The extras casting company for the feature film Tulip Fever has scheduled an open casting call on Saturday April 26 seeking extras of all ages and types.
Ruby Films and Filmwave in association with Mark Gordon Company and Blumhouse Productions are getting ready to begin filming the project in June and July. Tulip Fever will be directed by Primetime Emmy Award nominee Justin Chadwick from an adapted screenplay written by two-time BAFTA Film Awards nominee Peter Chelsom. The film is based on the novel by Tinker Lindsay and Deborah Moggach, and is a 17th century romance in which an artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.Tulip Fever Open Casting Call details
The extras casting company for the major feature film Tulip Fever is holding an open casting call seeking for males and females ages 17 - 75 to take work as fully paid extras on the film.
Requirements:
● You must be aged 17+
● You must have the right to work in the UK.
● You must be able to take direction well.
● No experience necessary.
● This production has a number of roles for males with facial hair, so that is a plus.
TULIP FEVER IS FILMING IN ROCHESTER and TILBURY ON VARIOUS DATES IN JUNE & JULY 2014
(exact dates for filming will depend on the specific role you are cast for)
PLEASE COME TO THE OPEN CASTING on
SATURDAY 26TH APRIL 2014 (arrive at any time from 10am – 4pm)
LOCATION:
Midkent College,
Medway Road,
Gillingham, Kent
UK
ME7 1UR (sat nav postcode)
Parking: limited parking is available
Feel free to bring any friends or family with you (they will need to be aged 17+ to register).
What happens at the casting? You will be asked to provide some basic information about yourself before they take your costume measurements and photos so that they can cast you in a suitable role within the production.
If you are unable to attend the open casting call, you can still register at the following:
United Kingdom Extras Casting
IMPORTANT
All talent including minors and foreign actors must be legally eligible to work in the United Kingdom.
The 2014 London Actors Resource Guide eBook comes with free quarterly updates and includes the following information and documents for adults, minors, and foreign talent who would like to work as an actor or extra on film and television productions in London and the United Kingdom:
• London Child Actor Information
• London Child Actor Chaperone Information
• London Bylaws on the Employment of Children
• London Child Stage Performance Application Form
• London Child Work Permit Application
• United Kingdom Foreign Actors Visa Information
• United Kingdom Entertainer Visitor Application Form
• United Kingdom Employment Application Form
In addition to the following London Actors Resources:
• Audition Tips
• How To Make an Audition Video
• London Casting Directors List
• London Extras Casting Directors List
• London Talent Agents List
• General Talent Agent Information
• London Actors Headshot Photographers
• United Kingdom Acting Schools
• London Performers Unions and Organizations
• Miscellaneous London Actors Resources
• Sample Actors Resume
• Sample Beginning Actors Resume
• Sample Casting Director and Talent Agents Cover Letters
• Entertainment Industry Terminology
• PDF Users Guides
All 2014 Actors Resource Guide eBooks are available here.
Principal Actor Casting
See the post titled Headshot and Resume Information regarding how to submit to casting directors for acting roles.
No phone calls or personal drop-offs.
United Kingdom:
Shaheen Baig
Manchester Talent - manchesterfilmcasting@gmail.com
Leeds Ralent - leedsfilmcasting@gmail.com
NOTE:
I highly recommend that your 8x10 color headshot and resume along with the cover letter be sent in a 9 x 12 Clear Full Face Window Envelope with the photo visible in the window.
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The casting directors address should be written in all capital letters on the solid side of the envelope, with the name of the project you are submitting for written directly above the casting directors name. IF the role that you are submitting for is available, it should also be written above the casting directors name.
Example:
"Project Name"
"Role of _______"
CASTING DIRECTOR NAME
CASTING DIRECTOR ADDRESS
CASTING DIRECTOR CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE
Extras Casting
United Kingdom:
Uni-versalEXTRAS Limited
Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Road, Iver Heath
Buckinghamshire, SL0 0NH
UK
Production Companies:
Do NOT send photos and resumes to the production companies, as they will most likely end up being thrown away. They do not cast the films, rather they hire casting directors who sort through the thousands of submissions.
Ruby Films
26 Lloyd Baker Street
London WC1X 9AW
UK
Filmwave
27 Margaret Street
London W1W 8RY
UK
Mark Gordon Company
12200 West Olympic Blvd.
Suite 250
Los Angeles, CA 90064
Blumhouse Productions
2401 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90057
Producers:
Alison Owen
Paul Trijbits
Mark Gordon
Faye Ward
Jason Blum
Writers:
Peter Flannery (screenplay)
Tom Stoppard (novel)
Peter Chelsom (novel)
Director:
Justin Chadwick
Starring:
Dane DeHaan – Jan Van Loos
Christoph Waltz – Cornelis Sandvoort
Holliday Grainger – Maria
Alicia Vikander – Sophia
Story:
In 1630s Amsterdam, tulip fever has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced by the fantastic exotic flower. But for wealthy merchant Cornelis Sandvoort, it is his young and beautiful wife, Sophia, who stirs his soul. She is the prize he desires, the woman he hopes will bring him the joy that not even his considerable fortune can buy. Cornelis yearns for an heir, but so far he and Sophia have failed to produce one. In a bid for immortality, he commissions a portrait of them both by the talented young painter Jan van Loos. But as Van Loos begins to capture Sophia's likeness on canvas, a slow passion begins to burn between the beautiful young wife and the talented artist. As the portrait unfolds, so a slow dance is begun among the household's inhabitants. Ambitions, desires, and dreams breed a grand deception—and as the lies multiply, events move toward a thrilling and tragic climax.
