For casting consideration, send a photo of yourself along with your stats (age, sex, height, weight) and your contact information to…

I WANNA BE A JERSEY GIRL!
c/o
Mike Lemon Casting
Callowhill Office Center
413 North 7th St.
Suite 602
Philadelphia, PA
19123

Deadline for submissions is August 31st.

“In a town starving for Jersey Girl-related sightings on its first week of filming, this will have to do:

Police tow trucks were busy clearing parked cars from Chestnut Street yesterday outside the Lord & Taylor store, near 13th Street. What was up? Ben Affleck and Jason Biggs, who play coworkers in the Kevin Smith film, were due to show up to shoot inside the Wanamaker Building. When queried, a worker at the building said an upstairs stairwell would look great on celluloid.

The Jersey Girl crew will be in Paulsboro, Gloucester County, today and tomorrow before taking a Labor Day break.

In other Jersey Girl matters:

Affleck and his best friend, Matt Damon, have something else in the works these days. They enjoy giving back to the film community since they were plucked from obscurity with Good Will Hunting, and are launching their second Project Greenlight filmmaking contest; this time it’s open to aspiring writers and directors, with the winners getting $1 million to make their movie. (Info: projectgreenlight.com.)

And the sight of Biggs, who stars in the American Pie flicks, ties nicely into a bit of, uh, dish: George Carlin, who plays Affleck’s father, is a major-league, don’t-spare-the-nutmeg pumpkin-pie connoisseur. We’re told that a few pies have been delivered to him for his dining pleasure.”

“Writer/director Kevin Smith and producer Scott Mosier hosted a start-up party for the Jersey Girl crew Friday night at Drinker’s Tavern (124 Market St.). Among the 130 attendees were Smith’s wife, actress Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, and their dressed-to-the-nines daughter, Harley Quinn, 3, plus Greater Philadelphia Film Office czarina Sharon Pinkenson.”

“A red T-shirted Ben Affleck and a peasant-bloused Liv Tyler (model/actress daughter of Aerosmith’s Steve Tyler) were hustled into Center City’s Sigma Sound, apparently to record something for “Jersey Girl.” Wait! They are singing and Jennifer Lopez is not? What’s up? Sigma won’t say…”

‘Jersey Girl’ Recruits Extras Online By The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Want to be in a movie with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez? Kevin Smith wants to give you a chance.

The writer-director is recruiting extras for his upcoming movie “Jersey Girl” through his View Askew Web site. He held a similar open casting call for some of his previous movies, including “Chasing Amy,” “Dogma” and “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.”

“Now, mind you, this isn’t for speaking parts; all of those are already taken,” the Web site says. “But that doesn’t mean you still can’t be a part of the Movie Magic (actual Movie Magic not guaranteed) as an Extra!”

Aspiring extras must submit a photo, contact information and statistics (age, gender, height and weight) by Friday.

“Jersey Girl,” co-starring Liv Tyler and George Carlin, is scheduled for release next year. ———

On the Net:

Kevin Smith casting call: http://www.viewaskew.com/jgextras/

For her new film, J. Lo to be in Philly
By Carrie Rickey

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck will star in director Kevin Smith’s latest project, “Jersey Girl,” to be made here.

Here’s one reason Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have been spotted together lately: They’re in preproduction.

Kevin Smith will film Jersey Girl, starring Affleck, Lopez and George Carlin, in Philadelphia for about 10 weeks beginning in mid-August, the director confirmed yesterday.

“I pushed to shoot in Philadelphia over Toronto because it’s in America, I liked the locations here, and because it’s a great production center,” said Smith, the Rabelais of Red Bank, N.J., by phone.

The Miramax film, budgeted at “upwards of $20 million,” will be the sixth feature from the writer-director of Clerks, Chasing Amy, and Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back.

The ’90s-era dramatic comedy costars Affleck and Lopez as parents, and Carlin as Affleck’s dad. The title character of Jersey Girl – the closest thing to a family film the defiantly profane 31-year-old has made – is the couple’s preschool daughter, who has not yet been cast.

“I don’t think I could have written this except for my experience as a dad,” noted Smith, spouse of actress Jennifer Schwalbach Smith and father of Harley Quinn, 3. (Smith, a comics geek, named his daughter after the Batman archvillain.)

“Unless the MPAA gets weirdly stringent, this will be my first PG-13 film,” Smith said. “It’s not profanity-laced, it’s not even profanity-dotted, which is weird because it’s Affleck, Carlin and me – guys known for cursing their brains out.”

Affleck, whose breakout role was as the smitten cartoonist in Smith’s Chasing Amy and who now stars in The Sum of All Fears, recently wrapped Martin Brest’s comedy Gigli, costarring Lopez as a lesbian hitwoman. The project is scheduled for release next year.

“He really had a great time working with Lopez and pushed her big-time for Jersey Girl,” Smith says.

“Are they dating? Unequivocally, no,” said the director, responding to rumors that Lopez, 31, who recently separated from husband Cris Judd, may be keeping company with eligible bachelor Affleck, 29.

“We’ve been excited about the prospect of hosting Kevin Smith in Philadelphia since we heard about the project in March,” Sharon Pinkenson, executive director of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, said yesterday.

With episodes of the CBS-TV drama Hack starring David Morse and Jersey Girl both in production here this summer, the film office is bucking the national trend of runaway productions going north where, because of the devalued Canadian dollar, budgets go further.

“We’re thrilled to be bringing millions of dollars and hundreds of jobs to the region,” she said.

Jersey Girl: ‘SuperStank’ has a report on Kevin Smith’s upcoming project: “At the Orlando Megacon comic book convention this past weekend, Kevin Smith made a few announcements during his Q-n-A. First, he will more than likely cast an unknown as the lead in Jersey Girl. Second, Fletch Won will be his next project after Jersey Girl. Third, after almost two years of talking about it, he is finally writing the script for the Clerks animated movie. The basic premise is that Dante and Randall make a low-budget black and white film at the convenience store and consequently become famous. Then it all comes crashing down. Lastly, there was some joking about changing the name of Jersey Girl to Vancouver Girl because of the production possibly being moved out of New Jersey for budgetary reasons”.