[darcybennett]

Banner by the brilliant Rea

Welcome to the Milo Ventimiglia TV Commercials and Promos Appreciation Thread
Here you can discuss all of his TV Commercial work.

Milo's TV Commercial Credits:

Mountain Dew~ Do the Dew! campaign
You can download the commercial HERE
title: 'Bad Cheetah'
role: Mountain biker
Released: Sunday, January 30, 2000
Description: The 60-second spot begins with a mountain bicyclist racing after a cheetah across an African desert. As the biker closes in on the cheetah, he launches off his bike, and tackles the cheetah to the ground. He gets up, approaches the cheetah, and reaches deep, down into the cheetah's mouth to retrieve his Mountain Dew- now empty. He looks down and says "Bad Cheetah". The commercial closes with the cheetah's spots forming the words 'Do the Dew'.



Facts:

• First aired during the '2000 Super Bowl XXXIV
• Pepsi.co paid ABC 4.4 million to air the ad during the Super Bowl
• Filmed partly in Kenya's Shaba Reserve where they filmed Survivor 3
• Cost an estimated 2 million dollars to make
• Directed by Kinka Usher (Mystery Men, 1999) who won the directors guild of America's 'commercial director of the year award' in 1998
• Information on the making of this commercial can be found here and here

Apple ibook
You can download it HERE
title: 'Middle Seat'
role:Mr.Shaeffer
Released May 14, 2001
Description: A college-age man selects the middle seat of an airplane so he can set up his ibook portable computer. The adults in the aisle and window seats are first annoyed but are quickly amazed at how easy it is for him to create an iMovie tribute to his girlfriend and her dog.
A small Animation clip of the commercial by crazy4milo can be seen HERE
Facts:

• The song featured in the commercial is 'Who Let the Dogs Out' by the Baha Men

PT Cruiser~ Drive=Love Campaign
You can download it HERE
title: 'Boy Meets Girl'
role: Boyfriend
Released September 10, 2001
Description: This 30-second spot centers around an attractive couple in a Chrysler PT Cruiser. They arrive at her place and embrace at the front door, but the young woman really has her eye on the vehicle. She lifts the keys from her date's pocket and drives off in the PT Cruiser.
A small Animation clip of the commercial by crazy4milo can be seen HERE
Facts:

• Premiered during Monday Night Football
• Co-starred super model Alice Dodd
• The song in the commercial is called 'L-O-V-E' by Kathy Fisher and can be found on her CD HERE
• 2 new versions of the commercial were created for Chrysler's "Heartlight" Valentine's Day campaign. Through February 13, 2002, 'Boy Meets Girl' ended with a heart covering everything accept the girl's mouth, which has a rosy hue. White lettering reminded viewers to "Send e-valentines from Chrysler.com ." On February 14, the message changed to, "Happy Valentine's Day."

Estee Lauder perfume~ Forever Elizabeth
role: Movie Viewer
Released in 2002
Description: Filmed in black & white, the commercial takes place in a darkened theatre filled with people watching one of Taylor's older films. Taylor herself stands at the back, unnoticed by everyone as she watches too. Shots go back and forth from the film to close-ups of the people watching in awe. As a man in the film (Montgomery Clift) kisses Taylor, a voiceover says "Inspired by love- Forever Elizabeth".
Facts:

• Milo made this commercial because he got to work with the late famed director Herb Ritts, who was considered one of the leading photographers and commercial directors in the world.
• He actually never met Elizabeth Taylor when he filmed this.
• The movie being shown in the commercial is A Place in the Sun (1951)

YM Magazine
Released in 2002
To promote Milo being on the cover of YM magazine

VerbNow.com
3 commercials
Released in November, 2002
A number of WB stars participated in these commercials to help get kids more active.
Video Links : (italian site by Castagna)
Verb#1
Verb#2
Verb#3

T-Mobile
title: Trapped
role: Prisoner
Released in November, 2003
Description: Outside in a prison yard, people are dragging huge, metal phone numbers chained to their feet. A voiceover says "feeling trapped because you're attached to your wireless number?" Suddenly, one prisoner picks up his phone number and throws it over the wall. As it goes over- it drags him with it. He lands safely on the other side where there's a pool party and a new T-mobile phone. A voiceover then says "Take your number to a better place."
Facts:

• It was filmed in Seattle

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Promos

Milo has also appeared in a number of WB promos while he starred on Gilmore Girls and the Bedford Diaries, such as:

• the WB Watch The Frog Campaign Small (or Large)
• The WB 2002 Image Campaign 'Who do You Love' (you can download it HERE)
• The WB 2003 Image Campaign (you can download it HERE)
• The WB 2004 Image Campaign (you can download it HERE)
• The WB 'Big Sunday' Promos 02/03 (you can download it HERE)
• The WB 'Faces You'll Remember' Goodbye WB Campaign (you can download it HERE)
• Golfing- Watch the Frog- Milo appeared with Jamie Kennedy in a WB promo. You can download it HERE
• Bubbles- Watch the Frog- Milo appeared in a small WB promo called 'Bubbles' (2003). You can download it HERE
• The WB 2005 Image Campaign which contains some scenes from The Bedford Diaries. It's available here at theWB.com

Milo's Heroes promo which aired during the February 1, 2009 Superbowl, can be downloaded HERE. A making of featurette can be downloaded HERE.

Random Rants

• Milo talks about driving (you can download it HERE
• Milo talks briefly about what the audience can expect regarding his character Jess at the beginning of season 3 (you can download it HERE)
• Milo speaking about how the fans/audience should be able to make the distinction between an actor and the character he/she plays (you can download it HERE and read the transcript of that, HERE)
• You can also read transcripts of his first two Rants he gave, dating from 2002/2003, HERE
• A small animation clip made by crazy4milo can be seen HERE

Milo as Director

2003- Milo has directed 24 promo 'bumpers' for the WB Images campaign (the little bumpers that appeared before episodes started) in August, 2003 that aired at the beginning during that fall WB season. Some of the WB stars he directed included David Boreanaz, Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Jamie Kennedy, James Marsters, Rose McGowan, Allison Mack, Chad Michael Murray, James Lafferty, Beverly Mitchell, and Reba McIntyre.

2004- As in the previous year, Milo again directed the new bumpers for the 2004 fall WB season in July, 2004. Among the many actors that he directed were Lauren Graham, Scott Patterson, and Alexis Bledel from Gilmore Girls, many of the actors from One Tree Hill, The Mountain, 7th Heaven, a couple of actors from Jack & Bobby, as well as Steve Harvey and Drew Carey.

THIS is one he did with the Jack and Bobby cast in 2004.

[M.I.S.S.Y]

Thanks for starting the new thread DARCY!

It's almost time to start getting some BD promos...I need them!>.lol

[Nin@!!!]

thnx for the new thread


I haven't seen 2 of the commercials but i can't open them But yeah it's definately time for BD promo's!!!

[darcybennett]

Yeah, sorry about that. Unfortunately, many of the links of Milo's WB promos aren't working anymore. The WB have taken down a lot of the stuff they had available to download.

I'm more than ready for some Milo BD promos right about now myself too!!

[Rory-Jess fan]

Have you got Estee lauder and/or T-mobile? I haven't seen them. Oh, and If you want, you can put the link of my video here. I think I'll not delete it. (You know, wb23)

[Nin@!!!]

Owyeah...I totally forgot about other WBsites...maybe the promo's and rants from milo are still online there..

[darcybennett]

Originally Posted by Rory-Jess fan Have you got Estee lauder and/or T-mobile? I haven't seen them. Oh, and If you want, you can put the link of my video here. I think I'll not delete it. (You know, wb23)

No, sorry, we don't have either of those commercials I don't think they were ever made available online for us to see...

But, I'll add your vid link to the first post. Thank you!

Originally Posted by Nin@!!! Owyeah...I totally forgot about other WBsites...maybe the promo's and rants from milo are still online there..

No, I don't believe they are. The WB has re-vamped their site and I believe they cleaned up and deleted a lot of their old files and links and unfortunately I believe Milo's old promos and his rants are no longer up.

[Nin@!!!]

huh...too bad

[barelylegal]

Here's theEstee Lauder video. Yousendit. You know the drill.

credit goes to: Miloventimiglia.net

[digforfire]

barely your the best! but it said the site was password protected?...

[darcybennett]

It worked okay for me, Cristin.

Thanks, barely for uploading it for everyone! It's greatly appreciated!

[barelylegal]

You guys are welcome!

[Rory-Jess fan]

Originally Posted by barelylegal Here's theEstee Lauder video. Yousendit. You know the drill. credit goes to: Miloventimiglia.net

"You'll never known, that you'r my hero" (Or something like that, when Lauren said in GG)
So thank you very much! Milo was a little funny in this vid I think

[tigermaus]

big big thank you barely for that clip

[Milo's#1Fan]

Awesome clip! Thanks for posting that!! He looks kind of funny