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HBO has green-lit a new film about Ernest Hemingway starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman, Deadline.com reports.

Hemingway & Gellhorn will follow the relationship between writers Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn. Owen, 45, will play the Nobel Prize-winning author and Kidman, 42 will take on Gellhorn, a famed 20th century war correspondent.

Is James Gandolfini returning to HBO?

Their courtship and five-year marriage is one of the most famous in American literature and helped inspire Hemingway’s critically acclaimed 1940 book For Whom the Bell Tolls.

James Gandolfini, who has reportedly been in talks to produce and possibly star in a new series at HBO, will executive-produce the film. Hemingway & Gellhorn was written by Barbara Turner and Jerry Stahl. Philip Kaufman will direct the film, which begins shooting next year.

Source: Seattle PI

JASON Statham and Clive Owen start filming their big budget flick, The Killer Elite, in Melbourne today, but is an even bigger Hollywood name set to join them?

Swoonworthy Owen and hardman Statham were yesterday seen out for lunch at trendy St Kilda restaurant Riva, with the action adventure movie’s producer Steve Chasmam.

Hot local names Yvonne Strahovski of I Love You Too and Cleo Bachelor of the Year and Underbelly star Firass Dirani were this week revealed as part of the star- studded cast, alongside Prison Break’s Dominic Purcell.

But one of the most interesting potential cast members is yet to be confirmed. • Continue Reading

Clive Owen will star in the action thriller Medallion based on a screenplay by in-demand writer David Guggenheim.

Lisa Wilson of GK Films affiliate Parlay Films is commencing sales here on the story of a bank robber fresh out of prison who has six hours to pay a $50m ransom after he learns a former accomplice has kidnapped his daughter and stashed her in the boot of one of Manhattan’s 12,000 yellow cabs.

Jesse T Kennedy, McG, James Holt and Matthew Joynes are producing and Wonderland’s Mary Viola will handle executive producer duties. • Continue Reading

In January, we received word that director Simon West and actor Paul Walker had been replaced by the duo of Patrick Alessandrin (of District 13: Ultimatum) and Clive Owen in the action flick Protection. Now it looks like we have another change in the talent line-up as The Wrap reports Alessandrin has left the project and Dwayne Johnson has replaced Owen in the film about a disgraced ex-Special Forces soldier who takes on a Mexican cartel in an attempt to rescue and protect a judge’s 21 year-old daughter, who has been targeted by the cartel for agreeing to testify against a member after she witnesses her father’s murder.

This project is one of a couple that will see Johnson returning to action (finally!) after taking on too much family fare like Planet 51 and The Tooth Fairy recently. The other is Faster, written by Joe and Tony Gayton and directed by George Tillman (Notorious, Men of Honor) which focuses on an ex-con looking to avenge his brother’s murder, who is trailed by a veteran cop. Both sound mighty generic to me, and if Protection has switched out lead actors and directors twice now (a new director has yet to be named) then it sounds like maybe the script should just be left in a pile somewhere. We’ll see what happens, for better or worse.

Source: First Showing

Our man Clive have wrote an essay for The Times Online, click here to view it.

Clive Owen has confessed the worst part of being an actor is being taken away from his family for months at a time to film on location.

The British actor stars in The Boys Are Back, which was filmed in south Australia, and Clive found it hard being away from his family.

He said: “It is the hardest thing and it something that doesn’t get any easier, it gets harder because the kids are more conscious of time, they understand, they love routine and they love to know where they’re at.” • Continue Reading

He has played all manner of parts, from cad to croupier to bank robber. But Clive Owen’s latest role is far more sobering. He stars as dad Joe Warr who brings up his two children alone when his wife dies in The Boys Are Back.

“The loss of a parent and having to tell the little ones that mum might not be around for much longer I found a devastating idea and a really upsetting thing,” said Owen.

“In some ways it was the hook for me to make the film,” he added.

” As soon as I read those scenes I wanted to find out how this young kid and this father coped and navigated their way through and got their lives back on track.” • Continue Reading

Actor David Henrie has spoken out following claims he is to take on the role of Peter Parker in Marc Webb’s Spider-Man reboot.

Meanwhile, Clive Owen distanced himself from a rumour he is to play villain Kraven in the Marvel comic book adaptation.

He told The Coventry Telegraph: “That’s the first I’ve heard. My girls would like me to do it though.”

Henrie, who stars in Disney’s The Wizards of Waverly Place told OK! magazine: “I am very blessed that the rumour is even going around and I am very happy about it. That would be a dream role for me.

“I think a month ago I saw something pop up on Google Alerts that said, ‘David Henrie Might be the next Spider-Man’ and it’s been spreading around ever since. I am just happy to read it.”

The new Spider-Man, helmed by 500 Days of Summer director Webb, will open in cinemas in 2012.

Source: Digital Spy

Clive Owen thinks actresses should lay off the Botox as they are ruining the film experience for cinema-goers.

Clive Owen has blasted actress who use Botox.

The ‘The Boys Are Back’ star can’t understand why anyone would undergo the process – which involves having a chemical substance injected into the face to smooth wrinkles – as it leaves them unable to express emotion and is distracting for viewers.

He said: “You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.

“It’s a constant reminder that they are actors. And there is just this one face – isn’t that odd?”

Discussing his own beauty regime, 45-year-old Clive admits he only works out if he has to strip on screen.

He explained: “I think it was Stanislavski who said, ‘beware of the actor who looks in the mirror all the time.’

“I don’t do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I’m too heavy.”

He also revealed that he is not comfortable doing sex scenes in films.

Clive added: “It comes back to that whole cliche, there are 50 people in the room and flesh-colored underwear involved, which is deeply, deeply unsexy, so it’s all very technical.”

Source: Earth Times

Hollywood producer Don Simpson once said that every successful film has to have “a pits moment”. For Clive Owen, it’s clear when that moment was in his career. “Signing on, again, in the early Eighties, after two years on the dole in Coventry – that was my pits moment,” he says. “I had spent years dreaming about becoming an actor and nobody had taken me seriously. I’d begun to think that they might be right.”

They weren’t. Today, the 45-year-old Golden Globe and Bafta winner commands more than £3.5 million a film, making him one of the most successful British actors of the past decade. He has won critical acclaim for his roles in small gems such as Stephen Poliakoff’s Close My Eyes and Mike Hodges’ Croupier as well as for arguably less nuanced performances in blockbusters – Children of Men, Sin City and King Arthur – satisfying film buffs and moneymen. • Continue Reading