GIVING BACK: A True Survivor…The Story of Five Year Old Summer Moll
June 30, 2009
A CTU reader brought a heartbreaking story to my attention that I really want to share with you all. Until I received her email, I had not heard about 5 year-old Summer Moll who survived a head-on crash where she also sadly lost her mother.
Four at the time, the September 10, 2008 crash left Summer critically injured when she and her mom were hit by a woman driving the wrong way on the Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway in the Tampa, Florida area with a 0.244 percent blood-alcohol level (nearly 3 times the legal limit). The driver currently faces multiple felony charges, including DUI-manslaughter and vehicular homicide.
Summer suffered a fractured skull and broken arms and legs. She has undergone more than eight surgeries, had casts on both arms, a brace on her neck, currently has pins in her legs, and has endured painful rehabilitation to learn how to walk all over again.
You can see a news report on her tragic story below…
I can’t even explain how touched I was by her inspirational story of survival. Despite all of the loss and pain, Summer is still a happy, smiling five year old who, in her grandmother Tammy’s words, “has been pricked and prodded more in the past year than anyone should be in a lifetime…Even after she has had blood drawn, which she doesn’t enjoy, she’ll look at the nurse and say ‘thank you’. That’s just Summer.”
Summer began rehabilitation in December and finally left the hospital at the end of January after the September accident and has continued to have surgeries as recently as last week (her 4th skin graft). Because of her extensive injuries, she has now accumulated over $3 million worth of medical bills along the way.
A benefit is being held for Summer on July 25th at 115 Bourbon Street, 3359 W. 115th St., Merrionette Park, Illinois where she and her grandmother and grandfather who take care of her have a lot of supportive friends and family who want to help the family.
I spoke to one of the coordinators of the benefit and their goal is to raise $50,000 - $75,000 to donate to a trust that has been setup for Summer. The event will include a dinner buffet, a sweet table, door prizes, raffles and a silent auction for which Channing has donated items.
Tickets are $20 for adults; $5 for children ages 3 to 11 and free for children younger than 3. Proceeds from the benefit will help to pay for Summer’s mounting medical bills.
For more information on the benefit, you can contact Barb Fitzpatrick at (815) 609-7870.
If you cannot attend the event, but would like to make a donation to Summer’s trust, you can do this through the office of Mac Greco III, an attorney for Summer’s grandparents and caretakers Art and Tammy Rosian. Anyone wishing to donate can mail checks payable to Tammy Rosian as trustee of the Summer Moll trust to his office at 501 N. Morgan St., Suite 200, Tampa FL 33602.
As the saying goes…“Everyone can’t do everything. But everyone can do something.”
I ask that you please forward this story to as many people as you can so we can get the word out and help this beautiful little girl.
GIVING BACK: Jenna Dewan and Emmanuelle Chriqui Attend Raise Hope for Congo Event at Janes House
June 29, 2009
Recently, I posted new photos and video HERE and HERE of Channing Tatum’s fiancee Jenna Dewan and her best friend Emmanuelle Chriqui showing their support for the Raise Hope for Congo organization. Today’s new photos show the two actresses as they attend last night’s Raise Hope for Congo event at Janes House in Los Angeles, California.
As I mentioned in previous posts…A deadly war is raging in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and our insatiable demand for electronics products such as cell phones and laptops is helping drive that conflict. Eastern Congo is the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman or girl, and the sexual violence there is often fueled by militias warring over conflict minerals, the ores that produce tin, tungsten, and tantalum—the 3 Ts— that end up being used in our electronic devices.
Raise Hope for Congo is an Enough Project campaign from the Center for American Progress. While the Enough Project focuses on crises in Sudan, Chad, eastern Congo, northern Uganda, Somalia, and Zimbabwe, Raise Hope for Congo has a very specific goal of protecting and empowering Congolese women and girls.
NEWS FLASH: Channing Tatum’s ‘Eagle of the Ninth’ Will Be Based at Glascow’s Film City
June 28, 2009
Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, and Kevin MacDonald from ‘The Eagle of the Ninth’
Channing Tatum fan Suuded from Germany sent me a quick news byte on Chan’s upcoming Roman epic, ‘The Eagle of the Ninth‘.
As I already reported, the movie will be directed by Kevin MacDonald, will also star Jamie Bell and Donald Sutherland, and is going to be based in Glascow, Scotland.
More specifically, Suuded confirmed that this August the production (which held an extras casting call earlier this month) will be based at Film City Glasgow. In addition to providing production office space, the facililty boasts the country’s first Dolby theatre, a new filming studio, rehearsal space, and state of the art sound and picture editing suites. It’s Scotland’s new campus for the independent film and media industry and is located within Glasgow’s historic Govan Town Hall.
‘The Eagle of the Ninth‘ is based on the best-selling, classic 1954 teen novel by Rosemary Sutcliff. The film will be directed by Kevin MacDonald and the screenplay was adapted by Jeremy Brock (who previously worked with MacDonald on the award winning ‘The Last King Of Scotland’),
Set in Britain during the 2nd century A.D., it’s the story of a wounded Roman soldier (Channing Tatum) and his Celtic slave (Jamie Bell) who embark on a perilous journey into the far north to discover what happened the Ninth Legion, which went on a mission into the wilds of Scotland 15 years earlier and never came back. The soldier’s father was the legion’s general, and his disappearance, along with the loss of the legion’s symbol, the eponymous eagle, cast a stain upon his family.
I have read that the production is supposed to start filming in in Hungary and ScotlandAugust. They will film in Glasgow for approximately 5 or 6 weeks and will then take smaller crews into the Highlands for 3 or 4 weeks. Many of the scenes will be filmed near Loch Lomond, in addition to other Highland areas in Scotland.
The film did exceptionally well at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival by acquiring distributors in every major territory around the world. If everything stays on schedule, ‘The Eagle of the Ninth‘ is supposed to hit theaters some time in 2010!!!
Thanks to Suued for the news!
CTU NEWS: Check out Tweetboard on Channing Tatum Unwrapped
June 28, 2009
Long time readers of CTU know that I love gadgets, and it’s been a while since I added a new one to the site. Since Chan now has almost 40,000 followers on Twitter, I found a new toy that I hope readers will find both fun and helpful…
Tweetboard is a new gadget that allows me to display threaded Twitter conversations on the CTU site and blog. In short, it’s kind of an easily accessible, Twitter-powered forum that you all will find on every page of the sites.
As you can see in the graphic above, the new Tweetboard forum sits on the left hand side of your screen as a small tab, indicating the count of tweets since your last visit. Visitors can then click the tab and the Tweetboard will slide open with a view of all tweets pulled in from Chan’s Twitter stream, threaded appropriately. Tweets pulled in include account updates and @replies to other users. Replies, however, show up in context of the original message to create a back-and-forth conversation-like feel.
You can even use “Sign in with Twitter” to tweet from the page, expand replies, add your own reply, and filter tweets by date, last activity, and most active.
I hope you all enjoy the new gadget!
P.S. Tweetboard is considered to be a bleeding edge app, because they are still in alpha mode (aka testing). If you all have any problems with it, please let me know at ctu@channingtatumunwrapped.com.
CHANNING TATUM PICTURES OF THE WEEK: Chan in Brentwood from PinkIsTheNewBlog.com
June 27, 2009
Each week Channing Tatum Unwrapped will post one or more of our favorite pictures of the uber hot Channing Tatum.
Today’s Picture of the Week was posted today by blogger Trent over at PinkIsTheNewBlog.com. Here’s what he had to say about this new photo of Chan:
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“Channing Tatum, who will first appear in the movie Public Enemies as gangster Pretty Boy Floyd and then in G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra as Sgt. Duke Hauser, was spotted lookin’ all fine and shizz in his Miller beer t-shirt as he made his way to a meeting in Brentwood, CA yesterday…Lawd … you know you’re hot when you look really hot and you’re still fully clothed. As I’ve said many, many times before … you put Channing Tatum in a movie and you can count on my $12 at the box office…”
I’m sure there’s plenty of fans around here who agree with Trent whole-heartedly. 
If you have a favorite picture from this blog, our photo gallery, a picture you have made or a picture that you have found on the net that you would like me to consider, send the picture or a link to the picture to potw@channingtatumunwrapped.com and tell me why you like it. I will post it and your explanation on the blog. If you like or don’t like today’s picture (for some completely insane reason), let everyone know that too by clicking on the comments link below. 
NEWS FLASH: Check Out the New Contest and HBO Special for Channing Tatum’s ‘Public Enemies’
June 26, 2009
One critic who recently screened Channing Tatum’s highly-anticipated historical drama ‘Public Enemies‘ raved about the film saying it “is glorious and levitational — the most captivating, beautifully composed and freshly conceived gangster movie since Bonnie and Clyde. It’s an art film first, a Mann head-and-heart trip second, a classic machine-gun action pulverizer third, and a conventional popcorn movie fourth.”
In case you haven’t seen it yet, I also wanted to let everyone know about Universal’s new BankRaids.com website where fans can become Public Enemy #1 by playing their Bank Raid Game and can even create a Wanted Poster in your own likeness.
Universal Pictures has just launched Bank Raids, an online game and microsite that marries the 1930’s Chicago gang milieu with Facebook and Twitter to promote the film.
The Bank Raids game challenges users to rise to the notorious level of criminal infamy that Public Enemies’ main character, John Dillinger, achieved back in the 30s. Bank Raids offers a pretty intricate, yet simple, game play experience where you can rob banks, recruit gang members, buy guns, increase your notoriety, and hopefully avoid the long arm of the law.
On the site, fans in the UK, Australia, Austria, Germany, Korea, Mexico, The Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland can also enter their new competition. CLICK HERE to get all of the contest details.
If you missed HBO’s “first look” at ‘Public Enemies‘, then you’re in luck! You can watch Part 1 and Part 2 of the special below. For the first time, you’ll even see Chan (Pretty Boy Floyd) get shot by Christian Bale (Melvin Purvis) in their action-packed scene around the 3:15 mark of the first video…
Finally, you can watch a ton of new ‘Public Enemies’ clips, trailers, tv spots, and press junket interviews with Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Coutillard, and director Michael Mann at TrailerAddict.com.
‘Public Enemies‘ hits US and UK theaters on July 1, 2009.
REMINDER: Channing Tatum’s ‘Fighting’ Premieres in France and Algeria, Monaco, Morocco and Tunisia
June 25, 2009
I just wanted to remind all of Channing Tatum’s Fabulous Fans in France and Algeria, Monaco, Morocco and Tunisia that his latest film, ‘Fighting‘, just premiered in your countries YESTERDAY!!!
You can get more info on the film on the French movie site Allocine.fr. Here’s the synopsis for the film…
You can also watch the French version of the trailer below…
Fans can check out tons of photos from ‘Fighting’ in the Channing Tatum Unwrapped Photo Gallery and can watch trailers, cast interviews, and exclusive clips of Channing Tatum in the movie HERE and HERE on our Youtube Video Channel.
What’s up next for ‘Fighting‘? The movie will have it’s next theatrical releases in Belgium on July 1, 2009 and in Czech Republic on July 2, 2009.
Scheduled DVD release date for Channing Tatum's '
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