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 Time for another update on the work of the other main cast members of Cold Case in KM UK’s monthly round up we call the Cold Case Cast Catch-up. Appropriately enough for the time of year this is March’s round-up 
The first official trailer for new the movie remake of comedy musical Annie hit the Interwebs in early March (it seems so long ago already). Cold Case star Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) is in the movie but she doesn’t feature in the nearly 3 minute long promotional video. At least as far as I can see, let us know if I’m wrong. There is some singing, dancing, and the comedy stylings of one Cameron Diaz (The Mask). If you don’t know the story of Annie, and want to keep it that way until the movie is released, then it is probably best to avoid watching the clip on YouTube. Otherwise, go for it. (Question: Why is he wiping the inside of the window of his limo at the end?) Young starlet Quvenzhané Wallis (12 Years A Slave) is Annie. Django Unchained star Jamie Foxxxxxxxxx (delete as applicable) is the business man and mayoral candidate using Annie to boost his popularity, Rose Byrne (Bridesmaids) his assistant. Lilly Rush heart stealer Bobby Cannavale (Eddie Saccardo in CC) is in there too. In the last couple of days Tracie has been promoting another musical production. This time it is on the stage rather than screen and takes her back to her role in Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof. ‘For The Record’ take iconic film scenes and scores from films and recreate them on the stage. Having previously done productions based around movies like Boogie Nights, and the works of John Hughes, the Coen Brothers and Baz Luhrmann; now FTR are trying For The Record: Tarantino. Quentin’s work so often revolves around the music and has been responsible for re-introducing artists and genres to the great unwashed (that’s you and me). It starts tonight (27th Mar) in LA at the DBA (previously Voyeur) and continues on each Thursday to Sunday until mid-May.
Finally some movement on the An Bronntanas, the Irish TV drama starring John Finn (John Stillman in CC), front. More specifically that movement is around 6 months in that direction. No, no, left a bit. You got it! With no signs of a proper announcement, it looks like broadcast of the drama about the crew of a lifeboat with a large ethical quandary on their hands has been moved to the autumn. John’s appearance in the new TV series Believe first aired in the US nearly two weeks ago now. According to IMDb ‘CIA Deputy Director Randall Comstock’ went uncredited suggesting that it was quite small, perhaps reduced in the editing room from the original plan. If you know more about either project please let us know.
To cast our net a little wider for a change, clearly Cold Case is the launch pad for many a global mega-star. A mere five years after starring in a season 4 episode of CC, Jennifer Lawrence went on to massive success in The Hunger Games and it’s sequels (one of which, in 2 parts will be released this year and next). She also did alright with Silver Linings Playbook (she won an acting Oscar for it) and American Hustle. Now, Shailene Woodley, who you will of course know as Amish girl Sarah Gunden in CC episode Running Around has hit the very big time in her new movie Divergent. To the uneducated like myself the premise for Divergent sounds rather similar to The Hunger Games: young woman fighting the system. The fact that Divergent; based on novel by Veronica Roth and starring Theo James (Golden Boy), Kate Winslet (Titanic) and Ashley Judd (Missing); already has sequels in the works shows the film company was very confident of success. Don’t let the other roles the two actresses did after CC fool you though, it was clearly the experience gained from working with Kathryn and the crew that got them job
 Phew, February’s short! It only feels like last month that we posted the January edition of the KM UK ‘CCCC-up’, where we bring you up to date with what’s going on in the careers of the Cold Case cast members that aren’t Kathryn. We’ll start with award winners and end on a mystery…
Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera on CC). Jeremy. Jezza. The J-Man. JR. J. OK, I’ll stop. I’ve been mentioning the film Lost On Purpose; which stars Jeremy, Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm In The Middle) C Thomas Howell (The Outsiders) and 2012 Oscar winner Octavia Spencer (The Help); for what feels like forever. It has been available to watch via the Vimeo website for a few months now but continues to be screened as festivals. In just the last couple of days the movie won a directors award for the writer/directors Eshom & Ian Nelms at the New Hollywood Online Film Festival NUHO Awards. Well done to them. Lost On Purpose is about a woman (Kaczmarek) struggling to run a family owned dairy farm, the farm hands she employs, and facing increased competition from larger co-ops. Jeremy appears to have worked on a short film recently. A listing for a project called A Slow Coming Dark is now on IMDb and is described thus: “Three ex-cons join forces to kidnap the son of a very wealthy man for a healthy ransom, but there is one major problem in the equation.” The release date is down as “Los Angeles, 20th March 2014”, which could equate to a film festival but I’ve yet to narrow it down any further. Jeremy’s role is just named “T.J.”
There is still no word on the Irish TV show An Bronntanas which stars John Finn (John Stillman on CC). The five part drama, centred on the crew of a lifeboat and what they discover on a boat they go to rescue, was due to start being broadcast on the Irish TG4 station back in January. So far I’ve no evidence of it happening. It’s like it got lost out at sea. If you know different please let me know.
We can’t complete a CCCC-up without including Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC). If it wasn’t for Tracie these posts would be quarterly The short film A Different Tree, which stars Tracie, was broadcast on the HBO channel in the US from earlier this month. I believe that it has been shown several times already, with more screenings to come in March. The 15 minute long feature about an 8 year old girl (Morgan Ashley) and her absent father (Jason E Kelly) is also available on the HBO Go streaming service until the end of March. Tracie plays Pearl’s (Morgan) mother Jada. You might recognise Jason E Kelly from a small role in the Cold Case episode Mind Games (S06E18). He also worked alongside Jeremy Ratchford in the film The New Republic, which came out in late 2012. In fact you can see them both together in the trailer on YouTube here. For a change a couple of weeks ago Tracie wasn’t starring in a film, she was hosting one! Her own house had been taken over for some filming on a project called 2 Black Dudes. But Tracie being Tracie meant that the helping out on set didn’t last and she was off to do some work on a film called The Concessionaires Must Die. Details can be found on the official website. And what of the mysterious ending? A couple of days ago Tracie Tweeted that she was back in Philadelphia, the setting of and scene of some exterior filming on Cold Case. She wouldn’t say what she was doing in Philly but she described it as a “eye-opening experience!” Curiouser and curiouser.
 It’s only January and we’re already catching up with the work of the other Cold Case cast members in KM UK’s regular segment I call the CCCC-up.
Lady fighting movie Raze; which stars Zoë Bell (stunt woman on the likes of Grind House), Rachel Nichols (Alias), Sherilyn Fenn (Boxing Helena), and Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC); was released in some theatres and on VOD services (Amazon and iTunes for example) in the USA back on the 10th of January. It may be available in other territories as well. As far as I can tell the UK is not one of them. Amazon UK is showing a DVD release planned for mid-June 2014. Directed by Josh C. Waller (McCanick), and also starring Doug Jones (Pan’s Labyrinth) and Rosario Dawson (Sin City), is about a group of kidnapped women forced to fight each other to the death in order to save their families members. Even in that small collection of names there are lots of links. Rachel was in Resurrecting The Champ with Kathryn. She is also in McCanick by Josh and with Tracie. Rosario was in Rent with Tracie. It’s not what you know… As reported previously, depending on where you are in the world McCanick (Cory Monteith of Glee‘s last work) is either out already on DVD/VOD, or months away. Germany gets a DVD première February. Already on VOD in the USA, the DVD is due in May. When did these things get so complex?
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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.
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A CCCC-up is where I try and bring an update about the on-going careers of the stars of Cold Case that aren’t Kathryn. You may have noticed that I cover Kathryn’s work in greater detail in other posts on the site
Let’s start with the big man. The boss. Back in May John Finn (John Stillman in CC) filmed an Irish drama called An Bronntanas (previously mentioned here). The title translates as ‘the present’, as in gift. It was shot in Ireland and in Gaelic (the Irish language). The story revolves around the crew of a lifeboat working off the dangerous west coast of Ireland who find a dead woman and a huge stash of drugs on a boat. The show, if IMDb is to be believed, starts to air on the 28th of January next year. A date that means a lot to everyone on this site of course. Speaking of ‘believe’ John will be guest starring in at least one episode of an new upcoming drama series on the NBC network called Believe. The show is about a young girl with supernatural powers and an unlikely protector in the form of a death-row inmate broken out of prison especially for the job. The girl has supernatural powers which are growing stronger as she gets older. Her carers up till now have been a group known as the True Believers. The show’s creator, Alfonso Cuarón, has been in the media a lot recently because he produced/director/wrote a little movie starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney called Gravity. Despite that pedigree the programme was not picked up for the main fall/autumn season, but will air at some point in the new year. It has been a bit of rocky road to get here too, with original cast member Sienna Guillory (Luther) and showrunner/co-creator Mark Friedman leaving the production over the summer.
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