Tim Ryan's Reel Hawaii

SECRET: FIVE-0′S  GRACE PARK & DANIEL DAE KIM  IN TONIGHT’S HONOLULU CITY LIGHTS PARADE

Hawaii Five-0 stars  Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park will ride in tonight’s Honolulu City Lights Parade in a black Chevrolet Camaro convertible just before Santa Claus at the end of the parade, according to Five-0 production sources. It also looks like the Castle High School band will precede the Camaro playing the Hawaii Five-0 theme when Kim and Park arrive at  the television  platform fronting Honolulu Hale. Kim’s family – wife and two children – will sit in the VIP section  for the tree lighting…

The student staff of the McKinley school newspaper – The Pinion – were allowed to “shadow” the production throughout the shoot and take photos of the actors “during filming” but not between scenes, sources said…Interestingly, teachers and other school staff were told by production staff and the administration they could not take photos of the shoot…

The student staff of the M

The student staff of the McKinley school newspaper – The Pinion – were allowed to “shadow” the production throughout the shoot and take photos of the actors “during filming” but not between scenes, sources said…Interestingly, teachers and other school staff were told by production staff and the administration they could not take photos of the shoot…

school newspaper – The Pinion – were allowed to “shadow” the production throughout the shoot and take photos of the actors “during filming” but not between scenes, sources said…Interestingly, teachers and other school staff were told by production staff and the administration they could not take photos of the shoot…

Hawaii Five-0 which is filming in Kakaako today will get a visit from the Austrialia-Consulate today, including Prime Minister Julia Gillard, her hairdresser partner Tim Matheson (above) and staffer Susie Annus….Five-0 star Alex O’Loughlin was born in Australia…On Monday, the Five-0 cast will visit Hickam Sir Force Base for an event called “The Teaching Garden”…Then in the afternoon Ms. Chikako Ajisaw, Japan’s AXN, will “observe” filming at the production’s base at the The Advertiser Building...

Actor Tom Sizemore (above) is back for the filming of the Five-0 episode Alaheo Pau’ole playing character Capt. Pryer…Sources say Sizemore has impressed the creative team so much audiences will be seeing more of him than originally planned…

HUGGIES DIAPERS LOOKING FOR TODDLERS

Calling all toddlers! Leroy Jenkins’ Productions Partners will be filming a national commercial for Huggies diapers and is seeking toddlers – boys and girls – 16 months to 24 months old of all ethincities. The toddlers must be able to walk well…This is a SAG job so they will be paid $520.20 a day plus residuals…

Auditions will be held Nov. 11-14, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. at a location to be announced…If interested call Production Partners at 923-6777 to schedule your toddler’s audition date & time…All appointments are first come first served…

IMPORTANT: Semi-finalist will be notified and must attend PP’s Callback Session on Nov. 15…If your toddler is selected to appear on the commercial, he/she must be available on Nov. 17 & 18 for filming. Nov. 19 is the production’s weather back up day…

Universal Pictures mega budget action film – budget about $200 million – is back in Hawaii to film three days of reshooting all at Pearl Harbor and on the USS Missouri…The USS Memorial is closed to the public through Monday, reopening on Tuesday…

Battleship began filming in Hawaii in June 2010…

The story is about a fleet of ships that’s forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals…Peter Berg is director…The film is slated for release in May 2012…Based on the Milton Bradley game “Battleship” that they have manufactured since 1931 though the manual paper and pencil version of the same game predates 1900…

Battleship stars Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna, Asano Tadanobu, and Liam Neeson…At least one of the primary cast, Decker (above), is here for the reshoots…

JIMMY BUFFET MAKES HIS DEBUT AS GUEST START ON HAWAII FIVE-0′S ”KI’ILUA” EPISODE

It’s a major departure for Reel Hawaii to review films, but I can’t restrain myself from gushing over the Sony Pictures film The Descendants directed by Academy Award winning director Alexander Payne. It is a flawless work of art and a model of reserved filmmaking understated in the dialogue, acting, and the Hawaiian music…Clooney once again gives a stellar everyman performance conveying honest feelings and doubts in trying to solve some major issues, not the least of which is his wife’s pending death, her affair, a rebellious 17-year-old daughter played remarkably true by Shailene Woodley, and whether or not to sell the family’s land trust for a half-billion dollars or keep it to preserve that he knows will infuriate the other heirs…Clooney’s magic has little to do with his his beguiling good looks but with his emotional honesty that in The Descendants any husband, father, and businessman will understand…

Woodley’s portrayal of the oldest daughter Alexandra King is so real that it’s sometimes difficult to watch her deal with the issues about her mom and her anger at her father’s absence because of his legal practice…Beau Bridges as Clooney’s cousin Brian who wants the  land sale to go through is pure BB, real, darkly humorous and gut wrenching…Local actor Barbara L. Southern as the Alzheimer inflicted grandmother is so real one came away thinking is she ill with the desease…

I expect The Descendants to be nominated for an Oscar for either directing or acting….

What is especially remarkable is that director Payne spent so much time in pre production studying Hawaii, its’ people, land issues, music, big city problems like homelessness, traffic and crime so he could get it right…And he did…

The Descendants wouldn’t have happened if not for author Kaui Hart Hemmings‘ book, a reserved take on Hawaii using a kamaaina family to illustrate that even “paradise” has major problems…Kaui, you must feel so proud and Hawaii is proud of you for being a truly honest writer…

Hana hou to the mostly all Hawaii crew who helped bring this story to life, including makeup artists Karen Iboshi Preiser, Debra Rego, production management Renee Confair, art department coordinator Serena Rios Flores, set buyer Camille Komine, ADR mixer Chris Navarro, stunts Brian L. Keaulana and Titus Kinimaka, first assistant camera “B” camera Rick Brock, underwater camera operator Don King, music supervisor Dondi Bastone, transportation coordinator John Reed, location manager Jim Triplett and assistant location manager Timmy Chinn, travel and shipping coordinator Ashley C. Smith…

Entertainer/entrepreneur Jimmy Buffett get some major face time in the Hawaii Five-0 episode “Ki’ilua” with two days filming at Kualoa Ranch. Buffett plays a grizzled and grumpy former military pilot named Frank Bama, apparently an inside joke on Buffett being raised in Alabama…Some scenes were supposed to take place in Korea at “Frank’s” helicopter hangar where the crew climbs in then lifts off. Another was a bar scene where Terry O’Quinn (Joe) introduces McGarrett and Danno to Frank…There is also a missile firing and a bridge explosion…

Star Trek’s sequel filming which sources said had planned to shoot in Hawaii for 18 days in January has been postponed…Paramount has scouted some Hawaiian islands – Kauai and Oahu specifically – but pretty much decided to film on the Garden Island…Along with the filming about two months of pre production also had been scheduled to start in November…

Star Trek pre-production on the sequel is currently underway in Los Angeles. The script — written by Alex Kutzman, Roberto Orci, and Damon Lindelof — is expected to be completed by the end of September. There’s still no update on when the sequel will be released. It was originally set for June 29, 2012…Mainland sources say that the film could open in summer or winter  2013…