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Following on from the 'best trailer ever' thread.... does anyone know the name of the man who does the voiceovers? Jack something.....
Anyone?
I think his name is Don LeFontane or something, and apparently he earns the same as top hollywood stars, as he can (and does) do most of the trailers out there.
I think he's actually a different one to the one I mean. Did you see the trailer for Comedian? Check it out and see who I mean
That Don name does sound familiar. I'm sure i remember seeing him on some Saturday morning kids show once. He does earn a ridiculous amount of money.
I'm just wondering now if that guy in the Comedian trailer was an actor and they just looped his voice. (Very good dubbing if they did). He doesn't look like the chap i remember but then again isn't there two popular guys who do these voice overs??
Good to see a little spoof though as it's getting a little cliched everytime we here him on everysingleflippingtrailergoing
If they put out one more trailer which starts with his voice saying "In a world where...", I swear I will go start raving mad.
I saw documentary about him on ITV once, he's gets $1,000,000 per trailer.
Yeah I'm pretty sure there are 2 main voiceover blokes. Don LeFontane is one and the bloke on that trailer is the other and Robby I'm pretty sure that is the real bloke and not an actor, as I think I've seen him before some where and he looks very familiar.
I have to say I love trailers, and although they are corny and often give away plot points, I can watch them all day :) One of my least favourite lines is for any family/romantic comedy is - "Universal Picture invites you......"
"Steven See-gaaaaal is.........."
I wonder does he speak like that all the time. Can you imagine him going home.
Voiceover Man: In a world gone mad he was a man who had finished work for the day.
Wife: What do you want for dinner?
Voiceover Man: All he wanted was some egg and chips.
Wife: Will do.
Voiceover Man: My Wife in association with the cooker invites you to sit down for a meal.
And so on and so forth.
:lol:
pretty sure Barry Newman does loads of them...
he was in Petrocelli if your memory goes back that far..
also recently in the Limey as the sleezy security consultant for Peter Fonda..
1) I read that as "Barry Norman"
2) Barry Newman's best work....Vanishing Point? Film '93? :nuts:
Harsin, that nearly made me wet my pants.
lmao @ Harsin :lol:
pretty sure Barry Newman does loads of them...
Didn't he pass away not too long ago?
I wonder if he ever finished building that house? :)
Thought he was very good in The Limey.
Yeah, Harsin, that's very funny! One mistake though, the Voiceover man, or anyone over here in US, wouldn't say he wants THAT piece of crap British food. :lol:
Anyway, some of those lines can be annoying but I rather like hearing that voice and all the familiar phrases, it feels like home.
Originally posted by CrazyHorse
Didn't he pass away not too long ago?
I wonder if he ever finished building that house? :)
Thought he was very good in The Limey.
the house! I'd forgotten all about that.
according to IMDB he's still alive though.. 62 or 63.
there is a page on him at http://tedstrong.com/barrynewman.html
Originally posted by Harsin
I wonder does he speak like that all the time. Can you imagine him going home.
Voiceover Man: In a world gone mad he was a man who had finished work for the day.
Wife: What do you want for dinner?
Voiceover Man: All he wanted was some egg and chips.
Wife: Will do.
Voiceover Man: My Wife in association with the cooker invites you to sit down for a meal.
And so on and so forth.
I see you like Ben Elton, similar to a sketch he did about the Voiceover man!:rocker:
Originally posted by Lenny Nero
One mistake though, the Voiceover man, or anyone over here in US, wouldn't say he wants THAT piece of crap British food. :lol:
:eek: this from the country that brought the world such culinary excellence as, hang on I'm thinking, no drawn a blank there.
Harsin's comment of course is meant to examine the mundane nature of the request and juxtaposition of the domestic situation. TBH I doubt that "fillet mignon" would have been half as funny.
Originally posted by CLH
:eek: this from the country that brought the world such culinary excellence as, hang on I'm thinking, no drawn a blank there.
Harsin's comment of course is meant to examine the mundane nature of the request and juxtaposition of the domestic situation. TBH I doubt that "fillet mignon" would have been half as funny.
I know, I'm just picking on crappy English food as always, and there isn't anything tasty in America that wasn't brought over. I eat Indian currys and Italian pastas all the time, with Russian cakes and German juices.
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure we stout Englishmen created the sandwich.:p
they've been pretty successful from what I can gather.:clap: :clap: :clap:
so America is responsible for which culinary masterpiece precisely?
at least we're civilised enough not to serve bacon, pancakes and syrup on the same plate... now that is bad taste. yeeeuck. :nuts: :nuts: :nuts:
everything american is repackaged from other countries as Lenny says.
have a look on the net for the dodgy american (biochem?)company that is trying to make places like pakistan & asian countries pay for using basmati rice... think they've now applied for a patent on it.
strangely enough, this has grown for 3,000 years in those countries before the US company got there.
americans. grrr.:) :)
you'll be saying you invented currys next.:smokin:
was just about to mention the ben elton joke :)
"he was a man in need of a pound of carrots..."
The Movie Chart Show had a short feature on voice over artists which might be of intrest to some of you :D
56K (http://www.blockbuster.co.uk/common/makevideoasx.asp?mswmext=.asx&title=paradisii&path=TMCSvoiceover)
broadband (http://www.blockbuster.co.uk/common/makevideoasxhi.asp?mswmext=.asx&title=paradisii&path=TMCSvoiceover)
Here is a pretty funny trailer for the Seinfeld movie "Comedian" that has the guy with "the voice" making fun of himself. He breaks out pretty much all his favorite lines.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/comedian.html
For some reason I was just wondering about the voicever man and I found this thread and this page:
http://www.fadeinmag.com/kaye/feature.htm
So now I can rest! ;)
Mark
Originally posted by Lenny Nero
....with Russian cakes and German juices.
I've seen that movie, I think... :norty:
Did anyone see the Chewin' the Fat Hogmanay special a couple of years back. They had a skit that was a pastiche of Elvis Presley films, and it had "Elvis" coming to a Scottish village. They had a completely dead-on impression of the traditional movie trailer voice -- "Scotland has a king again!" :lol:
The voice-over on the comedian trailer is provided by Hal Douglas, probably the next big gun after La Fontaine.
I would suggest that the pay-scale quoted in the link pythons provided is very under-estimated - a good voice-over person in the same league as Don and Hal makes around $4000-5000 per trailer (which usually takes a few hours to get in the can, sometimes as much as a few days if no one's really sure which angle the trailer should take) - and with around 50 trailers a year these guys earn more than some actors and actresses.
Even in the UK (we have our own LaFontaine equivalent, whose name escapes me now, but if you hear an english accent, it's most likely this guy) voice overs for trailers can pay £100000-300000 a year.
It's a lucrative profession and one that isn't limited by getting older, but you have to have one of those voices.
German juices?????:gag:
I've seen a clip from the tonight show with an American Comedian called Pablo Francisco was doing a bit on the voiceover guy. It's absolutley superb. Check it out if you can.
got that :p
arnold schwarzenegger is .... little tortilla boy!
there's a full half hour standup bit that he does
"Out of the Bowels of his stomach........
......they, will flush..
A new generation of turds......
....Designed to Annihilate, the projectile waste.
And our last hope in our war against the loo...
....will be, a mere poo......"
Originally posted by tomos
got that :p
there's a full half hour standup bit that he does
Yeah hahaha.
"One man.... one decision....one desireeeeeeeeeeee"
Got em both. Superb stuff
One of the main trailer voice over artists was discovered after making a PA on the London Underground.
Doesn't one of the guys from Robocop (Miguel Ferrer) do a lot of voice-over trailer work http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001208/ ???
Jamin
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I think his name is Don LeFontane or something, and apparently he earns the same as top hollywood stars, as he can (and does) do most of the trailers out there.
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I think he's actually a different one to the one I mean. Did you see the trailer for Comedian? Check it out and see who I mean
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That Don name does sound familiar. I'm sure i remember seeing him on some Saturday morning kids show once. He does earn a ridiculous amount of money.
I'm just wondering now if that guy in the Comedian trailer was an actor and they just looped his voice. (Very good dubbing if they did). He doesn't look like the chap i remember but then again isn't there two popular guys who do these voice overs??
Good to see a little spoof though as it's getting a little cliched everytime we here him on everysingleflippingtrailergoing
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If they put out one more trailer which starts with his voice saying "In a world where...", I swear I will go start raving mad.
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I saw documentary about him on ITV once, he's gets $1,000,000 per trailer.
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Yeah I'm pretty sure there are 2 main voiceover blokes. Don LeFontane is one and the bloke on that trailer is the other and Robby I'm pretty sure that is the real bloke and not an actor, as I think I've seen him before some where and he looks very familiar.
I have to say I love trailers, and although they are corny and often give away plot points, I can watch them all day :) One of my least favourite lines is for any family/romantic comedy is - "Universal Picture invites you......"
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"Steven See-gaaaaal is.........."
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I wonder does he speak like that all the time. Can you imagine him going home.
Voiceover Man: In a world gone mad he was a man who had finished work for the day.
Wife: What do you want for dinner?
Voiceover Man: All he wanted was some egg and chips.
Wife: Will do.
Voiceover Man: My Wife in association with the cooker invites you to sit down for a meal.
And so on and so forth.
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:lol:
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pretty sure Barry Newman does loads of them...
he was in Petrocelli if your memory goes back that far..
also recently in the Limey as the sleezy security consultant for Peter Fonda..
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1) I read that as "Barry Norman"
2) Barry Newman's best work....Vanishing Point? Film '93? :nuts:
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Harsin, that nearly made me wet my pants.
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lmao @ Harsin :lol:
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pretty sure Barry Newman does loads of them...
Didn't he pass away not too long ago?
I wonder if he ever finished building that house? :)
Thought he was very good in The Limey.
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Yeah, Harsin, that's very funny! One mistake though, the Voiceover man, or anyone over here in US, wouldn't say he wants THAT piece of crap British food. :lol:
Anyway, some of those lines can be annoying but I rather like hearing that voice and all the familiar phrases, it feels like home.
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Originally posted by CrazyHorse
Didn't he pass away not too long ago?
I wonder if he ever finished building that house? :)
Thought he was very good in The Limey.
the house! I'd forgotten all about that.
according to IMDB he's still alive though.. 62 or 63.
there is a page on him at http://tedstrong.com/barrynewman.html
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Originally posted by Harsin
I wonder does he speak like that all the time. Can you imagine him going home.
Voiceover Man: In a world gone mad he was a man who had finished work for the day.
Wife: What do you want for dinner?
Voiceover Man: All he wanted was some egg and chips.
Wife: Will do.
Voiceover Man: My Wife in association with the cooker invites you to sit down for a meal.
And so on and so forth.
I see you like Ben Elton, similar to a sketch he did about the Voiceover man!:rocker:
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Originally posted by Lenny Nero
One mistake though, the Voiceover man, or anyone over here in US, wouldn't say he wants THAT piece of crap British food. :lol:
:eek: this from the country that brought the world such culinary excellence as, hang on I'm thinking, no drawn a blank there.
Harsin's comment of course is meant to examine the mundane nature of the request and juxtaposition of the domestic situation. TBH I doubt that "fillet mignon" would have been half as funny.
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Originally posted by CLH
:eek: this from the country that brought the world such culinary excellence as, hang on I'm thinking, no drawn a blank there.
Harsin's comment of course is meant to examine the mundane nature of the request and juxtaposition of the domestic situation. TBH I doubt that "fillet mignon" would have been half as funny.
I know, I'm just picking on crappy English food as always, and there isn't anything tasty in America that wasn't brought over. I eat Indian currys and Italian pastas all the time, with Russian cakes and German juices.
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I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure we stout Englishmen created the sandwich.:p
they've been pretty successful from what I can gather.:clap: :clap: :clap:
so America is responsible for which culinary masterpiece precisely?
at least we're civilised enough not to serve bacon, pancakes and syrup on the same plate... now that is bad taste. yeeeuck. :nuts: :nuts: :nuts:
everything american is repackaged from other countries as Lenny says.
have a look on the net for the dodgy american (biochem?)company that is trying to make places like pakistan & asian countries pay for using basmati rice... think they've now applied for a patent on it.
strangely enough, this has grown for 3,000 years in those countries before the US company got there.
americans. grrr.:) :)
you'll be saying you invented currys next.:smokin:
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was just about to mention the ben elton joke :)
"he was a man in need of a pound of carrots..."
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The Movie Chart Show had a short feature on voice over artists which might be of intrest to some of you :D
56K (http://www.blockbuster.co.uk/common/makevideoasx.asp?mswmext=.asx&title=paradisii&path=TMCSvoiceover)
broadband (http://www.blockbuster.co.uk/common/makevideoasxhi.asp?mswmext=.asx&title=paradisii&path=TMCSvoiceover)
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Here is a pretty funny trailer for the Seinfeld movie "Comedian" that has the guy with "the voice" making fun of himself. He breaks out pretty much all his favorite lines.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/comedian.html
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For some reason I was just wondering about the voicever man and I found this thread and this page:
http://www.fadeinmag.com/kaye/feature.htm
So now I can rest! ;)
Mark
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Originally posted by Lenny Nero
....with Russian cakes and German juices.
I've seen that movie, I think... :norty:
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Did anyone see the Chewin' the Fat Hogmanay special a couple of years back. They had a skit that was a pastiche of Elvis Presley films, and it had "Elvis" coming to a Scottish village. They had a completely dead-on impression of the traditional movie trailer voice -- "Scotland has a king again!" :lol:
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The voice-over on the comedian trailer is provided by Hal Douglas, probably the next big gun after La Fontaine.
I would suggest that the pay-scale quoted in the link pythons provided is very under-estimated - a good voice-over person in the same league as Don and Hal makes around $4000-5000 per trailer (which usually takes a few hours to get in the can, sometimes as much as a few days if no one's really sure which angle the trailer should take) - and with around 50 trailers a year these guys earn more than some actors and actresses.
Even in the UK (we have our own LaFontaine equivalent, whose name escapes me now, but if you hear an english accent, it's most likely this guy) voice overs for trailers can pay £100000-300000 a year.
It's a lucrative profession and one that isn't limited by getting older, but you have to have one of those voices.
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German juices?????:gag:
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I've seen a clip from the tonight show with an American Comedian called Pablo Francisco was doing a bit on the voiceover guy. It's absolutley superb. Check it out if you can.
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got that :p
arnold schwarzenegger is .... little tortilla boy!
there's a full half hour standup bit that he does
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"Out of the Bowels of his stomach........
......they, will flush..
A new generation of turds......
....Designed to Annihilate, the projectile waste.
And our last hope in our war against the loo...
....will be, a mere poo......"
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Originally posted by tomos
got that :p
there's a full half hour standup bit that he does
Yeah hahaha.
"One man.... one decision....one desireeeeeeeeeeee"
Got em both. Superb stuff
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One of the main trailer voice over artists was discovered after making a PA on the London Underground.
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Doesn't one of the guys from Robocop (Miguel Ferrer) do a lot of voice-over trailer work http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001208/ ???
Jamin
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