Here at the corner of Frenchmen and Decatur, our parking has been screwed for days because a movie is being shot. That’s irritating, but I won’t complain about that. But the scenes being shot are Mardi Gras shots, and despite all the visual documentation available (not to mention stores that sell Mardi Gras decorations), what’s [...]
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Can You Jump?
April 11, 2011 – 4:20 pm
We just received this email from the casting director for the film remake of 21 Jump Street: The feature film “21 Jump Street” is now seeking extras. The film stars Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Brie Larson. We begin filming the last week in April until the last week in June in New Orleans. Specifically [...]
YouTube du Jour: Black Samson
February 22, 2011 – 11:09 am
In writing a post about New Orleans R&B singer Willie West’s upcoming, first-ever performance in New York (at the ripe young age of 69), I found out that West sang on the recording sessions for the Allen Toussaint-penned soundtrack for the little-seen blaxploitation film Black Samson. The movie was released in 1974, and almost certainly [...]
Spike Lee Documentary Premiere: Photo Slideshow
August 18, 2010 – 12:42 pm
At the Mahalia Jackson Theatre on Tuesday, August 17, Spike Lee premiered If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise, his new documentary about the five years of rebuilding in New Orleans post-Katrina and the effects of the BP Oil Spill. Mayor Mitch Landrieu, U.S. Representative Anh “Joseph” Cao, director Spike Lee, actors Wendell [...]
13th Annual French Film Festival: What the French?
August 4, 2010 – 12:01 am
For anyone who’s wondered what a French movie version of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale might look like, the 13th annual French Film Festival can show you. Presented by the New Orleans Film Society and the Consulat Général de France á la Nouvelle-Orléans, the festival features six French language films at the Prytania [...]
Spike Lee’s HBO Follow-up Documentary Scheduled
August 3, 2010 – 4:30 pm
Four years after Spike Lee’s Peabody-winning documentary, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Lee continues his efforts to document life after Hurricane Katrina. His new documentary, If God is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise highlights events that have occurred since the original four-part documentary aired in 2006, and it will debut [...]
An Earthbound Ivan Neville
April 1, 2010 – 1:00 am
New Orleans musicians rarely reach Hollywood notoriety, and if they do, it still seems unusual to actually see a local artist on the silver screen. For Earthbound, a comedy starring Kate Hudson that was shot in New Orleans in March, Ivan Neville of Dumpstaphunk wrote and performed the soundtrack. Neville was tapped to write and [...]
Interview with Mojo Nixon
April 1, 1997 – 12:01 am
Mojo Nixon was born in New Orleans. Not Mojo the Man. The former Neill Kirby McMillan, Jr. was born in Chapel Hill, N.C. in 1957. The Mojo who came into being in New Orleans in 1982, the product of imbibing several-too-many Skylab Fallouts at a Bourbon Street bar, was Mojo the Myth—the ranting and raving [...]
Master P, Kane & Abel and Cash Money Records
February 1, 1997 – 12:01 am
Thanks to the help of director Moon Jones, rappers like Master P and Kane & Abel are making the transition from music to film. Jones, who was born in New Orleans and later moved to Los Angeles, wrote and directed the movie I’m Bout It—a comedy drama filmed in New Orleans starring Master P. Master [...]
