Welcome to our final look for 2013 at the careers of other members of the Cold Case cast in what we like to call our Cold Case Cast Catch-up, or CCCC-up for not very short.
Due to her prodigious work rate and willingness to Tweet about it we’ll start, as usual, with Tracie Thoms aka Kat Miller in CC. I believe that Tracie has completed filming on Annie, the Sony Pictures remake of the musical. She was photographed by the paps in early December filming on the streets of NY and was back home in LA last week. Of course Tracie may not have fully completed her work on the project. There could still be re-shoots, studio based filming, and audio work to do. It would be quicker to list who is not in this re-telling of the Annie story, suffice to say it is an all-star cast. See a previous CCCC-up for a few more details. The film is expected to be released a year from today on the 19th December 2014. Raze, the Zöe Bell starring fighting females movie, has finally got a release date for the US cinemas. It is the 10th January 2014. It originally premièred back in April at the Tribeca Film Festival. Also starring Rachel Nichols (G.I. Joe) and Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks), Raze is about a group of women incarcerated against their will and forced into unarmed, to-the-death combat with each other. Clearly not a comedy as this brutal new trailer shows. Rachel also appears, albeit very briefly if reports are to be believed, in another film of Tracie’s: McCanick. David Morse is Eugene ‘Mack’ McCanik, an out of control cop hunting for a young criminal played by the late Cory Monteith (Glee Club) in his final role. It looks like McCanik is already out on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia but a theatre showing is expected in the US in the new year. In the last couple of days Tracie has Tweeted from Germany. She’s there as part of a series of events put on to entertain American troops stationed abroad. Not surprisingly, in Germany in this case. Tracie is billed alongside the likes of Gary Cole (Veep) and Raven Symone (That’s So Raven). The AITAF (Arts In The Armed Forces) is behind the trip. It is their mission to “honor, educate, inspire, and entertain all active duty and veteran members of the United States Armed Forces and their families by engaging them in the power and social service of the performing arts“. You can read about AITAF on their website.
Lost On Purpose, a drama that stars Jane Kaczmarek (Malcom In The Middle), C. Thomas Howell (Southland), Oscar-winning Octavia Spencer (The Help), and our Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC) will be getting a première screening in the area it was filmed in, Tulare County, on January 9th. The film has been shown at various film festivals this past summer but has yet to receive a significant release. Hopefully it will shortly. It had passed me by that the film is actually available to watch online (for a fee) on the video hosting website Vimeo. You can see it here.
Last time out (the November CCCC-up) I mentioned the new series due to start in the new year on the NBC network called Believe. It is created by Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón and executive produced by JJ Abrams, who knows a thing or two about successful TV shows having created Lost, for example. At the time it was noted that the show had had a complicated birth, not in of itself unusual for a new show, losing a significant member of the cast and the showrunner. It’s done it again with a second showrunner departing in the last few days. Production has been put on hold for an extra week over the coming holiday period to help his replacement ease into the role. John Finn (John Stillman in CC) is listed on IMDb has having a role as the director of the CIA in the second episode. Nothing more is known at this stage, not even a definite date for the first episode to be shown. January or February is most likely.
We’ve not heard much of Thom Barry (Will Jeffries on CC) since Cold Case ended. It was back in May that he last featured in a CCCC-up, in which we mentioned that Thom is starring in a film by the triply appropriate name of Richard Peter Johnson. It turns out that trailer was released for the film back in early November. You can see it on YouTube. It’s a comedy about the titular (I had to get crowbar word in here somewhere!) porn star’s efforts to become a serious actor. Obviously that is going to make it a little bit NSFW. As per the theme of recent months Thom does not appear in the trailer. I’m tempted to say he only has a small part in the film, but that would be inappropriate, so I won’t…
There hasn’t been much to say about Danny Pino (Scotty Valens on CC) this past year because of his work on the long-running procedural Law & Order: Special Victims Unit taking most of his time. Perhaps next year there will be other work too.
That’s it for the CCCC-ups in 2013. They’ll be back in 2014.
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