UPDATE: Schedules shifting for three movies, production to set up shop soon

In case you missed Friday’s eightWest, the Meg Ryan movie “Sleepless Beauty” has been moved from the first of three movies to the last of three movies.  Also, movie producer Randall Emmett told me over the phone Thursday night that they’ll be back in Michigan next week to head to Lansing and the Michigan Film Office to discuss the Michigan Film incentives and get all of their paperwork going.   Emmett also tells me that he and the Director plan to set up their production office in Grand Rapids during the first week of November.

Production schedule:

“The Gun”: Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson and yet to be cast co-star
Scheduled to begin December 20th

“Jekyll and Hyde”: Forest Whitaker and ‘50 Cent’
Scheduled to begin January 17th

“Sleepless Beauty”: Meg Ryan and Ashley Tisdale
Scheduled to begin in late February

( Originally published 10/1/09)

Three more movies coming to Grand Rapids, starring Meg Ryan, Forest Whitaker, Ashley Tisdale, and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson

Producer Randall Emmett raves about making movies in Grand Rapids

Randall Emmett is back in town scouting locations for three movie productions that  he is bringing to town for back-to-back-to-back movie shoots.    He was in Grand Rapids for the production of “Caught in the Crossfire” earlier this year.

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I know what you’re thinking… “chick flick”… yes, but not so fast…

In the first of a day-night movie doubleheader, my wife and I saw “The Women”… the theater was almost full… all women, and I think 2 other guys.

But here’s the twist for all you guys… this is a good “date movie” to take the wife, girlfriend, or girl that’s “just a friend” … she’ll be glad you did !!

“The Women”

(2008) (rated: PG-13 for sex-related material, language, some drug use and brief smoking) (1 hr, 54 min)

Starring: Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bette Midler, Candice Bergen, Carrie Fisher, Cloris Leachman, Debi Mazar, Ana Gasteyer

Genre: Comedy/Drama

The Plot: A wealthy New Yorker leaves her cheating husband and bonds with other society women at a resort. A remake of George Cukor’s 1939 film “The Women.”

MY TAKE (spoiler free):

Well, let me start by saying my wife loved it… about as much as “Sex and the City”… she connected to it because, she says, the movie is exactly the way women act around each other.

I like it because of the good character development and *believe me* when I tell you there’s *a lot* of characters to develop… (more…)