February 28

The UK Times: Royal Hits and Misses - King Arthur (2004) -- The legend as a big, dumb Hollywood action movie, courtesy of the producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Keira Knightley kicks butt as an anachronistically empowered Guinevere; Clive Owen smoulders sulkily as the king.

February 27

Dave misses his chancer -- The Independent -- David Cameron took his family for a holiday on South Africa's Western Cape during the recent half-term break. But whilst he was sunning himself in the swish Plettenberg Bay area, he missed a golden opportunity for some much-needed celebrity support for his party. Also spotted reclining on a sunlounger on the same beach as the Conservative leader was Coventry's Hollywood export, Clive Owen, who first shot to fame in the ITV television series Chancer. "I don't think either of them met," reports a female mole. "Clive was also out there relaxing with his family. I must say, he looked rather more fetching in bathing trunks than David did."

February 26

Hudson Valley recordonline.com: Tony Gilroy, director of 'Michael Clayton,' reflects a day after the Oscars -- The next thing is not the fourth “Bourne” movie starring Matt Damon. Though Gilroy has written the previous three installments, he said he will not be writing the fourth film, which Universal is currently trying to make, according to Variety. Instead he’ll be directing “Duplicity,” another legal thriller that he wrote too. It stars Julia Roberts and Clive Owen as corporate spies for two pharmaceutical agencies, run by Tom Wilkinson and Billy Bob Thornton.

February 22

Variety: A look at Liman's filmmaking process - 'Jumper' director enjoying strong B.O. run - "...One of the worst moments for Liman came when a producer berated him in front of the cast and crew for not knowing what he was doing. He had spent a long day shooting a scene with Damon and Clive Owen and didn't like what he had. When he wanted to take up the same scene in the morning, Marshall called Universal's Snider and they forbade Liman to do the reshoot. "I was about to cry," Liman recalls. But he talked to his actors and, because he was his own camera operator, figured out a way to cheat the shot by using the four-minute roll of film that was in one handheld camera to shoot first Damon's close-up, then Owen's, and then swing back to a wide shot before he ran out of film. "I didn't believe they would call cut on me," he recalls. "I didn't tell anybody." He got what he wanted, and the scene is in the movie." - Thanks, Steph

February 21

From Chris in the UK: "Just to inform you about the fact that there are two films which will star Clive Owen this week which will be transmitted on television in the United Kingdom: THE BOURNE IDENTITY will be shown on ITV1 on Saturday 23rd February between 2145 and 2245 hours and between 2305 and 0020 hours (interrupted by the news, and CLOSER on Five Life on Friday 29th February between 2100 and 2300 hours."

February 19

The News and Observer: Oscars just part of these nominees' to-do lists -- "Tony Gilroy: The "Michael Clayton" director seems taken with corporate greed and big ol' A-listers. His next project is "Duplicity," starring Clive Owen and Julia Roberts as a pair of corporate baddies in cahoots for a major con job."

February 17

GQ's 10 best guy films you've never seen -- (#2) "Andrew Corsello nominates Croupier Dir. Mike Hodges, 1998 Croupier, the 1998 British flick about a disaffected casino worker, is unbearably tense. Its an odd and quiet tension, though, a tension that hums more than it builds. Nothing builds in Croupier. Instead, its obsessive antihero, Jack Manfred, methodically unbuilds his life, shaving away people and things until nothings leftsave the serenely hateful pleasure he takes in his clients losses. The film, which launched Clive Owens career, is considered by most to be a guys filmand Manfred a model of cool. He is a lonely male, says director Mike Hodges, but I dont think theres anything particularly male about his pathology. Cool now seems to include anything thats fashionable. When cool was first used, it was to describe a style of jazz that was unhurried. In that sense, yes, this is a cool film." - Thanks, Steph

February 13

ArcaMax Entertainment News: The Hollywood Exclusive : "Michael Clayton" Director Gilroy in Whirl of Double Duty -- "Duplicity," with Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Wilkinson, is due to begin production next month with Tony Gilroy at the helm -- which has meant double duty for the double Oscar-nominated "Michael Clayton" writer-director. He's been in intense preproduction in between attending awards functions.

February 12

Some great older shots of Clivel by Lance Staedler - See #2 - Thanks, Steph

In right column -- Lui asked to include a poll on her wallpapers. Please vote so she can tell if she should continue them.

Guest of a guest blog: Gwyneth Paltrow, New York Girl turned Anglophile, now New York-Ophile! -- To which of course, Clive Owen had the clever repartee “it depends what dinners you go to,” when asked by New York Magazine [interesting older interview] if he agreed with Gwyneth Paltrow’s assessment that dinner conversation in London was superior to that in New York. - Altman on Clive: After you were in Gosford Park, Robert Altman said that you don’t act, you just occur.

February 11

HollywoodInterview Blog: Ioan Gruffudd: The Hollywood Interview -- You worked with an amazing cast on that. (King Arthur) -- Oh God, it was amazing! Clive Owen was remarkable to work with. If Pierce Brosnan doesn’t come back as Bond, Clive would be my first choice as 007. He’s just got that brooding intensity that Bond needs. Clive has that air of danger about him, like Connery had, but can also be incredibly charming. - Thanks, Steph

February 8

Variety: Speculation on next year's contenders -- " Actor nominee Viggo Mortensen could ride the recent resurgence of the Western with New Line's "Appaloosa," co-starring Renee Zellweger and directed by Ed Harris. Meanwhile, his "Eastern Promises" co-star Naomi Watts will appear with Clive Owen in Sony/Columbia's "The International," a high-end thriller from helmer Tom Tykwer." - Thanks, Steph

February 7

Newsweek interview with Clooney, McAvoy, Page, Jolie, And DD Lewis (Page Two) - McAvoy: I've only ever had anybody waiting outside my house once. We got in our car and we were followed, and it was very weird and disconcerting. We thought we would just go about our daily life and just ignore it, all that kind of thing. I think because we had once read that Clive Owen said just ignore it. Like, do whatever Clive Owen does—he's a solid guy. - Clooney: "I have a guesthouse where my assistant sometimes stays, and I thought someone had broken out of prison. Like something out of "Die Hard." I get my baseball bat, which is what you always do in every film—I actually think Clive Owen said, "Get a baseball bat"—and I called up my assistant, who I thought was in the guesthouse, and I said, "Are you OK?" - Thanks, wbperkins

Variety: FX has engineered a major pre-buy of five unreleased theatricals from Sony's Columbia Pictures, including two titles from Judd Apatow: "Step Brothers," with Will Ferrell, and "Pineapple Express," with Seth Rogen. The three other movies in the deal that haven't hit theaters yet are "Vantage Point," with Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox; "21," with Kevin Spacey; and "The International," with Clive Owen. - Thanks, Steph

February 6

HiddenGauntlet.com: Recasting Casablanca -- Scroll to their choice for Rick, with differing opinions by others. - Thanks, Donna

From Chris W in the UK: Greenfingers is being transmitted on Channel 5 this evening in the United Kingdom

Clive on TV this week

February 5

Coming Soon's review of the Golden Age DVD

February 4

EW.com: Nominees for Worst Movie Dialogue Ever - "THE MOVIE Sin City 2005 THE SCENE Gutter avenger Dwight Clive Owen is watching lovingly as the woman of his dreams Rosario Dawson guns down a bevy of prostitute hating baddies. THE LINE ''My warrior woman. My valkyrie. You'll always be mine, always and never. Never. The Fire, baby. It'll burn us both. It'll kill us both. There's no place in this world for our kind of fire.'' - Thanks, Steph

February 3

I just rewatched the marvelous Gosford Park and was immediately immersed in its layers and complexity. Here is the link to my page for the film - Kristin Scott Thomas mentions the film in an interview in today's UK Observer

February 1

DVD Talk: Elizabeth The Golden Age -- "Out of all the movies to sequelize, "Elizabeth" was near the bottom of my list of usual suspects. "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" appears to agree, turning up the volume on the elegant, glacial original film, serving up some serious visual bombast to throw off expectations and charge ahead with a sequel that wins hands down as the most defiantly outlandish, thus most delicious film of 2007." - Thanks, Steph