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JCO has news again I
There are some things that really make you want to see a movie, and the article below can undoubtedly be included in this category. It was sent by our Anonymous reporter and written by his friend who is currently working as an extra in "The Majestic". The author is a veteran in the art of movie-making so this comes from someone who definitely knows what he's talking about:
Then added to that was the makeup people flitting about with powder puff
and other necessities, then having to hold in position all the while,
was giving me feet and back problems, aggravated by the shoes which were
cumbersome and tiring to the extreme.
However, a very sensitive and touching thing happened between Carrey and
a lady Extra. Carrey suddenly reached out to the extra behind him in an
improvisation for the emotion he wanted for his dealing with the girl he
"can't remember" Carrey reached for and got a touching motherly reaction
from the extra that gave him his motivation to the "girl" All quite
teary, even amongst others aware of the exchange. [All those years in
films in Hollywood and] I have never seen that kind of thing happening.
It was a tender experience for the extra, she was overwhelmed at the
intimacy---It was a real encounter between a sensitive actor motivating
both himself into his following scene and getting a spontaneous reaction
from an extra who had never before been on stage. I would think the
Director would highlight the lady in a subsequent scene somehow.
The whole of it was quite moving, a very large departure from his noted
zany antics.
The young Director of the Extras is very much liked by all, he's sharp
in his herding 84 people about, with Monday's hoorah of about 200 new
extras expected it should be a big adventure for all.»
-- With our sincerest thanks to "The Majestic" Extra and to our correspondent for sending this wonderful article, and also to Gary Franklin @ KHUM.com for the cool photo.
and also this:
Yesterday's work (Tuesday, 27) on "The Majestic" production was composed of three scenes, as MB let us know.
The first scene of the day was Luke (Jim Carrey) accompanied by Adele (Laurie Holden) and Harry (Martin Landau) walking up the street. This short scene was filmed out of sequence as it chronologically happens in the story after the other two.
Another short scene filmed that day was the dramatically important moment when Harry takes Luke to see the Majestic for the first time. Below you can see a detail of the theater sign with some of its letters missing. The picture was taken by Ferndale Fritz on March 23. More details here.
A new scene at Mabel's was also filmed. In the scene Lawson's inhabitants gather around Luke and Harry inside the Diner after the news of his "comeback" had spread across town.
-- With our biggest Spank Yous to MB and Ferndale Fritz!
THE FIRST JIM CARREY MAJESTIC PICTURE! W
The picture was taken Monday 26 and as she told JCO, most all of that day was devoted to filming several takes of the same short scene. The scene consisted of Luke (Jim Carrey) and Harry (Martin Landau) walking up Main Street and being met by the mayor of Lawson (Jeffrey DeMunn).
-- With a 101000 Spank Yous to MB for the photo. with a zillion thank you's for JCO for excisting.
Oscar-winning makeup artist Rick Baker said he owed a debt to Jim Carrey.
Baker, who won an Academy Award for designing Carrey's makeup in ``Dr. Seuss'
How the Grinch Stole Christmas,'' said the actor suffered nearly three months of
discomfort under layers of heavy, constricting latex and green paint.
``He hated it,'' Baker said backstage at the Shrine Auditorium. ``He has been
quite vocal about it. You've probably heard him complain about how he felt like
he was buried alive.''
The actor wore the outfit for 92 days, Baker
added.
thanks grinchy steven!
jimcarreyonlines Ferndale Week ReportCO reports.... "The Majestic" in Ferndale - First week in review
The first week of "The Majestic" production at Ferndale has passed
by and our Anonymous location correspondent makes a round up of all the
happenings in town, including also a set report from one of his friends, who was
selected as extra. Illustrating his article are several wonderful pictures sent
by Ferndale Fritz, and by Gary Franklin.
In town, all of the pictures of servicemen in the windows of the shops are
actual Ferndale residents from WWII, copied, framed and placed there by the set
dressers.
On Thursday, the movie crew moved down to Mabel's Diner, where they spent all
day shooting inside: this is a beautiful re-creation of an old diner---stainless
steel outside in a racy 'moderne' design of the 40's: inside, the illusion is
perfect: working grill, ceramic tile and 40's props and furniture make the diner
a great visual. A lot of the local people here want the diner to stay...some
even want the Majestic building to stay, too, but that's another story. The
diner sits in front of Lino's service station which is still wearing its paint
and makeup job from 'Outbreak' filmed here in 1994.
On Friday, the crew was back on Main Street in front of the hardware store,
filming a scene with Martin Landau (as Jim Carrey's father) and David Ogden
Stiers playing the town doctor whose office is next door. At the end of the day,
they cleared the streets for a drive-by shot inside the old fashioned police car
being driven up the street with Jim Carrey in back: by now he's changed his
clothes--- light colored pants and a clean cream colored shirt, with a clean
white square of gauze over the wound on his forehead.
From what I gather, this is going to be a very different kind of Jim Carrey
movie: gone are all the rubbery faces and the wild comedy. I think viewers will
be very surprised and pleased with the change. It may mean a whole new Jim.
This was quite a week for little Ferndale: Main Street was closed down most
of the day on Tuesday and Friday as they filmed. Actor James Whitmore apologized for their taking up so much time away from
Main Street businesses when I said hello to him, pushing his own shopping cart
at the the local grocery store---I guess it'll all work out. The Main Street
merchants all received roses from Castle Rock on Friday, thanking them for their
patience.
Mr. Whitmore though has been gracious and friendly to everybody in town: we'd
love to have him as a neighbor. He can come plant his vegetable garden and
sprinkle Miracle-Gro all over town as far as I'm concerned.
The movie company is taking the weekend off: I'll bet most of them are
asleep. This is the first real break they've had since they began building in
January. They'll be back Monday, lights, camera, and extras all dressed and
ready.
Ever wanted to be an extra in a movie? My friend applied and was chosen.
Here's what he said about it:
"Up AT 5:15 A.M. Had a banana & orange. To wardrobe, changed, ate
breakfast offered (fair), got a detailed rundown on what to expect how an extra
performs etc. (revealing). Planned for waiting call up to camera, and waited and
waited till we had lunch (fair).
Expected call to action, but delayed and delayed and delayed until 6:15 P.M,
then excused at 6:45. Got our vouchers for the days effort, to be notified
Monday if needed further. Went from Dawn to Dusk for $50 with some kind of
overtime added. It didn't seem entirely worth all the waiting about, and the 20 odd number of
people hanging around for action, were somewhat disenchanted, by not being even
grist for the cutting room floor."»
Editor's Note: Here's crossing fingers that the beautiful Diner set
does stay in Ferndale.
-- With our most special Spanks to Anonymous, his friend,
Ferndale Fritz and Gary Franklin @ KHUM.com, Ferndale's very own radio station. "Majestic" set reports - March 22 and 23 My, oh, my, MB sent us two "Majestic" set reports of
Thursday and Friday's filming, complete with dialogue! Since this ranks as a
Titanic-size spoiler you'll have to click on the links provided below if you
want to read the scenes. This is what happened Thursday:
To read the dialogue click here.
«Shooting has fallen bit behind schedule, due to many takes of the
first scene on Tuesday, and today's scene at Mabel's Cafe. To catch up, they'll
have to do various street-shots tomorrow (Friday), including a "running
shot" from a car on Main Street, and more filming at the cemetary.»
Then on Friday MB told us that most of the work done that day
consisted of a few short silent scenes taken several times. However, she managed
to score the very first picture of the actors yet, and another excerpt of the
dialogue spoken during the scene described below:
«David Ogden Steirs (the Doc) has his back to me, he's talking to
Pete/Luke's dad, Harry, I guess after he examined him. That's James Whitmore in
the hat and boots, not sure who's to his right. This was during one of the
takes.»
And to read the dialogue you'll have to click here.
-- With a gazillion Spanks to MB and Ferndale Fritz for the set
reports and pictures.
A gigatrizillion thanks to JCO
MORE! MORE! MORE! Pictures! W
WOW! COOOOL! Go look at Jimcarreyonline for major cool set stories. Feel free to mail US stories like those too if you have them I love reading them and sharing them and the more the marrier right?
The Majestic cast H
Ferndale Fritz Rules I
The Majestic, wide view
And I also found an url there to coming Attractions with a whole bunch of scoop about the Majestic, like these pictures of Extra's. Very cool. I wish it was Juliette on that picture though.
Pictures Pictures Pictures I Isn't it all Fascinating!?? I think it is, fascinating to see all this and know that by the time you'll see the movie, you'll think that every building has stood there for ages.
Even more Majestic Thingies Y
Wow!!!! Majestic Majestic PICTURES!!! (and some more)
Oh Boy Oh Boy Oh BOY!!!!! Look! What I see on Jim Carrey online
I....on the other hand, for myself,finally have something cool to report too (about time after the Jim turning out not to be there at that festival, well the festival should have very cool though even without Jim, can you imagine!)(though some stupid gossip papers like enquirer like to report how the ILC crew was pissed off, I don't believe Enquerer, Jim was just too busy to be there, gossip people always like to fake so called arguments) The set at the Chinese men Theatre was very VERY closed in L.A. an Exculsive Was Almost There Report From Juliette here...anyway, here's her column bit: OK.*giving the word to Jul*
After asking John I heared this scoop about the Comedy Arts Festival In Aspen Thing (go read his site to experience what it was like there):
Here's some more information about Ferdale. (thanks to JimCarreyonline)
People like me (coming from the Netherlands, I don't even have a CLUE where it's located) who don't know very much about it,yet are extremely curious,love information like that. Luckely the corrospondent of JCO informed about that. The corrospondent says that "Ferndale California is a little town founded in 1852 in the heart of California's spectacular redwood empire: all around us are vast old growth forests, wilderness mountains, and wild rivers. The Pacific Ocean is about four miles west. Much of the downtown area still has its original 19th century buildings intact: Its a great place to make a movie---in fact several movies have been filmed here including Salem's Lot, A Death in Canaan, Outbreak, and many commercials." Wow. Sure a place to be. Perfect vacationshpot I should say. The corrospondent also says that there was a big party hosted by the film crew and workers from Los Angeles for everybody from Ferndale, it should have been very good with lots of food. The set dressers have arrived this week and started dressing up the shop windows on Main street
1951-period goods for sale: Nilsen's Hardware has a pyramid of old fashioned paint cans. 'Valley Arts' front window has been transformed into a tailoring shop complete with sewing machines, signs, and a green elf display figure; awnings are going up all along Main Street shop windows, striped and aged to look as if they've been in place for a long time. A couple of the set dressers worked on Outbreak there in 1994 and they are back again like old friends. The Victorian style street lamps are now operational, spangling Main Street with big glowing pearly jewelry at night. The California Department of Transportation came by this week and carefully removed the regulation yellow stripes from the middle of the street for several blocks, replacing them with a single white stripe, as it would have been in 1951. Huge cut trees have been moved into place around the 'Town Hall' set, in preparation for turning the area into a park for the movie. And then there was the raising of the sign into place on the front of the theatre set: Ferndale police helped to block off part of Main Street while a big arch went up first, studded with small lamps, followed by the tall sign with the word 'MAJESTIC' spelled out vertically, spearing the sky, flanked by those carved figures. People came from all over to watch the crane lifting this thing into the air, including me, taking a lot of pictures. It was quite an event. The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors figures its a long shot: but they have sent a letter to the production company asking if the premiere of 'The Majestic' can be held in Humboldt County (Ferndale does not have an operational movie theatre of its own, so any premiere would probably be in Eureka, the county seat)---it might be unlikely, they said on the local TV news, but they figured they'd try. There are no famous faces yet, but it won't be long.
*sigh*. Too bad Losser isn't such fantastic film spot (though the words peace and silence arise, as well as utterly boring). Anyways, I don't know about you guys, but I can't wait for their next report. It gets us right in the middle of it all. Thanks JCO reporter, whoever you are. As you can see, from now on I won't just quote JimCarreyonline. I'll take the time to inform more. Jay. It's more time, but also, more fun. And less guilt feeling.
-Hank & Charlie in Europe... Finally, there is some news about the Me, myself & Irene DVD Release in Europe! The DVD will come out on June 11th for the most European countries (it is possible that the release date changes) On the DVD you can find the famous deleted scénes, trailers, music video's and biographies...That's all for now!
That's it! We're moving to Ferndale! And we bet you'll be too after reading this week's report from our friend on location:
«Will it be a pawn shop? or a dress shop or a Buster Brown shoe store? My
friend Ellie Green isn't sure, but Castle Rock is going to use her space
for something---earlier in the week they were going to remove all her
merchandise and turn her shop into a pawn shop and shoot a scene inside,
then today she heard it would be a Buster Brown shoe store. She's still
waiting to hear. Her shop (called 'Valley Arts') is in the building
right next door to the big Majestic theatre set, right behind the town
clock, so it will be in many shots of the theatre: the theatre set has
blocked out a lot of sunlight from Ellie's side window. The
construction crew has put up wood siding and painting crews are busy
making the siding look weathered and peeling even down the narrow
passage between the buildings.
The theatre building is solid looking, just like a real building: it has
a solid roof, so looking in through the front doors of the theatre you
see deep blackness as you would if you looked into a real theatre. Its
as tall as the tallest buildings on Main Street, and wider than many of
them. With the paint, it will look as if its been there since the
1890's.
Awnings have begun to go up on the grocery store which will be right in
the middle of filming: many other businesses will be dressed with new
signs and awnings as the week goes on.
Castle Rock has been fascinated with Ring's pharmacy and have taken many
photographs---its a great old building with the original turned wood
shelving interior intact: for us, its just the local drug store, but it
does look like it belongs in a museum. I have heard the Castle Rock
wants to digitize the building and move it across the street...
The diner set is now in place, in the parking space of Lino's service
station which was still wearing its stage makeup from its turn in
Outbreak in 1994. Lino is a real guy in town, and his place was once a
real gas station: now its the temporary home to the stainless steel art
deco style diner on the corner (the same corner where Dustin Hoffman and
Cuba Gooding Jr. swiped that helicopter in Outbreak)
Diagonally across the intersection the three story Town Hall set has
enveloped the one story US Bank building: the US Bank was also
completely hidden in Outbreak, playing the role of the local hospital
with all those stricken patients (many of whom are our friends and
neighbors).
The most interesting thing this week: big 'carved wood' figures were
hoisted up onto the front of the Victorian-style Majestic theatre set
this morning: they're not wood of course, but they are cast and painted
to look like it. On the right is a lady in classical robes carrying a
comedy mask: on the left a man in a flowing toga with a mask of tragedy.
Makes a really majestic picture already, and its not even close to
being finished: there is a lot of neon yet to come, being hoisted in
place next week.
Local artist Jack Mays is keeping busy making drawings of the set
buildings as they go up around town.»
-- With an extra big Spank You to our Ferndale correspondent for the "Majestic" news.
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