SHOOTING STARS: ‘Sarah Marshall’ spinoff plans Vegas visit

  The road to Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre runs through Las Vegas.
  At least it does in the upcoming comedy “Get Him to the Greek,” which plans a weeklong location visit in May.
  The movie follows the further adventures of two “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” characters: Aaron Greenberg (Jonah Hill), who’s worked his way up from waiter to record company intern, and rock god Aldous Snow (Russell Brand), who becomes Aaron’s problem when the intern’s assigned to escort him from London to L.A.’s Greek Theatre, the first stop on an international tour.
  Inevitably, comic complications ensue — complications that will require the production to visit Las Vegas for a five-day shoot expected to begin May 11.
  The production’s already looking for lots of locals to work as extras: clubbers, casino patrons, bachelor party guests and the like. If you’re interested in being one, register online at www.DavidAnthonyCasting.com.
  And, as always, stay tuned to Shooting Stars for more details on “Get Him to the Greek’s” Vegas visit.
  ‘Wheelmobile’ deal: Speaking of casting, “Wheel of Fortune’s” promotional Wheelmobile is back in town this weekend, hosting potential contestants from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in Hall G of the Sands Expo and Convention Center.
  That’s adjacent to The Venetian and Palazzo, where “Wheel of Fortune” will tape four weeks of shows in July.
  Promotional Wheelmobile presentations, including auditions and simulated games, will be at 2, 3:30 and 5 p.m. each day. Applications will be distributed an hour prior to each show.
  More information is available online at www.wheeloffortune.com.
  “Sin City” returns to Sin City: London-based documentarian Russ Coffey and his VooDooDox production crew are back in Las Vegas, completing the second week of a two-week visit for the documentary “Saving Sin City,” about ex-prostitute Annie Lobért and her Hookers for Jesus mission helping prostitutes find new lives.
  This week, “we are planning on getting ghetto fabulous on Fremont Street and watching our subjects do their thing on the Strip (amongst other shooting spots),” e-mails Coffey, who expects an additional Las Vegas visit, possibly this summer, before the documentary’s ready to be edited for the fall film festival circuit.
  Let’s do the ‘Time Warp’: The Discovery Channel’s series “Time Warp” is scheduled to conclude a six-day Vegas visit Thursday, capturing time-lapse photography of our world-famous Vegas lights.
  The show, currently filming for its second season, features scientist Jeff Lieberman, who teaches at MIT, and digital-imaging expert Matt Kearney presenting the latest in high-speed photography.
  Return of the AstroZombies: Las Vegas cult auteur Ted V. Mikels, pictured at right, resumes production this week on “AstroZombie M3: Cloned,” a second sequel to Mikels’ 1968 original “Astro-Zombies.” (The first follow-up was 2002’s “Mark of the Astro-Zombies.”)
  In “M3: Cloned,” an Area 51 general plans to clone the title characters and form an invincible army. (Mikels himself plays the general and his demented twin.)
  This week’s shoot involves work at Mikels’ TVM Studios, local residences and on the road, filming traveling highway shots. The production “will be simulating Area 51 security control headquarters,” Mikels reports.
  Next up: constructing the laboratory set — where the Astro-Zombie cloning can at last begin.
  Another happy return: Portland-based North Shore Productions also joins the back-to-Vegas parade this week, shooting footage at locations ranging from the Fremont Street Experience to the Strip.
  The shots will be included in documentary videos to be shown at the Clark County Wetlands Park’s soon-to-be-built Nature Center and in community educational outreach programs, reports North Shore’s Dawn Smallman. The films are expected to be complete by midsummer, she adds.
  Quick hits: Vegas PBS’ “Recession Rx” series, which provides a local focus on economic matters, continues production this week at locations ranging from an abandoned Sunrise Mountain mansion to downtown, where host and executive producer Cathy Hanson will interview top fraud cop Bobby Sebby of Metropolitan Police.
  And half of TLC’s upcoming “Little Couple” series — which debuts in May, focusing on newlyweds Jen Arnold (a neonatologist) and Bill Klein (an employee staffing and training specialist), both of whom are under 4 feet tall — was scheduled to shoot at Planet Hollywood last weekend while Klein attended his brother’s bachelor party.
  The Las Vegas footage is expected to air in late June, according to Larry Goldman of LMNO Productions, the show’s production company.