Not Just Voiceover

The first trailer for the upcoming documentary on the voices behind the scenes has been released. Looking forward to it!

Careful around open windows when practicing!

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Police investigating reports that a man was verbally abused in the borough were in for a surprise when they got to the bottom of the matter.

After the incident, which was reported in November 2011, police started an investigation which was concluded when they discovered that the abuser was, in fact, a voice-over actor rehearsing.

The actor was practicing a range of characters with a selection of accents and, police report, some of those characters were quite abusive.

Officers advised the actor not to practice too close to his window in future.

The Hobbit actor Martin Freeman has revealed how doing voice over work for his latest movie The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists is nothing like what he is used to. Martin claims that he spent more time in a room on his own than he would have liked.

Freeman explained, “It’s nothing like making a film or being in a play, it’s actually, on the face of it, it’s everything I don’t want acting to be. I don’t want to be alone, the thing I love about acting is the other people you’re doing it with. The process of it is definitely not what I got into acting for to be fair.

He added, “I got into it for good stories, which is great, but also hopefully the process is a bit more community based. For the most part you’re alone recording this. There were times when I was with other actors, but not many times. It’s a very prolonged process as well.”

Martin continued, “As an actor you don’t ever really get to do this, you don’t normally get to do 25 different readings of Captain! without punching the director. But with this you were really happy to be there, you’re in the zone.”

The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists also stars Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek and Jeremy Piven and is set to be released in the UK on March 28 and in the US on April 27.

In its new television ad campaign, launched this week for the spring selling season, Coldwell Banker Real Estate is focusing on the deepest, most personal meanings of homeownership.

The new ads feature the voice of “Magnum P.I.” television star Tom Selleck, whose father had served as an executive with Coldwell Banker for 38 years. When Selleck found out he was selected for the ad campaign, he reportedly told his mother that he “was at last in the family business.”

Actor-singer Zac Efron, who is part of the animated movie ” The Lorax”, says giving voice-over for the film was not what he had expected.

The actor plays the lead protagonist Ted and admits putting his voice down for the part was not what he had expected, reported contactmusic.com.

“It was kind of weird. It was not what I expected. Luckily, I found out we got to record before it was animated, so we didn’t have to fit our lips into their mouths, which I always wondered if people had to do or not.