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His Movie Is The One To See This Weekend
Bullets that can bend around a corner. Non-stop action. Cool special effects. Clever, creative scenes. Funny dialogue. And of course, Angelina Jolie.These were all of the things that still have me thinking about the Producers Guild screening of Marc Platt’s (C’79, Glee Club) Wanted that I saw last night. I honestly think this film was […]
He’s Producing Another Winning Film And That’s A Fact
Marc Platt (C’79, Glee Club) will be co-producing a live action movie to author Jason Carter Eaton’s children’s book The Facttracker. Per a great review for the book on goodreads.com: “The Facttracker works in the Factory finding facts which the people of Traakerfaxx then supply to the world. When the just small enough boy, who […]
Music Mondays: His Music is Wicked Awesome
He’s an actor and a singer and he’s performing in the ensemble of a hot musical here in Los Angeles. DJ Gregory (W’03, Off the Beat) is now performing in the ensemble of the cast of Marc Platt’s (C’79) Wicked (8 shows a week!) at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles, and also understudies the […]
Penn Producer Debuts Movie Trailer during SuperBowl
Did you see Marc Platt’s (C’79, Glee Club) movie trailer for his upcoming film Wanted during the first half of today’s Superbowl? It looked really cool. (Marc’s previously produced projects include Legally Blonde and Broadway’s Wicked) Wanted stars Angelina Jolie and comes out next June. Per Yahoo Movies, here is the Wanted plot synopsis: “25-year-old […]
Talent & Involvement run deep in this Penn family
Jonah Platt (C’08) is quite the renaissance man. Not only can Jonah sing well, and not only is he the musical director of Off the Beat, but he started and sustained an improvised musical troupe “One Night Stand” for the past 7 years (with a show in Los Angeles this week!). Talk about being involved! […]
A home on campus for bands, jugglers, irish fiddlers, & belly dancers
I love this. It seems with the new Platt Student Performing Arts House, Penn has really been providing students with some very cool opportunities. (thank you Marc Platt (C’79)!) From this fantastic program to an even more fantastic, dare I say “cool” opportunity open to students, staff, faculty and alums(!). More after the jump…Twice a […]
