[MariSk8]

He reminds me so much of Adam Levine with the new hair!

[ramgirl]

Originally Posted by MariSk8 (View Post) He reminds me so much of Adam Levine with the new hair!

Now that you pointed that out he does look like him, like they could be distance relatvies or something

[Kelly_mv]

Interview Showcase

Milo Ventimiglia

The writer's strike might have provided the season's most unexpected plot twist on the hit television drama Heroes, but that hasn't done much to mitigate the hubbub surrounding one of the show's stars, Milo Ventimiglia. As the chronically embattled, mystically powered male nurse Peter Petrelli, Ventimiglia has become the series' resident hunk with a tortured heart.

Born and raised in Orange County, California, the 30-year-old Ventimiglia has been acting for half his life. For most of those years, he has been the sort of journeyman television actor you might have seen even if you didn't know that you saw him - on Sabrina, the teenage Witch; Boston Public; American Dreams; Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit; CSI; Gilmore Girls; Opposite Sex; The Bedford Diaries; and in other assorted walk-on, recurring, and short-lived starring roles. (That guy who makes Fergie want to cry in her video for the song "Big Girls Don't Cry"? That's Ventimiglia, too.)

The success of Heroes, though, has really allowed Ventimiglia to spread his wings: This month, he also stars alongside Alyssa Milano in Pathology, a big-screen thriller about a group of medical students who conspire to commit the perfect murder. And while Ventimiglia's new-found career fortune may not have arrived overnight, one thing is certain: Like his character on Heroes, he has just begun to show the world what he's truly capable of- and it's looking like some pretty big things.

[drofpain]

Thanks Kelly. He really is headed for "some pretty big things'. It's not even an interview. It's like a little summary. Nice pic though ::

[ramgirl]

Thanks for the article Kelly

And while Ventimiglia's new-found career fortune may not have arrived overnight, one thing is certain: Like his character on Heroes, he has just begun to show the world what he's truly capable of- and it's looking like some pretty big things.

I how that was said, and it's true too

[madelen]

Great picture and the article's pretty good too

Thanks Kelly!

[Kelly_mv]

Just wanted to point out that you can find new information about Milo's role in Armored in Milo's Movie Roles Thread on this board.

A new trailer for Chaos Theory with Ryan Reynolds has hit the internet. This is just a reminder that Milo is not in that film, he is in a different Chaos Theory. Maybe they will rename it to avoid confusion.

[PGGF]

Thanks for the article, Kelly!

[Ghost.Of.You]

Originally Posted by ramgirl (View Post) I how that was said, and it's true too

I'm with you on that!

[drofpain]

This Chaos Theory/The Chaos Theory is confusing for people. They could come up with a better name. Also "Game" supposedly is only a working title. They've yet to get a solid movie title for that film. ACtually if you look at past movie titles there are lots of repeats. I guess people aren't that creative.

[BYtheSEA]

Originally Posted by Kelly_mv (View Post) A new trailer for Chaos Theory with Ryan Reynolds has hit the internet. This is just a reminder that Milo is not in that film, he is in a different Chaos Theory. Maybe they will rename it to avoid confusion.

Wouldn't they pretty much have to change the name of the movie? I thought there was some kind of law or rule on that. It also seems like they would have to do more than just adding "The". If nothing else, I would think TPTB wouldn't want to add to the confusion. Unless the one with Ryan Reynolds is really good and they are trying to capitalize on the critical acclaim. On the other hand, if it's bad, it could hurt their film.

[slashingthefox]

Originally Posted by BYtheSEA (View Post) Wouldn't they pretty much have to change the name of the movie? I thought there was some kind of law or rule on that. It also seems like they would have to do more than just adding "The". If nothing else, I would think TPTB wouldn't want to add to the confusion. Unless the one with Ryan Reynolds is really good and they are trying to capitalize on the critical acclaim. On the other hand, if it's bad, it could hurt their film.

I think it's something that could really hurt the movie that follows, especially if the genres are really different... I watched it happen with the show "Now & Again", which was a FANTASTIC sci fi/superhero series, unfortunately it followed not long after "Now & Then"... a soap opera/drama type show... very different genres... and because of that I almost missed out on seeing Now & Again, everytime I saw the advert to it I assumed it was just a quirky one-off episode of that drama show, which is not my type of show at all... so it could of lost out big time on it's potential audience, that being the audience that likes sci fi/action.

Anyway, that's my theory on why it was canceled after only one season, and damn cliff-hanger too!

[Roswell 10/2/00]

Milo and his production company Divide Pictures who he owns with his friend Russ Cundiff was mentioned in a New York Times article!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/ar...r=2&ref=movies

Sidelined by the Strike, Comedy Goes Online Warner Brothers Entertainment Published: February 10, 2008 HISTORY will judge whether Jerry O’Connell will be best remembered as the cornfed football prospect in “Jerry Maguire,” the awkward chubby kid in “Stand by Me,” or as the husband of Rebecca Romijn. But for a few glorious days last month, Mr. O’Connell, 33, was seared into the minds of thousands of Internet surfers as a cocky, cackling replica of Tom Cruise, in a parody of a Scientology recruitment video. Sidelined for several weeks by the Writers Guild of America strike, Mr. O’Connell, who currently appears in the ABC sitcom “Carpoolers,” was recently inspired by a widely disseminated clip of Mr. Cruise evangelizing on behalf of his church. On a whim Mr. O’Connell called a “Carpoolers” co-star, Jerry Minor, and within hours they were filming their own version of the video, in which Mr. O’Connell wears a familiar black turtleneck and spouts twisted takeoffs of Mr. Cruise’s homilies. (“It is a privilege to be an actor because you know that you really are no help to anyone.”) After learning how to download the footage from their video camera, they gave the raw material to a “Carpoolers” editor, Ryan Case, who assembled the short and provided it to the comedy Web site FunnyOrDie.com. Within two weeks the video had been watched more than 1.7 million times, leaving Mr. O’Connell eager for his next taste of Internet fame. “The bottom line is, we’re people who work in comedy, and because of this strike, we’re sort of bored,” Mr. O’Connell said in a telephone interview. “Maybe I’m watching too much of ‘The Wire’ these days, but you’re just jonesing for that next fix.” While the three-month writers’ strike dealt a devastating blow to the entertainment industry, suspending the production of numerous films and television series, it has also imbued the nascent medium of Web-based comedy videos with a new vitality, as countless furloughed talents — writers and actors; veteran humorists and novices — learned to use their newfound free time to produce their own shorts. While some of the more popular Web sites for original comedy shorts, like SuperDeluxe.com and CollegeHumor.com, say they have not seen spikes in their online traffic resulting from the strike, they have, anecdotally, noticed more video submissions and story pitches coming their way since the strike began. “More people are aware of opportunities because they’ve had some more time to sit around online while they weren’t writing,” said Drew Reifenberger, the general manager of SuperDeluxe.com, the comedy portal owned by Turner Broadcasting. “I guess that’s, in a perverse sort of way, a good thing for us.” Like Mr. O’Connell, the actor Milo Ventimiglia found himself unencumbered when the strike halted work on his popular NBC show “Heroes,” as well as a feature film he was developing with his producing partner, Russ Cundiff. So they began shooting a series of 30-second videos of themselves battling with “Star Wars”-style light sabers in mundane locations around Los Angeles, and posting the segments on YouTube. While the ambiguous, Zen-like clips have generated just tens of thousands of hits so far, they provided Mr. Ventimiglia and Mr. Cundiff a valuable diversion that has, in the words of Mr. Cundiff, prevented him from “playing a lot of Xbox, or just, like, looking at Milo and how pretty he is.” For some established comedians, the strike offered an opportunity to chase more esoteric muses on the Web. While waiting for “Saturday Night Live” to return, Fred Armisen, a member of its cast, worked on ThunderAnt.com, which is home to quirky video skits he creates with the musician Carrie Brownstein. (In one segment they play proprietors of a feminist bookstore; in another, Mr. Armisen portrays Saddam Hussein as if he were the aging lead guitarist in a rock band.) “It’s more like kind-of comedy than actual comedy,” Mr. Armisen said. “We don’t set out to make the funniest thing in the world, just these pieces that are interesting to us. It’s pure art, and there’s no commerce involved, which is not a political thing. It’s just my own laziness that I haven’t gotten it together to ask for money for it.” Others who remained gainfully employed during these months have been happy to take advantage of their friends’ and colleagues’ sudden availability. While the strike did not prevent David Wain, the comedian and filmmaker, from finishing his directorial duties on an untitled comedy feature for Universal, he has used the time to recruit idle writers and actors for “Wainy Days,” a Web program he produces and stars in for MyDamnChannel.com. One recent episode, titled “The Pickup,” a merciless satire of the VH1 series “The Pickup Artist,” written by the screenwriter Jon Zack and starring Paul Rudd (the “Knocked Up” star) as a pompous lothario named Alias, has been watched more than 1.7 million times on YouTube alone. Mr. Wain pointed to this as a creative achievement he might never have accomplished if not for the strike. “It’s been great,” said Mr. Wain, a Writers Guild member. “We can call up almost anyone, and they’re like, ‘Yeah, sure.’ I thought I would be making these things by myself on my laptop, and now it’s like I’m running a whole TV series.” The viewership numbers generated by these Web sites, where success is still measured in the hundreds of thousands, rather than millions, do not yet pose a threat to traditional broadcast television. But several executives and industry observers said that in recent months they have seen a stratification of Internet humor. “We’re sort of in the cable-television era of Internet entertainment,” said Sam Reich, the director of original content at CollegeHumor.com, a Web site owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp. Over the past year viewers have turned to a few Web sites for comedy videos — YouTube, FunnyOrDie.com, and others — supplemented by an expanding constellation of smaller sites that offer just a handful of videos at a time. This evolution, Mr. Reich said, has not only affected how people are watching Web content but also the kinds of content they are looking for on the Web. “Just as when cable started, and there were all of these networks popping up with very cheap and very nonsophisticated content, the same is true of the Internet,” he said. “Our online tastes are still very primal. We tend to watch stuff that’s very candid.” The low-fidelity, look-at-me aesthetic is one that has played particularly well to the strengths of the comedy short. “When they say that all writers are storytellers, I just laugh at that,” said Matt Besser, a founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy troupe, who recently started UCBcomedy.com. “A majority of them are, but there’s a lot of writers who write sketch comedy, and a sketch isn’t a joke, and it isn’t a sitcom. I don’t know any really great stories that are three minutes long.” Sketch comedy “just has its day right now,” he added. “This is sketch’s medium, really.” It is even a medium for sketch writers to comment that there are far too many comedy videos on the Internet. Before the strike began, Liz Cackowski and Maggie Carey were hard at work on their Web comedy series “The Jeannie Tate Show,” in which Ms. Cackowski plays a suburban soccer mom who broadcasts her own Internet program from the driver’s seat of a minivan. During the strike they stopped writing a “Jeannie Tate” television pilot script, while continuing to edit and post their Web shorts, work on MySpace and Facebook pages for the Jeannie Tate character and occasionally wonder how new Internet talent would be able to attract attention in an ever-expanding field of clutter. “I love it when people say, ‘I want to make a viral video,’ because it’s like saying, ‘Let’s make an Oscar-winning movie,’ or, like, ‘Let’s write a best-selling book,’ “ Ms. Cackowski said. “You can’t force that.” Even comedians who have established beachheads for themselves on the Internet are feeling the pressure, said Donald Glover, a writer for “30 Rock” and a member of the popular Web-based comedy troupe Derrick (derrickcomedy.com). “There’s no room for, ‘Oh, that’s a good idea — I’ll just wait to shoot it in a week or so,’ ” he said. “Because somebody will think of it and have it on the Internet by later that night. For some recent entrants to the field of Web comedy, keeping up with all the new videos on the Internet is exhausting. “I’m seeing a lot of it,” Mr. Armisen said. “I’m also ignoring a lot of it. After my 15th e-mail of, ‘Hey, check it out,’ I just can’t watch it all.” But for others, like Mr. O’Connell, the boundless promise offered by the Internet is reason enough for those already employed in creative pursuits to revel in a new avenue for their creative energies. “A couple of actor friends who shall remain nameless keep calling me and Jerry Minor and Ryan Case, pitching us ideas for short videos, like we’re moguls or something,” Mr. O’Connell said. But he was sympathetic to the plight of his unnamed actor pals because he too understands the sting of rejection. “I already pitched another idea to Jerry and Ryan,” he said, “and they said no. They already turned me down.”

[Shanti70]

Thanks for sharing that with us, Erin.

I especially like this part:

While the ambiguous, Zen-like clips have generated just tens of thousands of hits so far, they provided Mr. Ventimiglia and Mr. Cundiff a valuable diversion that has, in the words of Mr. Cundiff, prevented him from “playing a lot of Xbox, or just, like, looking at Milo and how pretty he is.”

[drofpain]

Originally Posted by Shanti70 (View Post) Thanks for sharing that with us, Erin. I especially like this part:

Man! The DSc is getting some high profiling. That's great. Hehehe, Russ thinks Milo's pretty.