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Kathryn Joins Bone Tomahawk

It is being reported that Kathryn has been added to the cast of a film called Bone Tomahawk.

She joins Kurt Russell (Stargate), Matthew Fox (Lost), Patrick Wilson (A Gifted Man), Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under), and the also just joined Lili Simmons (Banshee) and David Arquette (Scream).

Kathryn is to play the wife of Kurt Russell’s Sheriff Hunt.

The briefest of synopsis of this mid-1800s set Western is “Four men set out in the Wild West to rescue a group of captives from cannibalistic cave dwellers.”

Filming is believed to have started yesterday (29th Sept) and will continue into October, with southern California standing in for the area that is now the Texas/Mexico border. The film has been written by and is to be directed by novelist S. Craig Zahler.

Read the story here at Variety.

We’ll bring you more when we can.

The Coin To Be A New Shekel

Another screening of The Coin. This one’s a little different from those we’ve reported on recently though.

On Tuesday (that’s the 30th of September 2014) at 12:45pm local time The Coin will be shown at an event in support of The Forgotten People Fund at the King Solomon Hotel in Netanya, Israel.

Israel-born Golan Ramras, co-writer and producer of the short film starring Kathryn and Christopher Lloyd (Stacked), will be presenting and doing a Q&A about his experience of working in Hollywood.

You can read more about the FPF charity’s work supporting the local Ethiopian population on their website.

The Protocol On IMDb

There has been some movement on a project we haven’t heard about in over a year. It is not much, but it is a sign of progress… Possibly.

Remember The Protocol? Johnny Messner (Kathryn’s partner) Tweeted about in July 2013 as being a movie project his own production company, “Johnny Be Goode”, was creating. I posted about it at the time. Further information suggested that The Protocol was to be a TV series, possibly meaning the film made in 2013 was some sort of pilot or footage to be used in presentations to studios as an example of what the show would be like. We only ever saw evidence of a single set in use so we don’t know how much filming was actually done. Little is known about the plot, beyond the fact it is set in the not-too-distant future where everyone is under the control of the government from birth.

The change is that about one week ago The Protocol appeared on IMDb. It is listed as a TV series. Since then four cast members have been added: Kathryn (as Grace), Johnny (as Jake Chase), Xen Sia (as Amanda Chase) and Max Ryan (as Michael Logan). Key crew members, including writers and the director, have also appeared.

We must take into account that anyone can submit updates to IMDb. Those updates are moderated prior to posting though, and creating a new entry such as for a TV show or film is only possible by a few people. The information was most likely submitted by someone closely connected with the project.

It is a sign of progress in the project. We just don’t know what at this stage.

I was told a little while ago that we will get to see the pilot episode with Kathryn in it but no time scales were mentioned.

As a result of the IMDb update I’ve moved the albums covering The Protocol that were in the Gallery from the film section to the TV section. It’s new home is here.

We will have to keep a eye on this one.

The Coin’s San Pedro Film Fest Details

The previous post made me check on the other upcoming festivals where The Coin will be screened.

san_pedro_international_film_festival_300x308 The Sunday after the St. Cloud International Film Festival showing it is the turn of San Pedro International Film Festival‘s (SPIFF) turn. We previously reported on it here.

1pm on the 12th of October at the Grand Annex, 434 West 6th Street, San Pedro, The Coin will be part of the “Short Takes 3” event along with 6 other films.

Renée O’Connor, best known as Gabrielle on Xena: Warrior Princess stars in one of those. It is 9 minute long short, like The Coin, set in the 1930s ‘Great Depression’ called The Usual. Kathryn, as you of course know, guest starred in a couple of episodes Xena as a religious crusader called Najara. Despite not being as powerful as some of Xena’s foes, she came closest of all to stealing Gabrielle away from her.

Kathryn and Renée on one bill! That has to be worth a look! No matter how brief 😉

Tickets ($11 in total) for the screening are available, along with full details, on the SPIFF website here.

St Cloud’s Forecast For October

saint_cloud_film_fest_poster_621x960 Clouds are ephemeral things but the St. Cloud Film Festival is firming up.

Just two weeks ago we brought you the news that the short film The Coin had been chosen to be part of the line up of the St. Cloud Film Festival.

At the time there was little detail available regarding actual screening events within the 6 day event.

In the past couple of days the organisers have released a preliminary schedule of happenings which means we can now say with some certainty where and when The Coin can be seen.

Sunday, the 5th of October at 3pm a collection of 11 short films of various types will be shown at the Pioneer Place Theatre in Saint Cloud, Minnesota.

The tickets are already on sale at the very reasonable price of $5 for a screening totalling nearly 2 hours of films. A ticket covering the whole festival is only $20. See the event’s website here for more details.

Any Minnesotans out there going along?