McG's Angels -- Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle on DVD Oct 21

Once upon a time there was one man, who use to direct music videos -- but Angels took him away from all that now he works for Charlie... his name is McG.

A little TV show from the 1970s called Charlie's Angels has made the man named McG a house hold name. No he does not have the "Farrah" hairdo or the figure of Jaclyn Smith but he has brought back "girl power" to a whole new generation of girls.

Now three years after the first film was released, McG's second film in the Charlie's Angels franchise has been released onto dvd and home video. The new adventure of Charlie's three Angels is Full Throttle - another high-action-kick-butt-girl-power movie. The box office for the second film was not to shabby, domestically it brought in a little over $100 million dollars and including internationally Charlie's Angels Full Throttle brought in more money than the original 2000 film. Hollywoodfyi.com's Mike Pingel reviles McG's thoughts on few HEAVENLY subjects!

MG on Film Making:
"I really am a big fan of film. I mean film and music are just really my two great passions in life, and I just sort of grew up watching movies and was exposed to many different sorts of movies with, you know, my brother being a sort of rough and tumble guy I got exposed to, you know, my favorite Marlon Brando pictures, all the way through the great action pictures of the '80s, "Top Gun," et cetera."

Creating a Charlie's Angels movie:
"Nothing is gratis in the making of a "Charlie's Angels" picture. I mean you have to very, very clearly articulate what you're going for with the ladies involved, with the actors involved, the producers, et cetera. So in regard to just an actor exiting camera left or camera right, everything has been methodically gone over and discussed - and for some reason or another shot down or gotten excited about and therefore brought to the screen. But there's nothing that just sort of is haphazard and wasn't thought about and wasn't discussed. So if Drew and I are talking about the scene in the monster truck scenario, we'll go to a monster truck race and take in all the fans and what they're like there and what people are listening to and what they would actually do. Then we say how can you add a little Drew Barrymore special sauce and make it Dillon's own voice and add to it."

Big box office dollars on the CA sequel:
"It's always tricky to make a sequel that ignites the passion of the public. And we worked really hard to make it happen - look the truth is we feel like our film was a big success because a $100 million domestic box office, that doesn't grow on trees and we're over 250 worldwide. However I got to be honest - we're all disappointed, because we wanted it to have even more impact on the public."

Broken Angels:
"Drew worked so hard in her sort of ships hold fight sequences that she cracked her tailbone and couldn't sit for a month. Cameron threw her back out and just - the girls are so competitive and so anxious to do the best they can do that, sometimes they just - they push a little too far and they get sore. The girls wanted to be very, very tough, and they wanted to be taken seriously as just tough gritty girls who actually worked real hard to learn all the kung fu moves and were willing to get in the wildly uncomfortable harnesses and take the bumps and bruises that go along with making action pictures. And I mean we had Bruce Willis in the picture and he got a kick out of talking to the girls about it and was real impressed about how tough they proved to be in the end, et cetera, et cetera. We also however wanted the picture to be very, very sexy. This picture is never preachy, and it's never anti-male."

Two Sides of The Angels:
"The girls love being beautiful, they love getting dressed up, they love boys and at the same time they love to mix it up and, bite, scratch, and kick. I mean they're multidimensional. It's like they can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never let you forget you're a man ideal. So, you know, that was the take on that, and to get that fully across we needed to go beyond a PG-13 parameter, and that's what you get in the, in the unrated version."

Charlie's Angels 3?
"And in regard to the third one, hey, that's on you. I mean we had a great time making this picture. People seem to really like the picture. We all snuck into enough theaters to see that it played like gangbusters in the theater and people were smiling and having a good time. But, I don't know about a third one. We haven't thought about it much and we were hoping for a better box office result, at least domestically, internationally it did really well for us. But that's something we're just going to have to sleep on and let marinate and if you call me in a couple months and say where the hell's the third one, then we'll have something to talk about."

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