June 09, 2001
LOS ANGELES, CA -Ron Howard and the popular fan site CountingDown.com
offer online viewers a sneak peek behind-the-scenes of his upcoming release
A Beautiful Mind starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly and Ed Harris.
A special Bagel Cam is strategically positioned above the craft service's
table to provide the first-ever released images from the film set. Beginning
June 6, 2001 fans with Internet access will be able to log on and tune
in for three days until June 8, 2001. Fans will be able to view the film
crew at the ever-present craft services area that on film sets provides
the production with its meals, drinks and snacks. Images will be uploaded
continuously throughout the production day from first call until the cast
and crew goes home.
Imagine Entertainment presents A Beautiful Mind, a human drama inspired
by events in the life of John Forbes Nash, Jr., and in part based on the
biography A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar. Directed by Ron Howard and
produced by Brian Grazer, with a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, the film
stars Oscar® winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator) and Oscar® nominee
Ed Harris (Pollock, Apollo 13), and Jennifer Connelly (Requiem For A Dream).
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes
Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing
discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim.
But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and
harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually
triumphed over this tragedy, and finally-late in life-received the Nobel
Prize.
A Beautiful Mind is a Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures co-production.
May 21 , 2001
'Gladiator' Prequel Coming Soon?
It had to happen eventually, it's just a wonder no one in Hollywood
thought of it sooner.
Rumours are circulating that Universal and DreamWorks are putting together
plans for a 'Gladiator' prequel.
It's thought the two studios want to create a back story to Russell
Crowe's character Maximus, telling the story of his rise from farmer to
General of the Roman Emperor's army.
The hugely successful 2000 film picked up $452m worldwide, along with
five Oscars, including best picture and best actor.
If any prequel were to go ahead, it's thought the studios would be
keen to lure Crowe back to reprise his role as Maximus, which, given his
newfound star power, could provide the actor with his biggest pay cheque
ever.
In the meantime, Crowe isn't waiting to be typecast and is currently
working with Ron Howard on the drama 'A Beautiful Mind'. Based on a true
story, Crowe plays John Nash, a brilliant Nobel Prize-winning mathematician
who was diagnosed as a paranoid-schizophrenic.
May 17, 2001
Crowe, Rush tipped for Eureka roles
By ADAM ZWAR
OSCAR winners Russell Crowe and Geoffrey Rush are almost certain to
star in a film about Australia's bloodiest rebellion, the Eureka Stockade.
Filming on the $10 million movie, The Stockade, will start early next
year on a 5ha site at Mt Warrenheip, near Ballarat.
Writer Stuart Page delivered the final draft of the script to producers
on Friday - despite a tumultuous year during which he was lost for two
days while skiing at Mt Hotham.
Page, 32, endured temperatures as low as -6C - but survived by digging
a snow cave and eating moss and melted snow.
"Stuart submitted the final draft on Friday," producer Peter Kennedy
said. "We've tried to make sure he hasn't gone near any mountains - that
he's stayed on the ground."
Mr Kennedy said The Stockade's production team was negotiating with
Crowe and Rush's US agents.
He said both stars wanted to return to Australia for the shoot, which
will require 3000 Ballarat residents as extras.
"It's all down to availabilities now," Mr Kennedy said.
"If they're available, Crowe will play (rebellion leader) Peter Lalor
and Rush will play (former Governor of Victoria) Sir Charles Hotham."
Idiot Box director David Caesar will direct the movie.
May 04, 2001
Some Oscar winners keep their statuettes on their mantels;
some have specially made cabinets. Russell Crowe keeps his in his gym bag
and carries it around with him.
Crowe whipped the gold statuette out of his gym bag.
ON AT LEAST three separate
occasions, the “Gladiator” star pulled his Oscar out of his gym bag. Once
was a few days after the Academy Awards, when he pulled the statuette out
to show fans. While filming “A Beautiful Mind” at Princeton, he was toting
the statuette along with him, and at one point, pulled it out from under
a table and launched into a Sally Field-like “You really, really like me”
spoof.
More recently,
Crowe went to a party at Manhattan’s Mercer Kitchen, where an actor was
doing celebrity impersonations at the VIP bar. “Hey, you’re pretty good,”
Crowe called out. “You deserve an Oscar.” Whereupon he whipped the gold
statuette out of his gym bag.
Crowe’s spokeswoman didn’t return
calls for comment, but one observer noted, “For someone who says he doesn’t
care for the trappings of Hollywood, he certainly enjoys its prizes.”
May 01, 2001
Unknown Scot could be next James Bond - paper
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Little-known Scottish actor Gerard Butler is
being wooed to play the next James Bond when Pierce Brosnan gives up the
role, the Daily Record newspaper said.
The tabloid said series producer Barbara Broccoli was determined to
have another Scottish Bond -- following in the footsteps of screen legend
Sean Connery. It said she had fixed up a summer meeting with 32-year-old
Butler to discuss the role.
"Gerard is one of the two people Barbara has appointments with," a
source told the paper on Monday. "They are meeting to discuss replacing
Pierce after his final movie."
Irish-born Brosnan's contract expires after his fourth Bond movie which
goes into production in January, the Scottish paper said. It added that
Broccoli was also meeting Colin Wells, who had served as a stand-in Bond
for Brosnan during screen tests for other actors.
Butler only took up acting after a law degree from Glasgow University,
but at six feet two inches, the dark-haired actor has the looks to slip
into the 007 role.
He is due to make his big screen debut in a leading role in
June, playing Dracula in Wes Craven's Dracula 2000, the paper said.
Connery, a fiercely proud Scot who carries a 'Scotland forever' tattoo
on his shoulder, last played Bond in the 1983 hit Never Say Never Again.
The 007 role has been played by two other British actors, Roger
Moore and Timothy Dalton, as well as George Lazenby of Australia.
April 26, 2001
Unknown Scot could be next James Bond - paper
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Little-known Scottish actor Gerard Butler is
being wooed to play the next James Bond when Pierce Brosnan gives up the
role, the Daily Record newspaper said.
The tabloid said series producer Barbara Broccoli was determined to
have another Scottish Bond -- following in the footsteps of screen legend
Sean Connery.
It said she had fixed up a summer meeting with 32-year-old Butler to
discuss the role.
"Gerard is one of the two people Barbara has appointments with," a
source told the paper on Monday. "They are meeting to discuss replacing
Pierce after his final movie."
Irish-born Brosnan's contract expires after his fourth Bond movie which
goes into production in January, the Scottish paper said.
It added that Broccoli was also meeting Colin Wells, who had served
as a stand-in Bond for Brosnan during screen tests for other actors.
Butler only took up acting after a law degree from Glasgow University,
but at six feet two inches, the dark-haired actor has the looks to slip
into the 007 role.
He is due to make his big screen debut in a leading role in June, playing
Dracula in Wes Craven's Dracula 2000, the paper said.
Connery, a fiercely proud Scot who carries a 'Scotland forever' tattoo
on his shoulder, last played Bond in the 1983 hit Never Say Never Again.
The 007 role has been played by two other British actors, Roger Moore
and Timothy Dalton, as well as George Lazenby of Australia.
