Joshua Jackson in One Week

[OliviaIsMyHero]

Pretty sure there isn't a thread on this already, and if there is, my bad and mods feel free to delete mine!

Anyways, I just saw Joshua Jackson's movie One Week and he was truly awesome in it! His acting was spot on, he had me laughing and then crying, and not only is his acting great, the whole movie's awesome.
It's a very Canadian film, so I don't know if it's really been shown at any other palces around the world, but if it is (or if your in Canada) you should surely check it out!

Here's the site, if you want to check it out: http://www.oneweek.ca/

[musing_11]

ooh, I'm going to see this over march break i think, now i'm excited :D

[MystikPeril]

Awww, I wish it was being shown here (Chicagoland) so I could see it!

[tv_maniac]

Yeah, I want to see this too. :P Can't wait till we can see it in the UK.:shiny:

[D-Roc]

London Free Press on Joshua Jackson and "One Week". Contains some comments on Fringe, but mostly One Week:

No one can accuse Joshua Jackson of "going Hollywood." He's seldom even there.
For five seasons he played Pacey on Dawson's Creek -- which was shot in North Carolina. He now stars in the Fox FBI paranormal series Fringe, the pilot for which was shot in Toronto, with the rest of the first season's production moving to New York. There are rumours season two (if it's renewed) will be shot in Vancouver.

And now, he stars in the elegaic Canadian road movie One Week, which literally saw him drive a vintage motorcycle from Toronto to the West Coast of Vancouver Island.

I get the feeling that his place is full of unopened packing crates.
"That's very true," Jackson says with a laugh over the phone from New York. "The reality is there isn't actually a place. I sort of live a film gypsy lifestyle."


In fact, the move of Fringe is not a done deal. He'll still be filming the series until April, and the discussed move depends on what happens to New York's film tax writeoffs. "But I don't know. Three locations in two years would be some sort of record, I think," he says.

Still, he's a fast packer. And it was less the story than the experience that attracted him to One Week -- in which he plays Ben, a quietly angsty twentysomething English teacher who ditches his Toronto lifestyle and fiance for a biker road trip after he's diagnosed with terminal cancer.
"What we hang the whole story on is actually of secondary importance to the best co-star I've ever had -- which was Canada," Jackson says with a chuckle. "I think one of the reasons the movie is opening wide is that no matter where you live, you'll see something you recognize. This is a shamelessly unapologetic Canadian film, that really takes joy in that fact -- and not a lot of Canadian films do. A lot of our homegrown cinema does tend to focus on 'Ohmigod get me out of here,' and those types of scripts have come across my desk before.

"But what hooked me into this one is it's so shamelessly happy to be Canadian. And for Ben, it takes this unspeakably horrible thing that happens to him for no good reason, and it takes that to shake him up and open his eyes. But once you open your eyes, our country is so impossibly beautiful in so many different ways.
"For me, being a West Coast kid and spending most of my life growing up West of the mountains, driving across the Prairies was incredible. You'd think the Rockies would make you feel small. But being a fixed object, they come with a sense of size perspective. Whereas the Prairies -- an expanse of land that goes on as far as the eye can see, without so much as a hill or a house or a tree -- boy, does that make you feel small."
Like any road trip, the touring shoot with director Michael McGowan had its setbacks.

What started out as a 16-man shooting team of "a truck, a van, a bus and a motorcycle (driven by Jackson)" hit a figurative bump in the road near Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., when the bus broke down.

"We had to break the crew into two different pieces. We took the van and the bike and left a lot of them behind, and they caught up with us in Banff."

A scene in the movie, where Ben encounters the Stanley Cup, courtesy of a Prairie hockey-hero who brings it home, was a rare break in the versimillitude, being shot in Toronto.

"You've never seen a happier group of kids than the peewee hockey team that was practising on the rink just before we got there.
"They're like 'No way!' Then they want to touch it, but they're not sure if they should because they're young enough to think they might win it some day and they didn't want to jinx themselves."

Fringe, meanwhile, has put Jackson back on the "hot" list -- including a listing as one of People magazine's Sexiest Men Alive.

"I actually haven't seen that issue," he says, "What I try to do is duck that stuff as much as possible and try not to bring it up with the guys back home. Inevitably I'll get a call from some friend saying 'I saw that, you're not getting away with that one.
Source (http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/Entertainment/2009/03/09/8676771-sun.html)

[Cathy904]

Nice article. As far as I know "One Week" is only being released in Canada.

Another movie he's in, "Battle in Seattle" is going straight to DVD today (March 9th) or tomorrow.

[mucca]

Here's an interview with him about the movie:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1632714912/bctid14384923001

[tv_maniac]

Nice article. As far as I know "One Week" is only being released in Canada.

Another movie he's in, "Battle in Seattle" is going straight to DVD today (March 9th) or tomorrow.

Though I would like to see him in Battle In seattle, It'll take me a while to get over not being able to see 'One Week'.

[OliviaIsMyHero]

Yeah, I liked it so much, I'm just dying waiting for the download to come out so I can download it and rewatch it over and over! Haha :P
yes, i'm one of those download movie watchers:shhh::ninja:

[Cathy904]

Yeah, I liked it so much, I'm just dying waiting for the download to come out so I can download it and rewatch it over and over! Haha :P
yes, i'm one of those download movie watchers:shhh::ninja:


All I can say is a fervent "God Bless The Internet" and it's hacker-mentality users. And of course "can't discuss illegal downloads".

[tv_maniac]

Any ideas of when it will be available to download?:P And where?:love0050:

[OliviaIsMyHero]

Havn't seen one yet, but I'm on the look-out!:shiny:
Hopefully, it'll be released on DVD a little earlier than normal, seeing as its already playing at the 'cheap theatre', and they usually play there right before they go to dvd.

[Cathy904]

Havn't seen one yet, but I'm on the look-out!:shiny:
Hopefully, it'll be released on DVD a little earlier than normal, seeing as its already playing at the 'cheap theatre', and they usually play there right before they go to dvd.

That's good news for the DVD release, thanks!

[Cathy904]

Fansite says "One Week" will be released through Amazon.ca June 30.

(http://josh-jackson.net/)

[OliviaIsMyHero]

I picked up my dvd! It was released in Canada on June 16th, and I've now watched it numerous times.
It really is a great Canadian movie!:happy15:
Also, I know there is now a few places where it can be downloaded...:shhh:

[GoodPeter]

Excellent! But I can't find any info on when it will be released in the US.:(

[Elliot]

DVD or road trip to Creston???:confused0006: DVD or road trip to Creston???:confused0006:

[QueenBee]

Excellent! But I can't find any info on when it will be released in the US.:(

You can order it via One Week: Amazon.ca: DVD. I got mine in 5 days since I ordered it :happy15:

And also, it is a Region 1 DVD so you can play it in any DVD player in the US.

[GoodPeter]

Thank you QueenBee! I'm ordering a copy right now!