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  • For the 2005 show The 8th Shanghai International Film Festival, he stars as Guest.
  • In 2005, Himself in the video release of 9 Wives.
  • For the 1994 video release of Anal Candy Ass, Himself.
  • He stars as Himself in the 1985 video Anal Player.
  • In 2007, Ridley Scott plays Himself in the feature 99 francs: Le making-of promo!.
  • For the 1915 movie Accident Policy, An, Himself.
  • He takes the role of Himself in the 1971 feature The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes.
  • He is cast in the role of Himself in the 1990 production of Ajay-Vijay.
  • For the 1953 movie Amwal el yatama, Ridley Scott plays Himself.
  • Himself in the 1912 production of Assisi, Italy.
  • For the 2001 video Booty Duty, he plays Himself.
  • For the 1991 movie Bound for Manhattan, he plays the part of Himself.
  • In 1989, Himself in the movie Bound to Pay.
  • For the 2003 Como perros con rabia, he is cast in the role of Himself.
  • He plays Himself in the 1978 show The Defection of Simas Kudirka.
  • In 2005, Ridley Scott plays Himself in the video Descend Into Darkness.
  • In 2000, he takes the role of Himself in the release of Cuba feliz.
  • In 1958, Ridley Scott is cast in the role of Himself in the feature High School Hellcats.
  • Ridley Scott plays Himself in the 2003 video The Hustle.

  • Agent Denies Crowe/Scott Rift

    
    A Hollywood agent representing both actor Russell Crowe and director Ridley Scott has denied the pair has fallen out over their new movie Nottingham. The duo has teamed up for the upcoming film, which tells the story of mythical English outlaw Robin Hood
    on 2008-12-23 04:50:24

  • Paris Hilton Pops Up at Dan Tana?s

    
    Enjoying a late night meal, Paris Hilton and Brittany Flickinger were spotted dining at Dan Tana’s in West Hollywood on Saturday evening (December 20). Wearing a Pocahontas-inspired look with a sparkly headband and flowing brown dress, the hote
    on 2008-12-22 04:49:40

  • Who Could Play Mr. Monopoly?

    
    It's really for serious: Ridley Scott is going ahead with his movie version of the Monopoly game, and now the project has a screenwriter who will help to "shape a narrative out of the iconic real-estate game." Apparently Scott wants to give the film "a f
    on 2008-11-13 04:52:58

  • 'Monopoly' is being turned into a Ridley Scott movie. How?

    
    File this bit of news under the "Hollywood is creatively bankrupt" tab: Universal Pictures has greenlit a movie version of the Hasbro board game Monopoly, and three-time Oscar nominee Ridley Scott has signed on to direct it. According the Hollywood...
    on 2008-11-13 04:47:34

  • Director Ridley Scott playing "Monopoly" (Reuters)

    
    Reuters - A movie based on the "Monopoly" game is jumping a large number of spaces up the board.
    on 2008-11-12 04:45:13

  • Stars launch Hollywood domino game

    
    Actor Sienna Miller, model Eva Herzigova, director Ridley Scott and socialite Tamara Beckwith were among the stars at a launch party for a new Hollywood-themed game.
    on 2008-11-08 04:51:33

  • 'Crowe to give away ponytail'

    
    Russell Crowe plans to give away the greasy pony tail he has grown for his role as the Sherriff of Nottingham role in a new Ridley Scott film.
    on 2008-10-21 04:52:03

  • Ridley Scott takes on 'War'

    
    Los Angeles: Film based on Haldeman novel 'Forever' -- Fox 2000 has acquired rights to Joe Haldeman?s 1974 novel "The Forever War," and Ridley Scott is planning to make it into his first science fiction film since he delivered back-to-back classics with "
    on 2008-10-13 04:46:20

  • Body of Lies: Tense in Some Parts, Tedious in Others

    
    Body of Lies has slipped on and off my radar over the past couple of months. It's hard to ignore because it's Ridley Scott working with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, and yet the previews haven't looked all that original. But I went anyway, hoping t
    on 2008-10-11 04:50:58

  • Review: 'Body of Lies' flat

    
    Three years after his Crusades epic "Kingdom of Heaven," director Ridley Scott returns to the shifting sands of the Middle East with "Body of Lies." Unfortunately, despite the star power of Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, the movie lags.
    on 2008-10-11 04:47:41

  • Review: 'Body of Lies'

    
    Director Ridley Scott and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe can't make up for a thin story. " Body of Lies" is a film in disguise. Which is not necessarily
    on 2008-10-10 04:53:45

  • 'Body of Lies'

    
    Director Ridley Scott and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe can't make up for a thin story. "Body of Lies" is a film in disguise. Which is not necessarily a
    on 2008-10-10 04:48:22

  • Watch, Pass, TiVo, or Rent: Body of Lies

    
    For this next installment of Watch, Pass, TiVo, or Rent (my version of Do, Dump, or Marry), I'm curious to know what your thoughts are on this Friday's new release from Ridley Scott: Body of Lies. Starring Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio, the story f
    on 2008-10-08 04:57:29

  • "Lies" abounds with grim truths about war on terror (Reuters)

    
    Reuters - If Ridley Scott gave us a new kind of war movie with "Black Hawk Down," where an army unit functioning in total chaos in a hostile city became a collective protagonist, he now engineers a new kind of spy thriller in "Body of Lies," which opens F
    on 2008-10-08 04:45:14

  • Leonardo DiCaprio battles the odds in 'Body of Lies'

    
    It wasn't only his CIA-agent character's battle against scores of terrorists on screen. It was learning to work with the tag-team of director Ridley Scott and costar Russell Crowe on set.
    on 2008-09-27 05:04:46

  • Early look: Ridley Scott takes on terror in 'Body of Lies'

    
    Ridley Scott has made a career out of bringing hostile worlds to life, but he may find the trickiest terrain is the political ...
    on 2008-09-25 05:09:07

  • DiCaprio and Ridley Scott conspire to make a hit

    
    The director and actor think 'Body of Lies' will be the Iraq-war movie that finally draws a crowd. SUFFICE IT to say that Leonardo DiCaprio and Ridley Scott agree to disagree about certai
    on 2008-09-06 05:01:37

  • Leonardo DiCaprio and Ridley Scott conspire to make a hit movie

    
    The director and actor think 'Body of Lies' will be the Iraq-war movie that finally draws a crowd. SUFFICE IT to say that Leonardo DiCaprio and Ridley Scott agree to disagree about certai
    on 2008-09-06 05:01:19

  • 'Nottingham': Will Crowe ever romp in Sherwood?

    
    The Ridley Scott film has suffered its share of setbacks.
    on 2008-08-06 05:00:22

  • Robin Hood Movie Postponed Over Strike Fears.

    
    Robin Hood Movie Postponed Over Strike Fears.... Production on Russell Crowe's upcoming Nottingham film has been postponed because of looming threats of more industry strikes. The Ridley Scott film, which is slated to show actor Crowe playing a "sympathet
    on 2008-08-03 04:46:50
  • http://entertainment.news.com.au/story/0,10221,18562033-10431,00.html On-screen rematch From: AAP By Peter Mitchell in Los Angeles HOLLYWOOD tough guys Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington will go head-to-head later this year in what could be one of the great acting showdowns. Crowe, Denzel to go head to head in new Ridley Scott movie The Oscar winners, arguably the most dominant leading men in Hollywood over the last decade, will co-star in the Ridley Scott-directed crime drama, American Gangster. The film is set in the 1970s and based on the true story of how Harlem-based drug lord Frank Lucas smuggled heroin into the United States in the coffins of American soldiers killed during the Vietnam War. "It's about one of the biggest and most notorious drug dealers in the history of America, Frank Lucas, and a New York detective, Richie Roberts, who tracks him down," Washington said during an interview to promote another crime thriller, Inside Man. "Eventually the two of them become friends." Washington will play drug dealer Lucas while Crowe takes the part of Roberts. Washington, 51, who won the best actor Oscar in 2002 for Training Day, beating fellow nominee Crowe (A Beautiful Mind), says he relishes the challenge of working with Hollywood's best. Washington had another all-star cast to work with in Inside Man, led by Jodie Foster and Clive Owen. Spike Lee directed the thriller, which opens in Australian cinemas next week. Owen plays the mastermind of an elaborate heist of a Wall Street bank. Washington is a New York police negotiator and Foster is a mysterious, designer suit-wearing troubleshooter hired by the billionaire owner of the bank. The plot leads to many tense scenes between the three leads. "That's what it's all about," Washington said. "You want to work with the best. "I remember years back working with Gene Hackman. It was the same kind of thing. "It's not a competition. We're working together, but you want to be on your toes and be prepared." Washington said he is not interested in being the dominant actor on the set, a trait that could lead to tension with co-stars like Crowe. "I don't have to dominate," Washington said. "I don't even use words like that. It's not my style." Washington said American Gangster is set to begin filming in the mid to late part of 2006.
  • uber liberal New York with a Republican governor and a Republican mayor of New York city. Life must be so easy when you live in the world of simple cliches "In Ice We Trust" wrote in message news:wguef.73842$RG4.7064@fe05.lga... > wrote in message > news:1132094075.445003.270080@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com... http://groups.google.com/group/alt.showbiz.gossip/browse_thread/thread/20b9f3fc3e06339a/823540a4c133b648#823540a4c133b648 he's > been incarcerated this long. > Icebreaker > "Question: Is your name Ridley Scott or James Cameron? > "No, it's Homer." > "Well then, I would thank you to stop peering at my screenplay, Homer. And > if I see a movie where computers threaten our personal liberties, I will > know that you stole my idea."
  • wrote in message news:1132094075.445003.270080@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com... > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.showbiz.gossip/browse_thread/thread/20b9f3fc3e06339a/823540a4c133b648#823540a4c133b648 Yeah, but the crime took place in uber-Liberal New York. I'm surprised he's been incarcerated this long. ------------------------------------- Icebreaker "Question: Is your name Ridley Scott or James Cameron? "No, it's Homer." "Well then, I would thank you to stop peering at my screenplay, Homer. And if I see a movie where computers threaten our personal liberties, I will know that you stole my idea."
  • NY POST...PAGE 6 RUSSELL Crowe, whose belligerence became legendary when he threw a phone at a Mercer Hotel clerk, got into a boozy brouhaha with his wife, Danielle, in London last week. The two were dining at a restaurant with "Gladiator" director Ridley Scott and his wife when, according to The London Mirror: "[Crowe] got through a few aperitifs as well as a few glasses of wine during the meal . . . and started having a heated exchange . . . [A]t one stage both Russell and Danielle stood up - they seemed to be having a standoff before Danielle stormed to the toilets." Danielle finally returned to a separate table, where the couple's two minders sat. "Tensions were running very high, and it was 10 minutes or so before Danielle rejoined Russell and the others. The mood didn't look to have improved, and the pair left shortly afterwards in stony silence."
  • "Irulan" wrote in message news:W-mdnbHZ5qeu5dPeRVn-tw@comcast.com... > news:yot3f.256$lC.9907@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au... > asleep. It's an utter bore. > I saw it in the theatre and thought it was one of the best movies I've seen in the past few years.
  • "Rick in Oz" wrote in message news:yot3f.256$lC.9907@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au... > http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-10-13/#2 > blockbuster Kingdom Of Heaven, for branding the film a romantic action > movie. The Gladiator film-maker wanted the Orlando Bloom-starring epic to > be > marketed as a religious and political piece, and believes the box office > figures would have been higher had the advertising campaign mirrored his > ideas. Scott pinpoints the US publicity team for being too scared to > broach > the film's plot of Islamic and Christian conflict, due to the current > international climate. Scott says, "Well $225 million isn't bad. It could > have been better. I suppose I don't think we really got a hold of it in > the > States, marketing-wise. I think that they were very nervous what the > reaction there might have been to it. They sold it as a big action piece > rather than as a religious/political thing. We sold it as a romantic > action > piece and that didn't work so well. It's tricky. I was strongly involved > in > the marketing process - I always am - and it's such an endless > discussion." Just rented the dvd. I didn't get beyond the first 10 minutes, feel asleep. It's an utter bore. -- Irulan from the stars we come to the stars we return from now until the end of time
  • http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-10-13/#2 Scott Blasts 'Kingdom of Heaven' Marketing British director Ridley Scott has blasted the marketers of his summer blockbuster Kingdom Of Heaven, for branding the film a romantic action movie. The Gladiator film-maker wanted the Orlando Bloom-starring epic to be marketed as a religious and political piece, and believes the box office figures would have been higher had the advertising campaign mirrored his ideas. Scott pinpoints the US publicity team for being too scared to broach the film's plot of Islamic and Christian conflict, due to the current international climate. Scott says, "Well $225 million isn't bad. It could have been better. I suppose I don't think we really got a hold of it in the States, marketing-wise. I think that they were very nervous what the reaction there might have been to it. They sold it as a big action piece rather than as a religious/political thing. We sold it as a romantic action piece and that didn't work so well. It's tricky. I was strongly involved in the marketing process - I always am - and it's such an endless discussion."
  • http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16766780%255E1 6947,00.html Cave not following the for musos Sophie Tedmanson September 30, 2005 HE wrote the for the new Australian western The Proposition in just three weeks and has written a sequel to the Oscar-winning Gladiator for Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott - but don't expect a move to Hollywood for Australian singer Nick Cave. "I really love writing s, it's hugely enjoyable," Cave said in Sydney yesterday. "(But) I don't want to be in the film-writing business ... because I'm just a little impatient for that sort of thing, but I do work very well with Johnny." Johnny is Australian film director John Hillcoat. The pair worked together on the violent 1988 prison drama Ghosts ... Of The Civil Dead, which Cave acted in and co-wrote under Hillcoat's direction. Almost two decades later they have collaborated again on The Proposition, for which Cave also wrote the soundtrack. The film, opening next week, is set in the 1880s and stars Guy Pearce as the middle of three bushranger brothers who is asked by police to betray one sibling in order to save the other. Hillcoat said he had always wanted to make an epic set in colonial times. Cave said that while he was inspired by the 1973 American western Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, which starred Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan, they wanted to make a uniquely Australian film. "I think the thing with an American western is things are seen in terms of good and evil ... and Americans tend to see their own history in that way," he said. "The Australians' view of their own history is a lot more complicated." Cave and Hillcoat live around the corner from each other in Brighton, England, and their young children often play together when the families meet at Cave's beach hut. Their work relationship looks likely to continue, with another film Cave has written. The Gladiator sequel, Cave said, "is between me, Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and the wastepaper basket ... I don't think it's going to get made, somehow".
  • http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/91242004-2.htm Russell Crowe - Exclusive print interview September 9, 2005, 4:37:53 Gladiator Extended Special Edition Australia, July 2005 Q. What do you think of the new version of Gladiator on DVD? A. I thought the extra stuff was great. I'd actually forgotten one or two of those scenes so to see them again was really interesting. There's one in particular with Ralf Moeller (who plays Hagen) and we shot it later in the movie and he really had the character humming - that's a cool moment to be added into the movie. But when Ridley and I started talking it through, there's quite a bit more still up his sleeve. Q. When you sat down with Ridley and talked it through, what were the memories that came back to you? A. Making Gladiator was such a huge experience that it connected the two of us for life. When you are faced with such a daunting challenge, you know, a movie shot in three different countries, with a massive amount of detail, where we didn't really have the finalised before we started, it tends to weld you together, forge a friendship. You couldn't really go into a project of that size in any more trying circumstances than what we experienced when we did it. But that is probably why our bond is so deep, because of that. Q. Was there a sort of 'us against the world' mentality? A. Well, let's just say that we know what it took to get certain things and we know the types of arguments we were involved in, and it's one of those odd things, we could understand it because we were doing it day to day. Other people on the outside of the project, or close to the project but just not doing it day to day, couldn't necessarily see what we were getting at until they saw the final movie. I remember feeling, I don't know, it wasn't necessarily pride, but it was some sort of immense feeling of achievement when I first saw the film in an editing room in Los Angeles. It was beyond the fantasies that were playing in my head whilst I was doing the film... ** Article Continues Below ** ** The Russell Crowe article continues now ** Q. Really? It exceeded your expectations? A. It was even beyond that. And it was a pretty big theatrical stage, when you think about doing those scenes in front of 5,000 extras, you know, and then when you multiply that so that it becomes this huge crowd of 50,000, and then it becomes something else that is even more incredible (up on the screen). Q. What were the challenges? A. We were faced with so many challenges; how to keep the story going forward, how to keep the characters centred. We are both fairly philosophical about it now but we did both cop quite a bit of abuse while we were doing it. And there are probably things about my career, that are folk lore now in terms of negativity that come from that period of time when people were literally trying to distance themselves from me and Ridley because they thought we were a little bit crazy. Because we weren't necessarily following anything that they saw would help that movie make any kind of money - we were making this sexless movie that is about violent vengeance that just happened to become really popular with women (laughs). Q. Presumably because you refused to stop fighting for certain things in the film... A. Yeah. I knew that I was fighting the fight on behalf of my director but nobody else but my director knew that, because he would have to place himself politically in a certain way and then pretend (laughs) that we only did something in a certain way because I wouldn't do it any other way. Which was not the case, it's just that we knew that was the way it should be done. It's so funny when you read stuff about the character being such a stoic, because there are some massively emotional scenes in that film, you know, when Maximus sees the crucified and burnt bodies of his wife and son for example. So it is strange that one section of people see it as this very simple thing but then obviously because we are still talking about it five years later, it has a resonance and a huge emotional power. Q. And it had a resonance for the industry in that it prompted many others to try and do a similar kind of epic historical film and curiously most of them haven't worked... A. Yes, it would be interesting to find the number for how many other films have used the Gladiator soundtrack for their trailers and stuff. And since the original Gladiator poster which is that one with the sepia browns and golds, you know how many other movies have come out with that same type of campaign? Which is obviously very flattering to DreamWorks and the people involved, and to Ridley. But with these stories it's all well and good having the costumes and the scale, but if there's a key to it, it's the humanity, and that's what every single one of our conversations were about when it was me and Ridley on one side of the coin and other people disagreeing with us. They were all about that same subject - they were all about the humanity and the reality of the individual characters. They weren't about stunts and special effects and things like that, it was all about keeping the characters real. We had begun with 25 pages of and we established pretty much all of the central characters within those 25, the Roman characters, and then it's a matter of keeping to that, and not relaxing on that. Q. But it's also about the believability of you in that central role as Maximus. Without mentioning names certain others haven't carried an 'epic film' in the same way... A. I think part of that has to do with, not necessarily commitment to the physical, but the reality of the physical. You know, you can do a lot of working out to play a warrior but if you look like you just got turned out from the New York Sports and Fitness Club then it doesn't work. With Gladiator we did a lot of working out but it was all based on what that character would do. So it was all based on things that would replicate or assist in horse riding, carrying weapons of that weight and using them in a particular way. I mean, if you put a 35lb shield in one hand and a 35lb axe in the other and just do some basic things - move your arms up and down and around, you'll feel that, with that weight at the very end of your limb. But those are the type of muscles you have to create if you are going to do that character and they are big, fat muscles to carry those sort of weights and do those sort of things. Whereas you do something like (James) Braddock (the boxer Crowe plays in Cinderella Man) and that's a different muscular deal altogether, it's much slimmer. But I don't want to talk about anybody else, all I would say in comment to anybody else who has done one of these epic things that have thousands of moving parts is "tough ain't it!"(laughs). Q. And presumably there is a direct link between Gladiator and Cinderella Man. I know you suffered a dislocated shoulder which required surgery and delayed the start of Cinderella Man. Was that the shoulder you first injured on Gladiator? A. I'm not sure. The first tearing of the shoulder, the first operation I had, was while I was prepping to do a gymnastics thing in Flora Plum (a film which was to have been directed by Jodie Foster but has yet to be made) but this thing is the same shoulder but the original repair is still in place. It's the other side of the shoulder. I didn't re-injure an old injury, if you understand me. But see, the things you forget.this is what happened when me and Ridley started talking, there was reams of detail and you forget things. And yeah, you're right, I did injure my bicep tendon actually. I tore my bicep tendon on Gladiator. I forgot about that. It actually popped out of the groove in my shoulder, I could see it, you know, usually it's in one place and you can't see your bicep tendon, but it had popped out of the groove so it was above the bone, it was really odd, like a thin lump less than a centimetre wide about two inch long line. It went back in. Actually I pushed it back in the first time but it had a habit of coming out after that. Q. Ridley was saying that with DVD you can give a longer version of a film because people watch DVDs in a different way to seeing a film in the cinema. Do you agree? A. Yes, I agree with that. It's very obvious and you only have to look and see that the sales of DVDs are getting larger and larger. One of the indicators with Cinderella Man recently was that when they were doing the pre release awareness interviews, 37 per cent of people had already decided they were going to wait for the DVD to come out instead of going to see the movie. Thirty seven per cent - that means over a third of the movie goers in the demographic that the film is perfect for, had already decided they were going to show it on their home theatre, that it's the kind of thing that they would like to have the family around for and do it that way. Now when you add up the price of the tickets, parking, popcorn and whatever goes with the movie experience, the price of a DVD looks pretty good. And like I say, with this latest version of Gladiator it does add something more to the film, so it's a different experience. Q. But do you like watching films on DVD yourself? A. One of the essential things about a positive movie experience is when it says 'the end' you don't want it to finish. So it's a fun thing to do. There's a lot of great movies from the past and imagine if you could have an extra twenty minutes of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? So I think from that point of view, it's great. To me, nothing beats the community experience of a big cinema, 1,000 seats, a gigantic sound system and you are all going 'woooo! ' and 'ha ha' together because that adds to the experience, I think. However, from a sound quality and a picture quality point of view, you can definitely get a similar experience with what you can buy for the home. And I do understand as well, like we were talking about, the extras in Gladiator, the added on expenses when you can make the experience as much fun for your family at home, but at the same time pause so you can all have a toilet break and have a chat at half time (laughs). Q. Presumably filming the tiger scene was an experience you are unlikely to forget? A. Absolutely. I remember we had scheduled something along the lines of six principal shooting days and three days of second unit for the tiger sequence. Which actually began as a rhino sequence. Q. What happened to the rhinos? A. One of the major things outside of the essential sentence 'you are a Roman general, it's 185 AD and you are being directed by Ridley Scott..' the rhino sequence was the thing that when I saw, I thought to myself 'you know what? I can chuck away all of this other stuff that doesn't work, and the character's name that doesn't work and the situations don't work and a lot of other stuff that is way too modern, but give me the opening battle sequences, the relationship with Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) and the rhino and I can make this guy work.' (laughs). And part of the way through when we were shooting in Morocco, the rhino gets the chop and we moved to tigers instead. So there we were, shooting it and we stretched out to something like 21 main unit shooting days plus another nine second unit shooting days. Because it's all well and good to write 'and then the tiger does this..' but you have to get the tiger to do it and that's the old cliché about 'and then the Indians came over the hill.' it's very easy to write but quite a few days of logistics to set up and shoot. Q. How close were the tigers when you were filming? A. There were some really scary experiences, but for the most part you are a goodly distance - and I guess a goodly distance was ten metres. How long does it take a tiger to do ten metres? Plus you are also doing aggressive, active things in front of them and what are you told if a big cat is attacking you? You have to be still. So what we are doing is bound to piss them off; we're rolling around the ground and jumping up and down and we probably looked pretty tasty every now and then. We had some really close experiences - one that was a real heart stopper but that particular tiger didn't have any claws and I was really happy about that (laughs). But that was more good luck than good management. There were some funny things with the tigers, man, because we had this whole system set up with the tigers going forward and there were three guys per chain with the chain wrapped around the tiger's neck that could hold him back. Not for a minute did any of the guys when they were working out the logistics of that, assume the tigers would get pissed off with being choked and turn round and chase the three guys yanking the chains (laughs). That was a pretty special day. And then we would be doing the takes and they would release them a little bit early because there are quite a few moves in that particular fights and timing was essential. You had to be careful to release the tiger early enough so we could complete a particular move and move into another position as the tiger rose out of the hole. And every now and then, they would come out way, way too quick (laughs) so I would just accelerate the moves as much as possible. So one day the guy I was fighting got a big slap across the ass from a tiger. It knocked him over but it didn't seem to worry him, he seemed more amused than anything. Q. Bearing all of this in mind was it an enjoyable experience? A. I had a similar experience on Gladiator to the one I had on Cinderella Man. In that pretty much daily I'm in pain, I'm getting challenged all the time - far more so with Gladiator in terms of the . But the similarity of the experience between the two films comes from the fact that even though you might be in pain, even though you have giant logistical problems you are trying to work out, it's still really enjoyable. It was amazing for me to inhabit that world of Gladiator. Amazing. Every time I stepped on to a new set it was incredible. I mean, I would go and visit the sets on my days off - not while they were shooting, but the places I would never see, like Commodus's palace or inside the Senate. Arthur Max (production designer) is such an incredible designer that I would just be intrigued to go and have a look, and there wasn't a single set that didn't in some way take your breath away in terms of its detail or it's palate. It was an amazing experience. Q. What do you think the film meant in terms of your life? A. Well, it's a big change, isn't it? I was only getting used to a different level of attention from LA Confidential, a few years earlier. But that different level of attention was an industry thing and it was about being recognised more within the business rather than on the street. Then The Insider was another step that happened where that industry interest and attention went to awards and nominations and stuff. But you know, those experiences were great gear shifts in my life but nothing equates to the earth shattering zeitgeist moment of Gladiator's release. That is when my life changed dramatically and it wasn't as much mine as it used to be (laughs). You know, so many things shifted with the success of Gladiator. And it's actually probably unquantifiable how much my life changed. Q. Was it quite poignant looking back at the film? Richard Harris, Ollie Reed, David Hemmings, all no longer with us.. A. Yeah and me and Ridley were talking about this. We were chatting about another project and casting it in our imagination and cursing 'wow, those guys are gone.' It's very sad. It would have been so great to have been able to do more work with Richard and every time I seen that scene behind me and him and I hear the dance music that is going on between these two characters, you know.Because you don't often get to work like that, you don't often get to work with such intense attention to detail so effortlessly. We virtually only had the one scene together but that created a bond with us that lasted beyond the grave. Q. And that scene was the heart of the film in a way, everything came from there.. A. Well, it was a great beginning. And that's the thing. Once we'd established what we did for the first few weeks in England then Ridley had set a very high bar for himself and he was just in that frame of mind that this one, of all the things he had done, was going to be seen through. You know, Ridley just had that real, dogged determined attitude on behalf of a narrative that essentially didn't exist anywhere but in his imagination. Q. Did you know very early that you would get on so well with Ridley? A. Oh yeah, first conversation. Because it's about input and priorities. It depends what somebody talks to you about, you know, and he was talking to me about all the things that I care about. And that's the same with Michael Mann or Curtis Hanson or Ron Howard. And sometimes you can get yourself into a situation where you don't listen to your instincts - you are sitting with somebody and they are talking about the stuff that you don't care about or that shouldn't be prioritised, and yet you still find yourself working with that person. And that problem becomes repetitive because if you don't see the story the same way and what is important about the story the same way, then it's a problem. And when you do those sort of gigs you have to have a real clear understanding. Q. So working with Ridley was obviously a joy for you? A. Oh yeah. I enjoy my relationship with Ron Howard too, and when you think about it, it's incredible that I ended up working with Ron twice first rather than Ridley considering how many conversations Ridley and I have had and how many things we have developed together to a certain degree. But you know, I think if we work together now, we've got to do something other than a gigantic epic story, we've got allow and trust the fact that our collaboration is always going to be strong because of the way we communicate and that we don't have to have a gigantic canvass in order to get people's attention, because it'll be the strength of that understanding and the shared common ground instincts we have that will make what we do as interesting as Gladiator was. Q. Do you think it will happen? A. I think we talk about it so much you have to say sooner or later it's bound to happen. But like I say, if we do something together, for me, it would be better to do some little comedy of manners or something, with a small budget and no expectations. And trust our common ground instincts and our level of communications. Q. One of the striking performances in Gladiator, amongst many, is from Joaquin Pheonix.. A. Gladiator is the film that makes Joaquin Phoenix the great actor he is today. Because he faced so many fears, fears about letting his imagination run, trusting his imagination, being trusted by a visionary director like Ridley, being respected by his peers from Oliver Reed to Connie Nielsen to Richard Harris, and very definitely myself. It was a watershed moment for him and he stayed with it and he was incredibly focused. That was the other great thing, the other actors in this film were just as determined about what they were doing and it wasn't screen time or anything to do with that, it was all about 'I'm in a funny costume, speaking in a strange way..' (laughs) 'and I've got to fully understand the motivations and detail behind my character so I can communicate that..' I don't do it, but I would imagine it would be easy on an epic movie to kind of get kind of lulled by the responsibility, lulled by how much work you've got to do and lulled by what is in front of you and you get into some kind of acquiescent rhythm where you just let it take you along, as opposed to you driving it. And that's the difference with a Ridley Scott epic - you know somebody is driving it every day. There was a trickle down effect, a collective energy, you have a leader who is dogged, determined and has a vision and is going to do his best to not have that interrupted or perverted. I know these are big words and it sounds like strong language, but the effect of that, is that all of the performers are involved and when it's the type of attitude that Ridley had, as director of the film, it just encourages everyone to do their best. The inspiration comes from the top, it's as simple as that. If your director is open and flowing and on the top of his game then you tend to get that from your cast. Q. Over the years there's been speculation about a sequel or a prequel, revisiting the Gladiator world in some way. Would you be interested? A. Look - quite frankly I wouldn't care, and I don't think the audience would really care, if we do a scene back stage at the Coliseum and we put a poultice on him (laughs) and he grows grapes and ten years later Djimon (Hounsou who plays Juba) knocks on his door and says 'right ho, we'd better go and do something else..' I don't think anybody would care, because it's a great character and the world that Ridley created is a great world and the fact that they are doing this DVD release - it's 2005 so that's five years since the thing came out, is a good indication that people still care about this film. Q. So are you saying that if it was the right idea and the right people were involved, then maybe? A. It's all pure speculation right, nothing I've said is actually about trying to have that production mounted. I'm responding to your questions honestly. But when you spend so much of your day talking about a particular project with people, no matter where you are in the world, it does go around in your head. And I enjoyed playing the character. It might be this is just an interim attitude, it might be that 12 months from now I go 'don't be silly, he's dead..' (laughs) And some things - the further you get away, the more dangerous it is doing it again.
  • http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=11809314&p=yy8x9368&n=1 1809428 Clooney unveils new film at Venice festival 01/09/2005 - 08:16:52 Actor George Clooney was expected to bring a touch of Hollywood glamour to the Venice Film Festival today. The Hollywood star has made his second film as director, Good Night. And, Good Luck. Shot in black-and white, the movie chronicles a broadcast journalist's battle against the communist witch-hunt of 1950s America. It features the real-life conflict between TV news pioneer Edward R Murrow, played by David Strathairn, and Senator Joseph McCarthy. As well as directing and co-writing the film, which contains newsreel footage of McCarthy himself, former ER star Clooney also stars as Murrow's producer Fred Friendly. Robert Downey Jr, Patricia Clarkson and Jeff Daniels also star in the movie, which Clooney has been desperate to make for years. Oceans Twelve star Clooney's father was a news anchor for 30 years and Murrow was considered a hero by the family. Clooney, 44, made his directorial debut in 2002 with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, an adaptation of the memoirs of game show impresario Chuck Barris. The former ER star has also directed Uned, a TV series about young actors trying to hit the big time in Hollywood. Golden Globe-winning actor Clooney's new film is a serious contender for the Golden Lion award. The second day of the Venice festival will also see Spike Lee and Gladiator' s Ridley Scott attending for All the Invisible Children, a feature film about children in different parts of the world. The film contains seven sections, each from different directors aiming to raise awareness of children who are invisible to the adult world. The Festival opened yesterday with Seven Swords, a martial arts epic set during the Ching dynasty, directed by Tsui Hark, one of the biggest names in martial arts films. British actress Jacqueline Bisset also made an appearance for the launch of her new movie The Fine Art of Love (Mine Ha Ha). Gwyneth Paltrow, Russell Crowe and Sienna Miller are being tipped to make an appearance during the world's oldest film festival, which features eleven days of screenings.
  • wrote in message news:1123528476.978527.145000@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... > extended edition Gladiator DVD's commentary track with the two of them. > Crowe has always said he thought it was right for Maximus to die, > and he doesn't do sequels just for the sake of the money anyway. > Besides, there is such a thing as a prequel. -- ~*~ Keeper of Monica Bellucci ~*~
  • Lili2 wrote: > http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/3amcontent/tm_objectid=15831287%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=russell%2dnot%2dglad%2dabout%2dscreen%2ddeath-name_page.html > of Gladiator - if Maximus hadn't died. > last-minute decision to kill his character off has cost him dearly. > been on Gladiator 10 by now," he said. > kept going back to the character for years." > We certainly wouldn't have minded seeing that leather outfit again. Crowe was just joking with Ridley. Those comments come from the new extended edition Gladiator DVD's commentary track with the two of them. Crowe has always said he thought it was right for Maximus to die, and he doesn't do sequels just for the sake of the money anyway.
  • http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/3amcontent/tm_objectid=15831287%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=russell%2dnot%2dglad%2dabout%2dscreen%2ddeath-name_page.html RUSSELL Crowe's been banging on about how he could have made a mint out of Gladiator - if Maximus hadn't died. The actor doesn't hold back in telling director Ridley Scott that his last-minute decision to kill his character off has cost him dearly. "It's cost us hundreds of millions! Great idea, mate! We could have been on Gladiator 10 by now," he said. A pal says: "Crowe sort of jokes about it but he knows he could have kept going back to the character for years." We certainly wouldn't have minded seeing that leather outfit again.
  • "Thanatos" wrote in message news:atropos-5602CE.21455318032008@news.giganews.com... > In article > , > TranslucentAmoebae wrote: possession"http://www.tmz.com/2008/03/11/mary-ann-busted-with-mary-jane/ responsibility"http://www.tmz.com/2008/03/12/it-wasnt-mary-anns-mary-jane/ > difference? He can't tell you...too drunk.
  • http://entertainment.news.com.au/story/0,10221,15901893-7485,00.html Roman follow-up By Claudia Parsons in New York July 12, 2005 RUSSELL Crowe's character may have been killed off at the end of the Oscar-winning movie Gladiator, but that doesn't mean there won't be a sequel, Crowe's co-star, Djimon Hounsou, said today. Crowe won an Oscar for his role as a Roman general who is betrayed by a jealous prince and returns to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. Benin-native Hounsou played an African slave who fights alongside him in the Colosseum. Speaking in New York to promote his latest film The Island, Hounsou said "definitely the desire is to do a sequel" to Gladiator. He acknowledged it would be hard for Crowe to return as Maximus given his dramatic death at the end of the first film, but he said producers were still working on the and casting decisions. "They're not happy about what they have for now, so they're still working on it. It's still in development," said Hounsou, adding that he expects to reprise his role as Juba. "I would probably be in the center of it as one of the leads," he said. Hounsou's breakout role was in Steven Spielberg's Amistad in 1997. He was nominated for an Oscar in 2004 for best supporting actor for his role in In America. In The Island he plays a mercenary hunting fugitives from a secret institution that produces human clones. Even if Gladiator producers were tempted to recall Crowe through a flashback or some other plot device, Hounsou admitted there could be other obstacles. The original Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott and released in 2000, took more than $US187 million at the box office in the United States. The New Zealand-born Crowe was arrested last month after an incident in which police say he hurled a telephone at the concierge of the Mercer Street Hotel in Manhattan. If convicted of assault, he could face up to seven years in prison. Crowe has publicly apologised for the incident and his publicist has said the actor threw the phone against a wall rather than at the concierge.
  • http://www.smh.com.au/news/People/Cinderella-jinx/2005/06/07/1117910250078.h tml?oneclick=true Cinderella jinx? June 7, 2005 - 1:33AM It may well turn out to be the movie that was jinxed for Aussie star Russell Crowe. First, he fights with his bodyguard in a drinking-session dust-up whilst filming the boxing movie Cinderella Man in Canada. Now, the actor is accused of throwing a telephone at an employee of the New York hotel where he's staying, as the movie hits the box office in the United States. Russell Crowe'>Russell Crowe's arrest in New York comes just days after the world and New York premieres of Cinderella Man - tipped as a possible Oscar winner - and soon after returning to the Hollywood scene after the birth of his son Charlie. Police allege Crowe, 41, threw a phone at the Mercer Hotel employee, striking him in the face. They say the incident occurred during an argument about 4.20am local time on Monday (6.20pm AEST). Crowe, who won the Academy Award for best actor for Gladiator in 2000, was arrested and charged with second degree assault, and ordered to appear in Manhattan Criminal Court. The phone-throwing allegation is the latest in a series of exchanges and fracas involving Crowe in recent years, and becomes the second associated with Cinderella Man. In August last year, Crowe beame embroiled in a fight with his bodyguard and close friend Mark "Spud" Caroll on the Toronto set of Cinderella Man, in which he plays depression-era heavyweight world champion James Braddock. After that incident, Crowe explained the pair's brawl came after a day's shooting and was sparked by a misunderstanding. He said he and Carroll, a former Australian test rugby league player, had made up the next day. Crowe said that, at post-shoot drinks, he had been talking to a young woman, who was an extra on the film and a friend of both men. Caroll had gone over and told Crowe what he thought people might be imagining the pair's conversation was about. Crowe later wrote to a Sydney newspaper, saying: "I thought he was accusing me specifically of something and I took offence to it. "It doesn't surprise me that I'm overly sensitive to gossip and speculation and heartily sick of other people's 'perceptions'. "Spud was passing on other people's 'perceptions' and I shot the messenger. "Luckily for me, the sequences we were shooting required me to wear heavy post boxing make-up, so you couldn't tell." Carroll also wrote to the paper about the brawl, denying reports Crowe had bitten his ear. "He did take a nip at my chest - I was trying to smother him at the time, so I can understand the move," he wrote. "As for calling it a fight, believe me, we have done much more damage to each other playing touch footy." The incident with Carroll added to Crowe's reputation as being difficult and demanding. (Gladiator director Ridley Scott had said of Crowe that "Russell is difficult, he has a specific mind of his own, but he is a movie star".) Early in 2002, Crowe verbally abused British TV executive Malcolm Gerrie after part of his Bafta-winning speech was cut out for television. Crowe had been named best actor for A Beautiful Mind at the Bafta film awards on 24 February. But a quote from a Patrick Kavanagh poem had been axed from Crowe's acceptance speech, prompting Crowe to confronted Gerrie after the ceremony. The New Zealand-born star later apologised to Gerrie for the verbal abuse, conceding he had been "overbearing" and used "strong language". Also in London, later in 2002, Crowe was spoken to by police after an alleged brawl in a restaurant, which was reportedly broken up by former EastEnders star Ross Kemp. The Sun newspaper said Crowe was involved in an argument with New Zealand businessman Eric Watson at the Zuma restaurant in Knightsbridge, close to the Harrods department store. Crowe was said to have scuffled in the bar and toilets with Mr Watson, but police dropped the matter. Back in Australia, Crowe made the headlines early this year after former rugby league star Mark Geyer asked the actor to cover his medical costs for injuries he received in a celebrity tournament organised by Crowe. The former Test and Penrith player said he wanted Crowe to pay $10,000 after an incident during the tournament in which he broke his leg while playing in the Orara Valley Sevens on January 22. Geyer said at the time he had not worked since the injury and said a mistake he made in insurance paperwork had left him uninsured. Crowe, whose son Charlie with Danielle Spencer was born in 2003, has also been in the news recently over the abandoned movie Eucalyptus, and for his support of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby. The $32 million film, of which Crowe was executive director, was abruptly postponed in February because of problems with the , just days before it was due to begin production. Speculation abounded that Crowe had issues with the for the movie, in which he was to appear alongside fellow Australian actor Nicole Kidman. Crowe also recently called on the federal government to intervene in the trial of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby. He has described her plight as "bullshit" and has said the sight of her tears on Australian newspaper front pages had broken his heart. Crowe tasted success relatively early in his career, launching himself in Hollywood with LA Confidential in 1997 before taking out the best actor Oscar for his portrayal of a Roman general sold into slavery in Gladiator in 2000. Despite mixed reviews, Crowe also considers himself a musician, having toured with his band - Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts. His new movie Cinderella Man - which, according to reviews, features "intense boxing violence and some language" - co-stars Renee Zellweger and boasts Ron Howard as director. AAP
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