Not Just Voiceover

EA has released a new movie showing off the voiceover work that has gone into making Mass Effect 3.
It covers a trip to the BioWare Edmonton studio in Canada and insight from voiceover director Caroline Livingstone and lead sound designer Rob Blake.

Abigail Breslin reportedly made $65,000 for just four hours’ voiceover work on the new animated feature Zambezia.

The 15-year-old, who previously leant her vocal talents to Rango, charged $16,250 per hour for the recording session, reports TMZ.

Breslin voiced a cartoon bird character named Zoe in the film, which also includes voiceover roles from Samuel L Jackson, Leonard Nimoy and Jeff Goldblum.

The website also claims that Breslin made $275,000 for her role in Garry Marshall’s New Year’s Eve, which took only one week to film.

Breslin recently confessed that she cried upon meeting Zac Efron while working on New Year’s Eve, as she has always been a big fan of his.

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The top voiceover pros in the country, led by JOE CIPRIANO, gathered in studios this week to donate their time and talent to record “THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS” to benefit PRIME TIME VOICES FOR CHILDREN. This is the first time that the people whose voices are heard every day on TV, radio and in movie theaters have had the opportunity to participate in a recording project and live performance for this cause.

JOE CIPRIANO produced the project and JOHN MASECAR was the sound designer of the classic holiday poem. STEVE BRAVIN and his team at Killer Tracks, courtesy of UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP, donated the music free of licensing fees to the cause. The track can be purchased on CDBABY.COM, AMAZON and iTUNES. Donations can be made through Fundly.

“With so many stations presenting 24-hour-a-day CHRISTMAS programming for the season,” CIPRIANO said. “We felt there was an opportunity to offer up new and unique holiday content for radio programmers and music directors to freshen up their playlists of holiday classics and do some good for children.”

The cast includes well-known movie trailer voices such as ASHTON SMITH, BEN PATRICK JOHNSON and SCOTT RUMMELL, TV network voices CIPRIANO (CBS), RINO ROMANO (NBC) RANDY THOMAS (ET) and GEORGE DELHOYO (Fox) and animation voice actors BOB BERGEN (PORKY PIG) and PAT FRALEY (GHOSTBUSTERS) join the cast of 31 voice actors.

The group has made the track available for radio stations to download, and all are encouraged to include a donation link on their website so that listeners can make a donation to PRIME TIME VOICES FOR CHILDREN to benefit MATTEL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL UCLA. The group requests that radio stations mention the donation button on-air before and after playing the recording.

To purchase a download of “THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS”, make additional donations and get exclusive information about the cast and the project, visit Facebook.com/PrimeTimeVoicesForChildren.

HBO To Retain Liev Schreiber As Sole Voice Of HBO Sports

The best voiceover dudes have found a way to be familiar and coaxing at the same time. NBC’s voice over dude has probably been the most recent one to get stuck in my head, but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been many other great voice over names in the past. One of the most prolific talents is that of actor Liev Schreiber, who has been the voice of HBO Sports for the past sixteen years. With an upcoming pilot and a contract negotiation on the horizon, it almost looked like Schreiber would lose his throne as the sole voice of HBO sports.

Shreiber recently signed on to star in the new Showtime pilot, Ray Donavon. Around the same time, his overall deal with HBO was coming to term. Perhaps because of this Deadline predicted Schreiber would not be signing a new contract, with insiders stating HBO planned to work with a variety of sources over the coming year in sports.

This wouldn’t have been all bad news for Schreiber. HBO still had plans to implement Schreiber in the upcoming 24/7 documentary following the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Rangers on The Road To The NHL Winter Classic, as well as some future projects. Luckily, there is some great news rather than some not totally bad news for Schreiber. HBO has changed its mind and will retain Schreiber as the sole voice of HBO Sports. It’s a deal to be able to work with two pay cable networks that are both producing awesome programming, and I hope Schreiber has a hell of a lot of fun with it

http://www.cinemablend.com/television/HBO-Retain-Liev-Schreiber-Sole-Voice-HBO-Sports-37530.html

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It’s disappointment for Grand Theft Auto 5 fans as it’s been revealed Hollywood star Ray Liotta will not voicing the latest game. The trailer appeared on the internet yesterday (November 2nd 2011) with the game’s leading character providing a voiceover as to why he moved to a city that seems strongly modelled on Los Angeles.

Fans were excited when they noticed a character that bore a resemblance to Tommy Vercetti, main protagonist in the 2002 game ‘Grand Theft Auto: Vice City’, and voiced by Liotta. However the 56 year-old actor’s representatives told IGN that it was not their man speaking over the advert, casting doubt as to whether the character in the fifth instalment is in fact Vercetti with a re-cast voiceover, or someone else entirely.

The Grand Theft Auto series of games are among the most successful and controversial in gaming history, allowing players to run amok in built up urban areas, usually in the role of a gangster. A sandbox game, meaning the player can create their own scenarios, it’s long caused controversy for the ease at which players can break the law and kill civilians. That said, the series has now spawned 10 games since its release in 1997, with actors such as Samuel L Jackson, Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper and Gary Busey all providing voiceovers in the past; in total the series has sold over 124 million units worldwide.