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Kristen and Dax took in a movie and the paps were there:

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Kristen Bell wants you to Stand Up To Cancer:

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On the heels of news that Amanda Seyfried is starring in Catherine Hardwicke’s “Red Riding Hood,” the actress has committed to star in New Regency’s sci-fi film “I’m.mortal.”

Project is from writer-director Andrew Niccol of “The Truman Show” fame.

Twentieth Century Fox will distribute according to Variety.

The trade reports, “Film revolves around a society in which aging stops at the age of 25–meaning that every role in ‘I’m.mortal’ will be played by actors in their mid-20s.”

Seyfried plays a hostage, who along with her lover, rages against a system that has falsely accused him of murdering a rich man. In the film, those who are rich are considered to be immortal.

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Actor Jason Dohring, who you may remember as the rich and troubled Logan Echolls of Veronica Mars, has a new movie role in the works. Dohring will appear in Searching for Sonny, a high school reunion mystery as the character Elliot Knight opposite his co-star Minka Kelly in the role of Eden Mercer.

The comedy/thriller, currently being filmed in Texas, is due out this year and was directed by Andrew Disney who also wrote the script. Searching for Sonny follows “three bumbling friends who go back to their high school reunion and get sucked into a small town murder mystery.”

The synopsis – “Elliot, Calvin, and Gary who return to their high school reunion to discover that their old buddy, Sonny, is missing under mysterious circumstances. After run-ins with the law, an ex-girlfriend, and the corpse of the high school quarterback, the mystery turns meta when they realize that everything happening seems eerily similar to a play they performed in high school – a play Sonny wrote.”

Also scheduled to appear with Minka Kelly and Jason Dohring in Searching for Sonny is Masi Oka as Sonny, actor Michael Hogan, Britanni Johnson, Brian McElhaney, Nick Kocher, Matt Beckham, Melissa Rude, Kevin Green and several other new faces.

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FLASHPOINT, now airing on ITV3 in the UK, deals with a SWAT team in Toronto led by Gregory Parker, who is played by Enrico Colantoni. Colantoni has played a range of characters, but he’s probably best known for take-charge types like Parker and his characters in VERONICA MARS, JUST SHOOT ME and the immortal GALAXY QUEST. Colantoni talks about playing a man with a plan, with David Paetkau, who plays SWAT team member Sam Braddock on FLASHPOINT (a previous major credit is ALIEN VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM), adding some observations.

iF: You’ve been known for playing various command figures – the alien Thermian captain Malthesar in GALAXY QUEST, Sheriff Keith Mars and now SWAT team leader Greg Parker. From an audience standpoint, at least, the characters seem to be getting progressively tougher. …

ENRICO COLANTONI: It hasn’t been intentional, but I like the progression of it. I like going from a father figure [Mars] who’s sort of overprotective to another father figure [Parker] who’s protecting a platoon. But to me, he’s sort of the same guy, but with a little more willingness to be aggressive.

iF: So if Sheriff Mars who had become Detective Mars had gone on to lead a SWAT team, he might have …

COLANTONI: Yes, he might have been coming from a nurturing male role model, as opposed to an aggressive male role model.

iF: I have to ask – did you do the seal-barking Thermian dialogue track for the GALAXY QUEST DVD?

COLANTONI: I did not. They got somebody else to do it. I don’t know who did it – but somebody is cheating [laughs]. The new DVD has a segment about Thermian school, which is a lot of fun. It gives a little insight in how the Thermians came to be. It’s sort of cute.


iF: Were you instrumental in that?

COLANTONI: I sort of made [Thermian mannerisms and speech] all up and Dean Parisot said, “There’s the Thermian we want.” So I had to teach all [the other actors playing Thermians] how to walk like that. And bark. And choke in laughter.

iF: Do you enjoy roles where you get to have the heavy gear and be in charge?

COLANTONI: I’ll tell you something. We did the first episode where Greg Parker wasn’t in his uniform. And I felt vulnerable. And not superhuman. That uniform is very special.

DAVID PAETKAU: It does all the acting for you, too.

COLANTONI: It really does. You put it on and suddenly you feel like the authority is inherent in the costume.

iF: Does the uniform affect the way you perform?

COLANTONI: Yes. I find because that uniform is so empowering and so universal an image to anybody, they recognize it as authority and therefore you can do less.

PAETKAU: I think the gun helps, too.

iF: Do you have to do a lot of dialogue replacement later in post for when your helmet is down?

COLANTONI: We found from the first season to the second season, we’ve incorporated our microphones, so those are live mics now. So we do less ADR because of that. We’re getting smarter.

PAETKAU: Yeah. [Real SWAT team equipment is] not as fancy as we are, I think, with some of the things that we have. We have this kind of all-purpose, universal frequency that we can all hear each other when we decide we want to hear each other.

COLANTONI: Real SWAT guys come on our show and say, “We want that. We want that cool toy.” The things we use actually exist, but [they are not affordable for most real SWAT teams]. We got ‘em and they’re just so jealous of us.

iF: Now, for you, is it different playing somebody who’s in charge of a bunch of people, like Parker and Malthesar, versus playing somebody who’s more on his own, like Mars?

COLANTONI: The challenge is always in what makes a character different from any other character. This guy [Parker] happens to be a sergeant. It took me three days to hang out with the actual ETF to actually realize how it worked. It’s very organized. Ed Lane is the team leader; I’m the sergeant. He’s in charge of the team; I’m in charge of him and the team, and there’s the chain of command.

iF: Apart from just wearing the suit, which I imagine might be sweaty and kind of tiring after not too long, are there any particular physical challenges in the part?

COLANTONI: I’ve developed a sciatic thing from standing up and running up stairs for a year and a half. [to executive producer Bill Mustos] I didn’t want to tell you that, because I was afraid you’d replace me, but that uniform’s been a pain in my ass for about a year and a half. I get a lot of talking and a lot of sitting. But that’s the thing. With the sciatica, it’d be better to run up the stairs than just standing around talking. Probably not the answer you were expecting, but that’s the truth.

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