Update 10-3-2013: Stand-ins for the starring actors are now being cast. The extras registration information is also now posted. Film crew members can now submit resumes via email.
Today Acting-Auditions.org is reporting that Alcon Entertainment and Bottlenose Productions are gearing up to begin production on the Warner Bros. Pictures feature film sequel "Dolphin Tale 2". The Primetime Emmy Award winning casting directors in Los Angeles and New York have been auditioning actors for starring and co-starring roles. Additional casting is take place in Florida, where shooting is scheduled to commence on October 20, 2013. The photo-doubles and stand-ins for the films principal actors, as well as general extras and featured background actors are now being cast in October and will continue throughout production.
"Dolphin Tale 2" will continue the adventures on Winter, a bottlenose dolphin that was rescued in December 2005 off the Florida coast and taken in by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. Winter lost her tail after becoming entangled with a rope attached to a crab trap and was fitted with a prosthetic one. The film will tell the story of a new dolphin, a baby named Hope who was also saved and rehabilitated by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in 2010. Two 80,000-foot stranding pools were constructed for the first film on the Clearwater Marine Aquarium property and, when filming wrapped, the Aquarium got to keep the pools and use them to rehab dolphins.
Returning to star in the sequel is five-time Young Artist Awards nominee Nathan Gamble, who played the role of Sawyer Nelson; Young Artist Awards nominee Cozi Zuehlsdorff as Hazel Haskett; two-time Primetime Emmy Award winner Harry Connick Jr. as Dr. Clay Haskett; two-time Golden Globe Award nominee Ashley Judd as Lorraine Nelson; Academy Award nominee Kris Kristofferson as Reed Haskett; Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman as Dr. Cameron McCarthy; and of course, Winter as herself.
Details on how talent can submit for acting roles, and registration information for extras can be found on the following casting post:
"Dolphin Tale 2" Casting Calls
ALL talent including minors and foreign actors MUST be legally eligible to work in the state of Florida and in the United States.
The 2013 Orlando Resource Guide eBook includes the following information and documents for adults, minors, and foreign talent who would like to work as an actor or extra on film and television productions in Orlando and the United States:
• Florida Child Labor Laws
• Employment of Minors by the Entertainment Industry
• USA Child Actor Work Permit Requirements
• USA Immigration Work Permits and Visas
• Non-Immigrant USA Visa Application
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• Orlando Casting Directors List
• Orlando Extras Casting Directors List
• Florida Talent and Modeling Agency Information
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• Orlando Acting Schools and Classes List
• Orlando Voice and Dialect Coaches
• Summer Performing Arts Camps
• Orlando Headshot Photographers List
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• Orlando Performers Unions
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• Orlando Sound Stages
• Audition Tips
• How To Make an Audition Video
• Sample Actors Resume
• Sample Beginning Actors Resume
• Sample Casting Director and Talent Agents Cover Letters
• Entertainment Industry Terminology
• PDF Users Guides
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