The Point Radio: Crackle’s Fast Paced Trip To The CLEANERS

It’s a fast paced, action thriller with a star packed cast, but CLEANERS isn’t coming to theaters or cable. The new series debuts this week exclusively on Sony Crackle. Director Paul Leyden and star Emmanuelle Chriqui talk about how quickly the whole project moved both in front and behind the camera. Catch a trailer here and be ready for the series debut Thursday. Plus AGENTS OF SHIELD grows even more and CONSTANTINE is headed to TV. THE POINT covers it 24/7! Take us ANYWHERE! The Point Radio App is now in the iTunes App store – and it’s FREE! Just search under “pop culture The Point”. The Point Radio – 24 hours a day of pop culture fun for FREE. GO HERE and LISTEN FREE on any computer or on any other mobile device with the Tune In Radio app – and follow us on Twitter @ThePointRadio.

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The Point Radio I'm Mike Raub, welcome to The Point. It's fast-paced action that would work on any screen, but Cleaners is the new Sony Crackle web series that you gotta see, and we've got a sneak peek with the director and the star coming up.

Plus, SHIELD was even bigger than we thought, and Constantine could be headed to TV. Let's get to The Point. This is The Point. The Point Radio gets The Point Radio.

It's a fast-paced thriller packed with action and a lot of stars. It's Cleaners, the new web series that's debuted at Sony Crackle and directed by former actor Paul Layden, who told me that even with a project that, well, was this intense, the web was the place to be.

Because this model is still so new and it's fresh, and it is the future, I mean, it's such an incredibly exciting space to be in. Look, it's just given us a lot of kind of creative freedom. All the execs and the people over at Crackle have been so supportive, and unbelievably hands-off.

I mean, you know, it's just, we like the scripts, we love the cast, we like your sensibility. Go and have fun. And I think with a show like this, the sense of fun that every single person had on it,

the cast, the crew, no one's making money on this, but the vibe and the sense of fun, I think, is on the screen. As far as series star Emmanuelle Schriegge was concerned, there were a few differences in the way it all came together. I would say, interestingly enough,

the actual process of shooting Cleaners was truly like being on set of any things I've ever done, whether it's a mentalist or a movie or entourage. The only thing, like we really shot it as though we were shooting a television show, or a movie for that matter.

You know, like we would shoot, you know, where on average we shoot, say on a television show or in a movie, you know, four or five, maybe six, seven pages if it's a giant day. You know, we were averaging like 13 pages a day on our show. So I was thinking that was the biggest difference.

One of Paul's first moves was to enlist Emmanuelle in the project. Actually, I approached Emmanuelle. I've known Emmanuelle for a long time. And a couple of years ago, we were at a barbecue. I said, I want to write this thing about these two kick-ass women,

and you were my girl. And Emmanuelle was like, look, I'm in. Whenever we get to do it, and however we get to do it, I would love to play that. You know, then this opportunity came up,

where very quite quickly actually with Sony and Krakow, and it started to move very quickly, and we got to do it. So it's kind of, you know, a few years of an idea come to fruition. So it's a lot of fun for both of us. And from there, things move pretty fast.

It did come up quickly. We didn't have a massive amount of pre-production. And, you know, the girls really have to throw themselves into it, you know, and Emmanuelle just, she went straight into it, and she just needed to outstand and give it out.

You have the amount of time and breath. She's just, yeah, unbelievable. The energy helped things out a lot. Well, you know, you still got to bring the same amount of, you know, preparation and performance energy to this, that you do anything.

And the thing is what I think, because again, you know, we're not working with any big budgets, and we were shooting with no time at all. Everyone was on their toes the whole time. It really, really, that energy was all pervasive from every single one.

No one got a chance to sit and enjoy it. It was just all, you know, on the move and go, go, go. That infuses the energy of the piece, which is a high energy, it's a high energy fast-moving piece. And the energy definitely comes, that fast-moving energy shooting

comes across in the performances as well. Even though the project was headed to a relatively new medium, Paul didn't minimize his expectations when it came to shooting. I, you know, always say we're going to shoot this as if it's going to be on a big screen.

So, you know, we shot on the red epics. We had two cameras. The, you know, I don't think anything on TV or web actually looks like the show. You know, I really went for that very saturated colours,

kind of Tony Scott feel to it. And, you know, I don't think that ever came into consideration one step of the shooting or the post-production process. Again, apart from the very, very, very limited amount of time we had, was that I was shooting, you know, a web series.

And it's going to be, you know, projected on a big screen and it's going to look gorgeous and it's going to look just as good there as it's going to look on, you know, the handheld device that someone's watching on the subway on the way to work.

And that's what the way we're… Everyone's consuming content, whether it's $3 million an episode or, you know, for general television or no money for web things, at least they're consuming the content all the same now.

It's on the go, it's on the run. So, but as long as I think if you start out going, well, I'm just shooting a web series, I'm not going to bother about the lighting. I'm not going to bother about this,

then I don't think you're going to make the content that people deserve to see. So as far as the action goes, did Emmanuel have to train? I think, you know, I mean, we weren't doing some pretty heavy-duty physical training for this,

which was fine, but it was definitely a challenge. I definitely felt out that I wanted to look and be able to do specific things. And some of it was nuts. I got hurt, unfortunately, so I didn't get to do as much

as I wanted, but, you know, that was a challenge. But what are you going to do? I asked her what she thought once people see this, they'll be talking about the most. What do I think they'll be talking about most?

Well, you know, I think people, you know, I know that Emily Aardman, I think, is going to shock a lot of people. You know, she comes from the Disney world, of the Hannah and Hannah, and I think that she,

more than myself, is going to, I don't think, I don't think her fans are ready for what they're about to be. She is so badass and this is out of control. Emmanuel told me that no matter what the differences in the project were, like always,

she embraced the opportunity. You know, I think the thing is with what we do, it's so untraditional, you know, our job is much more of a lifestyle. And I think that the highs and the lows and, you know,

they really just kind of teach you about yourself and about life. And I think it's almost, I feel like there's a lesson at every turn. So whatever turns out to be like a professional decision,

always seems to affect me spiritually somehow, you know? So I think sort of the evolution of me and the growing of me is sort of hand in hand with moving out here 15 years ago, really, and kind of just keeping both my feet on the ground and always looking forward and hoping that, you know,

things keep moving, which they have. Catch Emmanuel, Gina Gershaun, Missy Pyle, and more in Cleaners right now at crackle.com. The latest in pop culture. Turns out Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

was even bigger than we thought when they added the DVR numbers to the ratings from the first episode. Turns out the show was viewed by just under 16 million people, which again, gives it a new record, the 11.9 million live viewers. They, of course, gave it the best premiere ratings

in four years on network television. While everybody's talking about the new TV season, there have been some renewals. None of the new shows, obviously, already. But for example, CBS had some great success

over the summer with Unforgettable, which they returned for a second season. And now it's set to come back next summer for a third on the network. And HBO has renewed Boardwalk Empire for yet another season.

That'll also premiere in 2014 on HBO. Well, last week, there was the announcement about a Gotham-based television series headed to Fox. Now it looks like Constantine may be headed to NBC. Interestingly enough, attached to this is also another person involved

with The Menless, this time executive producer, Daniel Serone. Also at the helm is David S. Goyer as well, a name familiar to all of us for a number of different things. And again, right now, it looks like the project will be headed to NBC. Looks like the Emily the Strange movie project now has a rewriter.

And that person is Keelan O'Rourke, who's been attached to some interesting shorts of one's major awards overseas, including The Boy in the Bubble and The Fairy Catcher. Right now, the project is still in development at Universal,

and really, this has been the first update on the project since 2011. After a fourth Emmy win, now they're saying there might be a spin-off for Modern Family, which seems logical. It would involve the Gil Thorpe character, played in a couple of episodes by Rob Riggle.

And again, Christopher Lloyd would remain at Modern Family, while co-creator and EP, Stephen Leviton, would also be involved with moving the project along as a spin-off. Talks are just preliminary right now, though, with ABC. Update your databases.

It looks like She-Hulk will be getting another new series. This one will be ongoing, and will be written by Charles Soule with art by Javier Polito. It is set to be part of the Marvel Now universe, and will launch with the first issue in comic stores in February.

Oh, the great radio. Here's what's cool. Well, the pressure of the big series, like Forever Evil and Infinity, seems to ease up a little bit this week. So that gives you time to explore some other different titles

when you hit the comic stores. For example, Dark Horse has the occultist number one from Tim Sealy, a book that certainly is worth a look. Again, that's the first issue that hits this week from Dark Horse, same people doing Star Wars, the George Lucas version,

and that's a book to beat this week as well. Second issue of that is that you may have to look to get the first one. There's also a $1 version of an earlier Star Wars as a sampler that's available from Dark Horse. As a trend, I'm glad to see continuing key issues,

jumping on points all available in a reprint for a dollar to give folks a chance to sample something they may have missed. DC starts doing it this week with DC Comic Essentials. Then that begins with Batman number one, the new 52 version available for a buck. Also speaking of Forever Evil, it wraps up with a book and issue number two

of Forever Evil this week again. The little disturbing Kiss Kids number two is out from IDW. But more importantly, the comic book Legal Defense Funds Liberty Annual Benefit Book is out with beautiful material by a lot of people and a couple of different covers as well from IDW.

For Marvel, the all-new X-Men get a special that's going to tie them in to Superior Spider-Man, an interesting crossover, an all-new X-Men special number one. And Andy Diggle gets an interesting turn at Captain America in a book called Captain America Living Legend number one this week.

Plus there's an Infinity Tie and just one Infinity Hunt number two. And from Dynamite, the sixth issue of Mark Wade's Green Hornet series. If you pass by this because you weren't impressed by the other Green Hornet titles over the past couple of years, you're missing something here.

This is the one to check out from Dynamite. All these and more in comic stores. Check out the comic book locator service online. Of course, or 1-888-COMIC-BOOK-TOLE-FREE to find one. Or the website, findmycomicshop.com.

That does it for right now, but when I'm back, I'll bring with me the guy who's at the heart of one of the most buzzed about television shows from the new season. James Spader in Blacklist is the one everybody's talking about. He'll be here to tell us exactly what that role is

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