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Look Ma, No Masks! ‘Big Ang’ And Sherée Whitfield Make Us Afraid, Very Afraid In Scary Movie 5 Photo

Dimension Films must be saving a butt load on its make-up budget for Scary Movie 5 .   For the second time in a week, the production company has sent out a photo from the movie that features tabloid stars who don’t need no stinkin’ prosthetics or CGI effects to deliver goose bumps. The above shot, taken on the set of the comedy horror picture,  shows  Big Ang Raiola from  Mob Housewives , and Sherée Whitfield, from  The Real Housewives of Atlanta,  looking like  Trouble .   Scary Movie 5 doesn’t hit theaters until April 19, 2013, so I expect to see additional photos of tabloid regulars with cameos in the film surfacing in the interim. On Sept. 20, Movieline ran a still from the picture that depicted  Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan  in bed after a hot night in the sack (or maybe TMZ).   As I noted in that post, it seems like it will only be a matter of time before Kim Kardashian gets a close-up. In the email that accompanied the photo of Raiola and Whitfield, a Dimension representative wrote that the two women, who are known for their combative ways on camera, “go to blows in an unforgettable fight scene.”  No doubt, but  I feel the need to note that with the kind of pneumatic decolletage Ang is sporting in the shot,  I don’t think either one of those ladies would be able to get close enough to the other to deliver a deciding blow.  That said, I do think they have a future in the horror movies.  Just looking at these ladies inexplicably makes me think of the word, “succubus.” Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

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Look Ma, No Masks! ‘Big Ang’ And Sherée Whitfield Make Us Afraid, Very Afraid In Scary Movie 5 Photo

Tony Bennett’s Daughter Johanna Announces First Time Fest Will Take Place In New York In March

First-time filmmakers will be celebrated at the inaugural First Time Fest, a film festival that will take place March 1-4, 2013.  At a reception at the Players Club in Gramercy Park on Thursday night, FTF founders Johanna Bennett, the actor and philanthropist daughter of singer Tony Bennett, and producer Mandy Ward ( Palestine Blues ), announced that they are seeking submissions for the fledgling festival, which will be based out of the arts organization that was founded by Edwin Booth and Mark Twain.  (Films will be screened at the Loews Village VII on Third Avenue and East 11th Street.) David Schwartz, the Artistic Director and Head Curator of Museum of the Moving Image is the festival’s director of programming, and Mitch Levine, CEO of The Film Festival Group, will serve as an adviser. The festival’s Grand Prize winner will receive an offer of theatrical distribution through Cinema Libre Studio ( Fuel , Bloodline ) in Canoga Park, CA.

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