Photo: Library of Congress
By WGRZ Staff
BUFFALO, NY– Another Hollywood film crew is in Western New York to shoot a movie.
The biopic on the life of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, is a courtroom thriller that focuses on his early career as a lawyer.
The movie will be directed Reginald Hudlin, who produced Django Unchained. The film will star Chadwick Boseman and Josh Gad.
Why was Buffalo chosen for this movie? Buffalo Niagara Film Commission representative Tim Clark says tax incentives and Buffalo’s architecture were the main reasons. “They saw all the old architecture here and that coupled with the great tax incentive that’s here in upstate New York, helped move a lot of movies this way and this one in particular.”
The movie shoot will start at the end of May and go through June. The majority of the scenes will be shot in Niagara Square at the Dillon Courthouse.
The production company is expected to hire 400 crew members and movie extras and spend more than $4 million in WNY during the production of the film. Details about casting calls will come at a later date.
The film crew is looking for period homes from the 1930’s-1940’s, as well as vehicles from those decades. If you are interested in participating in the film, you can contact the Buffalo Niagara Film Commission.
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Producers for the movie Marshall, which will be shot in Buffalo, are putting out a casting call for extras.
The biopic will be on the life of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, is a courtroom thriller that focuses on his early career as a lawyer. The movie will be directed Reginald Hudlin, who produced Django Unchained. The film will star Chadwick Boseman and Josh Gad.
The movie will be set in the 1940’s, and tentative dates for shooting in Buffalo will be May 24-June 25.
The extra roles are paid and SAG/AFTRA is accepted.
If you are interested, you will need to submit the following to: [email protected]
- Headshots (photos)
- General Sizes
- Resume (optional)
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Me speaking at the Oscar luncheon.
Whew, the Oscars are finally over, I’m almost recovered so I wanted to document some of the high points with articles and pictures I was too busy to post while it was all happening.
All photos either by me or the Andrew Cooper.
The big board. This is the show. Each strip of paper is a moment, divided into 14 acts. We’ve sweated over this thing for months. Then it turned to paper, then actual events broadcast worldwide.
Me with AMPAS president Cheryl Boone Isaacs at the Sci-Tech Awards.
It’s a parking space at the Dolby Theater, where the Oscars are held. It’s not a big deal. But these little things make it very real to me.
Reserved parking at Capitol Studios where we worked with Sam Smith, Dave Grohl and Lady Gaga on their Oscar performances.
Me, Byron Phillips and composer Danny Elfman.
Now we’re in the final rehearsals.
The beautiful Oscar stage. We changed the look for every act, and every award.
Chris Rock gives my son Alexander valuable advice.
My son got chilly so I gave him my coat.
AMPAS CEO Dawn Hudson, ABC Ben Sherwood, Chris Rock and I have a good time.
Rock and I work it out.
Meanwhile my daughter Helena plays on my phone.
She preps her Oscar speech while her mother Chrisette looks on.
The custom made floor for the Oscars. The detail is incredible.
We brought the band back from performing down the street at Capitol Records to back in the pit of the Dolby Theater.
The day before the show, the producers meet with all the presenters, fine tune their introductions, and rehearse on stage. JJ Abrams leaves us laughing. He has an amazing wit.
Quincy Jones was the first black producer of the Oscars. There were protests by Jesse Jackson the year he did the show. The more things change….
Whoopi was a staunch supporter of the show despite calls for the boycott. She hosted the show the year Quincy produced it.
Pharrell and Quincy rehearse on stage.
Security passes for special guests.
Security on the approach to the Oscars is air tight.
But they are still nice to mom as she approaches in the limo.
The Hudlin family on the Red Carpet. Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with.
Hanging with the family right before showtime.
Chris Rock – Oscar’s Monologue 2016 (Eng Subs)
Louis CK Gives Hilarious Intro To Short Doc Filmmakers
Shot of my daughter Helena discussing the show with my wife Chrisette.
All the way to the far right, there’s my daughter, and a helpful viewer is pointing out my son Alexander.
The bear from Revenant waits for his time to shine.
I don’t know how they nabbed this shot of me moving through the crowd between acts, but I guess it was in the show.
While the show was going on, power couple Steve and Candace McKeever hosted an Oscar viewing party with a lot of our friends. So nice!
And just like that, it was over.
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by Emily Krauser
Outrage over the lack of diversity among nominees at the Oscars will not keep Chris Rock from his hosting duties, the show’s producer told ET exclusively.
ET’s Nischelle Turner sat down with Academy Awards producer Reginald Hudlin at the 47th NAACP Image Awards Nominee Luncheon on Saturday, where he confirmed that Rock will not be dropping out of the show.
Hudlin also revealed that though the 50-year-old comedian finished writing his monologue a week ago, once the #OscarsSoWhite outrage came to a head with Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s pledge to boycott, Rock scrapped his jokes and started working on a new script.
“Chris is hard at work. He and his writing staff locked themselves in a room,” Hudlin told ET. “As things got a little provocative and exciting, he said, ‘I’m throwing out the show I wrote and writing a new show.'”
“Chris is that thorough,” Hudlin added. “He’s that brilliant, and I have 1000 percent confidence that he will deliver something that people will be talking about for weeks.”
According to Hudlin, Rock isn’t steering away from the issue of a white-washed group of nominees, but rather diving right into the fire.
“You should expect [#OscarsSoWhite jokes],” Hudlin told ET. “And, yes, the Academy is ready for him to do that. They’re excited about him doing that. They know that’s what we need. They know that’s what the public wants, and we deliver what the people want.”
The Academy Awards ceremony won’t take place until Feb. 28, but Rock has already addressed the controversy, tweeting an ad for the Oscars and writing, “The #Oscars. The White BET Awards.”
This will be Rock’s second time hosting the Oscars. His first emcee gig came in 2005.
Earlier this week, ET spoke to Viola Davis, who said the real problem wasn’t with the Oscars but rather the films that are being produced, as the majority do not predominately feature actors of color. The How to Get Away With Murder star said that though Tyrese had suggested Rock drop the gig, it was up to Rock to decide for himself.
“Like I said, the Oscars are not really the issue,” she said. “It’s a symptom of a much greater disease. But if he does [host], I hope he takes it as an opportunity to make a statement, a social statement about change. It’s 2016.”
The Pinkett-Smiths have been two of the loudest dissenters against this year’s predominately white nominations — the second year in a row that the discrepancy has occurred — but they’re far from the only actors to speak out. In addition to Davis and Tyrese, George Clooney, Whoopi Goldberg, Tessa Thompson, Lupita Nyong’o and Stacey Dash are among the many who’ve weighed in on both the nominations and possible boycotts.
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