Jody in the background

Mr. Butler signs an autograph before the premiere of Nim

It’s Sunday and my screening at CUT is over. I wanted to stay for the Horror day but Gerry had invited Martin and I to the premiere of Nim’s Island at the Chinese Theater on Sunset. At the end of the show it was quite interesting to see Gerry being swamped by fans and Jody Foster more or less ignored by all. The most surreal moment was when two nine year old girls walked past us and one of them proudly stated that she just got Gerard Butler’s autograph.

CUT!2008

Martin, Tony, (Tony’s guest) and I (behind the camera). Heading down to the theatre for the Wrath of Gods screening at CUT!2008 in the New Beverly Cinema.

Good company after the screening at the New Beverly Cinema. Linda Judd, Flowergurl, Ruby (Blondesquaw) and 200 autographs.

The screening of WRATH is over. The only logical thing is to go to the LA Gun Club and shoot at things. That Magnum was quite an experience.

JoJo and The Boss

This is my friend and neighbor JoJo. Few people have as much charisma as he does.

JoJo is a street musician. He played in the streets of Copenhagen for 12 years. One day Bruce Springsteen walked past him. JoJo called out “Hey, Boss! Don’t be so stuck up. Come and play a song with me”. Springsteen kept walking and then suddenly he turned around and asked JoJo if he had a spare guitar. They ended up playing 3 songs together. By the second song JoJo was singing along in harmony. After the second song Springsteen said “This guy knows my songs better than me”. After three songs they hugged and Springsteen walked away. Someone had a video camera. That night this video was on Danish TV and the next day there were pictures in every paper. JoJo became an instant star in Copenhagen.

Lights Out!

Just posted the “lights out” part of the 1 hour interview with Gerry on YouTube. We did this interview in the middle of the night, a couple of days before the end of the Beowulf & Grendel shoot. I am usually very much ‘in control’ when doing interviews, but this time I couldn’t help myself. It’s hard to explain how absurd this was, especially after having gone through months of hardship up there in the mountains. Gerry had been putting the interview off for a few weeks but when we finally got going the generators broke down in the middle of it. By the way, I just read about a new YouTube trick. You just add &fmt=18 after the URL to play the video in higher resolution (have to be on www.youtube.com for this to work)