Desertion
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Starring: Kim Rhodes, Brian Krause, Robert Maschio
Directed By: Francine Michelle
Release Date: Unknown

Brian's Character (Brandon):
A ruggedly handsome Midwestern gentleman who wears scruffy well, a widower with a young daughter who is finally ready to find the next Ms. Right, genuine charm that can often be mistaken for immaturity, tells it like it is to a “T”.

Film Synopsis:
Jane Nichols a successful New York Ad Executive leaves her husband and her picture perfect world to find her roots. Getting on a train to the "middle of nowhere" Jane finds herself in Waterloo, Indiana where she reevaluates who she was meant to be and in the process finds the love that she is meant to have.

LOCAL ACTORS TO APPEAR IN TELEVISION MOVIE
Monday - February 25, 2008 | by Drew Belle Zerby

Being attacked by dinosaurs or getting strangled by serpents is nothing new for Caleb Michaelson and Shauna Rappold.

Up-and-coming actors Rappold, University alumna, and Michaelson, Baton Rouge resident, will appear next month in the Sci-Fi Channel's original movie "Warbirds," filmed in St. Francisville.

"It is a good sci-fi film," Rappold said. "It is about the banding together of forces. Everybody must work together to survive."

Rappold said she is very anxious for the premiere of "Warbirds" because it is the first sci-fi movie she has acted in.

Michaelson, however, is no stranger to the sci-fi genre. Michaelson's résumé includes several sci-fi flicks where his character is usually brutally killed.

"I love getting killed," Michaelson said. "It's fun, and you get to be creative."

"Warbirds" is about the Women's Airforce Service Pilots who are on a top-secret mission when their plane crash-lands on a tropical island. Pre-historic creatures, the pterydons, ransack the group. The stranded soldiers are then forced to side with the Japanese to fend off the native dinosaurs, Michaelson said.

"The island is filled with eggs that hatch and attack whenever they hear a noise," Rappold said.

Michaelson plays World War II Sergeant John Lee, the war hero, love-interest character.

Rappold portrays Betsy Quigley, one of the WASPS who is unaware of the mission's intent.

Transforming St. Francisville into a tropical island in the South Pacific did not take much work, Rappold said.

"St. Francisville is filled with trees, mud, water and all kinds of bugs," she said. "Being able to film in a place like this made it real for the actors."

Rappold and Michaelson work alongside "Charmed's" Brian Krause, who plays Colonel Jack Toller in the film.

Rappold said it was amazing working with Krause.

"He was always there giving suggestions," she said. "He is very down-to-earth."

A DVD TERROR
Tuesday - February 19, 2008 | by Daniel "monk" Pelfrey

From Sony Pictures Home Entertainment emerges the horror thriller Loch Ness Terror on DVD April 15 for the SRP of $24.96. When a small lakefront community becomes prey to a creature living in the watery depths, they seek help from a cryptozoologist (Brian Krause, TV’s “Charmed”). His skills and knowledge of prehistoric creatures make him the only one that can save them from this bloodthirsty monster known as “Nessie” and her offspring. What this community doesn’t know is that he and Nessie have met before. And he intends for this encounter to be the last – one way or another. Loch Ness Terror special features include the behind-the-scenes featurette, “The Making of Loch Ness Terror” as well as a bonus entire first episode of dark and visually impressive Adult Swim series “Blood+.”

BONUS FEATURES INCLUDE:
“The Making of Loch Ness Terror” Featurette
Bonus: Includes entire first episode of TV’s “Blood+”

Directed and co-written by Paul Ziller (Solar Strike, Breaking Point), Jason Bourque (Dark Storme), this film stars Brian Krause (TV’s “Charmed”), Niall Matter (TV’s “Eureka”), Carrie Genzel (Blood Rayne II, Dark Storm) and Don S. Davis (TV’s “Stargate: SG-1”). Loch Ness Terror premiered on the Sci-fi Channel on January 5.

Loch Ness Terror has a run time of 91 minutes and is rated R for creature violence and gore. Artwork is available at SPHEPublicity.com. Visit Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on the Web at SonyPictures.com.

The Gods of Circumstance
Genre: Drama
Starring: John Schneider, Cate Cohen, Brian Krause
Directed By: Justin Golding. (GOC Films)
Release Date: Jan. 2009

Film Synopsis:
One of the great American love stories of our time.

Michael Lewis Mick Jeremiah, forty nine and a half years old, former Kennedy Cold Warrior, single father and bankrupt homebuilder on his way from California to Colorado to get a fresh start stops by Nevadas infamous Chicken Ranch brothel, on an impulse to look up and old girlfriend, Toni Marie Hastings, twenty in and a half years old, daughter of a U.S. Marine Vet, college graduate and former social worker.

To his surprise, she decides to go with him.

Her Ex Husband, Jim Jeff Jones (Krause), a degenerate gambler and ex convict hanging around Las Vegas obsessing over her finds out about their reunion and chases them across the south west.

They wind up in San Felipe, Mexico, a former sanctuary for Jeremiah and his friends after a decade of war, riots and revolution during the early sixties.

A great American love story about a couple of desolate angels on a highway to hell.

BIG SHOTS: VARTAN ON J-LO AND MALINA IN POKER FUNDRAISER
Tuesday - February 5, 2008 | by Rosario Santiago

While there appears to be hope looming on the horizon for an imminent resolution to the three-month long deadlock between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, there doesn't seem to be any such positive outlook for ABC's Big Shots. The freshman series was canned in December, with three episodes still left for broadcast.

Big Shots co-star, Michael Vartan, who played James Auster on the cancelled program, recently commented on his former big-screen co-star, Jennifer Lopez's pregnancy. Lopez clearly made a good and lasting impression on the actor, with whom she shared the spotlight in the film, Monster-in-Law.

"I think she'll be a wonderful mom," Vartan was quoted by the New York Post. "I think Latin women have the key...very emotional, very nurturing. You always hear about big Latin families and how lose-knit they are."

In other news, Vartan's fellow Big Shots cast member, Joshua Malina, will be among the special guests at a Gala Celebrity Poker fundraising event on Sunday, February 10. The event, which is scheduled to take place at Hollywood Park Casino on W. Century Boulevard in Inglewood, California, is for the benefit of the families of California firefighters who were injured or killed in the line of duty while battling the wildfires that ravaged the Southern California area last year.

Hosted by the California State Firefighters Association or CSFA, the celebrity poker fundraiser gets underway at 2pm with a celebrity cocktail reception that includes both a silent as well as a live auction. This will be followed by a brief ceremony to honor firefighters injured in the Southern California blaze. The No-Limit Texas Hold'-em Tournament is then set to commence at 3pm. This tournament is limited to 250 players and the buy-in is set at $450.

Some of the other television personalities expected to join Big Shots' Malina are Brian Krause from Charmed and Joseph Mascolo of The Bold and the Beautiful and Days of our Lives.