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Post by icyvice on Jul 5, 2008 4:43:50 GMT -5
Meryl on Jonathan Ross discussing Mamma Mia and Pierce's singing. JR wasn't being very nice to Pierce... though he loves PB...  |
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Post by brosnangirl on Jul 5, 2008 6:53:16 GMT -5
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Post by Johanna on Jul 5, 2008 7:52:30 GMT -5
Thank you so much, this one works perfectly!!!  |
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Post by steeleinc on Jul 5, 2008 9:31:38 GMT -5
I do not see a button on the top of the page that says "PB Pictures". Also, is there any way to turn off the music!
Debra
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Post by icy1979 on Jul 5, 2008 12:08:51 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Jul 5, 2008 15:21:51 GMT -5
Telegraph: Mamma Mia! island's star turnBy Jan Moir Last Updated: 8:58PM BST 05/07/2008 When Hollywood descended on a tiny Greek island for this summer's blockbuster, local life was turned upside down. Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth? They were otherwise engaged. Bjorn and Benny? Nowhere in sight. On Thursday night, the only stars at the premiere of Mamma Mia! – The Movie in Skopelos were the ones that glittered in the inky sky. At the open air Orpheus cinema in Skopelos Town, the invitation-only crowd ate spinach pie, drank cocktails and fanned themselves in the sultry air, rich with the evening scent of jasmine. It was an occasion which may have lacked the red carpet extravaganza and celebrity cachet of the big Mamma Mia! premieres in London, Athens, Berlin and Stockholm, but it had a charm all of its own. The mayor, Christos Vasiloudis, made a speech which was nearly drowned out by wailing feedback and the thrash of cicadas in the plum trees. Moonlight washed across the town's rooftops as the 200-strong audience took their places on rows of canvas garden chairs. A few plants in terracotta pots were placed before the big screen, while a washing line, complete with jaunty, plastic pegs, was visible just behind it. The film had to be stopped halfway through to change reels, but enthusiasm did not dim. Every time a local landmark appeared, the audience would whoop with recognition and pride. The first on-screen sight of the beautiful church of Agios Ioannis got a bigger cheer than the moment when Pierce Brosnan tears off his shirt – although it was a close-run thing. Uniquely at the Skopelos premiere it was the scenery, not the stars, that the audience were focused upon; scenery they had grown up with all their lives, and still loved. "The world will see Skopelos now," said the mayor afterwards. "We are the Mamma Mia! Island." Hollywood came to Skopelos last summer, when the film's cast and crew poured into the island's hotels and breezy villas. Their mission? To produce a £35 million film version of the hit Mamma Mia! musical, which features 22 Abba songs and is a worldwide phenomenon. Since it opened in London in April 1999, 30 million people in dozens of cities across the globe have seen Mamma Mia! and it continues to take £4 million a week in theatre ticket sales. You can see the ker-ching! allure for any film producer, even if Mamma Mia!'s skimpy plot defies logic and is cheesy enough to make your eyes water. The story follows a teenage girl's quest to find her real father before she gets married. She writes to her three potential fathers (in the film they are played by Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgård) asking them to come to her Greek island home where the wedding is taking place. Meryl Streep plays Donna, the taverna-owning mother and the girl, Sophie, is played by Mean Girls star Amanda Seyfried. The Skopelitans who attended the premiere noted with pleasure that, although a few scenes were shot on the Greek mainland and on neighbouring Skiathos, it is their beautiful island that dominates. Donna's taverna is situated at the headland of Nissi, near Glisteri, while much action takes place on the beaches at Kastani and Milia, with their emerald waves and pale cliffs. The wedding takes places at the spectacular 18th century Agios Ioannis church, situated high on a sea rock that juts out over the misty Aegean. When Streep first got there, she pressed her palms onto the rock and leant against the ancient stone. "Come on, feel the force," she urged colleagues, before going off to film a scene in which she bickers with Brosnan. Until it became "Mamma Mia! Island", Skopelos's claim to fame was that it is Greece's greenest island. Situated in the Sporades islands in the western Aegean, it is less commercial and less developed than its near neighbour Skiathos, which – unlike Skopelos – has an airport, flights from all over Europe and long, sandy beaches. So tourism has come late to this rugged island, which has resulted in low-key concessions to holidaymakers and general goodwill towards visitors; on Skopelos they have not yet learned to loathe tourists and it is too expensive here for marauding backpackers. In the film, Kastani beach has a groovy beach bar, complete with sexy barman dispensing elaborate cocktails which droop with fruit. I don't think so. The film crew built the bar for the shoot, then dismantled it afterwards. A cold beer sold to you by someone in a wooden shack wearing a pinny is much more Skopelos's style. Yet the island's downhome charms and friendly but largely unimpressed locals were a big hit with the stars. For the month or so they were on location here during August and September last year, they loved it. "I had the time of my life making this movie," said Brosnan, who stayed at the Skopelos Village hotel complex during the week, and relocated to Metochi villas, on the hill opposite town at the weekend. "What a kick in the pants," he said, "to spend time with Meryl on a Greek island, singing Abba songs." Local rumour has it that he wants to buy a property. Someone else says he wants to buy a whole island. Except for Streep, who went everywhere with two bodyguards, the movie stars moved freely around the island. Brosnan, in particular, was a big hit with locals. The beach shoes he accidentally left behind are now enshrined in a local travel agent's office, surrounded by fairy lights with a sign exclaiming: "Pierce Brosnan's Flip-Flops!" Brosnan, an old-school film star, ate in the tavernas, shopped in town, never refused a photograph or an autograph and shook every hand that came his way. He always attended the parties thrown by the film unit for the crew and locals. "He did not act like a star, none of them did," said Ildiko Matus, a Slovakian university graduate who works on Skopelos every summer. "When my friend saw Colin Firth in a taverna and screamed, he was cool." Together with her sister, Aniko, the girls were part of a group of locals paid €70 (£55) per day as Mamma Mia! extras. They were supposed to be wedding guests, and even though they were painstakingly togged out in glamorous dresses, earrings, Chanel handbags and (much hated) crimson lipstick, the Matus sisters scenes did not make it into the final cut. To add insult to injury, Ildiko had her waist-length hair chopped into a bob by one of the film's stylists. It was so that she could act as a double for actress Christine Baranski, who plays one of Donna's friends. "I wish I had not done this," she laments now. That's what happens when Hollywood comes to town. You have to take the good with the bad. The mayor and the Skopelos business people who rely on the tourist trade are hoping for the kind of boost that Captain Corelli's Mandolin brought to Cephalonia in 2002, when record numbers of visitors came to the island after the film's release the previous year. Others urge caution. Heather Parsons is one of the 200 or so British people who live on the island. Although the majority of the expats here are retired couples who left the UK within the last six years or so, Parsons moved here 15 years ago from Kent. She runs Skopelos Trails, a walking guide to the island, and gets upset when ancient trails are flattened by bulldozers building new villas. "A lot of people made a lot of money whilst Mamma Mia! was in production. So, it brought prosperity before even being released. It gave the island a real buzz; everything went very flat as soon as they left. We hope that the film will create interest in the island and give a much needed boost, but there's no guarantee." Skopelos could do with some good news. In May, a forest fire destroyed 2,000 acres of pine forest. Already, the short summer season is being affected by the corrosive, mixed influences of the strong euro, the credit crunch, the economic downturn and the rise in fuel prices. From Athens, it now costs a family of four over €400 to travel here with a car by ferry. Northern Europeans who would normally snap up villas and hotel rooms are staying at home. People are still coming to Skopelos, but the ones who do are spending less. Everyone is feeling the pinch and some of the restaurant owners are getting desperate. One establishment is charging €12 for a Greek salad. "Crazy," said a Mr Grypiotis, who despairs of such grasping behaviour. His family have run the Kimata taverna, the best restaurant in Skopelos Town, since 1896. On Thursday in Skopelos, all seemed to enjoy Mamma Mia!, which is being shown at the Orpheus throughout summer. What changes will the film bring to Skopelos? It is too early to say, although midway through the screening, there was a genuine rumble of alarm when Brosnan began to sing. This is a reaction that is bound to be repeated in cinemas everywhere. Still, you have to admire a man who can keep a straight face while singing Abba songs and delivering lines such as: "I see you've still got my bagpipes." It is more heroic than anything he ever did as James Bond. And Skopelos is an island fit for heroes, even ones in flip-flops. Mamma Mia! – The Movie is out this Thursday
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Post by Ace on Jul 5, 2008 16:48:40 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Jul 5, 2008 17:11:51 GMT -5
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Post by migs on Jul 6, 2008 6:07:13 GMT -5
I saw a special premiere showing of Mamma Mia! The Movie last night at the Leicester Odeon. Ardderchog . . . Gwych . . . (sorry, I am in Wales studying Welsh, after all . . . translation: Excellent, great, etc . . .)
It was great. Pierce did a very short welcome on screen before the showing. Something like:
Welcome to this special advanced showing of Mamma Mia! at the Leicester Odeon. I hope you enjoy the movie because I had a blast making it. So sit back, enjoy your popcorn and . . . your . . . cokes and have a great time . . .
All of us got a special program keepsake. And I was able to buy the soundtrack at the theatre after the movie. I don't have my scanner with me, but I think I might be able to take pictures of the program and soundtrack pics with my camera. The program isn't really anything new, I think all of it is online.
Not to give anything anyway, but Pierce as a 60's/70's hippie ;D
They only do the spandex scene at the very end after/between credits. At the end of the movie, Donna and the Dynamos sing a song (Dancing Queen? -- sorry, can't remember) and then Donna asks if we want another song and the cast does Waterloo in spandex.
Pierce in the spandex costume ;D -- There's a very small pic on the soundtrack and he's kind of behind the others, but if I can take a picture of it with my camera and upload, you'll get the idea.
I want to see it again!
Migs
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Post by hotel in Lagonissi on Jul 6, 2008 7:28:08 GMT -5
Hello!!!
We learnt that he was in Athens for the promotion of the new film Mamma mia , so we didn’t lose the chance to meet him in the “Grand Resort” hotel in Lagonissi , where he was staying , we went there and finally we met him on Saturday 28th of June at 13:30 o clock.We are very happy .When we were walking on the hotel’s beach we watch Brosnan sitting into a Restaurant next to the beach and without second thought we went in.We gave him this paint which we have made and when he saw it , he saw us his enthusiasm as he used to paint too . We had a nice conversation with him . He was so kind , friendly and modest .
When we ask him if it’s possible to take a photograph with him and to sign us two autographs , he answer us ‘Of course’ .It’s worth to say that he was walking alone in the hotel and on the beach untroubled without any bodyguards or security staff. He also took some photographs with the hotel staff. Since he had wait in the queue to pay for his meal , he decide to be freshen in the hotel’s sea before going to his room for his evening relaxation . We were in the same place with Pierce Brosnan for about an hour , it was a great experience which we will never forget.
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Post by icy1979 on Jul 6, 2008 17:33:09 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Jul 6, 2008 18:05:35 GMT -5
Variety: U opted to open "Mamma Mia!" two weeks ahead of its domestic debut in two markets -- Greece with $1.6 million, tying "Asterix and Obelix" for the best 2008 launch, and at one screen in the U.K. with $240,000 at the Odeon Leicester Square, where it broke the previous record for a musical set by "Chicago." Hollywood Reporter Jeremy Kay in Los Angeles 06 Jul 2008 Mamma Mia! kicked off its theatrical run this weekend with a wide release in Greece that produced an excellent $1.6m from 155 sites and an exclusive one-week engagement at the Odeon Leicester Square in London that delivered $240,000. [updated to $273,000] The UK opens wide along with nine other territories including Australia and Sweden this coming weekend. [How big is that opening in Greece? Indiana Jones opened with $1m and after 3 days it's already the #12 for Greece this year. The UK as expected should be huge]
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Post by icy1979 on Jul 8, 2008 17:03:54 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Jul 9, 2008 6:26:44 GMT -5
extratv.warnerbros.com/2008/07/from_007_to_musical_star.phpFrom 007 to Musical Star! Posted by ExtraTV Staff on July 8, 2008 Pierce Brosnan stars in the new summer movie, "Mamma Mia!" -- like you've never seen him before! The former Bond star sheds his superspy image, singing and dancing his way into theatres. Click to see Pierce give "Extra" the inside scoop on his latest role.
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Post by Ace on Jul 9, 2008 6:34:10 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/08/pickard_of_the_flicks_mamma_mi.htmlPickard of the flicks: Mamma Mia! August 7, 2008 12:00 AM After getting all scared by a cloud last time, this week I'm deconstructing what might just be the fluffiest trailer on the market - unless you're scared of hugging ... 00.10: "EVERY GIRL HAS A DREAM" says the deep gravelly voice that one only ever hears in a major studio trailer. If it's not actually Don LaFontaine - king of trailers, having wheeled out the same rumbling baritone for more than 5000 of them - then it's his stand in. 00.13: Some women hug. 00.14: Some more women hug. 00.15: More hugging. Jesus, 00.18: "EVERY FAMILY ..." what, hugs? 00.19: Young blonde woman pokes her head around a doorway. Meryl Streep looks mildly surprised. If this is representative of something important, I cannot fathom it. 00.22: "... HAS A SECRET". Has a secret concerning being genetically easily alarmed by the working of doorways, perhaps. Oh, no, it's something else. "I read mum's diary... and I have three possible fathers" Says the pretty young blonde. 00.27: "Oh. My. God" say a pair of attractive young women with ridiculous tans. Tans like that - basically transmogrified sunburn? They must be supposed to be British. Even the one who's actually Australian. 00.29: "EVERY WEDDING ..." 00.32: Three men turn toward the camera. These will be the daddies, then. One is Pierce Brosnan, one is Colin Firth, and by the time we look to identify the third they're gone again. It's extremely fast editing - the kind which, in fact, always makes you wonder if they're slipping some subconscious advertising between the brightly coloured Greek landscapes and happy images. Which reminds me, I really need some cornflakes. 00.33: "... HAS A FEW SURPRISES" 00.39: Meryl Streep in dungarees falls through a ceiling and (luckily) onto a mattress. Seriously. Just imagine if that mattress hadn't been there. This would have been a very, very different film if it hadn't. Much more My Left Footy. 00.44: Some women do some hugging. 00.52: Pierce Brosnan is manly and rugged. In fact from what we've seen, Brosnan is rugged and perfect-romantic-lead-easque, Firth is slightly bumbling over-polite and British (we haven't actually heard him say anything or seen him do anything, but it's a pretty fair guess) and the other guy is so unremarkable he barely has a face. 1.07: Finally, we see Streep, Julie Walters and 'other' do a dance routine - in fact, the next ten seconds is a flurry of dance routines - but not with the contemporaneous soundtrack you'd usually hear on the actual film - because, of course, people who make trailers assume that no one wants to see a musical, so they chop out every bit that *doesn't* have people singing, and string them all together so it looks like a very straightforward narrative with no singing in at all. I would go as far as to suggest to them that in this case, their target audience probably KNOW it's a musical and like that fact. 1.19: "YOU'LL NEVER FORGET..." 1.20-22.10 Most of a minute passes in a riot of colour and a carnival of bouncing. There's a ADD-flickering of happy images - mainly dancing, it must be said - with the majority of shots are less than a second long. Flicking past in a way that most likely makes an awful lot of sense to people already familiar with the plot, but it's still possible to work it out. "There were three men at the same time" says Streep at one point, the slapper. "Is your father here?" Colin Firth asks the young blonde pretty woman, receiving only a coquettish "You tell me" in response. Again, I realise that there are good, plot-led reasons for doing it this way around, but you can't help but wonder if a DNA test might have been quicker. Again, would be quite a short film, and a bit Jeremy-Kyleish. 2.10: "I don't care if you slept with a HUNDRED guys!" says the attractive young lady (now wearing a wedding dress). Which is all very nice of her to say, but it would have been a lot of extra people to invite to the wedding if she had, and a lot of extra possible-fathers to add to the head table at the reception, so I think she hasn't thought that through. 2.20: MAMMA MIA! Etc. Now, it's out this week, so we'll start seeing reviews of the actual film in the upcoming days. Most of them will undoubtedly contain the phrase "A feelgood summer sizzler!" and at least four puns on Abba song titles per paragraph, and we look forward to that enormously. However, as is the point of this column, judging on the basis of this trailer alone, what can we extrapolate about Mamma Mia, who might enjoy it, and what it might be like as a cinematic experience? First, a glance at the active ingredients: Though the trailer only includes three songs (For the first minute, it's Mamma Mia all the way, then Gimme Gimme Gimme, then Dancing Queen) the actual film can be expected to include eight times that, and sung by the cast (which, as mentioned, might be a rude shock to anyone watching the trailer and not knowing anything about the stage show). -There will be at least 670% more hugging, and possibly crying at at least one point. - There will, from the look of it, be no nudity to speak of. There will be dungarees, though. Q. I'm a big fan of German expressionism, Wagner, and like nothing better than an evening at home with the works of Friedrich Nietzsche - on the basis of this trailer, would you say this is a film for me? A. Generally no, although you do sound like you could do with a laugh. I think you should watch this film, but only after six cups of coffee and/or some kind of sugar rush. Q. I don't like people making any noise while I'm at the cinema. I like a quiet, respectful audience with silent nodding the only outward expression of enjoyment. Is that likely with this film? A. Sadly not. Had you said "I like an audience hyped up on goofballs and other concession stand sweets bouncing in their seats and singing along with every single word of every single song, can I expect that?" then I might have been a bit more helpful. Q. I have promised to take eight 13-year-old boys to a film as a birthday treat. Would this be the right film for that purpose? A. Hell. No. Q. Are there physical side effects to this film? A. Quite possibly, yes. Though the medical research into this particular production is still in its formative stages, it has been suggested that the film as a whole contains so much excess oestrogen that some male members of test audiences were found to have grown a vagina by the time the closing credits came around. Those in the test screening that already had vaginas had started lactating uncontrollably. Q. What, really? A. Yes, serious. Oh alright, that last bit might not be true. |
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Post by brdwaybeauty on Jul 9, 2008 12:47:20 GMT -5
I saw the screening for it last week and let me just say, it was nothing less than AMAZING!!!
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Post by Ace on Jul 9, 2008 20:00:59 GMT -5
Brdwaybeauty, welcome to the board and thanks for giving a review -- it's good news that you liked it.  ====================================================== Baranski makes entrance for 'Mia' By LIZ SMITH 'Mamma Mia' tunes up for Hamptons On Sunday the actress supreme, Christine Baranski, will depart the Longacre Theater after the matinee of "Boeing Boeing" and step onto Jeff Zucker's GE helicopter. That will land her in Southampton in time for the gala Hamptons premiere of the movie musical "Mamma Mia!" Although the star of the film, Meryl Streep, won't be attending, her co-star, the handsome Pierce Brosnan will join Ms. Baranski for this exclusive event honoring Evelyn Lauder and her Breast Cancer Foundation. Forget about the guest list; it's stellar and how the small Southampton movie theater will accommodate all this high-power, I don't know. But it's happening: (Another Peggy Siegal P.R. production). Both Meryl and Christine are accomplished singers. Acting aside, Christine starred as the lead in a recent Washington production of "Mame" and Meryl had early ambitions for opera. She plays the violin and uses classical music to help her get into character for roles. She sang in the musicals "Happy End" and "Alice at the Palace" and also scored recording songs from the musical "Hair" and the Grammy-nominated "Philadelphia Chickens." She played a professional singer in "A Prairie Home Companion" and has also sung in many of her films such as "Silkwood," "Ironweed," "Death Becomes Her," "Dancing at Lughnasa." She belted out Brecht in Central Park's 2006's "Mother Courage and Her Children." She was tremendous singing in the film "Postcards from the Edge." The British press already called "Mamma Mia!" "the only feelgood factor in this summer of credit crunch blues." They noted that even Queen Elizabeth II says: "I always try to dance when 'Dancing Queen' comes on because I am the Queen and I like to dance." |
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Post by Lauryn on Jul 9, 2008 21:13:58 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/08/pickard_of_the_flicks_mamma_mi.htmlPickard of the flicks: Mamma Mia! August 7, 2008 12:00 AM After getting all scared by a cloud last time, this week I'm deconstructing what might just be the fluffiest trailer on the market - unless you're scared of hugging ... 00.10: "EVERY GIRL HAS A DREAM" says the deep gravelly voice that one only ever hears in a major studio trailer. If it's not actually Don LaFontaine - king of trailers, having wheeled out the same rumbling baritone for more than 5000 of them - then it's his stand in. 00.13: Some women hug. 00.14: Some more women hug. 00.15: More hugging. Jesus, 00.18: "EVERY FAMILY ..." what, hugs? LOL, LOL, LOL!!! I didn't realize the MST3K version was out already. Apparently there's more hugs in this thing than in "Sensitive Steele"! Dear God, I hope the SMA didn't get squished to death or inhale too much of the free floating estrogen in the air. The medical warning at the end was a bit scary. I'd really rather his next project not be a role in "The Vagina Monologues." <wink> |
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Post by Ace on Jul 10, 2008 11:32:03 GMT -5
Pierce on the Today show (7/10/08) MSNBC |
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Post by Ace on Jul 10, 2008 16:33:09 GMT -5
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