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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.