[behrfanny]

Our last thread slipped into oblivion while we waited for JB to make an appearance! [img]smilies/lol.gif[/img]

Here is all the info we have gathered on Jason's film:

Happily Even After
CAST
-- Jake ... Jason Behr
-- Katie ... Marina Black
-- Elizabeth ... Fay Masterson
-- Stuart ... Michael Goorjian
-- Gabrielle ... Samantha Weaver
-- Tina ... Deb Fink
-- The judge...Ed Asner

Writer:
Rebecca Sonnenshine

Director:
Unsu Lee

Director of Photography:
Jeffrey Chu

Producers:
Unsu Lee
Paul Barnett
Lily Ng

Casting Director:
Johanna Ray

hotbed media

Hotbed To Shoot A Modern Fairy Tale in San Francisco
October 17, 2002 � San Francisco � Hotbed begins production this month on the feature-length motion picture Happily, Even After � a film with a mixture of comedy, romance and mystery. Cast members include Jason Behr (The Shipping News, Roswell, Pleasantville, Dawson�s Creek), Marina Black (Six Feet Under, Swordfish), Fay Masterson (Eyes Wide Shut, Man Without a Face, The Quick and The Dead) Michael Goorjian (SLC Punk!, Hard Rain, Party of Five, Leaving Las Vegas), and a cameo appearance by celebrated actor Ed Asner (Mary Tyler Moore, Lou Grant). Geoff Callan, (Frasier, Set It Off, Blackout) a 5th Generation San Franciscan, has also signed on to associate produce and appear in a character part.

The movie will be filmed entirely in and around San Francisco. Happily, Even After is a collaboration between award-winning writer Rebecca Sonnenshine and director Un Su Lee. In Sonnenshine�s story, an ad for a �fairy godmother� produces intriguing results. A genuinely mystical waitress arrives to help sort out a young man�s wayward and reckless life. This swirls off into a modern-day tale of love, destiny, and courage.

Happily, Even After is being created by an unprecedented cast and crew, spearheaded by producer Paul Barnett, who also co-produced Lynn Hershman Leeson's Teknolust, starring Tilda Swinton and Jeremy Davies. Teknolust premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and hits theaters across the country in November. Happily, Even After is scheduled for release in 2003.

�We�re excited that Happily, Even After follows hot on the heels of another film, Confessions of a Burning Man, that we�ve actually just wrapped. We�re looking forward to continuing the creative momentum,� states Hotbed executive producer Lily Ng. (Confessions of a Burning Man, is a feature-length documentary also from the Un Su Lee and Paul Barnett team, as co-producers/co-directors).

Director Un Su Lee co-founded San Francisco-based Hotbed in 1997. Since then, Hotbed has emerged as one of the most promising new companies in the entertainment industry, producing award-winning commercials, music videos, documentaries and feature films. According to Lee, �Hotbed�s mission is to utilize quality storytelling in all aspects of visual media. It�s a great honor and truly inspiring to realize Rebecca�s superb writing in a feature film.� Lee concludes, �Happily, Even After is as good as independent filmmaking gets. It�s going to be a great film not only for us, but also for the San Francisco Bay Area.�


Celebrities on steps of City Hall





The San Francisco Examiner
The locals shoot

San Francisco's Hotbed Media, in collaboration with director Un Su Le, executive producer Lily Ng, producer Paul Barnett and actors Jason Behr ("The Shipping News" and "Pleasantville"), Marina Black (niece of Shirley Temple Black), Fay Masterson ("Eyes Wide Shut") and Michael Goorjian ("Leaving Las Vegas"), is producing a fairy tale story by award winning writer Rebecca Sonnenshine. Character parts are played by San Franciscans Geoff Callan ("Blackout"), Kimberly Newsom ("Blackout") and Simantha Weaver ("Confessions of a Burning Man"), with a cameo by Ed Asner. The film, "Happily Even After," is being produced entirely in the Bay Area. "The story, about a tight brother-sister relationship, shows what can happen by opening up and jumping out of the family casting," says Behr. "It's going to be a great film not only for us, but also for the San Francisco Bay Area."


Mammoth Times

The NY Times (about the doomed houses) and the Irish Herald links won't work any more. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

November 6, 2002 - PRODUCTION IN FULL SWING
The Happily Even Crew works hard to shoot in over 35 locations in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. The only hiccup being the Hero Car, an old pick-up, stayed in character and broke down on the Bay Bridge. Nevertheless, the dailies indicate so far so good!



http://www.belegato.com/productions/features.htm

Greg Kalamar is featured in feature film, Happily Even After

San Francisco, California. November 10, 2002
Greg Kalamar recently completed work on a feature length motion picture � Happily Even After � to be released late 2003 or early 2004. The picture includes Greg's art (both canvases and sketches) and his influence. Greg acted as the lead actor's painting coach, and many of the pieces of art that the character creates in the film are actually Greg's work, including potentially some canvas close-ups of Greg painting a huge mural.


The lead character in this romantic comedy is an artist who is still haunted by the tragic death of his parents and struggles in his relationship with his controlling sister. Through the romantic twists in the story, Jake Singer, played by Jason Behr (Roswell, The Shipping News, Dawson's Creek, Pleasantville) regains his sense of purpose and self-confidence partly through creating art.

Happily Even After is directed by Un Su Lee, and produced by Hotbed Media, a San Francisco production company.

I'll post a pic of Greg Kalamar when I can find it in my albums...

artist greg kalamar

Liz! Could you post all the other HEA pics that we have acquired? Please? I can't do any more tonight!

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[behrfanny]

Here's the pic that went with the "Doomed Houses" article...which was very interesting, btw.

JB is standing on the left by the tree...

[*Vicki*]

Here are some of the links I had stored. They maybe dupes of what you just post BF. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

November 21, 2002 - Mammoth Times
"Happily, Even After" - Eastside Landscapes Provide Movie Scenes.
By Christina Reed

November 17, 2002 - Alameda Sun
"Island Offers Comfortable, Affordable Location for Filmmakers"
By ERIC J. KOS

October 29, 2002 - SF Examiner
"Arts & Culture"
By ANNE LAWRENCE

October 28, 2002 - The Irish Herald
"Actor Paul Barnett Produces Fourth Movie in San Francisco"

October 28, 2002 - NY
"A Shot at Celluloid Immortality for Doomed Houses"
By DEAN E. MURPHY

October 17, 2002 - Hotbed Release
Hotbed To Shoot A Modern Fairy Tale in San Francisco

October 11, 2002 - Contra Costa Times
"Celebrities on steps of City Hall"
STAFF REPORT

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[*Vicki*]

November 1, 2002 - San Francisco Chronicle

ACTING ADVICE FROM AN AUNT: Marina Black listened to her "Aunt Shirley's" advice about finishing college before attempting to break into show business. You'd listen, too, if your aunt were Shirley Temple.

"She thinks it's hard to do when you're young and that it can be frustrating to be an actor," said Black, who's managing quite well with a role as Lauren Ambrose's troublemaker friend on HBO's "Six Feet Under."

"They've assured me I'm not going to be killed off. That's always the biggest concern on a show where everybody dies."

Black is in San Francisco this month making "Happily, Even After" with "Dawson Creek's" Jason Behr. She plays a mystical waitress who helps sort out Behr's messy life. The day I spoke to Black, she had just completed a pivotal scene where her character signs on to be a fairy godmother. "But you're never sure if I really have supernatural abilities or if it's just coincidence that makes it look like I do."


November 1, 2002 - San Francisco Chronicle

ACHIEVERS: The Commonwealth Club celebrates its 99th anniversary Nov. 9 with a Fairmont dinner at which Ed Asner will present Nancy Pelosi with the club's Distinguished Citizen Award. Club President Gloria Duffy said Asner was chosen because he has used "his celebrity to improve the welfare of others." While the actor was in the Bay Area for the recent Mill Valley Film Festival, he shot a scene for the Hotbed Media-produced romantic comedy "Happily Even After" with his court 'n' camera-ready niece, Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom.

P.S. San Francisco-themed paintings by Kristin Nelson Tinker, who has major showbiz credentials -- she's the sister of Mark Harmon, used to be married to Ricky Nelson and was thereafter married to Mark Tinker, who is the son of Mary Tyler Moore's ex-husband -- are on show at Gump's until election day.

[BehrlyHuman]

I was wondering if anyone knows whether Happily Even After is still in post production, and when the targeted release date might be.

[*Vicki*]

Originally posted by BehrlyHuman: <STRONG>I was wondering if anyone knows whether Happily Even After is still in post production, and when the targeted release date might be.</STRONG>

It's in post production and will be released at the Sundance Film Festival in Jan of 2004.

[LongTimeFan]

Thanks for the new thread Lisa....

Here are some of the pics you wanted to see - can't find my copy of Greg either. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Sandy was an extra in the film and played a waitress in a Chinese restaurant. Go take a look at her site and read her account of her time on HEA - Sandy's Site


Cookie2697 was also an extra for a couple days - she posted a wonderful account on the DDD - click here for her story.

These are Cookie2697 & AlienKitty's pics - DO NOT POST WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION!! Thanks!


Here's a pic of Marina Black in a remake of the seventies Warren Beatty film Shampoo.

Here's the manip I made for Penny Laine so we could get an idea what Jason and Marina might look like together. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

[img]smilies/lol.gif[/img]

Thanks for the additional information, Vicki

[img]smilies/wave.gif[/img] Hi BehrlyHuman! According to Hotbed, production ended December 3rd. There have been no announcements about whether they have finished editing. They have an advantage in that Hotbed is a full facility but still that takes a lot of time and money and they have their regular commercial clients who would normally take priority.

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[MyrnaLynne]

The guy who is in the car with Marina is the handsome young Ian Somerhalder (he got a Movieline award last year along with Jason):



He's going to be in a new WB show called "Fearless" this fall -

{coming back to add that the photo comes from wonderful website 'Ianthensome'- webmistress is already annoyed with thousands of people ripping off and not crediting her great Ian S. site, wouldn't want to join the offenders!}

Not that that has anything at all to do with "Happily, Even After"! [img]smilies/lol.gif[/img]

Thanks for bringing back this thread - hope there is some news about the film soon. January seems so far, far away. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

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[Beatriz]

Hey!

It�s been a long time since last time I had been here, I had almost forgotten about this movie! [img]smilies/look.gif[/img]

Thanx for the great job of compilating all the info [img]smilies/glow.gif[/img]

January 2004 is now not so far as when we first heard about it, isn�t it? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Beatriz

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[Kaiser Soze]

wow! is he wearing makeup or is he naturally that beautiful?
He has like rosey cheeks and long lashes and blue eyes that hold and hypnotize [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

[MyrnaLynne]

That's what he looks like! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] (But I still like Jason better)

[Kaiser Soze]

me too [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[BehrlyHuman]

Vicki thanks so much for the information, and everyone else who supplied pictures and all the wonderful information, that must have taken plenty of time. Thanks again!!

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[Bheryandcherry]

hey guys wow thanks for all the info im dying to see the movie! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Umm since its an independint film will it be realeased everywhere or selected city's i have to see it!!

[*Vicki*]

Originally posted by Bheryandcherry: <STRONG>Umm since its an independint film will it be realeased everywhere or selected city's i have to see it!!</STRONG>

At this point it is only scheduled to be shown at the Sundance Film Festival 2004 in hopes of picking up a distributor for a select city or wide release later on. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]