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Post by Ace on Sept 29, 2006 15:42:07 GMT -5
August? That's far longer away than the "Spring". If it's true I wonder if it's picked up a distributor for so specific a month.
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Daily Variety: TV Class: Dustin Milligan 09/29/2006 04:14:31 PM EDT
There are a million pretty faces out there, but few have a mane to compare with Dustin Milligan's.
Though the 21-year-old thesp from the near wilds of Canada's Northwest Territories is a little sheepish about his hair, he can warm to the subject, vigorously asserting that it is not dyed.
"For whatever reason, it has an auburn tint to it," he says via telephone from Toronto, where "Runaway," his new series on the CW, is currently shooting. "And it keeps getting lighter. Now it's more a strawberry blond."
Milligan says he knows he's "being packaged as a hunk" and that "the only way I'm able to handle it is by being silly with it." But he's serious about his craft.
He says he first caught the acting bug after appearing in school plays. Yet it was the tube, not the stage, that really fired his desire.
"I was always aware of TV and the idea that people on it were different," he says. "That aspect of entertaining sort of got me into it."
"Runaway" marks his first co-starring role on a series. He plays Henry Rader, whose family is on the run after his father flees a trumped-up murder rap. The actor describes his 17-year-old character as "brooding" and "always frowning," an attitude not entirely surprising given that "through circumstances beyond his control, he must completely change his life from being a cocky rich kid to buying clothes from thrift stores."
Between now and next summer, he'll appear in four movies, starting with the straight-to-homevid "Butterfly Effect 2." That's followed by the Pang brothers' "The Messengers" in February, Warner Independent's "In the Land of Women" in the spring and the Pierce Brosnan starrer "Butterfly on a Wheel" in August.
Three Questions
An actor should never: "Hook up with another actor on set, because it's only going to lead to ugly children."
Five years from now, I'll be: "Sporting a handlebar moustache."
I want to work with: "Giraffes. I want to be in a scene in which I'm riding a giraffe."
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Post by Ace on Nov 8, 2006 1:16:03 GMT -5
The full version of the Toronto interview where he also talks about Butterfly On A Wheel -- beware SPOILERS -- though not new ones for thoe who've already been spoiled.. Vancouver Province: Brosnan's just looking for a good role By: Glen Schaefer September 24, 2006 TORONTO -- Pierce Brosnan is lounging at a restaurant table at the Hotel Intercontinental, nursing a breakfast coffee. Just off a spring and summer spent mainly in Vancouver making two movies, and doing the festival rounds for yet another movie, he's laid back, stylish -- a relaxed-fit version of that character he played in those spy movies. He doesn't mind admitting that those movies gave him the clout to do whatever he wanted, but the routine got to him. "In the early days of my career as Bond, I realized I could make films anywhere in the world," Brosnan says, in a meandering conversational mood after premiering his new western S eraphim Falls for a festival crowd the previous night. That movie opens in theatres later this year. "But I kind of painted myself into a corner there with suave and debonaire." Point out the contrast between Seraphim Falls's shaggy civil-war veteran and the chatty 1940s bon vivant he just finished playing in the Vancouver-filmed thriller Marriage, and Brosnan leans back in his chair. "So what does that say? It just means I'm an actor looking for a good role, looking for a good job, just like any actor is," he says. "You want to be, hopefully, an unexpected surprise. At this point, that would be a mantra to live by, having played somewhat the same . . ." He trails off and ponders for a moment. "One was educated and taught and led to believe that if you want to play a character you must transform the physical being, the physical speech. Then you find yourself coming to America and you kind of play the same. You get into a style -- not a rut, but you find a groove for yourself. You go off and do a big movie, they say 'do it again.' You do it again, but within that comes a certain ennui. You're not scared anymore, where you used to scare yourself." All of which led Brosnan from 2002's Die Another Day on the career track that ultimately landed him in Vancouver last March as star and executive producer of Butterfly on a Wheel. Maria Bello and Gerard Butler are also featured in a close-quarters contemporary thriller. "It's a toughie, really, thrillers are always tough to pull off," says Brosnan, who got to play scary for British director Mike Barker and Vancouver producer Bill Vince. "It's about this husband and wife who get waylaid by this crazy, horrid psychotic guy. I'm the psychotic guy. For one day I hold them ransom with their child -- it's not until the end that you find out why." Almost as soon as that movie wrapped, Brosnan signed on to stay in Vancouver for the summer making Marriage, a quite different thriller set in a 1940s American small town. Both movies hit theatres in 2007. American director-writer Ira Sachs resumes filming Marriage next month with Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson, while Brosnan finished his role in August as the questionable confidant to Cooper's married man. "I just loved the character, it was so well-written," says Brosnan. "It had such a lovely Hitchcockian tone to it -- film noir, thriller, romantic, whodunit. We talk a blue streak, we just talk and talk, lots of dialogue." Cooper's character meets his friend for lunch and tells him that he must leave his wife (Clarkson) because he's met another woman (Rachel McAdams). "I look over my shoulder, and here she comes," Brosnan says. "God she's beautiful. She sits down and thus starts the story. It's really quite delightful. I'm the narrator of the story." Is he also the story's conscience? "No, not really. The burden of conscience does not weigh heavily on my shoulders, because I'm a rogue. But a sincere rogue." Sounds like a fun way to spend the summer.
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Post by Lauryn on Jan 9, 2007 11:42:47 GMT -5
From yourprops.com some of PB's props from Butterfly on a Wheel. Sorry, can't get the picture to post. Here's the link www.yourprops.com/view_item.php?movie_prop=10177 Interesting what we learn from the photo, that, before he took up kidnapping, his character was not an American police officer, but a bobby. Maybe an Irish London bobby, from the evidence of the Celtic cross Zippo lighter. I wonder what they're suggesting by the "Victory" brand cigarettes? A quick google search shows there was a brand of cigs by that name manufactured by a New York company in the early forties, but the packs don't look like that. Maybe the cigarettes were his father's brand or something. That aside, I also wonder more if they're making some darker and more subtle allusion with the brand. If you remember your Orwell and 1984 the "Victory" name was on anything state-owned and sub-standard that one had to consume or survive with because there was no other choice -- Victory coffee, Victory gin, Victory Mansions. Winston Smith's Victory cigarettes would fall apart when he tried to smoke them. Probably nothing to do with the movie, but it's a famous metaphor and the plot is a nightmare scenario about destroying a family, and by extension, society's norms(?) and he's a disturbed character, so one never knows.
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Post by Ace on Jan 9, 2007 12:04:20 GMT -5
Ah, potential spoilers afoot. ')
Strange to see him looking so much like a young RS there but a very well done mock up.
(and no I haven't forgot that I owe you a big time e-mail -- hopefully I'll have some time this week for the attention it deserves)
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Post by londonstreet on Jan 9, 2007 12:31:39 GMT -5
The picture really seems changed with photoshop, his head is taken from his 80's period but the body seems to be more like the one he has nowadays.
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Post by Lauryn on Jan 9, 2007 14:50:05 GMT -5
Take your time. As Steele said to nurse Blackwell / Ratched in one of your favorites and mine, "A Good Night's Steele," "I wouldn't want you to miss anything." <wink>
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Post by Ace on Jan 9, 2007 15:03:07 GMT -5
Hopefully after though you won't give serious consideration to framing me. Ace
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Post by sparklingblue on Jan 10, 2007 7:26:37 GMT -5
The prop photo reminds me of how Pierce looked in Fourth Protocol, wearing his Sovjet Army uniform.
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Post by Ace on Feb 1, 2007 0:32:15 GMT -5
Butterfly On the Wheel is screening for industry professionals at the European Film Market associated with the Berlinale Feb 10th. Film Info:Butterfly On A WheelUnited Kingdom, 2006, 98 min Director: Mike Barker Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Gerard Butler, Maria Bello Worldsales: Icon Entertainment International Screenings at the European Film Market ===================================================== PB will be in Irleand on the (th for the IFTAs, so I wonder if he'll go back to Germany for this (after being there the 1st for the Green Camera Award). Also of interest a film at the Berlinale running the 10th-12th: SurveillanceUnited Kingdom, 2007, 86 min Director: Paul Oremland Cast: Dawn Steele, Tom Harper, Simon Callow, Sean Brenden Brosnan Section: Panorama Press
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Post by sparklingblue on Feb 1, 2007 7:43:30 GMT -5
I have a feeling chances of him coming back for the screening of BOAW are higher because Sean's movie is being screened as well. Who knows.
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Post by tim on Feb 14, 2007 4:00:19 GMT -5
any buyer for BOAW at Berlinale?.so far very quite ,no single news at all.
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Post by Ace on Feb 16, 2007 2:00:43 GMT -5
Hollywood Reporter: Lionsgate nets U.S. rights to Icon's 'Butterfly'
By Anne Thompson
Feb 16, 2007
Icon Prods. has sold stateside distribution rights to the R-rated crime thriller "Butterfly on a Wheel" to Lionsgate Releasing.
Directed by Mike Barker ("A Good Woman"), "Wheel" stars Pierce Brosnan as a mysterious stranger who arrives in Chicago and terrorizes a happy-seeming married couple (Maria Bello, Gerard Butler) after kidnapping their daughter. Soon it becomes clear that his outrageous demands are not in pursuit of a big cash payment.
The film's title comes from Alexander Pope's "An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot": "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?"
Written by William Morrissey, "Wheel" was filmed in Vancouver and Chicago. It was produced by Brosnan, Morrissey and William Vince. Executive producers are Icon's Bruce Davey, Marina Grasic, Beau St. Clair and Dave Valleau. It is an Infinity Features/Irish Dreamtime U.K./Canadian co-production.
Icon Entertainment International is handling worldwide sales; Japan and Italy are the only territories still available.
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Post by TIM on Feb 16, 2007 10:52:45 GMT -5
WOW ! GREAT NEWS. HOPE IT WILL GET A WIDE RELEASE AND NOT LIKE WHAT HAPPEN TO SERAPHIM FALLS
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Post by Ace on Feb 16, 2007 13:01:35 GMT -5
Lionsgate is a mid-major or major-independent. It's far more able to give a film a medium to wide release than IDP as well as provide money for marketing. Contemporary thrillers are also easier to market and sell than Westerns.
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Post by londonstreet on Feb 16, 2007 13:47:13 GMT -5
Gosh....no one bought it for Italy....I wonder why we're always the last ones.....
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Post by Ace on Feb 16, 2007 14:24:28 GMT -5
It's strange that Italy and Japan always seem to be the two markets that get films the latest.
I think with Japan it might largely be because the market is so large but it also requires translations that if they're sub par can be disastrous. Unlike other Asian nations they don't seem to have as many problems with bootlegging affecting theatrical revenues so there isn't the rush to get films out there. They also have comparatively few screens considering the size and wealth of their population and market.
Italy seems to have a unique theater season for most of Europe -- in that it's summer is almost dead for business which affects openings of films around the calendar. I wonder if they also might have certain theater restrictions on the amount of foreign films that might affect distribution.
Ace
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Post by Ace on Feb 16, 2007 15:58:29 GMT -5
From the MPAA: Rated R for some language and violence. Drats. Again no sex.
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Post by londonstreet on Feb 17, 2007 10:29:31 GMT -5
I don't know about any theatre restrictions here, but I guess you've the point with the summer period. Here it's very difficult that distributors put movies on release from june to august, they're afraid of not making much money. They tend to release films above all around the christmas period and the more you go towards the month of may or back from december to september and the less you can find new films released. I guess it was true until 10 years ago, but I think that now they should put movies on theatres at least also on june and july without having money problems. Another problem here is that almost all movies (except made for some great international distributors) have to pass through italian distributors, which often are also producers and they usually release their films during the christmas period, leaving outside or for the month of january other movies (I guess that's why almost all 007 movies were released on january or february.....to not steal too much money to the italian productions). Another thought I have is that italian distributors don't want to risk their money, so they buy only movies that had great success overseas. That's all IMHO.
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Post by Ace on Feb 19, 2007 15:25:00 GMT -5
A nice photo of Pierce and Gerry Butler on set (if you look past the rather wild eyed guy in the back who's photo this is)
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Post by londonstreet on Feb 27, 2007 4:02:05 GMT -5
I've read somewhere that Lionsgate has bought the rights for Butterfly in USA, so it should be out quite soon there.
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