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Posted on 06/07/2007 10:07:48 AM PDT by Rodney King
BLUE ASH, Ohio -- Independent moviemakers want the country to know about the Tri-state's favorite pastime, cornhole.
According to various records, Cincinnati is widely accepted as the birthplace of the game in which players take turns pitching bags filled with corn at a hole drilled into a raised platform.
"Cornhole, The Movie" is about four teams trying to make it to the national cornhole championship. One of the backdrops is Logos Bar and Grill in Blue Ash, where the cast and crew got into the action.
"Lots of energy," said movie director Tim Clarke. "You just feed off the crowd, the actors. Everybody just works off each other." Clarke said he wants to show when a hobby becomes more of an obsession.
Elaine Mello-Clarke, who plays one of the lead characters, describes what that obsession can do.
"I'm mean," she said describing her character. "I want to win. I do everything I can to manipulate the game to win."
Just happy to be in the mix are extras like Betty Baumiller, who said she has always wanted to be in a movie.
"Oh my gosh, doesn't everybody?" she asked.
The real-deal cornhole players said they are also having a ball.
"I like to describe it as stupid funny," said cornhole champ, Chu Farfsing. "We just have a great time with it."
The movie producers and actors hope this excitement eventually translates into more exposure for a film with a $20,000 budget.
"We want to make it go nationwide," said Mello-Clarke.
The director hopes to have "Cornhole, The Movie" finished in February in time for the Sundance Film Festival.
To find out more about the movie or to learn how to become an extra, click here.
TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cornhole; funandgames; movie; sundance
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FYI, since I know there are some FReepers who are trying to get into acting
To: Rodney King
Where I come from, that’s not what “cornhole” means.
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:08:35 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
To: Rodney King
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:08:59 AM PDT
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: wallcrawlr; new cruelty; Maximus of Texas
Here ya go, this could be your big break.
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:09:21 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Our 44th President will be Fred Dalton Thompson!)
To: Rodney King
Also I wanted to be first with this.
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:09:33 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
To: Xenalyte
To: Rodney King
I'll Pass.
I can't see myself going to the beach with my "Cornhole, The Movie" T-shirt.
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:09:59 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: Xenalyte
well, for all we know it still means the same thing.
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:10:02 AM PDT
by
LetGoNow
(Listen up punk. The colors are red, white, and blue, not red, white, and green. Got that? Now scram!)
To: Xenalyte
"Watch out for yer cornhole, bud."
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:10:15 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Our 44th President will be Fred Dalton Thompson!)
To: Rodney King
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:10:20 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(congratulations - you have just won an ipod nano)
sniff... *I* wanted to be first...
To: Rodney King
I bet there will be huge hype at Sundance, then a whole lot of very upset and disappointed liberals walking out after only 2 minutes of the film...
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:10:43 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
To: Xenalyte
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:10:49 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(congratulations - you have just won an ipod nano)
To: Rodney King
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:11:03 AM PDT
by
sauropod
("An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." Ernest Hemingway)
To: Rodney King
FYI, since I know there are some FReepers who are trying to get into acting. Yes, but how desperately? I mean, would you want the top of your CV to read, "Cornhole, The Movie?"
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:11:33 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Rodney King
I personally don’t like cornhole.
Not at all!
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:12:28 AM PDT
by
Bullish
( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
To: Rodney King
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:12:40 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Xenalyte
I hope they don’t hold any casting sessions in San Francisco. Some people might get the wrong idea.
To: 1rudeboy
Yes, but how desperately? I mean, would you want the top of your CV to read, "Cornhole, The Movie?"Perhaps if you're applying for a job on a Ron Jeremy film...
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posted on
06/07/2007 10:12:51 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Our 44th President will be Fred Dalton Thompson!)
To: Rodney King
There’s gonna be a lot of disappointed moviegoers in San Francisco when this is released.
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