cast announced as photography begins on Battle of Shaker Heights. Production on the Project Greenlight 2 film “The Battle of Shaker Heights” began last week in Los Angeles. The cast includes Kathleen Quinlan, Amy Smart, and William Sadler, according to Screendaily.com. The film and the HBO series are set to debut this summer.
Coke partners with Project Greenlight. Coca-Cola and Project Greenlight 2 are joining forces, but the outcome doesn’t appear to be American Idol-style product placement. Instead, “Coca-Cola will sponsor charity film screenings of the this year’s winning Project Greenlight film,” and producers Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Chris Moore will help judge the next Coca-Cola Refreshing …
Project Greenlight 2 winners selected; some claim contest was “rigged.” A grad student at Ohio State has won the Project Greenlight 2 screenwriting contest, while two 30-year-old, Maine-based directors have won the new directing contest. Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin will direct Erica Beeney’s Cleveland suburb-set “The Battle of Shaker Heights” starting in March for …
Project Greenlight 2’s finalists, 10 writers and 10 directors, announced. Project Greenlight 2 now has 20 finalists, 10 screenwriters and 10 directors. All 20 will head to Park City, Utah, in mid-January for Sundance, where the winners will be announced on January 18.
top 50 directors selected. The 50 finalists for Project Greenlight 2‘s new director contest have been revealed and their usernames posted on the site. The pool will be narrowed to 10 by Dec. 12, and those 10 will be given assignments due Jan. 2. Then the top 3 will be named on Jan. 10, with …
top 50 screenplays selected. The 50 finalists for Project Greenlight 2‘s screenplay contest have been revealed. Next, “the remaining review rounds [will be] conducted by the Contest Sponsors,” according to the site, and then the top 10 finalists will be announced one month from yesterday. PDF versions of the 50 scripts can be read on …
Project Greenlight 2’s top 250 screenplays and directors announced. The top 250 screenplays and top 250 director’s scenes (and 25 alternates for each) in the Project Greenlight 2 contest have been announced. Now, the top directors will submit videos, while the top screenwriters will evaluate each others’ work. The review period for screenplays ends Nov. …