NY Celebrity Bulletin

NEW YORK CELEBRITY BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2014
OUT OF TOWN
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers will
appear on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live"
this Thursday, July 31st, performing
songs from their new album Hypnotic
Eye.
The band's appearance will be the
television debut of music from Hypnotic
Eye, their first studio album in 4 years.
This performance comes as Tom Petty &
The Heartbreakers prepare to embark
on their North American tour which
begins this Sunday August 3rd in San
Diego, CA and includes a headlining
appearance at next weekend's Outside
Lands Festival in San Francisco, CA.
The tour will play NYC's Madison
Square Garden on Wednesday,
September 10 with Steve Winwood as
a very special guest.
Contact:
PR (TP&TH): Big Hassle Media, Jim
Merlis 323/456-3490 x237
[email protected]
Record Co.: Warner Bros. Records, Ms.
Luke Burland 818/953-3764
[email protected]
"Jimmy Kimmel Live" Contacts:
323/817-1493 or PMK•BNC, Alyssa
Wilkins 310/854-4733
[email protected]
JOHN MELLENCAMP
Farm Aid's annual benefit festival will
take place on Saturday, September 13,
at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre in
Raleigh, N.C., with performances
by Farm Aid board members John
Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, Neil
Young and Dave Matthews — with
Tim Reynolds — as well as Jack
White, Preservation Hall Jazz Band,
Jamey Johnson, North Carolina's own
Delta Rae, Lukas Nelson & Promise
of the Real, Carlene Carter, Pegi
Young & The Survivors, and Insects
vs Robots.
Contact:
PR (Mellencamp): Claire Mercuri PR,
Claire Mercuri 212/535-7189
[email protected]
Farm Aid Event Press Contact: Brittany
Vanderpool 202/2485487 [email protected]
O.A.R.
O.A.R., Rusko, Michelle Williams (of
Destiny's Child), Paper Diamond, and
Destructo, will be among the headlining
acts at the Fashion Meets Music Festival
(FMMF). The FMMF and headlining artist
R. Kelly have come to the mutual
decision to cancel Kelly's upcoming
performance at the inaugural event,
which was scheduled to take place on
Friday, August 29, at 8 PM EST. FMMF
will still proceed as planned, spanning
the full Labor Day Weekend (Friday,
August 29 through Sunday, August 31) in
Columbus, OH's Arena District.
Contact:
PR (O.A.R.): SpinLab, John Vlautin
818/763-9800 [email protected] Record Co. (O.A.R.): Vanguard Records,
Lucy Sabini 310/829-9355 x137
[email protected] FMMF Event Interview Requests / Press
Credentials: Big Picture Media, Dayna
Ghiraldi 310/274-2946
[email protected] /
Natalie Schaffer 310/274-2948 or
661/233-6479 (cell)
[email protected] /
Amber Crisci 212/675-3103 or 516/6066007 (cell)
[email protected]
WYNONNA JUDD
Wynonna & The Big Noise will
perform at KCRW's Country in the City,
part of a series inspired by the
Annenberg Space for Photography's
latest exhibit, Country: Portraits of an
American Sound, on Saturday, August 2
at Century Park in Century City. Nikki
Lane will open the show.
Contact:
PR (Wynonna): MSO PR Nashville,
Lyndie Wenner 615/973-4160
[email protected]
Manager (Wynonna): Big Enterprises,
Kerry Hansen 615/790-8300 x223
[email protected]
Event PR: KCRW, Rachel
Reynolds [email protected]
ARRIVALS
ISABELLE HUPPERT
Legendary French actress Isabelle
Huppert, who will star opposite Cate
Blanchett in the Sydney Theatre
Company's production of Jean Genet's
The Maids this August 6-16 at New York
City Center as part of the Lincoln Center
Festival, is in NY and will present a pair
of films featuring two of the most
celebrated and fearless performances
from her remarkable body of work:
Catherine Breillat's latest, Abuse of
Weakness (NYFF51), and Michael
Haneke's The Piano Teacher, tonight
at the Walter Reade Theater. Following
the 6 PM Abuse of Weakness screening,
Huppert will be joined on stage for a
post-screening conversation about the
film and her career with director John
Waters.
Contact:
Agent (Huppert): VMA, Isabelle de La
PatelliFre +33 (0) 1 43 17 37 06
Film Society of Lincoln Center Event
Media Inquiries: John Wildman
[email protected] / David Ninh
[email protected]
"The Maids" Event Press Contact: Eileen
McMahon 212/8755391 [email protected]
STEVEN QUALE
AHNA O'REILLY
Actors Ahna O'Reilly, Amir
Arison, and Allie Gallerani,
directors Paul Haggis, Amy
Heckerling, and Ben Younger, and
fashion designer Francisco Costa are
among the expected guests at tonight's
Child of God NY premiere. Director and
co-writer, James Franco, will be
joined by lead actors Scott Haze &
Jim Parrack, co-star Brian
Lally, writer Vince Joliette, and
cinematographer Christina
Voros. Franco makes an appearance in
the WellGo USA August 1st release
based on the novel by Cormac
McCarthy which also stars Tim Blake
Nelson and Fallon Goodson. Arrivals
at 7:30 PM / Screening at 9 PM at the
Tribeca Grand Hotel (2 Ave. of the
Americas).
Contact:
PR (O'Reilly): 42West, Heidi Lopata
424/901-8730
[email protected] "Child of God" Info / Event RSVP:
Sunshine Sachs 212/691-2800, Jessica
Berger [email protected] /
Morgan Michaels
[email protected] /
Lindsay Simon
[email protected]
ALANA HAMILTON STEWART
Director Steven Quale will attend the
World premiere of his New Line Cinema
/ Village Roadshow Pictures tornado
disaster film, Into the Storm, on
Monday, August 4th at AMC Lincoln
Square (1998 Broadway) in NYC. He
will be joined by the film's
stars Richard Armitage, Sarah
Wayne Callies, Matt Walsh, Jeremy
Sumpter, other cast members,
producer Todd Garner and celebrity
guests such as stormchasers Reed
Timmer and Ken Cole and
meterologists Dylan Dryer, Raphael
Miranda, and Maria Molina. 6 PM
celebrity red carpet arrivals / Screening
at 7 PM. The film opens in theaters on
Friday, August 8th.
Alana Stewart, actress, author, talk
show host, speaker and film maker, and
longtime friend of the late Farrah
Fawcett -- who serves as President of
The Farrah Fawcett Foundation -- will
be in NYC from July 31 through August
7 and available for interviews regarding
the work of the Foundation and the
upcoming live, one-hour 2014 Stand Up
To Cancer telecast to be broadcast on
Friday, September 5 at 8 PM ET/PT.
This spring, The Farrah Fawcett
Foundation and Stand Up To Cancer
have teamed up to commit $1 million
over a three-year period to fund a
collaborative translational research
team to addresses critical problems in
HPV-related cancers.
Contact:
Agent (Quale): Resolution, Abram
Nalibotsky 424/274-4200
[email protected] Manager (Quale): Principato-Young
Entertainment, Allen Fischer 310/2744180 [email protected] Premiere Contacts: Broadcast: Nicholas
Contact:
Interview Requests: Rubenstein
Associates, Inc. Robin Verges 212/8438075 [email protected]
Ritchie 212/636-5086 / Print: MC
VanGraafeiland 212/636-5082 / Photo:
Erin Durkin 212/636-5060 / Online:
Orna Pickens 818/954-6290
GILLES MARINI
Actors Gilles Marini, Teddy Sears,
Jesse Lee Soffer, Vanessa Marcil,
Katie Sackhoff, and Malcolm-Jamal
Warner, model Tyson
Beckford, artist Conrad Leach, World
Cup Rugby champion Ben Cohen, and
others will join the President of Kiehl's
USA, Chris Salgardo, and the CEO of
amfAR, Kevin Robert Frost, for the
5th annual Kiehl's LifeRide for amfAR.
The 11-day, multi-stop charity
motorcycle ride will take place August
2-12, from Milwaukee to NYC. Kiehl's
will also sponsor a open-to-the-public
dedication of The AIDS Memorial
Quilt, Aug. 11-12 on Governor's Island.
NY store stops will be held on August
12th at Kiehl's at Macy's Herald Square
(11:30 AM-12:30 PM) and Kiehl's Rally
at Kiehl's Flagship Store (109 3rd Ave,
5:30 PM-6:30 PM). The Finale
Celebration will be held at 22 Little
West 12th St. from 6:30 PM-9:30 PM.
Contact:
PR (Marini): PMK•BNC, Gina Hoffman
310/854-4800
[email protected] Event Press Contact: Rachael Kelley
917/606-9556 [email protected]
RITA ORA
Rita Ora will join Jennifer
Lopez, KISS, Miranda Lambert,
Pitbull, Duran Duran, Afrojack,
Nico & Vinz, The Band
Perry and Usher as performers
at "Fashion Rocks®," a television
special celebrating the powerful
relationship between fashion and
music, hosted by Ryan Seacrest at the
Barclays Center in Brooklyn and airing
live on CBS on Tuesday, September 9th
from 9 PM-11 PM ET/PT.
Contact:
Manager (Ora): Turn First Artists +44
(0) 208/742-6700, Sarah Stennett
[email protected] / Nadia
Khan [email protected]
Record Co. (Ora): Roc Nation, Jana
Fleishman 212/292-7539
[email protected]
Event PR: Slate PR 212/235-6814,
Shawn Purdy [email protected] /
Lindsey Brown [email protected]
Barclays Center PR: Hannah Stember
718/9429574 [email protected]
NEXT 30 DAYS
CATE BLANCHETT
JAMES MONROE IGLEHART
Due to high demand for tickets, Lincoln
Center Festival has added a
performance of the Sydney Theatre
Company's production of Jean Genet's
The Maids
on Saturday, August 9 at 2 PM. Starring
Cate Blanchett and Isabelle
Huppert, joined by young newcomer
Elizabeth Debicki, The Maids is
directed by Benedict Andrews in a
new translation by STC Artistic Director
Andrew Upton and Mr. Andrews. The
production runs from August 6-16 at
New York City Center, now, with 13
performances only.
Broadway performers including Tony
winner James Monroe
Iglehart, Sierra Boggess, Christine
Ebersole, Julia Murney, Emily
Skinner, Jose Llana, Keala Settle,
and more, will sing the classic roles they
played as teens at Not Since High
School, a benefit concert to be held at
42West (512 W. 42nd St.) on Sunday,
August 24th at 7:30 PM. SiriusXM
Broadway host Seth Rudetsky will host
and serve as musical director of the
concert with all proceeds to benefit the
music program at MS 245, a public
middle school in NYC.
Contact:
PR (Blanchett): WKT Public Relations,
Lisa Kasteler 310/205-0618
[email protected]
Event Press Contact: Eileen
McMahon 212/8755391 [email protected]
Contact:
Agent (Iglehart): Stone Manners Salners
Talent Agency 212/505-1400
Event PR: Coyle Entertainment, Bill
Coyle 917/2796044 [email protected]
LATER THIS YEAR
NO DOUBT
No Doubt, Carrie Underwood, Jay Z,
The Roots, and Tiesto will headline
the Global Poverty Project's annual
Global Citizen Festival held on the Great
Lawn in Central Park on September
27th. The charity event promotes the
goal to end extreme poverty by 2030.
Contact:
Manager (No Doubt): Azoff Music
Management, Irving Azoff 310/2093131
Event Press Contact: Jane
Atkinson [email protected]
BELEN MOZO
LPGA Tour Player Belen Mozo will hold
a clinic with participants before the star
of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF's third
annual UNICEF Drive for ZERO Golf
Classic, to be held at the Manhattan
Woods Golf Club (One Ahlmeyer Drive)
in West Nyack, NY on September 22nd.
Clinic at 9:30 AM / Tournament at 10
AM / Awards Ceremony at 4 PM. CoChairs Philip Birsh, Christian
Simonds and Lou Switzer will host
the event whose proceeds will support
UNICEF's efforts to bring about a day
when zero children die of preventable
causes.
PORTER ROBINSON
American electronic music producer and
DJ Porter Robinson will kick off
his North American Tour on August 28
in Vancouver, BC at Vogue, and bring
his Porter Robinson "Worlds" US Tour,
in support of his debut album,
Worlds (out August 12th on Astralwerks
Records), to NYC's Terminal 5 on
October 11th. The European tour begins
October 30th.
Contact:
Record Co. / U.S Press Contact:
Astralwerks Records, Leslie Hermelin
917/699-9596
[email protected]
LEWIS BLACK
New Jersey Performing Arts Center
(NJPAC - One Center St.) in Newark, NJ
will present stand-up comedian, actor
and author, Lewis Black, in his only
area appearance on Sunday, September
28 at 8 PM.
Contact:
PR (Black): Cyberlaff, Glenn Schwartz
818/224-2990 [email protected] or
[email protected]
Agent: APA, Jackie Knobbe 310/8884291 [email protected] NJPAC Event Contact: Prana Marketing,
Angela Thomas 201/503-1333
[email protected]
Contact:
Event Contact: U.S. Fund for UNICEF,
Andrea Sioris 212/880-9136
[email protected]
BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL
Tony Award winner Brian Stokes
Mitchell will star in The Band Wagon,
an Encores! Special Event based on the
classic MGM movie of the same title,
from November 6–16, 2014 at City
Center. The show has a book by
Douglas Carter Beane adapted from
the screenplay by Betty Comden and
Adolph Green, with music by Arthur
Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz.
The Band Wagon will be directed and
choreographed by Tony Award winner
Kathleen Marshall with music
direction by Todd Ellison. The Band
Wagon will run for 12 performances, by
special arrangement with Warner Bros.
Theatre Ventures.
Contact:
Agent (Mitchell): Paradigm 212/8976400, Sarah
Fargo [email protected] /
Richard Schmenner
[email protected] /
Timothy Sage
DAVID MIXNER
Legendary civil rights activist and
author David Mixner will premiere Oh
Hell No!, an evening of autobiographical
storytelling, in a special one-night-only
event on Monday, October 27, 2014 at
7 PM. Taking place at New World
Stages (340 W. 50th St.), Oh Hell No!
will benefit the Point Foundation. Amy
and Jeff Towers will present the
evening, which will be produced by
Tim Ranney. Directed by Stephen
Brackett, a specially assembled trio
boasting the voices of Chris Bolan,
Megan Osterhaus, and Tim Jerome,
will perform during this evening of
story and song. Event chairs include
Alan Cumming, Robert Desiderio,
Herb Hamsher, Judith Light, Ken
Mehlman, Rob Smith, Jonathan
Stoller, Jorge Valencia, and Edie
Windsor.
Contact:
Event Press Contact: O&M Co. 212/6957400, Rick Miramontez
[email protected]
"Encores!" Press Contact: Helene Davis
Public Relations, Helene Davis 212/3547436 [email protected]
[email protected] / Andy Snyder
[email protected] / Andrew
Esposito [email protected]
INTERNATIONAL
ANTOINE FUQUA
Antoine Fuqua will join Denzel
Washington at the 62nd San Sebastián
Film Festival (September 19-27) to present
the European premiere of Fuqua's The
Equalizer, based on the CBS TV series,
starring Washington, which will screen outof-competition at the festival on September
19 in the Kursaal Auditorium. During the
opening gala, Washington will be presented
with the Donostia Lifetime Achievement
Award. The Sony Pictures Entertainment
release opens in US theaters on September
26.
Contact:
Agent (Fuqua): CAA, Scott Greenberg
424/288-2000 [email protected]
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Foreign Press Contact: + 34 943 481212,
Gemma
Beltrán [email protected]
DAVID YATES
Principal photography is underway at
Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, as
well as on location around the UK, on
Warner Bros. Pictures' and Village
Roadshow Pictures' new Tarzan 3D
action adventure, starring Alexander
Skarsgård (HBO's "True Blood") as the
legendary character created by Edgar
Rice Burroughs. Samuel L. Jackson,
Margot Robbie, and Christoph Waltz
co-star in the Jerry Weintraub
production under the direction of David
Yates. The film is slated for release on
July 1, 2016, and will be distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros.
Entertainment Company, and in select
territories by Village Roadshow
Pictures.
Contact:
Agent (Yates): CAA, Beth Swofford
424/288-2000 [email protected] Film Contacts: Warner Bros. Domestic
Publicity, Jan Craft 818/9542279 [email protected] and Warner Bros. International Publicity,
Kevin Frank 818/9547180 [email protected]
CELEBRITY OF THE DAY
DANTE PALMINTERI
Dante Palminteri was born on October 11, 1995 in New York, the son of actor/writer/director Chazz
Palminteri and actress/producer Gianna Palminteri. At age 10 Dante was cast in both his father, Chazz
Palminteri and his mother, Gianna Palminteri’s films, Noel and The Obscure Brother, where his love of
acting and performing was born. With those genes, is it any wonder he has decided to follow in his
parents’ footsteps? He grew up with his time being split between New York and Los Angeles -- and other locales where his
father might be making a film. With so much time spent on film sets, backstage in theatres, or in recording
studios Dante felt early on that he was destined to a life in the entertainment business. He started acting
while very young and is a member of the prestigious Lighthouse Youth Theater, where he performs in one
of the lead roles in all productions. He recently starred as ‘Link Larkin’ in the musical Hairspray.
Dante will next be seen in the Syfy Channel’s second installment of last year’s pop culture and social media
sensation Sharknado, appropriately titled Sharknado 2: The Second One, which will premiere tonight at 9
PM on Syfy. This time it’s New York City that is threatened by a deadly Sharknado and must be saved from
destruction! In addition to acting, he will sing the original song “Eat Me” in the film.
In Sharknado 2: The Second One, a freak weather system turns its deadly fury on New York City,
unleashing a Sharknado on the population and its most cherished, iconic sites – and only Fin (Ian Ziering)
and April (Tara Reid) can save the Big Apple. Sharknado 2, which was filmed in New York City, also stars
Mark McGrath, Kari Wuhrer, Vivica A. Fox and Judah Friedlander, with cameo appearances including Kelly
Osbourne, Judd Hirsch, Perez Hilton, Matt Lauer, Al Roker, Andy Dick, Robert Klein, Sandra “Pepa” Denton,
Biz Markie, Downtown Julie Brown, Richard Kind and Kurt Angle, among others. Sharknado 2: The Second
One is a production of The Asylum. Anthony C. Ferrante returns to direct a screenplay by Thunder Levin,
who also wrote Sharknado.
Dante is also quite an accomplished singer/songwriter. At age 12, Dante put his first band together,
MIGRAINE with fellow young musicians from his music school. After performing at The Bitter End and
Crash Mansion in NYC, Dante realized that music was his true passion and he began to study music and
write original songs. Playing the guitar, piano, bass and drums Dante began to shape the direction his life
would take. He put together several dedicated band mates and they formed their band, KAYMUS at age
14. He and his group KAYMUS have appeared in such venues as The Bitter End, Crash Mansion and The
Gramercy Theatre in NYC, Ollie’s Point and Revolutionary Club in Amityville, Long Island as well as shows
in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. They have been in
the Top 20 in Bamboozle’s The Break Contest in 2012 and 2013. Dante released the EP, World Away, in
2013.
In addition to performing as a singer/songwriter Dante's love for acting and filmmaking has given him the
opportunity to combine the different art mediums.
“Film and music are a perfect match, and I have had such a great time blending the two thru filmmaking,”
says Dante. In the short film Til’ 27 which he wrote and directed, Dante told the story of a young rock
musician who sells his soul to get over writer’s block. “Music has the power to make a good film even
better.”
Dante has also used film and video to chronicle life on the road while on tour with KAYMUS. “Film is a
natural fit for my music, and I intend to use both to tell my stories.”
Along with his parents, Dante and his sister, Gabriella, who is also a performer, spend their time between
New York and Los Angeles. Dante Palminteri, who will appear on “Good Day New York” this morning to
promote Sharknado 2: The Second One, is available for interviews upon request.
Contact: PR / Interview Requests (Palminteri): Wendy Morris Public Relations, Wendy Morris 212/7949306 [email protected]
Agent: Innovative Artists, Katie McGrath 212/659-5112 [email protected]
Manager: Liebman Entertainment, Brian Liebman 212/982-6666 x12 [email protected]
"Sharknado 2: The Second One" Press Contact: Syfy Publicity, Gary Morgenstein 212/6646407 [email protected]