THE S.E. CHANNEL News Headlines: Tony Green New Ventures "THE PSYCHIC SHOW" "UP, DOWN, SIDEWAYS" "DAMN THOSE WEDDING BELLS"

TONY GREEN

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(aka Antonio DiVerdis)

Based in Montreal, Green has had a thirty year history as a songwriter, singer, musician, music producer and filmmaker. He is a multi-skilled entrepreneur with extensive entertainment industry experience. Acting almost exclusively independently he has an impressive track record of success in the industry. In July 1996 he was inducted into the Canadian Dance Hall of Fame.

Description: Antonio DiVerdis, winner of the Best Score for South of the Moon from Canada with his producer and TIFF volunteers

Green started his career in the early 1980s as a songwriter/musician. When he couldn’t get songs recorded by existing artists he decided to record them himself. After a few years as a recording artist, he started to produce his own records. As a song writer-producer he wrote and produced a string of hit songs including

‘Come to Me’ and ‘Everybody Get up and Boogie’ both of which made the Billboard charts.

RCA Records he had a hit song entitled ‘Fool’. Being a prolific songwriter, he began writing and producing songs for other singers and this led him to discover and produce such artists as France Joli, Freddie James and Luba. He has also had very considerable experience and achievement in the movie industry. He has written, produced and directed music videos and feature films. He wrote and produced the coming of age feature film ‘South of the Moon’, which won best score at the Tiburon Film Festival.

As result of Mr. Green’s experience as a musician, hit songwriter, artist and record producer as well as music publisher, artist manager and filmmaker,he has acquired a rounded knowledge of the entertainment business. He has an unequalled reputation in the industry together with extensive business associations and industry contacts worldwide.

listen to Everybody Get Up and Boogie’

Green has built up an impressive track record of achievement over the years having been a prolific producer of successful albums and many of his songs have been charted on Billboard magazine. His hits include ‘Come to Me’, ‘The Heart to Break the Heart’, ‘Everybody Get Up and Boogie’, ‘Hollywood’, ‘Pick Up The Pieces’ and ‘Don’t
Turn Your Back On Love’. ‘To Love Means to Be Free’ and ‘Fool’.

His songs have been featured in feature films such as ‘All Good Things’, ‘Studio 54’, ‘Mannequin II’, ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ and they have also been featured on TV shows such as ‘Once a Thief’, ‘Siren’, and ‘General Hospital’ just to name a few. Tony Green presently runs two record labels and a film company: Evolution Records (www.evolutionrecords.ca), Polaris Records (www.polarisrecords.ca) and Stargaze Pictures (www.stargazepictures.com).

STARGAZE PICTURES

Antonio DiVerdis New Ventures "THE PSYCHIC SHOW" "UP, DOWN, SIDEWAYS" "DAMN THOSE WEDDING BELLS"

Stargaze Pictures is an independent production company based in Montreal that engaged in the production of film, television and music videos. This innovative independent company is now in the process of developing a television series entitled

UP, DOWN, SIDEWAYS and a reality show entitled THE PSYCHIC SHOW.

Three feature films are also in the works;
The first of which is to be produced is entitled DAMN THOSE WEDDING BELLS. Stargaze pictures is also a line producer catering to American and European film producers and providing them with a turnkey operation to get their movie produced on time and in budget. Montreal is a great cosmopolitan city with amazing diverse locations and experienced film crews a well as equipment rental and state of the art post production facilities. Another factor that makes Montreal the choice of many out-of-town filmmakers is the Canada/Quebec tax credits incentives that make shooting in Montreal a win-win situation.

UP, DOWN, SIDEWAYS is a sitcom television series that deals with a man of Italian background in his early fifties who always gets himself into hilarious extraordinary situations and uses off-the-wall unexpected measures to get himself out of them.
He’s short, bald and irreverent with a magnetic and explosive personality which can be described as a mixture of Archie Bunker and Larry David. The show is edgy an innovative, geared mostly for a mature audience. Each episode will run one half hour.

The Psychic Show
THE PSYCHIC SHOW is a reality show starring JZ Crystal, a renowned female psychic that has read the likes of Pierre Eliot Trudeau, Celine Dion and Goldie Hawn to mention just a few. JZ Crystal is a psychic extraordinaire with many years of experience in her practice of this paranormal phenomenon. JZ is a good-looking woman who is vivacious, vibrant and charming. Her talent and assuredness in her work as a psychic and as a medium empower her with the capacity to be at ease in her interaction with people, whether it is over the telephone or in person. Each episode will run one half hour.

Damn Those Wedding Bells
DAMN THOSE WEDDING BELLS. This feature film is a romantic comedy adapted from a stage play of the same title. As a play, it had three very successful runs in Montreal.
Twice in English and once in French (translated by none other than the great French playwright Michel Tremblay). It’s after seeing the play and the amazing reaction it received from the audience that I asked the playwright to write the screenplay (which immediately optioned).

Talia Shire and Olympia Dukakis are being considered to partake in this project

Talia Shire Olympia Dukakis

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ELITE CASTING
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Stargaze Pictures’ in-house casting, Elite Casting (www.elitecastingcanada.com), is a premier casting agency for film, television and theatre. For the past 25 years Elite
Casting has provided exceptional casting services across Canada and the U.S. working with some of the finest and most respected producers and directors in the industry.

They have discovered and launched many young Canadian actors and actresses, who have since established themselves world-wide with highly successful careers.
The founders of Elite Casting are Rosina Bucci Nadia Rona and Vera Miller whose filmography credits include such high profile films as ;

“ The Jackal” with Bruce Willis and Richard Gere, “The Art of War” with Wesley Snipes and Anne Archer, “The Score” with Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando, “Beyond Borders” with Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen, “Where The Money Is” with Paul Newman and Linda Fiorentino, “The Whole Nine Yards with Bruce Willis and Mathew Perry, and “Where The Money Is” with Marlon Brando and Donald Sutherland to name just a few. You may go to the following links for their full filmography: