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Coast to Coast:  “Horrorween” actor joins Canadian production
Montreal’s Nils Oliveto jumps into local project

Montreal, QC (RUSHPRNEWS) June 15, 2006:   An email, a phone call, and a meeting with the cast and crew. That’s all it took for Montreal actor Nils Oliveto to accept French director Antoine Prugne’s offer to join the cast of “Burn Out”.

Just a few weeks after being attached to Hollywood project “Horrorween”, Oliveto agreed to work on a film produced by a European and Canadian team.  Antoine Prugne was quite taken by Oliveto’s talent and offered him a meaty part, “The role offered to Nils Oliveto is very demanding on the acting level. It requires a strong actor who can display the complexity of a character living outside the social norms.  Nils Oliveto’s athletic background combined with his Hollywood experience makes him the best the candidate for this character, which requires physicality, strength, determination and weakness.”

Nils, who will start production of Horrorween this fall (Directed, written and produced by Ed Meyer, and starring comedian Chuck Lamb---aka the DEAD BODY GUY) is excited with this career twist. “Horrorween is a spoof, with a large budget, big name actors, and with all the Hollywood hype that comes with it,” he says. “Burn Out” is an intense drama, with a smaller size budget, and in which I’ll be playing a character that is completely different than the one in Horrorween.”

Nils Oliveto will star as Charlie: a violent street-gang punk leader who becomes unwillingly the center of attention of a new popular reality TV show. Nils adds, “Antoine (Prugne) offered me the part on a silver plate. It was the first time I was chosen for a character without having to audition in front of hundreds and, in the case of “Horrorween”, thousands of candidates. I’m of course not taking this kind of luxury for granted and will start working on that character immediately.”

“The media exposure that has been generated with  “Horrorween” was hugely helpful in Nils being asked to play this character,” explains film publicist Anne Howard.  “It is absolutely astounding to see that the publicity surrounding Ed Meyer’s project caught the attention of the French-speaking film industry in both Quebec and France.”


Nils Oliveto credits include major Hollywood blockbusters like “Windtalkers”, “Showtime”, “Sorority Boys” and the hit TV show “Boston Public”.  Despite his acting experience on the West Coast, Oliveto has never worked on a Montreal-based film. “I certainly won’t mind the acting ‘from sea to sea’ mode. It’s a great feeling to finally be in front of a camera in Quebec and in French. I welcome the change with open arms, and that experience will only make me a better actor. Don’t be surprised if you see me hang out in the next few weeks somewhere in the Montreal gang-punks underground world,” the method actor concludes.

Production for “Burn Out” will begin in spring 2007 in Montreal and Paris, France. Selected scenes for the trailer will begin shooting this summer.

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