Clive Owen was talking with great confidence about how, when he’s not working, he is a hands-on dad to his two daughters.

I’m listening to him, then I pounce. OK, I say, do you know which aisle is which at Waitrose or Sainsbury’s? He roars with laughter – then sets me an aisle challenge at Waitrose on the Holloway Road in North London.

I was chatting to Clive about his Oscar-worthy performance in Scott Hicks’s great movie The Boys Are Back. Clive plays a father left to raise a young son when his wife dies of cancer. Later, they’re joined by a lad from an earlier marriage.

The picture is based on British newspaper columnist Simon Carr’s moving memoir.

The film shifts a lot of the action to Hicks’s home state of Adelaide and Clive plays Joe Warr, a sports columnist. He told me he read the screenplay years before filming began. He told his agents there was something special about the story – and he’s so right.

It’s about living life to the full. It’s full of everyday observations that are about real life, not just reel life. Read the rest of this entry »

Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe-winning actor Clive Owen will be honored at this year’s Mill Valley Film Festival, which opens Oct. 8. Owen, the star of such films as “Closer,” “Croupier,” “Inside Man” and “The International,” will receive the Mill Valley Film Festival Award for excellence in cinema at a special Spotlight event at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center on Oct. 9.

Owen will also introduce his latest movie, “The Boys Are Back,” on the festival’s opening night at the CinéArts@Sequoia. The other movie to be seen at the Rafael will be announced at a later date.

For special-event tickets and information, go to www.cafilm.org.

Source: SF Gate

I’ve added some new captures and stills of Clive from his upcoming movie based on a true story, The Boys Are Back. Below is a trailer to the movie. Enjoy!

GALLERY LINKS:
- The Boys Are Back: Screen Captures > Trailer
- The Boys Are Back: Stills

I’ve uploaded new event photos of Clive at the Audi hosts Private Lunch on July 30, 2009.

GALLERY LINK:
- Event in 2009: Audi Host Private Lunch – July 30

CLIVE OWEN
Louis Salinger, The International

Owen smoldered his way onto this list as a globe-trotting Interpol agent dedicated to taking down a corrupt bank that’s funding terrorism. If you caught the film’s awesome chase scene, you’ll understand why, suddenly, going to the Guggenheim seems exciting again.

Source: EW

Clive Owen as Jack Manfred in1998’s Croupier thrust him into the spotlight and into the hearts of moviegoers worldwide. Then, when he took on the role of the honorable King Arthur in the movie of the same name in 2004, again, we all knew that this boy was going to be huge.

But it was Beyond Borders and Closer that really turned Owen into the Hollywood heartthrob that we know and love today. And if you have an insatiable appetite for Clive, worry not; films like Inside Man 2 and are sure to satisfy women and men alike.

Source: Date Daily

Clive Owen seems to be making his own bid for Bond. Not content with grumping his way through espionage thriller The International like Daniel Craig’s younger, hairier brother, he’s followed it up with a super-sexy, sophisticated corporate spy caper where he plays a suave secret agent with a fondness for tuxedos.

Displaying oodles of sexual chemistry, if resolutely little flesh (bah), Julia Roberts and Owen are Claire and Ray, double agents who can’t, given their professions, ever fully trust each other, particularly when it comes to the big ‘I love you’.

As such, this glitzy caper plays on surprisingly accessible relationship insecurity issues, as well as spoiling us rotten with Moët-glugging, shagging-in-glam-hotels escapist entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »

HOLLYWOOD star Clive Owen joined the celebrations as Harwich’s historic Electric Palace cinema officially came off the English Heritage Buildings at Risk register.

Owen, who became a patron at the Electric Palace when he moved to the area three years ago, described it as a beautiful cinema which had to be cherished.

The 98-year-old King’s Quay Street building, one of the UK’s oldest working cinemas, needed £85,000 of restoration work and an appeal was launched in 2006. Read the rest of this entry »

I have uploaded new movie still of Clive in The Boys Are Back in Town & a set of photoshoots for Playboy magazine. Thanks to Steph for the photos!

Clive has recently attended an event of ‘The Dubau Duty Free Irish Derby’ on June 28, 2009.

GALLERY LINK:
- Events in 2009: The Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby – June 28