Summit Entertainment and Ben Stiller’s production company, Red Hour Films, are in pre-production on the upcoming feature film ‘Help Spread Me Goodness’. Stiller is producer/director/star of the film that will shoot in Chicago and Nigeria, Africa. The plot is about a man gets ripped off in a Nigerian email investment scam and goes to Africa to get his money back.
Casting for co-starring and supporting roles is underway. There will be casting taking place in both Los Angeles and Chicago, with location extras casting in Chicago and Nigeria.
See the post titled Headshot and Resume Information regarding how to submit for acting roles.
Please submit photos and resumes by mail only.
No phone calls or personal drop-offs.
Principal Actor Casting (Los Angeles)
Rachel Tenner
‘Help Spread Me Goodness’ Casting
629 N La Brea Ave
Los Angeles, CA, CA 90036
Principal Actor Casting (Chicago)
Tenner Paskal & Rudnicke Casting
10 West Hubbard Street
Suite 2N
Chicago, Illinois 60654
Extras Casting (Chicago):
TBA
Production Companies:
Do NOT send photos and resumes to the production companies (they will most likely end up in the trash can), they do not cast the films. They hire casting directors who sort through the thousands of submissions.
Summit Entertainment LLC
1630 Stewart Street
Suite 120
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Red Hour Films
629 N. La Brea Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Participant Media
335 N. Maple Drive
Suite 245
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Producers: Stuart Kornfeld, Jeremy Kramer, Ricky Strauss, Iain Smith
Director:
Ben Stiller
Starring:
Ben Stiller
Story:
After divorced Midwestern banker Patrick Kemp falls for a Nigerian e-mail scam, and ‘invests’ $17,000, only he heads all they way to Nigeria to hunt down the con artists who have looted his daughter’s college fund. He is plunged into a wildly different world than his own: the world of desperate poverty and endless scams that is Nigeria.