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Clive Owen Ready To Spend All His Time On Stage
6 December 2009 2:48 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
There's a lot of retirement talk going around these days. Viggo Mortensen says he's not really high on the notion of making more movies. Robert Downey, Jr. commented recently that he's perfectly content making Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man movies and nothing else for a while and then calling it a career. Now Clive Owen is saying he might transition to only performing on stage.
He tells Germany's Tele5 that "I'm actually pretty sure that this will happen soon. I would imagine I have to stop the films in order to concentrate entirely on my stage career."
Unlike Mortensen and Downey, who sounded like they were just burned out and weren't looking to keep up that schedule much longer, Owen has a calculated career shift in mind. He wants to keep working, just not in movies. And he's downright philosophical about it. »
- Colin Boyd
Clive Owen: 'I prefer theatre roles'
5 December 2009 8:30 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Clive Owen has reportedly claimed that he prefers theatre acting to making Hollywood movies. The Children Of Men star has revealed that he plans to give up his film career and only concentrate on roles for the stage. Speaking to Tele 5, Owen said: "I'm actually pretty sure that this will happen soon. I would imagine I'd have to stop the films in order to concentrate entirely on my stage career. I've always played theatre roles." The 45-year-old also said that he has realised that (more) »
- By Marcell Minaya
Trailer: The Boys are Back
4 December 2009 4:16 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Wowzers! If you want an emotional trailer, just watch this one! It’s for a new movie called The Boys are Back and stars Clive Owen playing the father of two kids who, when he loses his partner, has to take care of them both. During this time he realises that fun might just get them through this emotional roller coaster. You can read our review here.
The Boys are Back also stars Emma Booth, Laura Fraser, George MacKay, Nicholas McAnulty and is directed by Scott Hicks. It’s out 22nd January and we have the trailer below for you to check out.
Synopsis: Based on the acclaimed memoir by Simon Carr, The Boys are Back in Town, Academy Award® nominee Scott Hicks (Shine) directs Miramax Films’ The Boys Are Back, inspired by the poignant, comic and uplifting true story of a man who must suddenly raise his two sons alone. »
- David Sztypuljak
Julia Roberts Announced as New Face of Lancôme
4 December 2009 1:00 AM, PST | Hollyscoop.com | See recent HollyScoop news »
Julia Roberts has a new gig. She has signed on to be the new face of Lancôme. “By her remarkable personality and career, Julia Roberts is an emblematic woman of her time,” said Youcef Nabi, president of Lancôme International. “Her exceptional talent, her radiance and her strong commitments perfectly echo Lancôme’s values. We are convinced she will embody the brand in the most sublime way possible.” Lancôme is a classy brand so Julia Roberts being the ambassador of the brand makes sense. Other famous ambassadors for the brand have included, Anne Hathaway, Kate Winlet, Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche »
Clive Owen wants to quit
4 December 2009 12:00 AM, PST | Virgin Media - Movies | See recent Virgin Media - Movies news »
Clive Owen wants to give up his film career. The 44-year-old actor - who trained in the theatre before making it big in a number of Hollywood blockbusters - said he's thinking about giving up shooting movies in order to concentrate on a stage career. He said: ''I'm actually pretty sure that this will happen soon. I would imagine I'd have to stop the films in order to concentrate entirely on my stage career. I've always played theatre roles.'' The 'Children of Men' actor - who starred in the West End and Broadway hit play 'Closer' and was later in the 2005 .. »
How Hollywood destroyed our classical legends
3 December 2009 2:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
It took a millennium for western civilisation to create a canon of classical literature – but just 10 years for Hollywood to destroy it
When I think back on this decade's spate of movies based on the great legends of European history, I remember how fantastically it started – with Gladiator – and how badly things went downhill after that: with Kingdom of Heaven, Troy, 300 and Beowulf. When I saw Gladiator in 2000, I thought this was going to be just the best millennium ever. It had everything you could want in a movie: glory, gore, guts, gladiators. It was a sweeping epic with a computer-generated cast of thousands. Augustus Caesar would have been proud of it. Julius and Tiberius, too.
Yet the thing I liked most about Ridley Scott's superb film was how closely it hewed to the historical record, in its portrayal of Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) as the depraved son of Marcus Aurelius, »
- Joe Queenan
Universal Announce Dual Format Blu-Ray/DVD ‘Flipper’ Discs
2 December 2009 1:33 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Ever since Toshiba’s HD DVD (now discontinued) released their two-in-one combo discs back in 2007, it was inevitable that double sided Blu-Ray/DVD discs would eventually be made available. It therefore comes as no surprise that Universal Studios (the only major movie studio that backed HD DVD during the high-definition format war) is now leading the way with duel format Blu-Ray/DVD discs. The first films to be released on these ‘flipper’ discs will be Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne Trilogy, which will be available on January 19 2010.
Although the idea of selling discs with Blu-Ray on one side and DVD on the other will undoubtedly help shift consumers toward switching over to Blu-Ray (whilst slowly discontinuing the production of standard DVDs), I have personally never been a fan of dual sided discs as they are more prone to damage (despite the fact Blu-ray discs themselves do not scratch very easily »
- Andrew Peters
Conspiracy! Greengrass Says No More Bourne And Call Of Duty Director To Now Direct Movies.
1 December 2009 10:55 PM, PST | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »
If there's one thing I love, it's good old fashioned conspiracy theories. Nothing like making a bunch of stuff up to make yourself feel better and give those around you a reason to think you're even more insane than they had imagined.Two stories broke today that have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Or do they?First up, is the so not news of a director not doing a movie he was never attached to direct in the first place. Huh? The trades has more:Paul Greengrass has opted out of helming another installment of Universal Pictures' successful Jason Bourne franchise, and Matt Damon's participation is not sealed. That's a blow for the studio looking to assemble another sequel to one of its most important franchises, but hardly a fatal one. Hollywood's top franchises, including the long-running James Bond series and Warner Bros.' Batman pics, »
Universal Announces 'Flipper' Format for Home Video
1 December 2009 1:06 PM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
We think the following press release from Universal is pretty cool and could be a game changer for those quibbling about being forced to upgrade to Blu-ray.
Universal City, California, December 1, 2009 – In a move that is poised to elevate the Blu-ray™ Hi-Def format and provide consumers with the ultimate in convenience and viewing flexibility, Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Ushe) announced the introduction of groundbreaking dual-format discs containing both Blu-ray™ Hi-Def and DVD versions of some of Hollywood’s most iconic films. An industry first, the new “flipper” discs will launch on January 19, 2010 with the blockbuster superspy thrillers The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, starring Matt Damon, premiering as individually packaged Blu-ray™ discs.
For the first time ever, consumers will have the ability to choose between Blu-ray™ and DVD formats, simply by flipping a single disc. With complete utility in one convenient package, the revolutionary medium can »
- Robert Greenberger
Matt Damon’s The Bourne Identity movies first to be Blu-ray & DVD Flipper Discs
1 December 2009 9:43 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
I was just speaking to someone, explaining Blu-ray is definitely here to stay, but DVDs won’t be going anywhere. I said there will probably be a movement toward selling them together. I just never made the connection they could be on the same disc. Universal Studios has changed all of that.
News release from Universal …
In a move that is poised to elevate the Blu-ray™ Hi-Def format and provide consumers with the ultimate in convenience and viewing flexibility, Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Ushe) announced the introduction of groundbreaking dual-format discs containing both Blu-ray™ Hi-Def and DVD versions of some of Hollywood’s most iconic films. An industry first, the new “flipper” discs will launch on January 19, 2010 with the blockbuster superspy thrillers The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, starring Matt Damon, premiering as individually packaged Blu-ray™ discs.
For the first time ever, consumers will have the »
- Jeff Bayer
Universal Announces ‘Flipper’ Discs. Features Both Blu-ray and DVD Versions on One Disc
1 December 2009 9:41 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Universal Studios has announced a new type of dual-format disc they’re calling “Flipper” discs and it’ll launch in January with the Bourne movies. The discs will feature Blu-ray and DVD versions on each side of the same disc. According to the studio:
“Universal’s flipper discs are the perfect way for consumers to future-proof their collections while still enjoying their favorite movies on all their existing DVD players,” said Craig Kornblau, President of Universal Studios Home Entertainment. “The flipper disc offers an easy way for viewers to convert to Blu-ray now or at any time in the future, confident in the fact they will be able to experience their home entertainment purchases in the highest quality picture and sound when they do.”
This is one of those products that really should have launched when Blu-ray got released. But everything about the launch of Blu-ray was screwed up, it »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Spike Lee's Upcoming Film Slate
30 November 2009 1:52 PM, PST | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »
Director Spike Lee recently talked to IGN about some of his rumored/announced upcoming projects. Here's the rundown from the man himself:Inside Man 2Spike Lee: Waiting on Universal Pictures. They have the script. They have the budget and we'll see if they wanna make it. Denzel's ready. Clive Owen's ready. I'm ready. Jodie's ready. Everyone's ready. It's like, "Coach, put us in!" Save Us, Joe Louis [biopic] Spike Lee: I've been unable to get the financing. What's really sad about that is that I had made a promise to the late great Budd Schulberg that we'd get it done and Budd passed recently. He was 95. Budd being, of course, the screenwriter of On the Waterfront and the novelist of What Makes Sammy Run. Great, great, great, great writer. James Brown biopic Spike Lee: Financing. I had the all-time biopic trilogy: Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis and James Brown. »
A Serious Man and the odd movie out
29 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A Serious Man may be getting rave reviews – but it's like nothing the Coens have made before. Joe Queenan on weird one-offs and the directors who make them
About halfway through the very funny, very disturbing, very ethnic new film A Serious Man, the modern-day Job who is the serious man in question climbs up on to the roof of his ghastly 1960s Minneapolis suburban home and tries to adjust the antenna to improve his TV reception. Beleaguered on all fronts – conjugally, professionally, medically – Larry Gopnik, a dorky physics professor who may be about to lose his job and is very likely to lose his family, is a bright, principled Jewish man whose children have begged him to fix the antenna so they can watch F Troop, an idiotic 1960s comedy. Many of Larry's travails unfold as songs from Jefferson Airplane's seminal 1967 LP Surrealistic Pillow play in the background. »
- Joe Queenan
Ninja Assassin review
24 November 2009 11:56 AM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
Year: 2009
Directors: James McTeigue
Writers: J. Michael Straczynski / Matthew Sand
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: rochefort
Rating: 5 out of 10
[Editor's note: Marina's Ninja Assassin review from Viff isn't much brighter]
Directed by James McTeigue, "Ninja Assassin" stars pop idol Rain as Raizo, a modern-day ninja. Kidnapped while still a child and trained in the ninja arts by Ozunu (Sho Kosugi), lord of the Ozunu Clan, Raizo, now grown up, rogue, and out for revenge against his old master, shows up in Western Europe soon after Mika (Naomie Harris), a Europol bookkeeper, starts uncovering the connections between supposedly mythological ninja clans and political assassinations throughout the ages. Against the wishes of her skeptical superior Maslow (Ben Miles), Mika follows the clue trail far enough to become a target. Soon after the clan sends a group of ninjas, led by Raizo's old rival Takeshi (Rick Yune), to kill her, and Raizo becomes her only chance for survival.
Ninjas, man. There was a »
'New Moon' leads Aus box office
23 November 2009 4:23 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
New Moon has topped the Australian box office on its debut weekend with $$16 million in ticket sales. The vampire romance, led by Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, breaks the opening record set by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince earlier this year. 2012 slips a place on its second week of release, while A Christmas Carol holds on to the number three spot. Rounding out the top five is The Time Traveler's Wife and Clive Owen's The Boys Are Back. Elsewhere, new Coen brothers movie A (more) »
- By Simon Reynolds
Lee Byung-Heon, Choi Min-Shik for Kim Ji-Woon's Next?
22 November 2009 11:01 PM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
The last time we talked about Kim Ji-Woon's upcoming projects, it was regarding his first venture into Hollywood, a remake of Claude Sautet's 70s caper Max et Les Ferrailleurs. Hoping to cast Clive Owen and possibly Sienna Miller in the leading roles, Kim wanted his Max and the Junkmen to start shooting in January, as winter was the perfect atmosphere for his noir ambiance. Seems like the film has hit a snag - we still don't have much in the way of the details, but it might just be casting issues delaying the first shoot past that all important Q1 2010 deadline, pushing things to late next year - so Kim is now focusing on his next project at home, which is tentatively entitled 아열대의 밤 (lit. Subtropical Night).
The film continues the recent noir thriller trend, with a man chasing the serial killer-cum-psychopath who killed his fiancee, and plenty of brutal action ensuing afterwards. »
Butler Eyes Fragrance Line
20 November 2009 4:16 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Gerard Butler feels left out of the celebrity perfume trend - he wants to launch his own fragrance.
The Scottish star is convinced he's the only British actor without his own cosmetics line, and he wants a piece of the action.
He tells British radio station BBC Radio 1, "I need a perfume. I need to tell my publicist to get on that. He's not got me any worthwhile branding. Clive Owen has his aftershave, Ewan McGregor has cologne. What do I have? Nothing. I don't know what it would be like, but I need one." »
'2012' tops Australian box office
17 November 2009 1:38 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Disaster movie 2012 has soared straight to the top of the Australian box office. Helmer Roland Emmerich's apocalyptic drama, which stars John Cusack and Thandie Newton, pulls in an impressive $$6 million to take first place ahead of The Time Traveler's Wife. A Christmas Carol holds its position at number three, This Is It slips to four and Clive Owen drama The Boys Are Back is a new entry at five. Elsewhere, biopic Amelia makes a disappointing debut, landing at number eight with (more) »
- By Simon Reynolds
How Glorious 39 could help America learn to love Stephen Poliakoff
13 November 2009 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
He's our Paul Schrader, on an idiosyncratic journey, so why haven't my Us friends heard of Poliakoff?
Whenever my American friends ask me to name a good English director they've not heard of, I always push them towards the work of Stephen Poliakoff, whose Glorious 39 arrives this week. And those who take up my recommendation/challenge usually come back about three weeks later, after a bracing immersion in whatever traces of Poliakoff can be found in La's video stores, filled with gratitude and suddenly obsessed with Poliakoff's recurring themes: ancient family secrets, the power of images and documents to realign our understanding of histories both national and familial, and London as a city of secrets, forever yielding up surprises and shocks from its subterranean depths and farthest-flung outer suburbs; all somehow viewed by Poliakoff with the fresh-peeled eyeballs of a newly landed immigrant.
Poliakoff's American profile is diffuse and indistinct, »
- John Patterson
Robert Pattinson In Sexiest Men Alive Video
8 November 2009 12:12 AM, PST | Reel Empire | See recent Reel Empire news »
Robert Pattinson, surprise, surprise, was featured in People's 2009 Sexiest Men Alive issue. Guess what else isn't surprising either? Fellow cast members Taylor Lautner and Kellan Lutz also made the list. Bradley Cooper, Gerard Butler, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., Chace Crawford, Ashton Kutcher, Clive Owen, Channing Tatum, Denzel Washington, Daniel Craig, Jamie Foxx, Josh Duhamel, The Jonas Brothers, Jon Stewart and Hugh Jackman were also among the list. Inside, you can watch a short video which consists of all the actors who made the 2009 list. Read on to check it out!
Read more... »
- Michelle Thorton
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