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Post by Raffy on Feb 24, 2010 6:23:57 GMT -5
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Post by Claudia on Feb 24, 2010 11:25:15 GMT -5
Thank you, Claire! You're a lifesaver!
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Post by claired80 on Feb 24, 2010 11:31:42 GMT -5
you're welcome! ... not a lifesaver, just an obsessed everything-related-to-Noah-saver ;D
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Post by Raffy on Apr 19, 2010 2:33:39 GMT -5
It was posted on IMDB board Come see Noah Wyle's new film, "Below the Beltway" at the Newport Beach Film Festival Friday April, 23 6:00pm For tickets visit: www.NewportBeachFilmFest.comm.newportbeachfilmfest.com/sched/film.php?id=1490An inside, satiric peek at the people behind the power in Washington. A disgraced political operative sets out to redeem his reputation by exposing a decade-old sex scandal involving a U.S. Senator. The light-hearted, tension-filled movie culminates on a Sunday morning political talk show where careers are made and destroyed, unknown heroes emerge and all involved get not what they want, but what they truly deserve. And I've found this pic The other guys is the director.
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Post by Claudia on Apr 19, 2010 15:14:37 GMT -5
YAYYYY! Movie NEWS!!! Excellent! THANK YOU for sharing, Raffy! Too bad that there is no way that I can be at the Newport Beach Film Festival though.
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Post by Raffy on Apr 22, 2010 15:51:48 GMT -5
Filming on the Beltwayby Michael Hixon (Updated: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 5:30 PM PDT) A disgraced Washington, D.C., lobbyist discovers a senator with presidential ambitions had a sexual rendezvous with a teen girl in the film “Below the Beltway,” which opens at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Friday, April 23. Believing this could be his road to redemption in the cutthroat world of politics, the lobbyist (Tate Donovan) attempts to track down the intern who had the liaison with the senator and use that political dynamite to ambush him on a Sunday morning talk show. Manhattan Beach resident Dave Fraunces directed “Below the Beltway,” his first full-length feature film, which was shot on location in Washington, D.C., with a budget of around $200,000. Brad Weir and Jim Wareck, whose years as a lobbyist gave the film an autobiographical insight, wrote the film. To get into the mindset of the Beltway, Fraunces took tours of Senate and staff offices, including those of senators Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.; Mary Landrieu, D-La.; and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. Some of the film was shot in the city’s deputy mayor’s office, which Fraunces called “very senatorial.” Traveling around D.C. though, Fraunces had the impression of being in a bubble. Manhattan Beach filmmaker Dave Fraunces, pictured with Noah Wyle top, and on set, at right, will have his film debut at the Newport Beach Film Festival Friday. “The system works in such a bizarre way,” said Fraunces, who recently started his own film company, 21st Street Films. “During my first trip back to D.C. to scout with him (Wareck), we met with a bunch of lobbyists. It was in April last year and it was right after the stimulus package had been approved. All of these lobbyists - left, right and center - were all doing the same thing. They were all trying to make deals with each other to carve that thing up for their clients. You just understand when you get there … people think L.A. is a Hollywood town. I find L.A. completely diverse compared to Washington, D.C. Washington is the most myopic place I have ever been to in my entire life. At bars they put on C-SPAN. I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s all government all the time.” With virtually all film productions, having the money to create a filmmaker’s vision is the biggest obstacle, but Fraunces also had to deal with June heat in D.C.; bad traffic, which he called worse than L.A.; being shut down a couple of times due to President Barack Obama’s motorcade; a parade of helicopters constantly leaving; not a deep film crew base in D.C.; and the logistics about shooting around a city with such a high level of law enforcement and red tape. That was evident when they tried to shoot a scene in front of the Old Post Office and near the White House. “The sidewalk is controlled by the city of the District of Columbia, which we had permits for, except in front of the FBI building, which is federal. The crosswalk was 50/50 between both municipalities and the National Park Service controlled the steps of the post office. At some point ... as an independent movie, I began to think it was a little more trouble than it was worth to get this one beautiful shot. On the other hand, we didn’t try to get permits to shoot at the White House, we just walked up with our cameras and shot it. The Park Service came over and talked to me and said, ‘What are you doing?’ I said, ‘We’re trying to take a couple of shots here.’ They said, ‘OK, fine.’ But you know in the back of your mind, you’re probably in a rifle scope somewhere.” Fraunces, who said with a political movie, “We tried really hard to be neutral and not be too specific about what political bent this is,” hopes to get the film into some New York film festivals before looking for a distributor. “Below the Beltway,” which screens at 6 p.m. at the festival Friday, also stars Spencer Garret, Sarah Clarke, Noah Wyle, Kip Pardue and Annie Wershing, in what Fraunces calls a “great ensemble cast.” www.tbrnews.com/articles/2010/04/22/stepping_out/step3.txt
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Post by Raffy on Apr 25, 2010 16:02:47 GMT -5
A Q&A with Below the Beltway cast. The director explained how Noah was casted.
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Post by claired80 on Apr 26, 2010 2:35:58 GMT -5
Thank you Raffy! ;D I didn't listen to all yet very carefully, but what I got is that they wanted Noah for another part (probably bigger one?) and since he was in Italy, they cast someone else and then he was back and still wanted to be in the movie, so they extended the "Hunter Patrick" part for him? Do they say for what other part they wanted him (I didn't hear a thing about that... )?
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Post by janet on Apr 26, 2010 8:23:49 GMT -5
No. I listened carefully and he just says that they already cast the part they had in mind for Noah. They don't say which part. Also he says that he expanded the part Noah is playing "a little bit" for him, so I don't expect it to be a very big part still. Thanks for the clip.
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Post by Raffy on Apr 26, 2010 8:43:09 GMT -5
It's a shame because it looks like a funny movie. Interview with movie's producer...
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Post by Raffy on Sept 5, 2010 2:45:08 GMT -5
It seems that maybe there's a chance to see this movie....from an interview with Spencer Garret iF: Do you have any other projects coming up? GARRETT: I produced a film last summer while I was doing CASINO JACK called BELOW THE BELTWAY, which is also a D.C.-based black comedy, also about lobbyists, ironically. I was able to wear my very, very nice suits that they wardrobed me in the Toronto film and bring them to Washington and wear them, because I played a corrupt senator in BELOW THE BELTWAY, so I would fly down on the weekends and shoot my scenes and fly back. BELOW THE BELTWAY is a little indie film that we shot on a shoestring budget in eighteen days, [starring] Tate Donovan and Noah Wyle and Sarah Clarke and Kip Pardue. It’s a wonderful little film. We just won the Newport Beach Film Festival a couple months back and we were just picked up for distribution by Showtime, so we’re very excited about that. And we have two more films in the pipeline that we’re getting ready to start taking a look at production in late fall. I’m new at producing and just tried my hand at it for the first time and I think that’s kind of where I’m headed now. If we get these next two off the ground successfully, I’d love to direct at some point. I have enormous respect for people who direct. Our director on BELOW THE BELTWAY, Dave Fraunces, just had a child and turned his whole life upside-down to get this film made. I have a lot of respect for that. I’d love to be able to do it at some point. I’d like to put on a couple more hats before the end of the day. www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=3958
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Post by darksparrow on Sept 5, 2010 3:04:08 GMT -5
Yay! Thanks, Raffy... I had lost all hope of seeing this movie by now. ;D
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Post by Raffy on Sept 5, 2010 3:12:26 GMT -5
Me too!!!
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Post by Raffy on Oct 21, 2010 14:39:21 GMT -5
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Post by claired80 on Oct 21, 2010 18:21:13 GMT -5
Thanks Raffy! ;D Isn't it a bit misleading to put Noah first in the cast while he maybe has one scene only?
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