October 2007 News
October 29 The Australian: Humbly yours, a star -- Leading British actor Clive Owen comes across as a genuinely nice bloke, writes Sophie Tedmanson October 28 EADT: Cinema Reaches Fundraising Target - Thanks, Steph October 27 MSNBC: It’s a great time for movie tough guys -- What makes Russell and Denzel interesting and Arnold not? --- At the moment, thankfully, there’s a host of dramatic actors who can do it better than anyone, and they’re in the midst of a kind of elaborate square dance, changing partners round and round. So Clive Owen faces down Denzel Washington in “Inside Man” and Denzel goes mano a mano with Russell Crowe in “American Gangster,” just after Russell takes the measure of Christian Bale in “3:10 to Yuma.” Off in the corner, there’s Tommy Lee Jones tracking down Javier Bardem in “No Country for Old Men,” while Daniel Craig, recalling a better Steve McQueen, is the evening’s wallflower: unpartnered for the moment. Great actors can portray anything, of course, but these guys seem to have their own inner toughness. One of the better lines in a recent Academy Awards speech belonged to producer Douglas Wick, who, upon accepting the best picture Oscar for “Gladiator,” thanked Russell Crowe, adding, “You filled a whole arena with the force of your face.” - Thanks, Allison From Lui: here is the November wallpaper: Anglophenia: Clive Owen, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph, says he's not bitter at all about losing 007 to Daniel Craig. "I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities," he says. "As I get older, I've been having a better and better time. I'm having the best time of my life at the moment, so I'm not at all afraid about things I missed or of getting older. Basically, things opened up for me later on in my life." October 26 The Telegraph UK: Clive Owen talks to Will Lawrence about his role as Sir Walter Raleigh in Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Thanks, Steph Reel Fanatic: A bad movie year? Maybe, but here are 20 2007 movies that I just love October 25 From Universal - The Screenplay for AGA Great news for The Electric Palace in Harwich! ITN: Queen Cate reigns at premiere - Clive not there - (probably in Germany for The International) October 24 Ask Men: Top 45 Men - Clive at #12 Variety: 'Enemies,' Ranch' lead Capitol slate -- "The company is also in pre-production on “Love and Other Impossible Pursuits,” directed by Don Roos and starring Jennifer Lopez; “The Boys Are Back in Town,” directed by Scott Hicks and starring Clive Owen; and “Mary Queen of Scots,” starring Scarlett Johansson for director John Curran. Oscar-winning writer Ronald Harwood has just completed a new draft of the “Mary Queen of Scots” script." October 23 EW.com: If Hollywood were to adapt next month's ''Gone With the Wind'' spin-off novel, who would you cast as Rhett? - (Scroll - on right) Thanks, Allison October 21 Time Magazine: GA - "...and Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett, playing a woman 17 years her senior) allows herself to be smitten by Raleigh (the internationally cuddlesome Clive Owen)." The Scotsman: 'I have to make it magical, or I don't make it at all...' -- "This poise, however, is soon dispelled when the buccaneering Sir Walter Raleigh (played by Clive Owen) arrives at court, bearing the staples of many a latter-day Friday night-out (potatoes and tobacco, aka chips and fags), as well as a liberal ration of twinkling charm. Owen is at his best when playing the rogue and the fiery exchanges between Elizabeth and Raleigh ignite in the monarch a passion that her royal suitors have thus far failed to kindle. He tempts the queen, yet in spite of their mutual passion, Elizabeth holds firm." October 20 The Courier Mail au: Love bits Naomi Watts -- Watts and Sacha now move on to Berlin and Milan, where she will co-star with Britain's Clive Owen in another thriller, called The International, for German director Tom Tykwer (Run, Lola, Run, 1998). Sacha will be about three months old when his mother starts work on the new film, in which she will play an assistant district attorney who helps Owen's Interpol agent try to bring down an influential financier laundering money for terrorist organisations. - Thanks, Steph October 18 Steph has scans of the Fade In Magazine article and cover on Clive Film Stew: Deconstructing the Double Double -- "Very Easy to Call Double-Double: Clive Owen. If you’d said at the outset of the fall that Shoot Em’ Up would hit 66% on RottenTomatoes.com and Elizabeth: The Golden Age would reign with only 26%, the response would have been, ‘Surely, you have your figures mixed up?!’ But that’s the case at press time, and as far as Owen is concerned, maybe if he’d had Sir Walter Raleigh chomping on carrots the whole way through Elizabeth, the overall results would have been better on the non-revolver end." - Thanks, Steph The News Observer: The Sir Walter factor -- We know you know Raleigh, but what about Sir Walter? - Thanks, Steph October 17 DVDActive.com: New Line Home Entertainment has officially announced a two-disc special edition of Shoot 'Em Up which stars Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, and Monica Bellucci. This Michael Davis film will be available to own from the 1st January, and should retail at $27.98. The film will be presented in anamorphic widescreen, along with English Dolby Digital 5.1 EX and English DTS-ES 6.1 tracks. Extras will include a commentary from director and writer Michael Davis, deleted scenes with commentary from the director, some scene animatics with director commentary, a Ballet of Bullets “Making Shoot 'Em Up documentary, and trailers. Also available from the 1st January will be a Blu-ray release of the film. This will include all of the above features, along with 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, and a picture-in-picture option which allows viewers to watch behind-the-scenes footage and on-screen commentary concurrently with the running feature. A HD DVD release will follow later in the year - Thanks, Steph VideoETA.com: DVD for SHOOT 'EM UP (2007) will be released on January 2, 2008. If you would like more information, click on the link below or copy the address into your web browser. October 16 The Mirror UK: Elizabeth: the golden age, which is released in cinemas on November the 2nd, tells the thrilling tale of an era - the story of one woman's crusade to control love, crush enemies and secure her position as a beloved icon of the western world. To celebrate its release, Mirror.co.uk in conjunction with Universal pictures is offering you the chance to win a pair of exclusive tickets to the star-studded premiere in London on the 23rd October. - Thanks, Steph October 15 Clive is on the cover of the November Fade In Magazine - Thanks, Steph Images from the press conference for The International - Thanks, Steph Astrological Information about Clive The Hollywood Reporter: Married beats Clooney's Clayton to the altar -- Universal's historical sequel "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," with Cate Blanchett reprising her title role, bowed in sixth place with $6.2 million. And Yari Film Group's baseball drama "The Final Season" debuted with 1,011 playdates but a gross of $665,000. - Thanks, Steph The BMW filmes are now on http://www.thehire.tv - Thanks David October 13 Star Tribune: Who's up/down in Hollywood? -- Women in films. Even if Warner Bros. (see above) is blowing smoke, take a look at this week's movie lineup. You've got your George Clooney and your Brad Pitt. Then there's Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix. Throw in Sean Astin. Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman? Check, check and check. Only Cate Blanchett busts through the boys' club, and even she has to share the screen with the towering presence of Clive Owen. Hey, we didn't say it was bad for women watching films. Variety: (The International) - Berlin speeds on Cruise control -- For Sony's "The International," carpenters re-created more than half of the famous winding staircase of New York's Guggenheim museum in actual scale. "We can host two or three large international productions plus two smaller German ones at a time," says a Babelsberg spokesperson, adding, "The problem isn't space, because space is never a problem in Berlin, but there's a limit to good crews who are used to international standards." - Thanks, Steph Blu-Ray.com: Shoot 'Em Up Coming to Blu-ray - Thanks, Steph DVDTalk: The Golden Age Review -- "One of those things is Sir Walter Raleigh, played with swashbuckling aplomb by Clive Owen. Kapur cast well here, as Owen is known to dampen many a lady's knickers. Hell, when he throws his cloak in front of his ruler to keep her feet dry, tossing her a rapacious smile in the process, even I could have done with a fresher pair of boxers. The man is all charm and no smarm. Though still recovering from the debacle that was Shoot 'Em Up, as soon as I saw Owen swing from his pirate ship, riding the hull straight into battle, all was forgiven. If the Bugs Bunny metaphor from his last film can be carried over, this time I was the wascally wabbit, and Clive Owen was my own Errol Flynn at the end of "Rabbit Hood." - Thanks, Steph October 12 A Golden Age gets a 25% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. Links to all the major reviews are there. Massawyrm at AICN on The Golden Age: "...So he's a smoking pirate who might have bedded the unbedable. Who could possibly be cool enough to play a guy that badass and do it justice. Clive. Fucking. Owen. Damn straight. And what Clive Owen brings to the table is his usual air of unshaven cool in a film that you thought would be completely impervious to such notions. Remember when Brian Helgeland added rock music to A Knights Tale in an attempt to give the people of today a link to what kids in the middle ages might have thought was cool and connect them in some way? Well this is how you do it and make it work. Sir Walter Raleigh is awesome. Hella awesome. I want a fucking Sir Walter Raleigh poster on my wall right now. They go so far as to even give us one of those old Errol Flynn shots where he's hanging off the bow of the ship as it sails bay with a good old-fashioned camera swoop. And it tickled my insides with a child-like glee and made me want for nothing more than a Clive Owen pirate movie…" - Thanks, Steph USA Today: Cate Blanchett gives another command performance in 'Age' - Thanks, Steph GA The NY Times: Now Warrior - "...but the gowns are fabulous, the wigs are a sight and Clive Owen makes a dandy Errol Flynn, even if he’s really meant to be Walter Raleigh, the queen’s favorite smoldering slab of man meat....Mr. Owen looks as if he’s having a grand time, whether he’s revving Elizabeth up with his tales of seafaring adventure, nuzzling a swooning supplicant or hanging off a ship’s rigging as the wind gently stirs his chest hair. With his seafaring movie tan and muscular physicality he matches up well against the forceful Ms. Blanchett, whose strange beauty adds to the queen’s otherworldly affect. Salon.com: Owen and Blanchett are unbreakable actors: They blast through even the crappiest movies without a cut or a bruise, and here, they parry and joust in a way that's both intelligent and blatantly sexy. Their scenes together may have nothing to do with history, but at least they're breathing - Thanks, Steph October 11 E! on line GA review: "One can't blame her for going after Sir Walter, however, as Owen is so smoldering he damn near fogs up the screen. And really, one can't blame Kapur either for going a little over the top with his panoramic visuals and steamy love scenes (backed by trembling orchestral crescendos, natch). There is sumptuousness in every physical detail and emotional outburst; but in trying to capture it all with equal vigor, he bypasses the true soul of Elizabeth: her warrior spirit." - Thanks, Steph The Hollywood Reporter: Second 'Elizabeth' could bring Blanchett second Oscar - Thanks, Steph Clive Owen at Longchamps in Paris: "In the 1870's, French Impressionist Edgar Degas sat in the stands at Longchamp, drawing inspiration from the thundering hooves of thoroughbreds to produce one of his early works, "Race Horses at Longchamp." On October 7, 2007, an artist of the silver screen was spotted in the race track stadium in Bois de Boulogne, on the outskirts of Paris, France. Actor Clive Owen, who paints a cinematic portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh in the upcoming epic "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," flipped through racing forms before watching Dylan Thomas gallop to victory in the 86th Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe race." Teamsugar: The Clive Owen Mini-quiz October 10 EW.com: Review of GA -- "Owen is the right man to meet Blanchett on a playing field of contradictions. Like the woman who plays the queen, he is an actor uninterested in his own beauty, or rather, interested in messing with its expectations." - Thanks, Steph Rolling Stone Review (in its entirety): "Cate Blanchett can do anything, even play Bob Dylan, but she can't save this creaky sequel to her star-making 1998 biopic of Elizabeth I. Fie on director Shekhar Kapur's visual and aural bombast and the script's soap-opera heart. Though the sixteenth-century queen is facing her greatest challenge -- from an armada attack by King Philip of Spain (Jordi Molla's performance comes direct from the Ministry of Funny Walks) -- she mostly moons over Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen), who'd rather unbuckle his swash for lady-in-waiting Abbie Cornish. Ugh." The Village Voice: (GA review) - "...The audience should have a very hard time taking seriously a film in which Clive Owen, dressed in baggy pantaloons as Sir Walter Raleigh, dangles like a romance-novel cover boy from a ship's mast while the ocean laps him like a faithful hound. Halloween's come early, and the kids who can't get their hands on a Jack Sparrow costume might do well to see whether Target's carrying a Sir Walter Raleigh outfit this year." October 9 VOANews.com: (TGA) - "There is an attraction straightaway and I think he is hugely impressed with her," Owen says. "The one thing that sets Raleigh apart from everybody else is that he has an honesty about him. There are a lot of people hustling for favor in the court and he has a sort of directness about him. He is bold and straight and I think she finds that very attractive." - Thanks, Steph Lovely words from Roger Ebert (COM): Here again, the action scenes seem rooted in sweat and desperation. Too many action scenes look like slick choreography, but Cuaron and Owen get the scent of fear and death, and nobody does anything that is particularly impossible. Small details: Even in the midst of a firefight, dogs scamper in the streets. Faron's hand reaches out to touch and reassure the nearest animal, and I was reminded of Jack London's belief that dogs (not cats so much) see us as their gods. Apparently sterility affects only humans on Earth; when we are gone, will the dogs still tirelessly search for us? - Thanks, Steph The AP: Blanchett Reprises Elizabeth, Does Dylan -- "The Golden Age" co-stars Samantha Morton as Elizabeth's scheming cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Clive Owen as Sir Walter Raleigh, the explorer who sparks the queen's romantic longing. Raleigh also evokes longing for travel and adventure in a queen who, for all her worldliness, never left England. "To have someone walk into court who's literally gone to the edges of the known world. How incredible and expansive must that have been for her, her sense of poetry and the possibility of what life could be," Blanchett said. "It was interesting, I found, to play a vicariousness in the relationship with Raleigh, rather than simply making it, here comes Clive Owen, isn't he handsome? October 8 From Gayle-Lynne: The Archlight theater in Hollywood, California currently has costumes and some props from "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" On display in its lobby. Not sure how for how long. One of the cosutmes was worn by Clive Owen . October 7 The National Post: The Cultural Climate -- Why we care Because we missed it at the Toronto filmfest, where it premiered, and Cate Blanchett makes an amazing Liz (at least she did her first time playing Elizabeth in 1998). But, OK, the real reason we care is that heartthrob Clive Owen plays Sir Walter Raleigh. Kentucky.com: This is the Golden Age of visiting London -- New Cate Blanchett movie puts the focus on all things Elizabethan - Thanks, Steph October 6 The NY Times: Greed and Sleaze: Before they were cool - "IT’S hard to be sure who’s double-crossing whom in “Chancer,” the British television series that made Clive Owen a star in 1990. As “Dynasty” plots unfold on “Masterpiece Theater” sets, thick accents and mixed motives combine to make some scenes of this business soap opera almost unintelligible. But be patient. By the third hour of the 13-episode first season, now available on DVD, the ethically challenged “Chancer” characters distill themselves into a fascinating ensemble, providing excellent support for Mr. Owen’s teasing, memorable performance....“Chancer” ends with a degree of sincerity, achieved at some cost to comedy. But it’s not the earnest moments you’ll remember; it’s the cynicism and skulduggery. Both are served up with a wink by Mr. Owen. And that is itself a form of sincerity. No matter how many people his character tries to con, this actor never seems to be conning the audience." A page of information on The Golden Age Soundtrack The Telegraph UK: The Golden Age - Regal Return -- "As the sun appears again, so, in the quad archway, does Clive Owen. Playing Walter Raleigh, he is tall and swarthy, in battered 'salt'-stained clothes. His relationship with Elizabeth – and with one of her ladies-in-waiting – is a central strand of the story; England's victory over the Spanish Armada is the other. Owen and Kapur go into a huge tall-man's hug. The scene to be shot has Elizabeth and her ladies processing into chapel, and Raleigh, home from sea, is about to make his first appearance in front of the queen. It is the legendary moment when he flings down his cloak over a puddle at her feet, and he is 'going to practise his cloth action', the producer Jonathan Cavendish says." - Thanks, Steph October 5 The Daily Mail: It’s a man’s world: Clive Owen - Thanks, Steph Newsday: Cate Blanchett reigns again as Queen Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' -- "Elizabeth, Elizabeth, Elizabeth. Hollywood can't get enough of her. If there's a historical costume drama coming out, you can bet it's one of two things: an adaptation of a Jane Austen novel or a biopic of Elizabeth I of England, aka Good Queen Bess. And since Austen has been done twice in recent memory, it's time." - Thanks, Steph JoBlo.com: Has a bit on that funny Extras Xmas trailer. Liverpool.com: HOLLYWOOD stars today threw their weight behind a £38.5m plan to recreate a Shakespearean theatre on Merseyside. Oscar winners Dame Helen Mirren and Vanessa Redgrave, Children Of Men star Clive Owen, and Star Trek legend Patrick Stewart have signed up as patrons of the Shakespeare North project. The scheme would see the renowned Elizabethan Cockpit theatre recreated in Prescot in the 14th century home to the country’s very first purpose-built indoor playhouse. - Thaks, Steph October 4 EADT24: Film star boost for local cinema - A HOLLYWOOD film star who lives in Essex has given his local cinema a massive boost by arranging an exclusive preview of what promises to be one of the biggest films of the autumn. - Thanks, Steph Empire on line: The Extras Christmas Special Trailer -- Whole heap o' funny October 3 - Happy Birthday, Clive!!!! Moviesonline.ca: Abbie Cornish Interview, Elizabeth: The Golden Age Rolling Stone short review for Golden Age by Peter Travers (Ouch) - "Cate Blanchett can do anything, even play Bob Dylan, but she can't save this creaky sequel to her star-making 1998 biopic of Elizabeth I. Fie on director Shekhar Kapur's visual and aural bombast and the script's soap-opera heart. Though the sixteenth-century queen is facing her greatest challenge -- from an armada attack by King Philip of Spain (Jordi Molla's performance comes direct from the Ministry of Funny Walks) -- she mostly moons over Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen), who'd rather unbuckle his swash for lady-in-waiting Abbie Cornish. Ugh." The IMDb: "We are pleased to announce the launch of a major new feature on the IMDb site today" -- character pages. (See the character page for King Arthur ) slash/film: Re Shoot Em Up sequel -- (Scroll) Clive Owen just began production on The International, which isn’t likely to wrap by year’s end. And Owen is currently scheduled to start filming The Boys Are Back in Town early next year. So I think it’s safe to assume that Owen is not part of this “sequel”. October 2 Brightcove: a 5 minute trailer for The Golden Age Movie Web: Clive Owen on the chemistry between Elizabeth and Raleigh and the love triangle First Showing.net: Shoot 'Em Up Sequel Confirmed - Already in Pre-Production - Thanks, Steph October 1 Clive Owen is one of EW.com's hotties - Thanks, Steph (you can vote at the end of the series - Thanks, Janet) MovieWeb: Universal Fall Preview - Thanks, Allison You can pre-order (and listen to samples) of the Golden Age soundtrack at Amazon - Thanks, Steph Interview with Cate B at Moviesonline: MoviesOnline: You have great chemistry with Clive. -- CATE: I think every woman who works with Clive has incredible romantic chemistry. [laughs] -- MoviesOnline: Is he really a professional charmer in real life? -- CATE: No. I mean, he's very frank and open and not at all self-conscious. And I think that that's incredibly attractive when somebody is as attractive as he is, but seemingly as unaware as he is of it. - Thanks, Steph |
