-party scene. —John Stoehr

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Richard Jenkins joins Dear John

Posted by John Stoehr on Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:21 PM

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Richard Jenkins, the most dour-looking actor in Hollywood, has joined the cast of Dear John, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Directed by Lasse Hallstrom (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Cider House Rules), the movie is being filmed in Charleston and the Lowcountry. Bill Thompson, of The Post and Courier, did a nice piece on Hallstrom on Sunday. Jenkins plays the father of Channing Tatum, an Iraq War soldier on leave who falls in love with a conservative college student played by Amanda Seyfried. Dear John is based on the bestselling novel by Nicholas Sparks. Jenkins is probably best known as the dead father in HBO's Six Feet Under. But his acting brilliance came into crystal-clear focus as the long-suffering college professor of Thomas McCarthy's wonderful The Visitor.

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Army Wives worried about Strike, Episode 2

Posted by John Stoehr on Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:04 PM

The people behind Army Wives are worried another strike is coming, the second in more than a year.

The Screen Actor’s Guild, Hollywood’s largest union, asked its members on Saturday to approve a strike after talks with an alliance of movie studios failed due to disagreements over online and new media provisions. Though union officials have requested it, a strike is no guarantee. At least 75 percent of the organization's 120,000 members must approve the move.

The second season of Army Wives wrapped production in October. A third season is set to begin shooting in January. Insiders, though, are afraid the production schedule will be postponed indefinitely if there's a strike. Army Wives was already set back by a writers strike that ended only in February. That labor dispute gummed up the works for many TV shows, even forcing the Golden Globes to downsize. —John Stoehr

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New film production next summer

Posted by John Stoehr on Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:22 PM

Creative Forge Productions, a motion picture company on Daniel Island, plans to begin shooting a $1.2 million feature-length film, written and directed by Brad Jayne, along the South Carolina coast next summer, says studio spokesperson Doug Coupe. Called Warrior, the movie will tell the story of a young teenaged hellraiser named Joseph who goes to Myrtle Beach for a 24-hour bender. During his misadventures, Joseph encounters a sage preacher who sets him on spiritual quest to find himself. Creative Forge was won the interest of some “A-list talent” to act in the movie, Coupe says, and plans to submit Warrior to “top tier festivals,” like Sundance and Tribeca. In other news, a 30-minunte film titled Song of Pumpkin Brown won praise at the Charlotte Film Festival and another film, called Search, inspired accolades last month at the Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington, N.C. ­—John Stoehr

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