Three To tango begins production for Warner Bors Films Canada (East)

The shooting for Three To Tango began on April 29 in Toronto. The film, a romantic comedy, stars Mathew Perry, Neve Campbell, Dylan McDermott and Oliver Platt in the lead. This announcement was made by Lorenzo di Bonaventare Warner Bros president of Worldwide Theatrical Production. Three To Tango tells the story of Oscar Novak (Perry), a young architect who, alongwith his business partner, Peter Steinberg (Platt), is given the career-making assignment of renovating a historic museum for wealthy magnate Charles Newman (McDermott). Following a misunderstanding, Newman assumes that his new architects are a romantic couple (Peter is gay, but Oscar is straight), and charges Oscar with the additional job of spying on Newman's mistress, Amy (Campbell). When Oscar begins to fall in love with Amy, he continues to live as a "closet heterosexual," not only to be near her, but to protect his career as well.
Three To Tango also stars Cylk Cozart, Bob Balaban and John C McGinely. The motion picture is directed by Damon Santostefano, written by Rodney Patrick Vaccaro and Aline Brosh McKenna, and produced by Jeffrey Silver, Bobby Newmyer and Bettina Sofia viviano. Lawrence Abramson serves as executive producer, Keri Selig and John Eekert are co-producers, and Susan Novick is associate producer. This Warner Bros Films Canada (East), Inc. Productions will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros.
Matthew Perry is best known to audience from his four seasons as Chandler Bing on NBC's hit sitcom, Friends, which has stayed in the Nielsen top Ten since its debut. Born in Massachusetts and raised in Canada, Perry originally came to the United States to play professional tennis. He was drawn to acting at the age of 18, when he was cast in a role opposite River Phoenix in A Night In the Life of Jimmy Reardon. His most recent starting role in a feature was the romantic comedy Fools Rush In, with Salma Hayek, and his upcoming projects include Almost Heroes, opposite Chris Farley. Perry appeared in his first television series, Boys Will be boys, in 1987. He went on to star in the series Sydney and Home Free.
The actor also enjoys writing (with writing partner Andrew Hill Newman) and has sold his first pilot, Marxwell's House, to Universal Television. Perry and Newman have also written the feature script Imagining Emily for Warner Bros. Neve Campbell's recent film credits include the box-office hits Scream and its sequel, Scream 2. For her work in the original, she received a Saturn award for Best Actress, as well as an MTV Movie Award nomination, and her work in the sequel won her a Blockbuster Award and another MTV nod in this year's race. She most recently started opposite Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon and Denise Richards in Wild Things. For television, she completed her fourth season as Julia Salinger on Fox's acclaimed and Golden Globe-winning Party of Five. She recently received a Best Actress award from the Family Film and Television Academy for her work in the series.
Campbell, a native of Canada, trained in acting, singing and six varieties of dance, before making her acting debut in the Toronto premiere of Hal Prince's stage production of The Phantom of The Opera. Since then, she has also appeared in the ABC telefilm The Canterville Ghost (with Patrick Stewart), NBC's I know My son Is Alive, the series Catwalk, and the hit feature The Craft, opposite Fairuza Balk and Robin Tunney. Her upcoming projects include the ensemble drama 54 and the leading role of the voice of Kiara in Disney's video release of The Lion King II.
Dylan McDermott currently starts as the passionate attorney Bobby Donnell in the critically acclaimed and Nielsen Top 20 television series The Practice on ABC. McDermott, a Connecticut native raised in New York City, earned a degree in drama from Fordham University and then joined the prestigious Neighbourhood Playhouse in New York. His first professional role came in Neil Simson's Broadway production of Biloxi Blues. McDermott made his motion debut in Hamburger Hill, with a subsequent role in Steel Magnolias. Other starring roles followed in In The Line Of Fire, Home For The Holidays, Miracle On 34th Street and The Cowboy Way. His additional television credits include the acclaimed Showtime telefilm The Fear Inside, opposite Christinc Lahti.
Oliver Platt starred in Executive Decision, in Joel Schumacher's A Time To Kill and in the recent Dangerous Beauty, all for Warner Bros. His feature credits also include Funny bones, Indecent Proposal, Postcards From The Edge, Working Girl, Flatliners, Benny and Joon, Crusoe, The Three Musketeers and Married To The Mob. Following graduation from Tuffs University, Platt immediately began working in regional theatre and Off-broadway in such productions as The Tempest, Moon Over Miami and Urban Blight, before starring in the Lincoln Centre production of Ubu and the Mike Nicholas directed Elliot Loves. His upcoming feature projects include Dr Dolittle with Edic Murphy, Bulworth, written and directed by and starring Warren Beatty, The Impostors, opposite Lili Taylor, Stanely Tucci and Steve Buscemi, and A simple Miracle, with Jim Carrey and Ashley Judd.