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5 MAY 2008.- EDGE OF DARKNESS 
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5 MAY 2008.- BEST ACTION HEROES
Mel Gibson achieved fifth
Source: Telegraph.co.uk
The appeal of Bruce Willis and Harrison Ford as the epitome of cinematic action heroes continues.
Willis, 53, who returned to the screen with the fourth instalment of his Die Hard franchise last year, and 65-year-old Ford, who hits UK cinema screens as Indiana Jones later this month, tied for the top spot in a poll of the greatest ever action heroes, each receiving 25 per cent of the vote.
And Terminator star turned governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, 60, came third in the poll by cinema advertising company Pearl & Dean with 15 per cent, pushing more recent action heroes down the list.
The survey of 3,000 people found many feel that Willis set the standard for the 1980s action hero playing wise-cracking cop John McClane in Die Hard, a role he reprised for the fourth time last year.
Ford is remembered as Han Solo in Star Wars as well as swashbuckling archaeologist Indiana Jones, whose fourth outing is released on May 22.
Kathryn Jacob, the chief executive of Pearl & Dean, said: “It seems I’m not alone in preferring the older breed of action hero - film fans across the UK agree the newer leading men just can’t hold a candle to the old school versions.
"The fact that Bruce and Harrison can still attract cinema-goers in their millions is testament to their pulling power."
Matt Damon, as Jason Bourne in the Bourne trilogy, came fourth with 7 per cent.
Daniel Craig as James Bond achieved fifth-equal place, tied with action hero Sylvester Stallone, Steven Seagal and Mel Gibson with 5 per cent each.
Hugh Jackman, who played Wolverine in the X-Men trilogy, was ranked in joint last place with Jean-Claude Van Damme with 4 per cent of the vote.
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The appeal of Bruce Willis and Harrison Ford as the epitome of cinematic action heroes continues.
Willis, 53, who returned to the screen with the fourth instalment of his Die Hard franchise last year, and 65-year-old Ford, who hits UK cinema screens as Indiana Jones later this month, tied for the top spot in a poll of the greatest ever action heroes, each receiving 25 per cent of the vote.
And Terminator star turned governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, 60, came third in the poll by cinema advertising company Pearl & Dean with 15 per cent, pushing more recent action heroes down the list.
The survey of 3,000 people found many feel that Willis set the standard for the 1980s action hero playing wise-cracking cop John McClane in Die Hard, a role he reprised for the fourth time last year.
Ford is remembered as Han Solo in Star Wars as well as swashbuckling archaeologist Indiana Jones, whose fourth outing is released on May 22.
Kathryn Jacob, the chief executive of Pearl & Dean, said: “It seems I’m not alone in preferring the older breed of action hero - film fans across the UK agree the newer leading men just can’t hold a candle to the old school versions.
"The fact that Bruce and Harrison can still attract cinema-goers in their millions is testament to their pulling power."
Matt Damon, as Jason Bourne in the Bourne trilogy, came fourth with 7 per cent.
Daniel Craig as James Bond achieved fifth-equal place, tied with action hero Sylvester Stallone, Steven Seagal and Mel Gibson with 5 per cent each.
Hugh Jackman, who played Wolverine in the X-Men trilogy, was ranked in joint last place with Jean-Claude Van Damme with 4 per cent of the vote.
8 MAY 2008.- MEL GIBSON PASSION'S PROFITS COVERED
Mel Gibson, "The Passion of the Christ"
Source: Eonline!
A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday approved Mel Gibson's motion to keep his financials under wraps as he fights a fraud lawsuit filed in February by the scribe who cowrote the Passion screenplay.
The info will be kept sealed and will only be available to Gibson's and plaintiff Benedict Fitzgerald's lawyers. Fitzgerald claims he was cheated out of his rightful cut of the loot because Gibson assured him it would be a low-budget feature and that he himself wouldn't be taking any proceeds until all the cast and crew had been paid.
Gibson's crew, meanwhile is looking to have six out of the nine allegations against him, including the fraud claim, dismissed. A hearing on the motion is scheduled for June 20.
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Mel Gibson, "The Passion of the Christ" |
Source: Eonline!
A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday approved Mel Gibson's motion to keep his financials under wraps as he fights a fraud lawsuit filed in February by the scribe who cowrote the Passion screenplay.
The info will be kept sealed and will only be available to Gibson's and plaintiff Benedict Fitzgerald's lawyers. Fitzgerald claims he was cheated out of his rightful cut of the loot because Gibson assured him it would be a low-budget feature and that he himself wouldn't be taking any proceeds until all the cast and crew had been paid.
Gibson's crew, meanwhile is looking to have six out of the nine allegations against him, including the fraud claim, dismissed. A hearing on the motion is scheduled for June 20.
8 MAY 2008.- EDGE OF DARKNESS "SET FOR BIG SCREEN"
Martin Campbell
"Edge of Darkness", a cherished project
Source:
BBC
POSTED: 18 JANUARY 2002
Director Martin Campbell is set to bring his acclaimed BBC TV mini-series Edge of Darkness to the big screen, according to Variety.
The New Zealand-born Bafta-winner has been given the green light to recreate the political thriller for cinema audiences, it was revealed at the Sundance Film Festival.
Since Mr Campbell directed the BBC drama Edge of Darkness he has gone on to develop Hollywood Blockbusters Vertical Limit, The Mask of Zorro and Bond movie GoldenEye.
Edge of Darkness first aired in 1985 and won five Bafta awards including best director, drama and music.
It also picked up a best actor award for the late Bob Peck, who died of cancer in 1999.
Edge of Darkness told the tale of police inspector Ron Craven who is forced to investigate the mysterious death of his own daughter.
Aside from the murder it also dealt with controversy surrounding nuclear policy in the 1980s.
It also starred Joanne Whalley, Joe Don Baker and Zoe Wanamaker.
CONTEMPORARY THEME
Whalley and Baker were both nominated for Bafta's for their roles in the drama.
It was recently voted number 15 in the British Film Institute's top 100 television programmes of the 20th century.
The film adaptation will be made by Catch 23, a British development and production company launched in 2001.
The action will transfer to America and the script will be given a more contemporary theme, according to Variety.
Mr Campbell is currently working on an American romance entitled Beyond Borders, starring Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen
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Source:
BBC
POSTED: 18 JANUARY 2002
Director Martin Campbell is set to bring his acclaimed BBC TV mini-series Edge of Darkness to the big screen, according to Variety.
The New Zealand-born Bafta-winner has been given the green light to recreate the political thriller for cinema audiences, it was revealed at the Sundance Film Festival.
Since Mr Campbell directed the BBC drama Edge of Darkness he has gone on to develop Hollywood Blockbusters Vertical Limit, The Mask of Zorro and Bond movie GoldenEye.
Edge of Darkness first aired in 1985 and won five Bafta awards including best director, drama and music.
It also picked up a best actor award for the late Bob Peck, who died of cancer in 1999.
Edge of Darkness told the tale of police inspector Ron Craven who is forced to investigate the mysterious death of his own daughter.
Aside from the murder it also dealt with controversy surrounding nuclear policy in the 1980s.
It also starred Joanne Whalley, Joe Don Baker and Zoe Wanamaker.
CONTEMPORARY THEME
Whalley and Baker were both nominated for Bafta's for their roles in the drama.
It was recently voted number 15 in the British Film Institute's top 100 television programmes of the 20th century.
The film adaptation will be made by Catch 23, a British development and production company launched in 2001.
The action will transfer to America and the script will be given a more contemporary theme, according to Variety.
Mr Campbell is currently working on an American romance entitled Beyond Borders, starring Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen
10 MAY 2008.- ROBERT DOWNEY JUNIOR FULL OF ADMIRATION FOR MEL GIBSON
Gibson and Downey
Source: Herald Sun (Australia)
ROBERT Downey Jr's come a long way from his bad boy image, but he's full of admiration for those who've broken their boundaries like co-star Gwyneth Paltrow, and friend Mel Gibson
A half-smoked cigar rests in an ashtray alongside a half-empty pitcher of what appears to be a protein shake.
Quite a contrast, but as Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr points out, he's enjoying the cigar far more than the health shake.
‘‘This is s---,'' he says, taking a gulp before breaking into a bright smile and plonking down playfully in an armchair.
He may not embrace health shakes, but the 43-year-old is proof of just how much a person's life can change in 10 years.
Asked if he has been misunderstood, Downey shrugs.
‘‘I don't know. I think I have been misunderstood and understood just like anybody,'' he says.
‘Pick out a name of anyone you know and there are times when things aren't what they seem and what I have noticed now is that my life is pretty simple and together and I am not in the middle of any desperate struggle. Some of that is just a function of age. Some of this stuff just takes time and you get caught up in something and you have to go through it.''
Though headlines around the world still read ‘‘bad boy Robert Downey Jr'', this former hellraiser scoffs at them and so does his wife, producer Susan Levin.
‘‘If you want to make my wife laugh her ass off you need to just read those types of newspaper headlines,'' he says. ‘‘It's just ridiculous that notion because that's not who I am today. It's something that happened last century.''
Looking over Sydney Harbour, Downey recalls his last trip Down Under with his wife, who produced the doomed Paris Hilton horror vehicle House of Wax on the Gold Coast, almost four years ago.
The star enjoys the laid-back Australian way of life and the filmmaking heavyweights the nation has produced, including his good mate Mel Gibson.
Both known for their controversies, Downey gushes about the man he met 18 years ago while working on action comedy Air America.
Gibson paid the star's insurance bond for 2003's The Singing Detective when studios were nervous about having the once wayward actor working on their films.
Downey, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in the title role of 1992 film Chaplin, says he's looking forward to seeing Gibson when he returns to Los Angeles and thought of his friend while flying into Sydney.
‘‘I was just thinking about him this morning and really looking forward to having a coffee with him because it's always fascinating to find out what's going on on planet Gibson,'' he says.
Though Gibson's arrest last year landed him in hot water, Downey says the dual Academy Award winner has lost little support in Hollywood.
‘‘I think anybody would be happy to work with him and I just think that he can pretty much write his own ticket,'' he says.
Downey smiles as he recalls a life lesson he learned through Gibson. After their time on Air America and just before Gibson's next role in Hamlet, executives were telling the Australian he should try his hand at directing, at which the star baulked.
Gibson's creative flair behind the camera has since captivated audiences around the world with films such as Braveheart, Apocalypto and The Passion of the Christ.
‘‘Through him I have just seen the remarkable potential to get yourself out of a way of being perceived. He was like, ‘I don't want to be a director', then he broadened his horizons and has been so much more successful as a director than he has as an actor and whoever would have thought that was possible?'' he says.
Working opposite some of the world's most glamorous women is all in a day's work for Downey, but he admits he had to turn on the charm to lure Gwyneth Paltrow into the role of his sexy personal assistant and love interest, Pepper Potts, in Iron Man.
‘‘I told her she was going to be in a hot dress and that people were going to remember that side of her that she and everyone else had forgotten,'' he says.
‘‘I hate to say it, but she is kind of royalty in a sense because she is one of few actresses who has avoided so many of the pitfalls we struggle with and it's not for no reason. There is something about the essence of who she is.''
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Gibson and Downey |
Source: Herald Sun (Australia)
ROBERT Downey Jr's come a long way from his bad boy image, but he's full of admiration for those who've broken their boundaries like co-star Gwyneth Paltrow, and friend Mel Gibson
A half-smoked cigar rests in an ashtray alongside a half-empty pitcher of what appears to be a protein shake.
Quite a contrast, but as Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr points out, he's enjoying the cigar far more than the health shake.
‘‘This is s---,'' he says, taking a gulp before breaking into a bright smile and plonking down playfully in an armchair.
He may not embrace health shakes, but the 43-year-old is proof of just how much a person's life can change in 10 years.
Asked if he has been misunderstood, Downey shrugs.
‘‘I don't know. I think I have been misunderstood and understood just like anybody,'' he says.
‘Pick out a name of anyone you know and there are times when things aren't what they seem and what I have noticed now is that my life is pretty simple and together and I am not in the middle of any desperate struggle. Some of that is just a function of age. Some of this stuff just takes time and you get caught up in something and you have to go through it.''
Though headlines around the world still read ‘‘bad boy Robert Downey Jr'', this former hellraiser scoffs at them and so does his wife, producer Susan Levin.
‘‘If you want to make my wife laugh her ass off you need to just read those types of newspaper headlines,'' he says. ‘‘It's just ridiculous that notion because that's not who I am today. It's something that happened last century.''
Looking over Sydney Harbour, Downey recalls his last trip Down Under with his wife, who produced the doomed Paris Hilton horror vehicle House of Wax on the Gold Coast, almost four years ago.
The star enjoys the laid-back Australian way of life and the filmmaking heavyweights the nation has produced, including his good mate Mel Gibson.
Both known for their controversies, Downey gushes about the man he met 18 years ago while working on action comedy Air America.
Gibson paid the star's insurance bond for 2003's The Singing Detective when studios were nervous about having the once wayward actor working on their films.
Downey, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in the title role of 1992 film Chaplin, says he's looking forward to seeing Gibson when he returns to Los Angeles and thought of his friend while flying into Sydney.
‘‘I was just thinking about him this morning and really looking forward to having a coffee with him because it's always fascinating to find out what's going on on planet Gibson,'' he says.
Though Gibson's arrest last year landed him in hot water, Downey says the dual Academy Award winner has lost little support in Hollywood.
‘‘I think anybody would be happy to work with him and I just think that he can pretty much write his own ticket,'' he says.
Downey smiles as he recalls a life lesson he learned through Gibson. After their time on Air America and just before Gibson's next role in Hamlet, executives were telling the Australian he should try his hand at directing, at which the star baulked.
Gibson's creative flair behind the camera has since captivated audiences around the world with films such as Braveheart, Apocalypto and The Passion of the Christ.
‘‘Through him I have just seen the remarkable potential to get yourself out of a way of being perceived. He was like, ‘I don't want to be a director', then he broadened his horizons and has been so much more successful as a director than he has as an actor and whoever would have thought that was possible?'' he says.
Working opposite some of the world's most glamorous women is all in a day's work for Downey, but he admits he had to turn on the charm to lure Gwyneth Paltrow into the role of his sexy personal assistant and love interest, Pepper Potts, in Iron Man.
‘‘I told her she was going to be in a hot dress and that people were going to remember that side of her that she and everyone else had forgotten,'' he says.
‘‘I hate to say it, but she is kind of royalty in a sense because she is one of few actresses who has avoided so many of the pitfalls we struggle with and it's not for no reason. There is something about the essence of who she is.''
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Downey, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in the title role of 1992 film Chaplin, says he's looking forward to seeing Gibson when he returns to Los Angeles and thought of his friend while flying into Sydney.
‘‘I was just thinking about him this morning and really looking forward to having a coffee with him because it's always fascinating to find out what's going on on planet Gibson,'' he says.
Though Gibson's arrest last year landed him in hot water, Downey says the dual Academy Award winner has lost little support in Hollywood.
‘‘I think anybody would be happy to work with him and I just think that he can pretty much write his own ticket,'' he says.
Downey smiles as he recalls a life lesson he learned through Gibson. After their time on Air America and just before Gibson's next role in Hamlet, executives were telling the Australian he should try his hand at directing, at which the star baulked.
Gibson's creative flair behind the camera has since captivated audiences around the world with films such as Braveheart, Apocalypto and The Passion of the Christ.
‘‘Through him I have just seen the remarkable potential to get yourself out of a way of being perceived. He was like, ‘I don't want to be a director', then he broadened his horizons and has been so much more successful as a director than he has as an actor and whoever would have thought that was possible?'' he says.
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Working opposite some of the world's most glamorous women is all in a day's work for Downey, but he admits he had to turn on the charm to lure Gwyneth Paltrow into the role of his sexy personal assistant and love interest, Pepper Potts, in Iron Man.
‘‘I told her she was going to be in a hot dress and that people were going to remember that side of her that she and everyone else had forgotten,'' he says.
‘‘I hate to say it, but she is kind of royalty in a sense because she is one of few actresses who has avoided so many of the pitfalls we struggle with and it's not for no reason. There is something about the essence of who she is.''
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13 MAY 2008.- VIDEO, MEL GIBSON IN MALIBU
Source: www.theinsideronline.com
MEL GIBSON chats with the paparazzi in Malibu.
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