You know we told you about that Bethemoviestar website, which claimed to be the world’s biggest open casting call? And you know we were a little, um, sarky about the whole malarky? If you missed the story, click here to have a look, while we eat this big slice of humble pie. Apparently the site has been an incredible success, receiving over 100,000 visits in just its first week. Well.

Evidently galvanised by the coverage on D+CFilm (plus some radio interviews and newspaper articles and stuff) some 400 aspiring movie stars sent in clips to audition for Steve Nesbit’s occult thriller, which has a terrible name that we can’t actually remember at the moment.

Nesbit explained to D+CFilm: “Bethemoviestar.com had so many clip submissions over the holiday that it crashed. It was down for a couple hours. We’ve now had to add an extra web server to handle the traffic. There’s also been a huge response from the casting community, wanting to share in some of our raw talent - so we’re still hoping for many more entries.”

Hmm, we bet they are. After all, there’s precious little evidence of these numerous fantastic clips on the actual site. There is, however, a reeeeeally long interview with Nesbit - you can tell he’s a proper filmmaker cos he’s got a TV with colour bars on it behind his head. Coo! Not sure we need to know
what he thinks of the new James Bond or what films he’s gonna watch over Christmas though.

Either way, we’re appropriately humbled and can only wish bethemoviestar.com luck with its mission and say we’re looking forward to seeing the finished movie (well, we’re not really but y’know, there’s no need to be rude, is there?).

Stay tuned to D+CFilm for more exciting developments in the bethemoviestar saga (or possibly not).

Posted by Thin White Duke

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