The professor’s 2008 work included magazine profiles of Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Clive Owen. “He’s actually an intensely smart, nice guy,” Chiarella says of Owen. “We poked around Paris, had dinner, went to the track. I don’t always enjoy those things, but I really enjoyed his company. As celebrities go, he was just about as straight up as they come. It was pretty fun.”

Source: Depauw

Hope you all have a wonderful Happy Merry Christmas & Happy New Year toward 2009 with your family & friends!

Clive Owen is heading to Colombia.

The “Children of Men” star is attached to “Cartagena,” which centres on an undercover agent who gets caught in a complex plot and must elude drug dealers and international agents if he hopes to survive. The project is named for a city on Colombia’s northern coast that has a colourful history featuring wars, robust economic activity and tourist development.

The project is being developed by entrepreneur Mark Cuban’s 2929 Prods. The script will be written by Michael Ross, who previously penned the horror picture “Turistas.”

Colombia, a hotbed of political intrigue and violent drug wars, has become fertile cinematic ground. Warner Bros. and Sony this year acquired projects about the rescue of 15 hostages from the rebel FARC group, a controversial Marxist organisation that U.S. authorities have said has ties to drug cartels.

Owen stars in Tom Tykwer’s upcoming global-arms thriller “The International,” and Scott Hicks’ single-parent drama “The Boys Are Back,” which Miramax will release.

Source: Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

I have uploaded old new stills of Clive in ‘Lorna Doone‘ TV Movie. Thanks to Steph for the headsup!

GALLERY LINK:
- Lorna Doone (1990) : Stills

I’ve uploaded new high quality filming onlocation photos of Clive Owen on the film set of his new film “The Boys Are Back In Town” being filmed at a Central London Train Station on December 13, 2008.

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- The Boys Are Back In Town (2009): Filming December 13, 2008

I have uploaded 2 new posters of Clive in ‘Duplicity‘ & ‘The International‘. Thanks to Steph for the headsup!

GALLERY LINKS:
- Duplicity (2009): Posters
- The International (2009): Poster

I’ve uploaded new The International stills to the gallery. Thanks to Steph for them!

GALLERY LINK:
- The International (2009): Stills [HQ]

I have uploaded new candids of Clive & his wife seen walking through Hampstead with a newspaper under his arm on December 3, 2008.

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- Out And About From 2008: In London - December 3

Clive Owen is listed one of the MSN Entertaiment’s Badass Brits — The Toughest Men in Hollywood are Imports. Congrats!

Clive Owen
It seems appropriate that Clive Owen’s biggest Hollywood breakthrough was in a film directed by Mike Hodges (a veteran of the uncompromising British crime classics starring Michael Caine, “Get Carter” and “Pulp”). The picture was “Croupier,” released in 1998, 10 years after Owen’s first appearance on the big screen. From then on, the smooth character with the slicked-back, dark hair and fine-chiseled features was in high demand, flexing his acting muscles in movies ranging from “Gosford Park,” “Closer” (which he also debuted onstage), “Sin City,” “Inside Man,” “Children of Men” and “Shoot ‘Em Up.” So classically tough yet smoothly British, Owen was the top choice to play James Bond, but turned it down for fear of being typecast. Though he would have made an absolutely perfect Bond, we’re glad he went on to other features (and Daniel Craig, see below, was a terrific choice). We can’t wait to see him star in “The International,” directed by the sometimes genius art/action filmmaker Tom Tykwer — Owen can’t go wrong there. 

Tom Tykwer’s “The International,” an action thriller starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, will open the 59th Berlin International Film Festival on February 5.

Screening out of competition, the feature will be Tykwer’s second Berlinale opening, following “Heaven,” which bowed at the 2002 event.

But unlike “Heaven,” which was an art-house film more along the lines of Tykwer’s “Winter Sleepers” (1997) or “The Princess and the Warrior” (2000), “The International” marks the German director’s jump into the major leagues.

The director of indie hit “Run, Lola, Run” (1998) proved he could handle a big budget with his last picture, the opulent olfactory epic “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” (2006). But “The International” is Tywker’s first film with a U.S. studio. Sony co-produced with Germany’s Studio Babelsberg and will release the film in Germany February 12 and stateside, via Columbia Pictures, February 13. Read the rest of this entry »