Meet The Stars - Dane Cook Named a "comedian phenom and icon" by Entertainment Weekly, Dane Cook has maintained his reputation as one of today’s most prolific stand-up comedians while simultaneously distinguishing himself as a charismatic and versatile actor in a variety of film and television projects. Last year, Cook starred in his first leading role as the likable slacker Zack in Lionsgate’s "Employee Of The Month", leading the romantic comedy to a box office gross of over $30 million and DVD sales that topped the charts. After inking a multi-faceted production deal with HBO early last year, Cook created, directed and starred in the network’s nine-part comedy documentary series, "Tourgasm" and wrote, executive produced and starred in "Vicious Circle", a feature-length stand-up event. Cook most recently appeared with with Kevin Costner, Demi Moore and William Hurt in the chiller, thriller, "Mr Brooks". Combining energetic physical comedy, clever wordplay and trenchant observations about human behavior, Cook’s unique brand of stand-up and accessible guy-next-door attitude have galvanized audiences of all ages. Combining energetic physical comedy, clever wordplay and trenchant observations about human behavior, Cook’s unique brand of stand-up and accessible guy-next-door attitude have galvanized audiences of all ages. Among his many honors as a stand-up comedian, Cook was named Rolling Stone Magazine’s "Hot Comic", Stuff Magazine’s "Coolest Comic of the Year" and the winner of "Comedy Central’s Standup Showdown". Cook currently lives in LA. Meet The Stars - Jessica Alba Jessica Alba fell in love with acting at a very early age, becoming active professionally at the age of 12. She began studying with acting coaches in Los Angeles and, shortly thereafter, landed at the Atlantic Theatre Company, where she studied with founders William H Macy ("Wild Hogs") and David Mamet ("State and Main"). Alba first achieved worldwide recognition as the lead character in James Cameron’s "Dark Angel", Cameron’s first project after the history-making "Titanic" and his first television venture. In the series, Alba portrayed Max, a genetically-enhanced human prototype who escapes from her government captors only to live out her life on the run in the underground of 21st Century Seattle. In the series’ first season, she was nominated for a Golden Globe and a People’s Choice Award. She was voted the TV Guide Award as Breakout Star of the Year by readers, and won Favorite TV Actress at the 2001 Teen Choice Awards. "Dark Angel" (a huge success around the world), helped to establish her as an international star. Her first starring role in a major film was the 2003 release, "Honey" ($US60 million worldwide). In 2005, Alba’s film career began to catch fire. She starred opposite Bruce Willis and an all-star cast in the provocative and critically acclaimed "Sin City". Alba next starred as Sue Storm in Marvel Comics action-franchise blockbuster "Fantastic Four". This was followed by "Into The Blue" and the Fantastic Four sequel, "Rise Of The Silver Surfer". Many have describe the gorgeous actress as an exotic beauty. While Alba was raised in a traditional American family in California her good looks no doubt can be attributed to her mother’s family which has a French-Danish heritage, and her father who is from Mexican-Indian and Spanish lineage. The Inside Story Most single men would probably call Charlie, the titular hero in Lionsgate’s comedy "Good Luck Chuck", a blessed man. A "good luck charm" who miraculously helps women find true love with the next man they sleep with, Charlie can’t get through the day without relationship obsessed women throwing themselves at his feet. "At first it seems fantastic," says comedian and film actor Dane Cook, who stars as the lovelorn dentist Charlie. "He gets to play the field with no strings attached and he doesn’t even have to try." But things change when Charlie meets the girl of his dreams: Cam, a cute, hopelessly klutzy penguin specialist. All Charlie wants is to be with her; but he knows if he sleeps with her, he’ll lose her. "The sexual tension is huge, and he's got to be the one who backs away from her, which leaves her wondering why," explains Cook. "It’s like the most painful, film-length foreplay ever." The comedic moments in "Good Luck Chuck" come from Charlie trying to find a way to break the curse that was placed on him when he was only ten years old; grapple with bad advice from his sexed-obsessed best friend Stu; navigating a journey marked by malicious penguins; participating in the most disgusting one-night stand ever, and partaking in lots and lots of sex. And just in case you think it is just another fictional Hollywood creation, think on this: "Good Luck Chuck" is actually inspired by the life of a real man named Steve Glenn. Seven years ago, producer Mike Karz attended a party in Los Angeles with wife and coproducer, Cece Karz. They were catching up with Glenn and another friend, associate producer Karen Russell, hearing about Glenn's romantic misadventures when he revealed that several women he had seriously dated met their ideal match soon after breaking up with him. "We decided it just seemed like the perfect idea for a great romantic comedy," Karz remembers. He urged Steve to write a treatment, and later brought on screenwriter Josh Stolberg to pen a script. "The earlier drafts of the script aren’t nearly as irreverent or edgy as the shooting script, and that was really Mark’s influence. He helped make the movie a lot funnier than it was before," Karz revealled. Both Karz and Helfrich believed that comedian and rising film star Dane Cook was the first and only choice to play Charlie. "Dane Cook was a natural to play Charlie because he’s handsome and funny; he’s a star, but he’s stil got this very real, guy-next-door quality," says Helfrich. "And he certainly has the comedy down. He was the perfect choice." Helfrich flew down to New Mexico to meet with Cook, who at the time was completing the Lionsgate’s comedy, "Employee Of The Month" with Jessica Simpson and Dax Shepard. After an encouraging meeting, both Cook and his manager, producer Brian Volk-Weiss, read the script. "I couldn’t put it down," Volk-Weiss ("8 Guys" & "Supermarket") remembers. "We were shooting nights, and I was exhausted. But I lay there in bed for two hours until it was done. Dane did the exact same thing." "You have a movie that plays into Dane's audience the way they know him," says producer Barry Katz ("The Gray in Between"), who also manages Cook. "He can be a regular sincere guy, but he can be crazy and really animated and really powerful. This movie takes huge risks the way Dane does in his stand-up. And if you don't take risks, the audience these days knows it and they're not interested." Cook immediately recognized the opportunity to bring the edgier, no-holds-barred spirit of his stand-up into a commercially viable comedy. "I knew when I was about thirty pages into it," Cook recalls. "The script pushes the limits a bit, and it felt like it would be something my fans would appreciate. Plus, there were nude scenes with the beautiful Jessica Alba. So I was actually doing crunches while I read the script. I was preparing before I even knew I had the role." 2001 Saturn Award winner Jessica Alba was eager to try her hand at comedy. But finding a good female role in a genre dominated by men felt like an impossible task, until she read Stolberg’s script. She instantly fell in love with the part of Cam, and she lobbied hard for the role. "Not very many comedies are written as well as this one. And in a lot of them, women are just token characters," she says. "Cam gets to do all the physical comedy. And that was a rare opportunity." While Cook and Alba immediately hit it off when they met, the producers were concerned about her lack of comedy experience. Until Cook watched Alba host the MTV Music Video awards. The opening sketch was a spoof of "King Kong", and Alba nailed it. "She was flawless," notes Cook. "It’s so hard to find an actress who is attractive and can own her sexuality and is still comfortable enough to do physical comedy. Jessica did that during the "King Kong" sketch. The moment it finished, I called my manager." And what did he say? "She’s the one. I don't want to talk about anybody else." Alba jumped into the part with unbridled enthusiasm, insisting on performing all of her own pratfalls and stunts. "I'm usually a lot more self-conscious and aware that I have to be somebody else," she says. "But with Cam I got to be as goofy as I really am. I'm not afraid to be an idiot. I really just took the bull by the horns and did it. I even got a few bruises to prove my dedication." "Jessica is fantastic and I think that what she did was genius," adds Cook. "She's like a pistol. You don't know when she's going to go off and use her physicality. I hope this movie's successful simply so that we can work together on something else later." So how did the scene where they have their first kiss, go? "We come into the house and we're knocking over lamps. We're smashing into the bowl of chips. We're going through the drywall. And we didn't take into consideration that when her head hits the wall, it would bounce back. Our mouths collided and we both chipped our teeth." says Cook. 2005 Tony Award winning theatre actor Dan Fogler was cast as Charlie’s sex-obsessed, foul-mouthed best friend, plastic surgeon Stu Klaminsky. "Stu Klaminsky is a guy who's constantly squeezing boobies or pinching asses, making sure people's body parts are in the right place," Fogler explained. "He has no time for himself or relationships, and often goes home at the end of the day and has sex with some form of produce. So he lives vicariously through Charlie, who basically has every single woman who wants to get married at his disposal." "Stu and Charlie are like Goofus and Gallant in many ways," adds Cook. "They’re polar opposites, but with the same ethic when it comes to friendship. Fogler’s theatre training and Cook’s knack for improvisation proved to be a winning combination. The pair ad-libbed constantly on set, a habit that director Helfrich encouraged whole-heartedly. "This is a romantic comedy with an emphasis on comedy," Helfrich says. "So whatever made me laugh or the crew laugh was great. We got what was in the script, and then they embellished. And you know, when you're working with talent like that, you can't lose." So who came up with the idea of the penguin enclosure in the movie? The credit must go to Josh Stolberg, who while at Sea World and thought, "Hey, I should put this penguin exhibit in the movie." "Little did he know it would cost us millions of dollars, bring us all over the world looking for penguins and ultimately be the biggest production value we have in the movie," Karz said. The production team decided to build its own Penguin habitat in Edmonton (near the production’s home base in Vancouver) and rent a small troupe of penguins that lived on display in a local mall. "Those penguins in the Edmonton Mall live in a little, normal size penguin habitat," says Helfrich. "So when we brought them to our set, it was like coming to Disneyland for them. They were running around like crazy thinking this was the greatest place ever. You know, they’ve got a bigger pool, bigger mountains to climb on! They didn't want to go home each night." Alba had to familiarize herself with the waterfowl and learn how to handle them. "I wasn't really familiar with penguin behavior before. But they are darn cute and now I have a soft spot for them," shea said. "I would massage this one in particular and she would always get really calm and settle into my hands. I think I became a little bit of a penguin whisperer." To fill in the cage Helfrich used CGI technology to duplicate the live penguins and populate the habitat with digital clones. "When people see this movie, they're going to see a hundred penguins in every penguin scene, but in reality only about fifteen of them are real," says Karz. Synopsis

It all started when Charlie Logan was ten years old. Breaking the cardinal rules of spin-the-bottle, Charlie refused to lip-lock with a demented Goth girl and she put a hex on him. Now, twenty-five years later, Charlie is a successful dentist and still cursed. While his plastic surgeon best friend, Stu, pursues as many of his patients as possible, Charlie can’t seem to find the right girl. Even worse, he discovers at an ex-girlfriend’s wedding that every woman he’s ever slept with has found true love, with the very next guy they meet. Before he knows it, Charlie’s reputation as a 'good luck charm' has women, from sexy strangers to his overweight receptionist, lining up for a quickie. A life filled with all sex and no love has Charlie lonelier than ever, until he meets Cam Wexler. An accident-prone penguin specialist, Cam is as hard to get as she is beautiful. But when a genuine romance develops, Charlie realizes he’s got to find a way to break his good-luck curse; before the girl of his dreams winds up with the next guy she meets.

The Verdict "The producers went for an R18 rating in the U.S.A so they could really work the humour into "Good Luck Chuck". What that means, in a word, is 'crude'. While there are many humorous moments in the film, they sometimes are finely balanced on an edge somewhere between very funny or downright crude. For that reason, if you are easily offended, think twice before seeing "Good Luck Chuck" as you may find yourself dropping Grapefruit from your breakfast menu. "Good Luck Chuck" isn't in the same league as the smash hit "Superbad" but it is never the less, worth seeing for Dane Cook, Jessica Alba and it's cute penguins. And yes, there are plenty of good laughs. The mid-week paying audience I sat in with covered a wide range of ages. Laughter constantly rang-out during the screening. Recommended for comedy adventurers. 2 1/2 STARS." Cast & Crew Bytes "GOOD LUCK CHUCK" stars .......
Dane Cook ["Stuck on You", "Employee Of The Month" and "Mr. Brooks"]; Dan Fogler ["Brooklyn Thrill Killers", "School for Scoundrels" and "Balls of Fury"]; Chelan Simmons ["The Long Weekend", "Final Destination 3" and "John Tucker Must Die"]; Lonny Ross ["Watching the Detectives"]; Carrie Fleming ["The Swishy-Washy", "Edison" and "Married Life"]; Lindsay Maxwell ["The Butterfly Effect 2" and "Alien Agent"] and 2005 Young Hollywood Award winner Jessica Alba ["Sin City", "Fantastic Four" and "Into the Blue"] as Cam.
"COOD LUCK CHUCK" was .......
directed by 2006 Satellite Award winner Mark Helfrich [Editor on "Red Dragon", "After the Sunset", "X-Men: The Last Stand" and "Rush Hour1, 2 & 3"]; screenplay by Josh Stolberg ["Kids in America"]; art direction by Tony Wohlgemuth ["Final Destination 3" and "Black Christmas"]; costume design by Trish Keating ["The Accused", "The 6th Day" and "In the Land of Women"]; production design by Mark S Freeborn ["Screwed", "See Spot Run" and "Final Destination 3"]; edited by Julia Wong ["Mindgame", "Santa's Slay" and "End Game"]; cinematography by Anthony B Richmond ["Legally Blonde", "The Sweetest Thing" and "Employee of the Month"]; original music by Aaron Zigman ["The Notebook", "Raise Your Voice" and "Bridge to Terabithia"]. Who's Who?

Dane Cook Dan Fogler Jessica Alba Lonny Ross Connor Price Troy Gentile Mackenzie Mowat Sasha Pieterse Caroline Ford Chelan Simmons Natalie Morris Ellia English Chang Tseng Michael Teigen Chiara Zanni Ben Ayres Carrie Anne Fleming

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