"Beautiful Boy" is an indie film directed by Shawn Ku. He co-wrote alongside Michael Armbruster, and although this is his first feature film he has previously directed a musical short film called Pretty Dead Girl which received a lot of commentary at Sundance.

Maria Bello and Michael Sheen play a married couple on the verge of separation when they are hit with the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, before taking his own life.

Austin plays Cooper Stearns. He is a writer who writes about the tragedy.

The movie wrapped in December 2009 and will be released in 2010.

The Official site is under construction, but it already has some art design. Click here to see it: Beautiful Boy Movie - Official Site

There are some pictures of Maria Bello filming in November 2009 here: On the set of Beautiful Boy


Source: IMDB, Variety and Filmstalker.


 

Audio interviews:  

Austin talking about working with SoGoPro and watching it grow from the ground up.

Click here to listen: Audio 1


Austin talks about working on true-love tale of Boyfriend and Girlfriend.

“We had a ball doing this,” Nichols said. “There isn’t any dialogue, the whole thing is narrated, and the short looks great.”  

Click here to listen: Audio 2


Credit: SoGoPro (1, 2) and blueaeryn1 (othpodcast). 


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Bello, Sheen wrap 'Beautiful Boy'

Ku's directorial debut centers on college shooting

By MICHAEL FLEMING 

Maria Bello and Michael Sheen have wrapped production on "Beautiful Boy," an indie film directed by Shawn Ku.

Ku and Michael Armbruster wrote the script and Lee Clay and Eric Gozlan are the producers.

Paradigm and Field Entertainment rep Ku.

Variety


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Austin Nichols Exclusive Interview

the site is excited to bring an exclusive interview with One Tree Hill star Austin Nichols, who plays Julian Baker, for the December 8 episode...

...Nichols was introduced to the One Tree Hill fan base as Julian Baker in the eighth episode of season six last year. Nichols’ character was brought on board to cause a stir between the show’s couple Lucas Scott and Peyton Sawyer, but Julian was soon linked romantically with the Brooke Davis character.

Nichols talks about his role of Julian in the seventh season of One Tree Hill and also about working with newcomer Jana Kramer as well as Sophia Bush. He also gives a sneak peek into the short film he has been shooting with Maria Bello.

OTH Podcast

An exclusive interview with Austin Nichols, who plays Julian Baker, highlights this week’s podcast. In the Behind the Scenes of One Tree Hill exclusive, Nichols talks about his first full season on One Tree Hill and his interests behind the camera.

Listen to the interview here: OTH Connection Podcast (Austin is from 9:25)

Tree Hill No More?

by Meriam Bouarrouj

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Julian was literally ordered to leave Tree Hill for a while and take up another movie project. This order came after more issues rose from his friendship/work-ship, call what you will, with trouble-maker actress Alex Dupre. “He moved there for Brooke....and he finds someone who's in his world and in that part of the country and it's nice to collaborate with them because it's a highly collaborative business...and who knows when the next opportunity will lie and he's like, I'm here with my girlfriend and I can't go back to Hollywood and I wanna work so this is kind of my opportunity to work and be here”, Austin Nichols said on his character's reason for not ending his work with Alex, which only led him to problems with Brooke.