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" The other night, Ed Burns screened his new movie Nice Guy Johnny at Meet in Soho. When it comes out next month you&amp;#039;ll probably watch it the same way \u2014 on a couch, with $.69 candy instead of a $5 box of Milk Duds since it&amp;#039;s launching online and on DVD instead of in theatres (not because it&amp;#039;s bad, but because Burns is all about trying something new). Burns, who grew up in New York and went to Hunter college until his first film The Brothers McMullen  won the grand jury prize at Sundance, talked about his return to low budget cinema while fawning over his lead actress, Kerry Bish\u00E9. &amp;quot;I think we&amp;#039;ve got another sort of special find here, this girl&amp;#039;s going to be a star,&amp;quot; he says of his reaction to Bish\u00E9&amp;#039;s audition and his talent for discovering soon-to-be-household names. &amp;quot;The second film I made had this unknown actress named Cameron Diaz who&amp;#039;s gone on to make a couple bucks in this business. We gave Leslie Mann, Amanda Peet their first roles...&amp;quot; When Bish\u00E9 mentioned taking time off Scrubs to film Nice Guy Johnny she said it was a relief to land on set and see her director firing up the grill for lunch, which prompted Burns to explain why he \u2014 writer, director and star \u2014 was cooking the hot dogs. The short explanation is that when you&amp;#039;re making a film for $25,000 there&amp;#039;s nothing left with which to pay a cook. But why the budget? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d turned 40, had two kids, a couple of mortgages so I said fuck it. Spent about 6 months reading these scripts and some of them were pretty good, one even turned into a commercial and critical success...but I love my work too much to surrender it just yet. So I passed and my producing partner and I decided...you know we&amp;#039;re six months into the recession and money&amp;#039;s drying up...and we thought this is a pretty timely issue so let&amp;#039;s explore it in a screenplay. given that, we started to talk about The Brothers McMullen and came up with the parameters for this story since it&amp;#039;s about rediscovering a dream, let&amp;#039;s recreate that model. We said we will not spend more than $25,000, we won&amp;#039;t shoot more than 12 days (we ended up shooting 10), we&amp;#039;ll only shoot with a three man crew, we&amp;#039;ll only use unknown actors, everyone will do their own hair and makeup etc.&amp;quot; The results of the challenge are charming, and Bish\u00E9 does have starlet written all over her. Nice Guy Johnny comes out October 26th. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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