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10 AUGUST 2008.- A BIT OF FAME NORTHAMPTON - All right, Mr. Campbell, we're ready for our close-up. Well maybe not a close-up, but the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in Northampton became an East Coast version of Schwab's Drug Store in Hollywood Saturday when hundreds of people showed for a shot to get discovered and hired as extras in the upcoming Mel Gibson thriller "Edge of Darkness." Robert De Niro has signed on to play a shadowy "operative" sent to clean up evidence. Kristina M. Sears of Easthampton figures she's a natural for the hospital scenes. She's a real-life nurse at Cooley Dickinson Hospital and had waited in line wearing scrubs with a stethoscope around her neck. "This is on my 'Bucket List,'" she said, referencing another Hollywood film. "Things to do before I kick the bucket: Change a law and be in a movie." Angela Peri, owner of Boston Casting, said "Edge of Darkness" director Martin Campbell, whose films include the James Bond picture "Casino Royale," wants nurses to play nurses, police officers, lawyers, a judge and old hippies with experience in actual protests. "Because people will know how to move," Peri said. The production's needs were all reflected in the line that snaked its way around the hotel: Old hippies had guitars slung over the backs, and punks came with spiked hair. Sheila G. Lucas, of Springfield, came wearing workout clothes. She's a personal trainer at Healthtrax in East Longmeadow. The 26-year-old was hoping that experience, not her time in a high school musical, would help her land a part. "I hope I'm what they are looking for," she said. "You never know unless you try." F. Eric Paredes, of Chicopee, said he was told in his casting session to be ready for something out of the Actor's Studio if he makes it to the set. "This filmmaker is very detail-oriented, so he'll select the extras himself," Paredes said. "He wants all the extras to come up with a character name. He's known for walking up and asking extras what their motivation is, what is their character doing, in the scene." Peri said Campbell is very unusual in that regard. "Usually extras are just like props," she said. "We dress the set with people." Hopefuls won't know if they've been picked until a few days before they'll be needed. Jill Jarry, of Chicopee, 27, talked her sister and best friend into coming along to the casting call. She said she has no specific background that would qualify her for any of the advertised parts. But Peri is looking for women who would be comfortable in a locker-room sequence set at a health club. "I'll be the girl in a towel," Jarry said. The filming is slated to begin in October.
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11 AUGUST 2008.- MEL GIBSON IN BOSTON 
Source: Boston Herald
“Edge of Darkness” star Mel Gibson landed in town and, making like Braveheart, he’s stormed a few of the local fun spots.
The actor, who begins filming the big-budget thriller with Robert De Niro and Bojana Novakovic Aug. 18, checked out the rockin’ weekend scene at Mantra in the Ladder District to hang with his 25-plus production posse.
“Mel arrived with his publicist and movie peeps and he was taken through the side entrance and then proceeded to hang out with just about all the Mantra revelers,” said our bar spy.
Earlier, Mad Max made the scene at Kings Lanes in the Back Bay, laced up the ugly bowling shoes and attempted to roll a few strikes.
While hanging out in the VIP King Pin Room, Gibson told the totally gobsmacked Kings crowd that he’d only bowled once before. And before he departed, he signed a pin and snapped a photo with the star-struck staff.
Whatta guy!
Also, we hear Mel, who plays a Boston homicide detective in “Edge,” broke for lunch during rehearsals the other day and treated some of the production types to a pub meal at J.J. Foley’s in the South End. Sounds like a working lunch to us!
“He appeared to be a very down-to-earth guy,” a Foley’s patron told us.
Word is, Mel, unlike the somewhat reclusive “Ashecliffe” star Leonardo DiCaprio, is a social kind of guy who likes to mix with the locals when shooting a film on location. And isn’t that just What Women Want?
As we’ve told you so many times before, “Edge of Darkness,” a big-screen adaptation of a popular 1980s BBC miniseries, is about a cop, Thomas Craven, who uncovers government and corporate shenanigans when his activist daughter, played by Novakovic, is murdered. De Niro will play a CIA operative dispatched to remove the evidence.
North Shore homey William Monahan, who won a screenwriting Oscar for his adaptation of “The Departed,” has penned the “Edge” script.
The film will shoot in Boston and the Berkshires until December.
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“Edge of Darkness” star Mel Gibson landed in town and, making like Braveheart, he’s stormed a few of the local fun spots.
The actor, who begins filming the big-budget thriller with Robert De Niro and Bojana Novakovic Aug. 18, checked out the rockin’ weekend scene at Mantra in the Ladder District to hang with his 25-plus production posse.
“Mel arrived with his publicist and movie peeps and he was taken through the side entrance and then proceeded to hang out with just about all the Mantra revelers,” said our bar spy.
Earlier, Mad Max made the scene at Kings Lanes in the Back Bay, laced up the ugly bowling shoes and attempted to roll a few strikes.
While hanging out in the VIP King Pin Room, Gibson told the totally gobsmacked Kings crowd that he’d only bowled once before. And before he departed, he signed a pin and snapped a photo with the star-struck staff.
Whatta guy!
Also, we hear Mel, who plays a Boston homicide detective in “Edge,” broke for lunch during rehearsals the other day and treated some of the production types to a pub meal at J.J. Foley’s in the South End. Sounds like a working lunch to us!
“He appeared to be a very down-to-earth guy,” a Foley’s patron told us.
Word is, Mel, unlike the somewhat reclusive “Ashecliffe” star Leonardo DiCaprio, is a social kind of guy who likes to mix with the locals when shooting a film on location. And isn’t that just What Women Want?
As we’ve told you so many times before, “Edge of Darkness,” a big-screen adaptation of a popular 1980s BBC miniseries, is about a cop, Thomas Craven, who uncovers government and corporate shenanigans when his activist daughter, played by Novakovic, is murdered. De Niro will play a CIA operative dispatched to remove the evidence.
North Shore homey William Monahan, who won a screenwriting Oscar for his adaptation of “The Departed,” has penned the “Edge” script.
The film will shoot in Boston and the Berkshires until December.
13 AUGUST 2008.- "EDGE OF DARKNESS", SHAWN ROBERTS AS BURNHAM
Shawn Roberts
Date of Birth: 1984
Born and raised in Stratford, Ontario, Shawn Roberts was spotted by Robert Forsythe, a Gemini award-winning screenwriter, when he appeared as the wolf in a school production of Little Red Riding Hood. Forsythe, the father of one of Shawn's friends, recommended the boy to a high profile Toronto acting agency. His first role was a guest appearance on the TV series Sirens in 1994. In 1996, Forsythe helped Shawn land a regular role on the brand new TV series Emily of New Moon, playing Emily's love interest, Teddy Kent. Filmed in Prince Edward Island, the show wouldn't air until 1998. In the meantime, Shawn kept busy with two guest appearances on Goosebumps.
Once Emily of New Moon hit the airwaves, Shawn was deluged with offers. In 1999, he made guest appearances on Real Kids, Real Adventures, La Femme Nikita, The Famous Jett Jackson and Twice in a Lifetime. As well, he played Peter in the TV movie Sea People, starring Hume Cronyn, and made his feature film debut as Daniel in Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1999).
The role of Cody in the big budget blockbuster, X-Men (2000), launched Roberts into the big time. Roles in Hollywood pictures such as Get Over It (2001) starring Kirsten Dunst and The House on Turk Street (2002) starring Samuel L. Jackson, were followed by a regular role on the hit TV series Degrassi: The Next Generation. After playing Dean on the show from 2002 to 2003, Roberts moved back into film work, with small roles in Detention (2003), Taking Lives (2004), A Home at the End of the World (2004) and a starring role as Tyler in the direct-to-video frat-boy comedy National Lampoon's Going the Distance, Roberts played Calvin Murtaugh, the straight-faced son of Eugene Levy, in the family-oriented Steve Martin vehicle Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005). In 2007, the actor essayed two horror roles, in the pictures Skinwalkers and George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead. Other Films: Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming (2007), Left for Dead (2007) and Jumper (2008).
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14 AUGUST 2008.- MEL GIBSON LOOKALIKE IN FOREST GROVE
Many celebrities have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but only one has a brick in Forest Grove
Source: The Forest Grove News-Times
The last of the bricks have been set and the streets of Forest Grove are adorned with a bevy of new names.
The latest name-a-brick project began soliciting purchases in May, timed with the city’s sidewalk renovation effort. Each engraved brick cost $50, with proceeds going to the city’s public arts commission.
All told, 278 bricks were sold, with more than $5,000 heading to the commission for public art projects downtown.
Some of the highlights include bricks carrying the missives “I love you” and “please marry me,” as well as memorials to family pets loved and lost.
This year’s brick project, jumpstarted by Lynne Magner, co-owner of Miracle Signs, was a continuation of a 2002 effort that enhanced Main Street with personalized bricks.
That project, headed by former City Councilor Dale Mitcheltree and aided by Don Jones, vice president of Bank of the West in Forest Grove, created one mysterious piece of Forest Grove lore.
A brick with the name “Mel Gibson” engraved on it, located on Main Street in front of Izgara Bar and Grill.
Is this a rectangular memento from a past stopover by the Australian actor of Mad Max fame? Sadly, the origins are slightly less glamorous.
Bob McKee, who owns a number of commercial properties in the city’s core, says the brick came about when Mitcheltree, who has since died, tried to persuade McKee to buy a brick.
“He was on city council and was trying to get some enthusiasm around the brick program,” McKee said. “So he was trying to get me to buy a brick and shame me into it.”
McKee refused, however, and Mitcheltree offered to buy the brick for him, and asked what should be on it.
“I told him “Mel Gibson,”” McKee said, “So I am the Mel Gibson behind the brick.”
Asked to explain his choice, McKee said it was pretty obvious.
“Well yeah,” he said. “I look just like him.”
Many celebrities have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but only one has a brick in Forest Grove |
The last of the bricks have been set and the streets of Forest Grove are adorned with a bevy of new names.
The latest name-a-brick project began soliciting purchases in May, timed with the city’s sidewalk renovation effort. Each engraved brick cost $50, with proceeds going to the city’s public arts commission.
All told, 278 bricks were sold, with more than $5,000 heading to the commission for public art projects downtown.
Some of the highlights include bricks carrying the missives “I love you” and “please marry me,” as well as memorials to family pets loved and lost.
This year’s brick project, jumpstarted by Lynne Magner, co-owner of Miracle Signs, was a continuation of a 2002 effort that enhanced Main Street with personalized bricks.
That project, headed by former City Councilor Dale Mitcheltree and aided by Don Jones, vice president of Bank of the West in Forest Grove, created one mysterious piece of Forest Grove lore.
A brick with the name “Mel Gibson” engraved on it, located on Main Street in front of Izgara Bar and Grill.
Is this a rectangular memento from a past stopover by the Australian actor of Mad Max fame? Sadly, the origins are slightly less glamorous.
Bob McKee, who owns a number of commercial properties in the city’s core, says the brick came about when Mitcheltree, who has since died, tried to persuade McKee to buy a brick.
“He was on city council and was trying to get some enthusiasm around the brick program,” McKee said. “So he was trying to get me to buy a brick and shame me into it.”
McKee refused, however, and Mitcheltree offered to buy the brick for him, and asked what should be on it.
“I told him “Mel Gibson,”” McKee said, “So I am the Mel Gibson behind the brick.”
Asked to explain his choice, McKee said it was pretty obvious.
“Well yeah,” he said. “I look just like him.”
15 AUGUST 2008.- DANNY HOUSTON JOINS GIBSON IN "EDGE OF DARKNESS"
Source: Reuters
Danny Huston has joined the Mel Gibson-starring thriller "Edge of Darkness."
Danny Huston (born 14 May 1962) is an American actor and director.
Huston was born in Rome, Italy, the son of legendary director John Huston, the half-brother of actress Anjelica Huston and screenwriter Tony Huston, and the grandson of Academy Award-winning actor Walter Huston. His mother, Zoe Sallis, was an actress of Anglo-Iranian descent.
Danny Huston has followed in the family tradition of pursuing a varied creative career. He began as a painter, but gravitated early to film directing and has helmed numerous television and film projects.
In 1988, his father John Huston produced Danny's first feature, an adaptation of Thornton Wilder's last novel Theophilus North.
With a desire to learn more about the acting process so he could have better understanding of the craft as a filmmaker, in 1995 he began to take small parts in movies. Ultimately, this led to a new passion and his breakthrough role in the independent film IVANSXTC. The Bernard Rose directed feature was nominated for several Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Male Performance for Huston's portrayal of Hollywood talent agent Ivan Beckman. Huston has worked nonstop as an actor ever since.
His filmography include the lead role in John Sayles's Silver City (2004), The Aviator (2004), The Constant Gardener (2005), The Proposition (2005), Marie Antoinette (2006), Children of Men (2006), The Number 23 (2007), The Kingdom (2007), 30 Days of Night (2007), John Adams (2008). and Boogie Woogie (2008).
Huston has just completed shooting Fox's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and will next be seen in "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People."
Danny Huston has joined the Mel Gibson-starring thriller "Edge of Darkness."
Danny Huston (born 14 May 1962) is an American actor and director.
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15 AUGUST 2008.- CAUGHT IN THE ACT!!!
Abe & Louie's (Boston)
Source: Boston Globe
Mel Gibson and Robert De Niro stopped at Abe & Louie's the other night, huddling in the private dining room downstairs. The A-list actors, who are in town to shoot "Edge of Darkness," were accompanied by their bodyguards. De Niro, we're told, had the crispy pork dish, while Gibson didn't order dinner.
Abe & Louie's (Boston) |
Mel Gibson and Robert De Niro stopped at Abe & Louie's the other night, huddling in the private dining room downstairs. The A-list actors, who are in town to shoot "Edge of Darkness," were accompanied by their bodyguards. De Niro, we're told, had the crispy pork dish, while Gibson didn't order dinner.
16 AUGUST 2008.- "LETHAL WEAPON" BONUS DISC PART1
Mel Gibson as Sgt. Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon
Image: mickbaltes
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17 AUGUST 2008.- "EDGE OF DARKNESS" IN ROSLINDALE
Set of "Edge of Darkness"
Source: WBZ-TV
A few of WBZ-TV's own are appearing in the Roslindale-filmed "Edge of Darkness" starring Mel Gibson and Robert De Niro.
One of them was on the set in Roslindale Friday to shoot scenes with her as a TV crime reporter.
Set of "Edge of Darkness" |
A few of WBZ-TV's own are appearing in the Roslindale-filmed "Edge of Darkness" starring Mel Gibson and Robert De Niro.
One of them was on the set in Roslindale Friday to shoot scenes with her as a TV crime reporter.
18 AUGUST 2008.- MEL GIBSON IN "DARKNESS"
Picture: here, please
Photo: Mel Gibson at Grill 23 in Boston. Indispensable a magnifying glass, a good disposition and lots of imagination.
Also, Mel Gibson was recently seen in the lobby of The Ritz-Carlton, Boston Common.
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Also, Mel Gibson was recently seen in the lobby of The Ritz-Carlton, Boston Common.
20 AUGUST 2008.- HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE
He was here!
Mel Gibson was seen on Charles Street, on Boylston Street, on Washington Street, on Tremont Street, on Beacon Street, on Hanover Street, on Dartmouth Street, on Newbury Street, on Congress Street... He was also seen walking toward the Gardiner Museum and visiting the Franklin Park Zoo (both things at the same time), in Roslindale, in Beijing (watching Men's Tennis final ), in Lepe (playing domino in a local pub), in London (partying with Queen Elizabeth), in Charlestown (socializing), in Northampton (shopping at a Kmart store) and in the Boston Rod & Gun Club with a couple of Boston cops to brush up on his shooting skills for his movie, "Edge of Darkness". Quick! Everybody take cover!.
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