Jane was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and still feels a strong connection with it (while currently living in Pasadena, California) in March she sent Governor Jim Doyle and legislative leaders a letter asking them to work on improving the state’s current film incentive program rather than scrap it. Film incentive make it attractive for film makers/produces to work in a location due to things like tax rebates. Governor Jim Doyle wanted it stopped due to a $5.7 billion budget shortfall, instead giving grants of up to $500,000 per year for projects that create permanent jobs.
One year hardly seems like a sufficient time to make an informed determination on whether the incentives should be discontinued…There’s something about this place…It’s magical, it’s beautiful. It offers everything you could possibly want.
Jane won’t normally work outside of California due to her children said she would make an exception if she could come to Wisconsin for work. She has supported the incentives since 2006 and has worked with the Film Wisconsin website in the past.
Back in 2004 Chris Masterson (shortly after his brother Danny) appeared on the Bravo show Celebrity Poker Showdown. Essentially 5 celebrities play no limit Texas hold ‘em poker for charity, with the winner each week progressing to the final. The show is rather fun and friendly to the novice poker viewer.
Chris plays a surprisingly quiet game, I’m guessing it was his game face, for Citizens Commission on Human Rights his chosen charity. I won’t give away how well he did, but definitely worth watching.
Chris competes quite often in tournaments, most recently the Dream Team Tournament earlier this year on 28th March.
In Malcolm Hal loves a poker game, even if he lacks skill, however in the real world Bryan is somewhat a shark…well at least thinks he is, appearing on Showdown twice.
Bryan says that when he was young he and his family would bet on anything “what tooth I would loose first when I was 8″. In his first appearance he played for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, a charity Bryan has supported for many years.
As you can expect from Bryan he doesn’t play a quiet game, he and the other celebs spar throughout, with some pretty funny scenes. His second appearance was a special episode from New Orleans supporting Hurricane Katrina charities, Bryan chose the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.
Justin is to start a competition to win a chance to meet him and visit the set of the new show he is producing Sons of Tucson.
There are few details currently, but it seems the competition with be through Twitter and you need to go follow Justin to find out how to take part. He’s recently moved Twitter accounts, you can now follow him at http://twitter.com/justinberfield (a faker got it at first) instead of his original account http://twitter.com/justin_berfield. Justin will conduct some sort of 5 question challenge with his followers with 1 ultimate winner. During the set visit the winner will have a photo snapped and posted on Justin’s Twitter account. Its being run by Justin’s management and not affiliated with Fox Broadcasting, 20th Century Fox Television, J2TV or it’s affiliates. A background check may be required (yeah, weird right?)
We don’t know when the visit will take place or when the competition will start. We guess sometime later this year while the show is still filming. Its also unclear if its open to non-US residents.
On the topic of Sons of Tucson, Justin said on Twitter last month that re-casting had finished and that production was starting this month. They had been re-casting the older and youngest kids, THR announced that Matthew Levy has been cast as the older, the younger actor is still unknown.
The Middle is a new ABC sitcom based around a mother of 3, Frankie (!?) Heck (Patricia Heaton) she’s “middle class in the middle of the country and is rapidly approaching middle age.” Not surprisingly as soon as anyone heard about the show, thoughts turn to Malcolm in the Middle. I find it hard to believe you’d have a quirky (read dysfunctional) family based sitcom called The Middle and not expect everyone to compare it to Malcolm, but maybe that’s what ABC wanted? The next Malcolm in the Middle?
OK, so the title of this post was a bit of link bait I don’t, based on the previews, believe The Middle is a Malcolm rip off, but I had a quick bit of fun matching some scenes in the above video. AOL calls it “a dead ringer for Malcolm in the Middle with its realistic, wry take on regular family life” and they continue saying “little Atticus Shaffer steals the show as younger son Brick”.
You may be surprised to hear but Frankie Muniz and Justin Berfield have their own iPhone apps, but the excitement should end there. A company called Arctic Gerbil Creations has produced a “SupaFan” application for each of them. It costs $0.99 (£0.59) I bought one so you wouldn’t have to. Frankie and Justin have nothing to do with them and they are essentially generic aggregators of information from the internet. Little effort was put into them, it just pulls in Google News/YouTube/Wikipedia results for them, it doesn’t even display it that well. Don’t buy it. Everything it offers can be accessed for free via the Safari browser with a nicer interface. You can see more screenshots in our GALLERY.
James & Lukas Rodriguez are the twins who played Jamie in seasons 6 and 7.
Since Malcolm in the Middle they haven’t been acting however in January this year they appeared in Without a Trace the CBS drama about a fictional New York missing persons unit, Season 7, Episode 12, Believe Me. They play the non speaking part of a sick child. They are both credited, however as its only a short scene it seems odd that both would be playing the part. Not surprisingly they have grown up, I can’t recall/find how old they where in Malcolm but I guess they are around 8 now.
Sons of Tucson is in short a family comedy about three brothers who hire a charming, wayward schemer to stand in as their father when their real one goes to prison. Its being produced by J2TV Justin Berfield and Jason Felt’s production company. They got legendary Malcolm in the Middle director/producer Todd Holland to direct (and executive produce) the Pilot, which you can watch in full above. Its written by Tommy Dewey & Greg Bratman and stars Tyler Labine (Reaper) as Ron the wayward schemer. They have landed with FOX and is set to premiere midseason (spring 2010) and will air Sundays at 8:30pm, which you may recall was Malcolm in the Middle’s original timeslot when that series premiered back in January 2000.
They have had to recast the older (Brandon) and younger (Robby) kid characters, and are currently running an open casting call, so if you look around 14 or 9 and are an aspiring actor its well worth checking out! Audition videos have been popping up on YouTube. Frank Dolce as Gary continues his part.
I managed to get a few quick questions in with Justin over Twitter. Why the recast? According to Justin its due to scheduling issues. Justin also confirms that Todd Holland will be directing the Pilot remake and the first two episodes, which is great news.
The trailer for those who can’t handle the full episode…
Justin Berfield put his house on Lorena Drive, Calabasas, California up for sale in April for $3,995,000 but it hasn’t sold and its now listed at $3,495,000. Big Time Listing are pretty certain he paid $3,400,000 for it to former MTV Newlyweds couple Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey in 2006.
The Mediterranean he hopes to sell is in a guard-gated community and has its own gated driveway. The 6,483-square-foot house has five bedrooms and seven bathrooms and some grown-up toys: a home theater, an infinity pool and spa, a wine cellar and a bar with indoor-outdoor access. The home has a custom soundproof room that was formerly used as a recording studio. There are travertine floors, high ceilings, four sun decks and views from the master bedroom suite.
In May last year he bought the house where he currently lives, in the Venice area of Los Angeles, for $1,450,000. The reason for the move was to be closer to his production company J2 Pictures/J2TV.
February last year we reported that Justin Berfield and his production company, J2 Pictures, where volunteering their time and working with the Cayman Islands Government and local investors to establish an official film commission.
On January 30th this year (sorry late on this news) it launched with a small red carpet event.
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Jane was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and still feels a strong connection with it (while currently living in Pasadena, California) in March she sent Governor Jim Doyle and legislative leaders a letter asking them to work on improving the state’s current film incentive program rather than scrap it. Film incentive make it attractive for film makers/produces to work in a location due to things like tax rebates. Governor Jim Doyle wanted it stopped due to a $5.7 billion budget shortfall, instead giving grants of up to $500,000 per year for projects that create permanent jobs.
Justin is to start a competition to win a chance to meet him and visit the set of the new show he is producing 
February last year 
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