From October 9. This was a good interview. They talk about giving up drinking, Rocky Horror and other stuff not covered on the other shows...

Some pics from the premiere in New York, October 5th...



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From Comingsoon.net...

Crowe, DiCaprio and Scott Address Their Body of Lies
Source: Heather Newgen
October 3, 2008


Russell Crowe isn't known for doing comedy, but maybe he should start. At the press conference for Warner Bros.' new thriller Body of Lies, directed by Ridley Scott and co-starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Crowe was quite the jokester throughout the entire interview. He was the first to arrive and although seats were already selected for the stars with name plates, he changed the seating arrangement to his liking and made fun of his co-star for being late.

"Who wants to play the role of Leonardo DiCaprio? (looking at one of the journalists) Sorry, no. Young man? There you go, Leo would wear that color. Leo and Bill [Monahan], where's Leo and Bill. (Changes voice to an announcer) Hello, Leo and Bill, hello. Could Leo and Bill come to the press conference please? Actually, if we're quick, just ask us a couple of questions, we'll piss off and then you can have the rest of the time with Leo and Bill. Bargain?"

The film is based on the New York Times best-seller with the same title written by David Ignatius, a prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post.

The story centers around Roger Ferris (DiCaprio), a CIA agent who learns how dangerous the truth can when he becomes involved in an operation that takes him around the globe and pairs him up with CIA veteran Ed Hoffman (Crowe). The mission ends up being the most perilous and risky situation he's ever faced and he's got to do anything it takes to stay alive.

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From ET Online...



Russell talks about Body of Lies and his hair among other things. Includes Leo as well...

http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/09/66015/

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Mon 9/29 Jay Leno
Thurs 10/2 HBO's First Look
Mon 10/6 David Letterman
Tue 10/7 The Today Show
Tue 10/7 Conan O'Brien
Fri 10/10 Regis & Kelly

Crowe blows his CIA cover
Christine Sams
The Sun-Herald
September 21, 2008

Rusty talks about his latest, controversial thriller.

RUSSELL CROWE is about to head overseas to promote his film Body Of Lies with co-star Leonardo DiCaprio. The Oscar winner has confirmed his travel plans with S, sending an email to say he will leaving Sydney by the end of the month. "Soon I think, in a week or two. The premiere is in NYC on October 5," Crowe said. Body Of Lies is an intense CIA-based drama which is creating plenty of early intrigue in Hollywood because of its strong political content.

Sir Ridley Scott, who directed the film, says the intensity of the two actors is what makes it special.

"What I'd emphasise is the fascinating two characters that are walking through this piece," Scott told Empire magazine. "In a nutshell, it's about trusting no one and believing no one."

In the film Crowe plays a CIA veteran named Ed Hoffman. DiCaprio's character, a former journalist turned CIA operative, tries to track down a terrorist leader.

While Crowe has said little about the film during his stay in Australia, he told reporters in the US that Scott had explored an intensely political theme without receiving any outside pressure from studio bosses. Crowe did, however, admit the film might not be a huge mainstream hit as a result. "I don't think it will be very popular," Crowe told MTV in the US.

"I think the perspective of Body Of Lies is ongoing - its [the] machinations and creations of the American government, in terms of its foreign policy," Crowe said.

"I don't think it's so responsive to what's happening now because what's happening now is actually the fruit of seeds planted two or three decades ago, if not more. But I think it's timely to do a movie like that ... it's important. Ridley is up for [portraying] the true negatives of this web of intrigue that's been created."

From the Mail's Baz Bamigboye ...

Russell Crowe and Sienna Miller are back on track for Sherwood Forest.

Nottingham, the movie, about a love triangle involving Maid Marian, the Sheriff of Nottingham and the man in Lincoln green tights himself, Robin Hood, was postponed indefinitely during the summer, primarily because of script problems.

Now I'm hearing that the film will commence shooting in mid-February, which is good news for director Ridley Scott, who was furious that his film was delayed.

Nice, too, for all the British crews who had built the sets, and all the technical staff and make-up people who had thought themselves out of work.

Paul Webb has written a draft of a new screenplay based on a script by Brian Helgeland.

During the down-time, Crowe has been working with a trainer so he can be in tip-top form to play the Sheriff - although the story has a twist and he may play a double role.

Vanessa Redgrave, and Oscar Isaacs as wicked King John, are in talks to be in the film. Christian Bale may play King Richard, and not Robin Hood as I mentioned a while back. There has been a lot of confusion over this movie!

The Merry Men are still being cast. Let's hope there won't be any further delays.

It's too big a film for British movie workers to miss out on.

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Some pics of Russell out walking with Charlie near their home on Tuesday, Aug. 26...



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Christine Sams, Entertainment Reporter
August 17, 2008

RUSSELL Crowe is looking forward to bonus time in Australia after the postponement of filming for his next project, Nottingham.

The Oscar winner said it would be at least seven months before the film gets off the ground in England, allowing him to spend more time at his Woolloomooloo home with wife, Danielle Spencer, and sons, Charlie, 4, and Tennyson, 2, and working on other projects.

"More time in Australia is always a bonus," Crowe said last week.

"I have another project based on the life of comedian Bill Hicks, which is going from treatment to draft stage with Kiwi writer Mark Staufer."

It is understood he is considering playing the main role of Hicks — a controversial and brilliant American comedian who battled drug and alcohol abuse before dying from cancer at 32. Crowe confirmed Nottingham would not go ahead until March next year because director Sir Ridley Scott wanted the leaves on the trees in England's Sherwood Forest to be the right colour.

The delay meant local projects would get more attention — including a documentary Crowe is yet to name and the Bra Boys film, My Brother's Keeper, which was at second draft stage with Australian writer Stuart Beattie, he said.

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There's supposedly a new Body of Lies trailer out. I haven't seen it yet as I'm stuck on dialup slo-speed for the next several days.

http://themovingpicture.net/new-body-of-lies-trailer

Russell Crowe sits outside the play land and cafe at Fox Studios Entertainment Quarter in Sydney, Australia. Crowe spent time on the "Drop and pick Hook" machine outside the Play land whilst Danielle watched the kids inside. Russell seemed calm when he was notified that several paparazzi were in the vicinity and said "That's just part of my life!"

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Pics of Russell, Dani and her father, Don Spencer, at this years Australian Children's Music Foundation charity ball, July 19...

Patrick Goldstein
05:58 PM PT, Aug 5 2008

There are so few high-profile studio movies being made in Hollywood today that it was something of a surprise to discover last week that "Nottingham," Ridley Scott's much-anticipated Robin Hood drama, had been postponed, even with Russell Crowe on board in the role of a more likable-than-usual Sheriff of Nottingham. Universal Pictures, which is financing, cited labor uncertainty, an unfinished script and seasonal concerns about shooting during winter in forest locations that needed to have the rich green hue associated with leafy Sherwood Forest.

The original script, by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris ("Bulletproof Monk"), had been such a hot property that Crowe signed on immediately, prompting a big studio bidding war that was won by Universal and Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment, which will produce the film. Even though Scott had tried to take the film (as a producer) to Fox during the initial bidding war, he had a good-enough relationship with Grazer (they made "American Gangster" together) to still sign on as the director. Scott immediately passed muster with Crowe, who had starred in the director's Oscar-winning "Gladiator" and the more recent (ahem, not quite as successful) "A Good Year."

So if the film has a huge star and a A-plus filmmaker raring to go, what's really slowing it down? I had lunch today with Universal Chairman Marc Shmuger, who offered some answers:

The original script had enormous appeal because it had what Hollywood craves--a great part for a big movie star. But it wasn't exactly the kind of character Scott imagined for his vision of Sherwood Forest. "The script had the sheriff of Nottingham as a 'CSI'-style forensics investigator, set in medieval times," Shmuger explains. "It was really well written, but Ridley's interest took him in a different direction."

Scott brought veteran screenwriter Brian Helgeland on to do rewrites, but wasn't entirely happy with the results. So now, Hollywood being Hollywood, the movie is getting a new rewrite, this time by British playwright Paul Webb. He has worked on several highly regarded unproduced scripts, most notably "Lincoln," which has Steven Spielberg attached to direct, and a civil rights drama called "Selma." Webb is supposed to turn in his new draft later this month, which--if everything goes right, which it usually doesn't--could allow filming to begin as early as late October. It is more likely the project won't gear up until early 2009, making it impossible to make its original November 2009 release date.

The delay could help on one front. Crowe, who has looked, shall we say, like he's been feasting on the king's venison in recent films, needs to lose some weight before he's ready to play such an athletic part. (After all, he's not playing Friar Tuck in this movie.) As encouragement, the production team plans to send Joe Abunassar, a top Las Vegas-based trainer who works with NBA stars, to Australia to get Crowe into fighting shape. Still, Universal is bullish on the movie, which it sees as an elevation of the many different TV and film renditions of Robin Hood over the years.

"This is an enduring myth that people love," says Shmuger. "It's a story that offers a new understanding of the origins of a real folk hero. You get a real understanding of--this is how Robin Hood became an outlaw and this is how those guys became the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest. Ridley's vision of the movie is very visceral, very physical--you're really in the forest, pulling back a giant bow."

Sitting in his booth in the Universal commissary, Shmuger mimed pulling back a giant bow and almost tore a biceps muscle. "Those bowmen were extraordinary athletes," he said, after catching his breath. "I don't know the pressure per square inch, but it surely took a real athlete to handle the kind of bows they used back then. But that's the point--this movie is going to feel real. It makes a legend we all know feel historically relevant."

Of course, it's not a movie yet. It needs a new script, a budget and a start date. That's a tall order. Maybe Russell Crowe can relax for a few more weeks before rushing into that killer workout regime.

Source: LA Times

Out getting some exercise at The Domain in Sydney from today, which happened more like yesterday in Australia...



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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Sheriff of Nottingham will not be chasing Robin Hood into Sherwood Forest this fall.

Production on "Nottingham," a revisionist film set to star Russell Crowe as a sympathetic sheriff, has been indefinitely postponed because of script concerns, location logistics and the current labor unrest.

Director Ridley Scott's Universal Pictures project had been aiming for a mid-August start date, one of a handful of high-profile productions pushing ahead despite the stand-off in contract talks between the studios and the Screen Actors Guild.

In explaining the production shutdown, Universal cited the "cloud of the SAG strike" as one of three factors that led to the postponement.

It also said that "the film's forest locations need to be green," which suggests even if other factors were to be resolved later this year, the production could not now resume until next spring.

The third key factor was the project's script by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, with a rewrite by Brian Helgeland. "The current version of the screenplay," the studio said, "is not yet where the studio and the filmmakers want it to be in terms of realizing the full value of the story.

"Universal could have moved forward with one of these challenges, but the confluence of the three caused the studio to reconsider and take the time for all conditions to be optimal."

The statement said that Universal, Imagine, Scott and Crowe all remain committed to the project. "Nottingham" had been on track to be released November 6, 2009.

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The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed a report that first appeared at Defamer - Ridley Scott's Nottingham has been delayed. The film will star Russell Crowe as Sheriff of Nottingham and Sienna Miller as Maid Marian.

According to the reports, the project had been heading for a mid-August start date in London, but has now been put on hold. The trade says, however, that it has not been determined if this means a postponement or a cancellation.

Nottingham, which Universal and Imagine are producing, has been one of the handful of high-profile productions determined to push ahead despite the labor uncertainty surrounding the current stand-off between producers and SAG.

It is not yet known what factors led to the current decision to put the brakes on the production.

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Someone posted some clips of Russell in Rocky Horror from 1987 where he played both Eddie and Dr Scott.

Here's the link for the Body of Lies trailer.

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