| - Ewan's polar bear documentary "In The Wild - Polar Bears With Ewan McGregor" will be available to buy on video in the UK from September 23. - Black Hawk Down has been released in Australia, I am yet to experience this cool DVD!! - It's my birthday today everyone!! (thought I might throw that one in!!) - Exclusive department store Harvey Nichols will be targeting men when it opens its first Scottish store tomorrow. The new store will be officially opened by Ewan at a star-studded party on September 4th in Edinburgh. - Down With Love Australian Release is April 24th, 2003. Elsewhere its either April 11 or April 24 2003. - Some info on Big Fish, Ewan's up-coming project... Release Date: 2003 Distributor: Columbia Pictures Production Company: Jinks/Cohen Co. (Down with Love, American Beauty), The Zanuck Company (Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes) Cast: Ewan (young Edward Bloom), Albert Finney (old Edward Bloom); other cast not announced yet. Director: Tim Burton (Planet of the Apes, Sleepy Hollow, Mars Attacks!, Beetlejuice, Batman) Screenwriter: John August (Go; cowriter of Charlie's Angels, Titan A.E., Scooby-Doo) Based Upon: The novel by Daniel Wallace, Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions. Premise: William Bloom tries to learn more about his dying father, Edward (Finney), by piecing together the facts out of the various fantastic tales and legends of epic proportions he's been told over the years (with McGregor playing the young version of Edward in these "retellings" of his stories). Edward was a travelling salesman, often far from home, and it's those journeys throughout the South that are the seed of his son's tales. There are four separate tales told, each fantastic and wild, of Edward's life, with each ending then with him at his deathbed, as William tries to understand his father's great deeds, and failures. The titles of the legends (in the book) are "In Which He Speaks to Animals," "How He Tamed the Giant," "How He Saved My Life," and "His Immortality." Oh, and as you might guess from the title, one of them has a giant fish. (premise summary written by Greg Dean Schmitz, 8/10/00) Filming: Production is scheduled to start in January, 2003 in Alabama. This was originally scheduled to start filming in late 2001, when it would've been Steven Spielberg's latest film after Minority Report; he chose to direct Catch Me If You Can instead. After Tim Burton signed on, the date was supposed to be in October, 2002, but it's been pushed back another three months to January instead. - After 10 weeks and over 15,000 votes, Ewan has beaten Samuel L. Jackson to win FilmFour's celeb Big Brother!! YAY Ewan! - The Episode II DVD will be released in the UK on November 11!! ?The second disc will feature more than six hours of additional material, including eight deleted scenes, three featurettes, the 12-part documentary that ran on the Star Wars website, theatrical trailers, TV spots, the R2-D2: Beneath The Dome mockumentary trailer, a visual effects breakdown montage, an exclusive photo gallery and John Williams' Across The Stars music video. - Following the launch of Tetley's radical new advertising campaign earlier this year featuring the voice of Ewan McGregor, sales of Tetley have risen by 7.2% in volume from March to June 2002, versus the same period in 2001. See the ad here... - Ewan is up for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in the Internet Movie Awards. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones is also up for Best Picture. Voting is open until August 25. Click here to vote! ? - Ducati will play host to Ewan at Laguna Seca. He's currently taking a short break to attend the race and spend time with World Superbike Champion Troy Bayliss. Racing is the main reason for his visit to Monterey but he will also make time in his schedule to join Bayliss, Bostrom, Xaus and HMC Ducati's Doug Chandler on Ducati Island Saturday night for the annual Ducati Party. - Ewan has turned down the chance to play Adolf Hitler in a TV drama about the Nazi leader's early life as an artist. He was asked to take on the role for a controversial American mini series. But a friend confirmed yesterday: "Ewan will not be playing the role." (Damn, that was a chance to see Ewan on TV several nights in a row!!!) - Solid Geometry is going to be on Scottish TV (lucky Scots!!) on Monday 30 September @ 10.30pm. - A camouflage hat and trousers worn by Ewan, with stunt gun from Black Hawk Down, is expected to fetch up to �350 in a Cooper Owen's auction named "At The Movies", auction will be held in London on July 30th. Ewan has writted in marker pen on the inside of his helmet "EMcG" (his initials). - Sorry for the long wait, I went on holidays... - Black Hawk Down will be released on DVD in the UK on September 16 The two-disc set will contain a multitude of extra goodies, including: Disc One Audio Commentaries -- Director Ridley Scott & Producer Jerry Bruckheimer -- Author Mark Bowden & Screenwriter Ken Nolan -- Task Force Veterans Trailers and TV Spots Filmographies Disc Two Featurettes -- Bootcamp Featurette -- On Location Featurette -- Black Hawk Helicopter Featurette -- Visual Effects Featurette -- Tribute To The Fallen Featurette Deleted and Alternate Scenes Multi-Angle Sequences Image & Video Galleries Pre-Production -- Mark Bowden Interview -- Production Design -- Storyboards -- Multi-Angle Storyboard / Shot Comparisons -- Ridleygrams -- Camera and Lens Tests Production -- Unit Photography Montages -- Continuity & Costume Polaroids -- Photos By Jerry Bruckheimer (W/ Bruckheimer Commentary) -- Production Interview Archive Post-Production -- Post-Production Interview Archive -- Animatics And Vfx Tests -- Poster Art & Print Ads -- Premiere Footage - Ewan's brother cheated death by a split second in an RAF near miss. Flight Lieutenant Colin McGregor was flying a Tornado fighter when another air force jet roared towards him at 350mph. The plane got within 200ft of Colin, 32, before its pilot managed to turn away. The near miss happened near Colin's base at Lossiemouth as he practised flying in close formation. - Moulin Rouge has won awards at the Key Art Awards (the Oscars of advertising) for its International Poster (UK teaser campaign) and Drama TV Spot. - Some expected features from the Star Wars Episode 2 DVD have been released, no word on a date... - Feature-length audio commentary by the filmmakers - Exclusive deleted scenes with introductions - From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in Episode II documentary film - State of the Art: The Previsualization of Episode II - Web documentaries - Across the Stars music video - Posters and print campaign - Trailers and TV spots - Never-before-scene production photo gallery - Episode II Visual Effects breakdown montage - and exclusive DVD-ROM content. - SCOTS star Ewan McGregor has convinced film director George Lucas to give singer Robbie Williams a role in his next Star Wars movie. According to sources, he will spend five weeks on set in Australia with Ewan, when shooting of Episode III begins next April. An insider said: "No one knows what part Robbie will play and even if he's going to be a human or an alien", "But George has agreed to let him have a part after being convinced by Ewan that he can do a job. Ewan and Robbie know each other through Nicole Kidman. Robbie's desperate to act and nobody is going to be able to miss him in Star Wars." - Rotary Watches has launched a major fundraising initiative with The Prince's Trust (started by Prince Charles) and Royal Doulton. The Prince's Trust helps 14-30 year olds develop confidence, learn new skills, get into work and start businesses. Celebrities are designing plates to be auctioned at events all around the country. Ewan's magnificent artwork is below: ?? ? - Ac??cording to The Age's calculations, Ewan is one of the biggest openers in Australia: Based on their track record in the past three years, the actors most likely to help a movie open big are Ewan McGregor, Russell Crowe, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks, Angelina Jolie, Hugh Grant, Adam Sandler and Brendan Fraser. The fact that some of these people are not household names may tell us that the age of the Big Star is over, while the age of the Good Story (where the Star Doesn't Matter) has dawned. - Empire online have put up a set of Evil Twins and as expected Ewan is in there...it is scary though. Click here to see... - Down With Love filming wrapped? Renee Zellweger has reported to the Romanian location for her next film (with Nicole Kidman). Unless he is needed for his own scenes, this may mean Ewan has wrapped filming and will be moving on to new projects, hmm - Ewan quits smoking for Lucas? Hope the following is true! Ewan is doing a favor for his pal and director George Lucas - he's quitting smoking. He plans to end his nicotine addiction before he begins filming Star Wars: Episode III next year. Ewan says, "George says it's a terrible and unhealthy habit. He's right and I've said I'll kick it before we work together again." HOORAH! GOOD FOR YOU EWAN!!!! - snippet from People Magazine (July 1 issue): ...When Ewan McGregor faced getting his natural dirty-blond locks dyed chocolate brown for his role as a journalist playboy in the romantic comedy Down With Love, his costar Rene� Zellweger was right by his side. The actress supervised the on-set transformation and even did spot inspections in between takes. - A spokesperson for Ewan denied that he went to africa recently to see the locations for the up-coming movie "Sahara". The Indiana Jones style film has many rumored leads, to find out more, go to past news-May and June (bottom of page) - Young Adam pics and stuff has been released...look under the pics page for some Young Adam pics. |
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