“Basketball Teens” – African American Teenagers – 16-18yrs., to-look younger, Males or Females, looking for working-knowledge of Basketball rules/skills, etc.ģ. “Minors 9/3″ – African American Minors (with existing Tail Sticks Casting Minor Work Permit) ages 13-15, Males and Females.Ģ. Please submit put “BEN’s FRIENDS” in the subjectġ. Estimated start time tomorrow, will be mid-morning and finished by late afternoon, approx. after 8hr ( although this will not be a long shoot). NOTE 3: the pay rate is $64 for 8 hrs with O.T. You will NOT be playing Basketball…tomorrow is just for a still photo but you must look authentic! If you are a REAL basketball player- you should have your own sneakers and shorts for playing.
NOTE 2: We only need a FEW of you to be the basketball players. Whoever we choose for these still photos will ALSO be asked to work in 2 other scenes as extras when we see these guys at an actual practice and also at a party later on in the schedule!! Those dates are TBD. NOTE 1: Tomorrow will be a still photo shoot for photos we will see in a yearbook later on during a scene. To include some BASKETBALL PLAYER TYPES that are friends of our lead male actor (Nick Robinson, who plays “Ben”) Looking for MALES- Ages 18- 25 (that still look high school age!) Ben will be played by Nick Robinson.įor “THE 5th Wave”- feature film- SONY Pictures
Hollywood and the ticket-buying public can do far better than this.A brand new casting call for The 5th Wave movie has been out out. But I can’t in good faith recommend a movie like “The 5th Wave” because it’s the product of an unfortunate formula trying to cash in on a trend that pinches out a half-dozen loafs of lazy each year. The movie moved at a brisk-enough pace I never felt completely insulted by this heated plate of leftovers posing as a movie. If there’s anything good to say about “The 5th Wave,” it’s that I was never bored. We’re supposed to be frightened by learning who among the cast is secretly an alien, but it never comes across as anything other than a very budget-conscious choice for a low-rent sci-fi film.
The fact the aliens look just like us isn’t as frightening as it is predictable for a movie of this caliber. The younger members of the cast exert a lot of energy to make it watchable, but the movie never feels worth the effort. There are some decent actors doing decent work: Liev Schreiber and Maria Bello show up to bring a teaspoon of gravitas to the recipe. And, in this day and age, there are so many similar types of movies, lacking an identity is a death-blow. It’s like the Frankenstein monster of young-adult sci-fi movies. It’s a mash-up of many different stories, styles and stereotypes. The opening disaster scenes feel like a poor man’s “Day After Tomorrow.” The premise feels like a poor man’s “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” The kids training to fight the enemy aliens feels like a poor man’s “Starship Troopers.” The story borrows so heavily from everything it never feels like it becomes its own movie. The problem with “The 5th Wave” is every scene has a poor man’s feel. The action cuts back and forth between Cassie’s search for her brother and his military training with other kids.
After helping her mend a wounded leg, they venture forth to find her brother. Along the way she encounters a friendly soul named “Evan” (Alex Roe). She crosses the remnants of our once-thriving society to get to the military base where he is being trained. Things get all “Walking Dead” quickly as Cassie has to find her brother, who has been drafted into resistance effort. military shows up and begins to take children away to be trained as soldiers for the forthcoming “fifth wave.” Cassie and her family have managed to stay together in spite of these attacks-that is until the U.S.
Before we know it, the survivors are forced to exist in a world set back to the stone ages. The lazily named “Others” begin wiping out humanity by stripping us of technology, unleashing earth-shattering environmental attacks and pandemic viruses that quickly bring us to our knees. It’s a low-rent alien invasion flick told from the perspective of a teenage girl named Cassie ( Chloë Grace Moretz), who, when not pining over cute boys, is dealing with a global apocalypse. Go ahead and add “The 5th Wave” to the list.
Those few successful franchises stand on the discarded corpses of movies like “The Golden Compass,” “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” “Seeker,” “Vampire Academy,” and “These Mortal Instruments,” walking up a pile of rotting flesh populated by garbage like “Ender’s Game,” “Beautiful Creatures,” “Eragon,” “The Spiderwick Chronicles,” “The Giver,” “The Host,” “City of Ember,” and This theory worked well for films like “Twilight” and “The Hunger Games,” and to a lesser degree franchises like “The Maze Runner” and the “Divergent” series. LAZY LOAF: Decent actors and young cast gives ‘The 5th Wave’ some energy, but not enough to make the film worth a movie ticket.