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Advertising Deadline for the December 2003 issue is November 19, 2003 For More Information call (505) 471-5177 or (505) 747-0589 Movie Making in New MexicoSun Comes Up Blood RedBy Ron Ramsey “Lady luck please let the dice stay hot, Let me shout a seven with every shot” --Elvis The cool dawn breaks through a long, lingering darkness. Or so it seems, when Ron Howard’s “The Missing” returns to New Mexico. In a remarkably short turn around from the wrap of shooting in June, through editing, to being up on the silver screen, “The Missing” debuts in Santa Fe November 24th, just in time for Thanksgiving. There will be a special showing November 13th, for local cast and crew members. It is not known if this showing is invitation only. It could be quite a crowd, as 1 out of every 500 of the population of Santa Fe worked on “The Missing”. The “The Missing” previews, while geared to the attention span of a 12 year old MTV zombie, look really interesting. Give thanks. To the glory of Ron.
“There's
a thousand pretty women waitin' out there And I'm just the devil with love to spare…” --Elvis Meanwhile, Elvis has left the state. “Elvis Has Left The Building”, filming in Albuquerque for the past two months, moved to Las Vegas for the final two days shooting before wrapping. The crew, especially the ladies, could barely control their excitement when they found out that Wayne Newton will be in some scenes. It is unknown if “The Wayner” will be performing a duet with “Elvis” of ‘Danke Shoen’ in the climax. A brief synopsis of “Elvis Has Left The Building”: a woman has a dream, (or was it a vision?) of Elvis. She starts meeting Elvis impersonators, who die mysteriously. The FBI gets after her. “Elvis” went through 6 complete script revisions before filming began. Multiple revisions are never a good sign. No one knows what they want. As producer Robert Evans said: “If you ain’t got it on the page, you ain’t got it.” This is why screenwriters are reviled in Hollywood, and shunted to the bottom of the food chain. Too much power. Last year’s “Suspect Zero”, also shot in Albuquerque, had the FBI tracking the Original Serial Killer. Perhaps they should have combined “Zero” and “Elvis”, and had the FBI track back to the original King of Rock and Roll? “Suspect Elvis”? While “Elvis” was doing an outside night shoot at the Sheraton Downtown, a passing drunk driver was rubbernecking and crashed into another car. He tried to escape, but there were so many cops around for the film shoot, they caught him immediately. Medics from the “Elvis” crew helped the folks hurt in the crash. Moral of this story? Never rubberneck while driving drunk. Phill Lewis and Mike Starr, who play FBI agents in “Elvis” bought Whitman’s Samplers and carnations for all the crew as wrap gifts. They handed out each gift individually. Needless to say, these guys were crew favorites. Supermarket tabloid “The Globe”, recently had a 2 photo page spread featuring Kim Bassinger and Billy Ray Cyrus, shot surreptitiously during the filming of “Elvis”. The movie stars come to New Mexico, the paparazzi will follow. This is good and bad. The movie business brings money, but they also bring the tabloid jackals. Poor New Mexico, so far from Heaven, so close to Hollywood.
“A fortune won and lost on every
deal, All you need's a strong heart and a nerve of steel.” --Elvis The movie bonanza is not stopping anytime soon. There are reports of 3 features possibly shooting in Taos over the next year. As many as 31 viable productions have contacted New Mexico to inquire about shooting here. And it is spreading out over the whole state. Locations have been scouted in Las Cruces, Alamogordo, and Buddville, among others. Word is getting out, there has been an influx of returning movie crew professionals, many of whom had to leave NM to get work elsewhere. The days of New Mexico being a secret, an almost unknown, out-of-the-way, forgotten place, may be coming to an end. “Ye
cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of
devils.” --Corinthians 1 10: 21 Let’s speculate for a moment, for strictly fun. Let’s imagine that someone from New Mexico, someone in the film industry, went to Hollywood to work out details with a producer for a 6 picture deal, to be shot in NM, including one very large budget feature. Let’s imagine that during this meeting, the producer gets a phone call from a certain governor, we’ll call him ”Gropenator” Gropenator is all bent out of shape, complaining about the loss of this huge budget project, and all the other movie business fleeing California. Oddly, Gropenator’s last three big budget stink bombs were filmed outside the U.S., while California slowly bleeds to death. Poor California, so far from Heaven, so close to Hell. (All Elvis quotes from “Viva Las Vegas”.) Join the Others, Advertise in The Sun-News
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