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Here are pics of Ewan and Jim Carrey filming scenes for their new project "I Love You Phillip Morris"

Oh no! Scottish scruff Ewan McGregor has not only turned gay on his female fans but ginger as well!

But don't worry, the Trainspotting actor and co-star Jim Carrey were just playing out their roles on a 'romantic' boat trip on the set of new film, 'I Love You Phillip Morris'.

The pair play a pair of gay cellmates, who fall in love in a new film based on the true story of a Texan convict.

In this scene, the two stars are filmed during a fumbling man on man moment aboard their dinghy, bobbing off Florida Keys.

Carrey was left with his legs sprawled in the air and his pants around his ankles, as McGregor looks on suspiciously.

Source: www.metro.co.uk

Thanks to patty for the vids!

Ruthe Stein
Friday, May 2, 2008

In person, Ewan McGregor looks even less as if he could be Colin Farrell's brother than he does onscreen. McGregor is tall but slight, with none of Farrell's potentially menacing bulk. But then Woody Allen, who chose Christopher Walken as Diane Keaton's brother in "Annie Hall" and Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey and Dianne Wiest as sisters in "Hannah and Her Sisters," never puts much store in physical resemblance when casting sibling parts, relying instead on clever acting to make you believe his characters are related.

In "Cassandra's Dream," McGregor plays Ian, the emotionally stronger of two brothers. When their wealthy uncle asks them to murder a business foe, he does the dastardly deed and gets on with it, while brother Terry (Farrell) falls apart.

George Lucas directed McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi in three "Star Wars" movies, and Baz Luhrmann had him singing and dancing in "Moulin Rouge." But, like many actors, McGregor's dream had been to work with Allen, and he badgered his agent about it for years.

Here McGregor tells what happened with the call finally came and what it was like to be directed by Allen in "Cassandra's Dream," being released this month on DVD.

Q: Did Allen call you himself?

A: No. Your agent calls you up and says, "Woody Allen would like to meet you in New York." So off you go, and you meet him for, like, 45 seconds. He comes in and says, "I like your work, and maybe I have a part."

Q: Does he answer questions?

A: No. He just likes to see you in the flesh. I go away, and then they phone up and say, "Look, Woody wants you to read the script," and they send it around.

Q: What is it about Allen that makes actors take enormous pay cuts to work for him?

A: He's just one of the very few grand-master filmmakers there are in the world, really. There's' nobody who has the (nerve) to shoot the way he does. He only does wide shots. Occasionally, he'll come in for a close-up, but really only occasionally. So you get this wonderful naturalism because, as an actor, you've played these very long scenes in real time in front of a wide frame, and that's it. You do two or three takes, and then you're moving on to another scene. So it keeps things really real. And the dialogue is lovely. Woody is so (self-effacing) about it. He says, "They're just words I wrote. Don't say any of them if you don't want to." It's kind of like jazz music written in a way to work around it. But it's so beautifully written, I wouldn't want to change a word.

Source: www.sfgate.com
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By TATIANA SIEGEL

Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer has nabbed the female lead opposite Tom Hanks in Columbia Pictures' "Da Vinci Code" prequel "Angels & Demons."

Ewan McGregor is in talks to join the thriller, which is based on the Dan Brown best-seller.

McGregor is set to take on the role of a powerful Vatican insider who assists Langdon.

Story centers on religious art scholar Robert Langdon (Hanks), who once again finds himself entangled with powerful forces with ancient roots: the Illuminati -- the most powerful underground organization in history -- and the Catholic Church. Zurer will play Vittoria Vetra, an Italian scientist who joins forces with Langdon.

Ron Howard is directing from an Akiva Goldsman script.

Zurer is best known in her native Israel, where she has starred in "Nina's Tragedies" and the TV series "In Treatment," which was recently adapted in the U.S. by HBO. Her U.S. film credits include "Munich" and Columbia's "Vantage Point." She will next be seen in the Samuel Goldwyn release "Fugitive Pieces."

Source: www.variety.com

Many thanks to videos4patty for sharing the video

Jenny McCarthy's main man, Ewan McGregor and Rodrigo Santoro sure got down for a dude’s night out in Miami, checking out a Martini Tuesday party at queer lounge Halo. The three amigos are in Ef-Hell-Ay filming I Love You Phillip Morris, about a prisoner who falls in love with his cell mate—this is the state of the romantic comedy, folks, so much for Pretty Woman 2. Jimmy wore jeans and a blue, checkered shirt and was sporting some shorter hair than usual. He arrived with R.S. (in a tee, dark jeans and bright white kicks to boot) and the two celebs set up shop in a corner booth, ordering a bottle of champs that wasn’t popped until E.M. showed up, an hour later. Ewy looked très European in a light black and white sweater, absolutely stunning, cancer scare be damned. All deadly diseases need to stay the ef away from Ewan’s precious face! The party grew to eight, most made up of crew members, and sadly, not us.

Source: www.eonline.com

Ewan took his bike out for a ride on Sunday.

Here are some pics of Ewan on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson which was taped on April 16 and will air on April 30 on CBS.

Click on the image to watch the full episode and choose April 17.

On the set of Deception, Ewan McGregor discusses a role that requires him to make love with five total strangers

James Bone

Driving through the main gate at New York's Steiner Studios feels rather like entering Guantanamo Bay prison camp. A guard checks your identity and raises the security barrier. Ahead lies a vast car-park that was once a parade ground, dotted with newly built hangars. The similarity with Guantanamo is no coincidence. Though just across the river from Manhattan's famous skyline, the Steiner Studios lie in the old Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Deception, Ewan McGregor's new erotic thriller, is being shot on a sound stage in one of the glass-and-steel hangars, and the Scottish star has a busy schedule ahead of him. Over the next two days, he is to film a montage of sex scenes that requires him to get it on with five different actresses - none of whom he has met before.

The director has left the sex scenes until the last two days of the seven-week shoot. McGregor, looking very American in black jeans, a striped jersey, a baseball cap and baseball boots, seems, if not downright nervous, at least preoccupied with the marathon of sex scenes on which he is about to embark.

“They're interesting. I've done a lot of them. I try to find something about them that is realistic,” he explains. “There are Hollywood glistening sex scenes, and I'm not very interested in them. I don't think they're very interesting to watch... I think sex isn't like Hollywood sex. It's very often many things, but it can very often be awkward. In these scenes, they're strangers, so they can be embarrassing. And things don't just go off like they do in a Hollywood movie. I think finding those moments that make it real makes for the audience a much more erotic experience, or a much more powerful experience, because you recognise things you do yourself, or things that have happened to you.”


Source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
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Many thanks to my dear friend Riikka for sending in scans from the May issue of Empire.

On March 13, 2008, Ewan attended the Hampstead Theatre Spring Gala at Lords Cricket Ground, London. The event aims to raise funds for young actors.

Big-name celebrities turn out in force to help raise thousands of pounds at Lord’s auction

STARS of stage and screen came out in force to bolster the coffers of one of Camden’s most prestigious theatres.

Ewan McGregor, Tom Conti, Maureen Lipman and Patricia Routledge were among the 500 guests at the Hampstead Theatre Spring Gala, held at Lord’s Cricket Ground on Thursday.
As the champagne flowed, supporters of the theatre in Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, enjoyed musical entertainment from 1940s-themed swing band The Blonde Bombshells, a lavish three-course meal and a selection of comic scenes from past and future Hampstead Theatre productions.
Lord Archer then took up the auctioneer’s hammer, proving his considerable skills as a salesman with the quick-fire auction of 10 lots.
Bids on a week in Tuscany, dinner with acting couple Alison Steadman and Michael Elwyn, and drinks at Claridge’s with the author Penny Vincenzi raised more than £53,000 from the celebrity-packed audience.
Comedy actress Maureen Lipman, who called one of the lots, also came under the hammer, offering her services as a fundraiser for a charity of the bidder’s choice.
While Mrs Lipman fetched a grand total of £4,000, that figure was pipped by the bid of Hollywood actor Ewan McGregor. The Train­spotting star paid £5,000 for a photograph of Elvis Presley and Muhammad Ali, signed by the three times world champion boxer.
But it was lot 9 that proved the evening’s biggest money-spinner. The tour of Pinewood Studios with actress Emma Thompson was sold to one generous party-goer for £8,000.
Other lots under the hammer were art tours of London, the rare auction catalogue of Princess Diana’s dresses and tickets for some of the top theatres in London, including the Hampstead Theatre.
The night, hosted by actress Lynda Bellingham, was rounded off by the “Queen of Burlesque” Immodesty Blaize with her Swarovski-encrusted rocking horse act.

Source: www.thecnj.co.uk

"Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I would really like to have a round of applause for Chiwitel's beard that we just saw which has sadly gone now, it was quite a monster. I worked opposite for three months and we watched it grow, how wonderful his beard was.

"In my second year at drama school, I saved up and brought two tickets to see a play at The Old Vic, my mum came down to visit and I took her to see a play called A Flea In Her Ear that Jim was in and after it I remember saying to her - I was absolutely blown away by it, it was an incredible performance. Afterwards I remember saying to her, 'Mum, can you ever imagine working with an actor like Jim Broadbent, wouldn't that be amazing'. Some years later, I was sitting in an airport lounge waiting to go over to Australia waiting to do my first wave of rehearsals on Moulin Rouge and Jim tapped me on the shoulder. I said to him, 'Jim where are you going?' He said, 'I'm going to Australia'. 'What Sydney?' 'Yes, I'm making a film with you, you cunt!'… And indeed we did.

"I've been so lucky to work with a great many talented and passionate actors and directors and occasionally producers and so I'd like to thank you all. I'd like to thank everyone at Empire who have been so kind to me over the years and I'd like to thank your readers.

"I married just after we finished making Trainspotting and she's been with me throughout this entire journey and I wouldn't have been able to do it without you so thank you very much.

"Lastly but not leastly, as an actor you're lucky if you form creative partnerships, sometimes you can work with a director over and over again but it's rare, sometimes you do and then you don't any more. In my career, the one lasting partnership I've had since I left drama school at 19 to this day and onwards is with my wonderful agent Linda King who can't be here tonight, I'd just like to say that I love her and I thank her very much. Thank you very much."

Source: www.empireonline.com

Ewan attended the Empire Awards this Sunday. He was honoured with the Empire Icon Award!!!! If you live in the UK, the ceremony will be televised on Monday March 10 on ITV2 at 9pm.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Public Events: Empire Awards

and I, Georgina, have added 26HQs. Enjoy!

I added more photos to the "Not Another Burns' Night" album:

London boasted its very own Highland fling last night as Texas frontwoman Sharleen Spiteri, actor Ewan McGregor and Lady Helen Taylor hosted their annual charity fundraiser Not Another Burns Night at the St Martin's Lane Hotel in Covent Garden. With guests such as KT Tunstall, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Chrissie Hynde attending the delayed celebrations, it was a case of better late than never.

Source: www.thefirstpost.co.uk

Ewan and his family (Eve, his parents and his brother) attended another Burns night event yesterday. As you know it's become a McGregor tradition. And we all love Ewan in a kilt, don't we?

Ewan McGregor in the perfume section of a department store in Hamburg, Germany as the face of a new men's fragrance Davidoff Adventure

Today I made DVD captures from "Scenes of a Sexual Nature". I hope that you'll like them!

is a malicious, deceitful swine. He’ll whisper sweet words in your ear then stab you in the back. Even his so-called best friend is not immune to his lies.

NO, scratch all that. Ewan McGregor - when he's playing Iago in the Donmar Warehouse's stage version of Othello - is a malicious, deceitful swine. The rest of the time, he is the same funny, easygoing, generous guy he has always been. Today he is being open and honest in a restaurant in St John's Wood in London - a boundary ball away from Lord's Cricket Ground, within hearing distance of Abbey Road and literally around the corner from his family home.

McGregor doesn't make a big show of an entrance. There is no agent, publicist or stylist in tow. Just the 36-year-old actor, dressed down in an old black pullover, black jeans and a battered leather jacket. A batch of good reviews for his stage performance lends him a certain Shakespearean distinction, but it will be back to business as usual in a couple of weeks' time when the run of Othello comes to an end. Besides, any sense of gravitas bestowed by his theatrical credentials disappears as soon as we start talking about Cassandra's Dream, the film he made with Woody Allen and which opens the Glasgow Film Festival this week.

"Every young boy wants to get a good Woody," he cackles, never one to knowingly miss out on a cheap innuendo. The film casts him as Ian, a cocksure young cockney who wants to break free from his father's small restaurant by investing in a Californian hotel empire. Meanwhile, his brother, played by Colin Farrell, is in serious debt after a losing streak at the poker table. The money comes, but at a price: cue guilt, despair and the death of brotherly love. Annie Hall this is not. It's as far from Allen's "early funny ones" as East London lock-ups are from the Manhattan skyline.

McGregor, however, couldn't care less where the movie is set. "Having worked with Allen once, I'd work with him again in the blink of an eye. As an actor, you really have to raise your game. I wanted to work with him because there are only a few grandmasters of film-making, and he's one of them. Tim Burton is another person who completely understands how he makes films. Ridley Scott too. They know what they're doing, and it's nice to be along for the ride."

Source: www.sundayherald.com
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Ewan on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross

According to Amazon.com, Genius Products plan to release Woody Allen's crime drama "Cassandra's Dream" on DVD on May 27th.

I added tons of pics to the Long Way Down album. Check it out!

I added new stills to the Incendiary and Cassandra's Dream albums

The Glasgow Film Festival returns for its fourth year on 14 February, and it's bigger and better than ever, offering 11 days and a huge spread of movies and events.

Highlights include Festival opener Cassandra's Dream, starring Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell, from the always-interesting Woody Allen, and closing night film Lars and the Real Girl, an intriguing and quirky-looking comedy, most notable for its star Ryan Gosling, who wowed audiences at last year's GFF in Half Nelson.

Inbetween these two are exclusive premieres Margot at the Wedding, with Nicole Kidman and Jack Black, George Romero's latest zombie flick Diary of the Dead, new family adventure The Spiderwick Chronicles, Michael Haneke's American remake of his own film Funny Games, featuring Naomi Watts and Tim Roth, and a special presentation of Grindhouse, the ill-fated double-bill from Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez that never saw a UK release (complete with spoof trailers).

The Festival's other major highlight is a Bette Davis retrospective, marking the centenary of her birth. There will be 14 of her films shown across the 11 days, including Now Voyager, All About Eve and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? For fans its a great chance to catch these gems on the big screen. If you've yet to discover Davis' charm, this is an opportunity not to be missed.

As Festival Director Allison Gardner notes in the interview above, there are ticket deals and great prices galore, so head over to the official website to check it out.

Source: www.stv.tv

Just what is it like when an actor ''gets the call'' that Woody Allen wants to see them? The star of ''Cassandra's Dream'' talks to EW about working with a legend -- and reminisces about his experiences on ''Star Wars'' and ''The Island''


By Gregory Kirschling

In Cassandra's Dream, Woody Allen's latest movie (which opens in limited release on Friday), Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell play brothers in London who try to improve their lots in life by falling into crime. It's a dead-serious thriller from Allen, one that makes his previous dark London movie, Match Point, look almost chipper by comparison.

When the film played at the Toronto Film Festival last September, EW sat down with McGregor to see if every actor is still dying to be in a Woody Allen movie, what it's like working with the guy, and what Star Wars and The Island did for his career.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So this is Woody Allen doing something different, huh?
EWAN MCGREGOR: I don't know. I don't know what it is. Last week we were at the Venice Film Festival, having our press conference, and all of the questions were to Woody Allen, as it should be. So, we just sat and listened to his quiet answers, and it was lovely to listen to because there were some great European, deeply intellectual questions flown out that he listened to very intently, and then went, ''Well, all I can tell you is that it's a story I wrote about two nice boys that were brought up by two nice parents and things went wrong in their lives.'' And he is just so simple about it!

He lets the work speak for itself.
Yeah, yeah. People were asking about Greek tragedy and Cassandra and Cain and Abel and the murder being discussed under a tree, and he was like, ''You know, it's very possible that I've read all of the books, and it's possible that it subconsciously ended up on the paper. But I just wrote a story of two nice boys.''

I always wonder what its like when an actor gets a call and Woody wants to meet with you. Was this the first time for you, getting a call from Woody?
Yeah, yeah. I mean, in terms of directors there isn't anyone else, is there? There are great directors out there, and I've been able to work with some fantastic directors, but there isn't anybody else like him so, of course, when you get the call, you go straight over to New York.

Have you talked to other actors about that — the idea that if you've had some success, you hope that Woody calls at some point, and if he does, you go? Is that the consensus in the community?
Of course. I think so. I mean, sadly, that's how I felt. Drop everything and go. Not to the point where I pulled out of anything else, because luckily I didn't have anything else on at the time. You have to do it, and it's quick. He shoots so quickly, and that's another thing about him that we can talk about. But in terms of feeling like you're in a Woody Allen film, there is so much myth about him as well. In the acting community there are so many stories that I had heard about how he doesn't speak to you or call you by name or direct you, and I heard he fires you. So, you go into it with all this — and then he spoke to me every day, called me by my name, directed me really thoroughly, and I wasn't fired! So, luckily, none of it came to be true.

What's it like to read a Woody script for the first time with the idea that you might be in it? Did you know anything about it?
No, he didn't tell me anything about it. My first meeting with him, he came and he said, ''I've seen some of your work, and I have a part I think you might be nice for, and I just wanted to meet you in the flesh. Thanks for coming.'' And that was it. And I felt like I should say something, even though it was probably a mistake, so I said, ''When are you making a film?'' And he said, ''Well, we are making the film in May and really that's all I can tell you, thanks for coming in,'' and off I went. And the next day after they sent the script, and I said I wanted to do it.

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Mariana and I want to wish everyone a happy, healthy holiday and a great New Year.

I added a new photoshoot to the gallery!

Here's the trailer for The List, previously known as The Tourist:



Thanks to forsage for sharing the trailer :)

McGregor to play romantic lead in dark comedy
By MICHAEL FLEMING

Ewan McGregor will play the romantic lead opposite Jim Carrey in "I Love You Phillip Morris," a dark comedy that marks the directing debut of "Bad Santa" scribes Glenn Ficarra and John Requa.

Mad Chance's Andrew Lazar will produce with Far Shariat. Luc Besson's EuropaCorp is fully financing, and Besson is exec producer.

Carrey signed earlier in the fall to star in the fact-based tale as Steven Russell, a married father whose conman ways introduced him to the Texas prison system. There, he fell in love with cellmate Phillip Morris.

His love for Morris motivated his escape from prisons four times, once by using a green pen and bucket of water to change his prison outfit into what appeared to be surgical scrubs, another time by faking his death from AIDS and signing his own death certificate. Morris eventually got out, but Russell's escapades got him a 144-year sentence.

Ficarra and Requa wrote the script, based on a book by Houston Chronicle crime reporter Steve McVicker.

Production will begin in spring, once Carrey completes starring in "A Christmas Carol," playing multiple roles in the Robert Zemeckis-directed performance-capture film for Disney.

McGregor just finished "The List," the Marcel Langenegger-directed drama.

Source: www.variety.com

Woody Allen’s “Cassandra’s Dream “ looks to be a casualty of the awards season. The Woodman’s new film, his third straight made in England, has long been scheduled for a Dec. 28 release, which would qualify it for the Academy Awards. But the film, which stars Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell as cockney brothers drawn into a crime by a young woman, has been completely ignored by the various critics groups, the National Board of Review and – yesterday – the Golden Globes.

Today, the Weinstein Co. pushed its release date back to Jan. 18, when it will open nationally.

“Cassandra’s Dream” premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September and got respectable notices. The Daily Variety critic dissed it, but the reviews collated at www.rottentomatoes.com are all positive.

Source: www.nydailynews.com

I've added more photos to the gallery, including pics from the after party!

By Warwick Thompson

Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- When a Hollywood star agrees to appear in a studio-sized, not-for-profit Shakespeare production, you can be sure tickets will sell out in minutes. Whether he can distinguish a couplet from a codpiece is another matter.

Fortunately, Ewan McGregor gives a very creditable performance -- codpiece and all -- in ``Othello'' at London's 250- seat Donmar Warehouse. The actor, whose films include ``Star Wars'' and ``Moulin Rouge,'' brings an understated clarity and compelling plausibility to the role of Iago.

What he does not bring is a grander sense of the role's wild poetry. His Iago does not scale the thrilling peaks of evil, nor mine the caves of despair, but instead remains rooted in a middle ground of cinematic verity.

He even alters the text to intensify the realism. Iago usually claims to be ``four times seven years'' old. The 36-year- old McGregor replaces this with ``five times seven years,'' displaying a lack of trust in the audience's ability to suspend even a small amount of disbelief.

Director Michael Grandage provides a transparent, simple and generally well-paced production in traditional costume. Though there are some longueurs, the memory of them is swept aside by an exciting climactic murder scene, staged with brutal honesty.

Christopher Oram's minimalist set is a bare flagstone floor with a rust-colored wall behind it. A few simple items of wooden furniture are used to suggest interior and exterior locations, and the whole is beautifully lit by Paule Constable.

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The pulling power of a Hollywood A-list star and the timeless charm of Shakespeare have combined to make Othello, which opened last night at the Donmar Warehouse, the most desirable ticket in town.

The appearance of Ewan McGregor as Iago alongside fellow film actor Chiwetel Ejiofor has created a demand for tickets in the West End usually associated with rock concerts.

Tickets that should cost a maximum of £29 have fetched £800 on the internet auction site eBay but some people are offering them for up to £2,000. The potential for profit is so high that the Donmar has intervened with a warning that any ticket sold on for profit will be invalid.

Staff are monitoring ticket exchanges and have sent written warnings to sellers reminding them of the terms printed on the back of the ticket. Clause 11 states that “tickets may not be resold or transferred for profit” and that “to do so will render tickets void and the holder will be refused entry”.

A spokeswoman for the theatre told The Times that it would be enforcing the policy when it had gathered evidence that a ticket had been resold. “Any ticket that we discover we will make void,” she said. “They will be turned away. We have contacted people who are in possession of the tickets and we hope that they’ve got the decency not to sell them on.”

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EWAN McGregor and Charley Boorman made a special appearance at the Smythson store on Bond Street this week to celebrate the launch of their new book, Long Way Down. Arriving on their motorcycles, they were met by Smythson CEO Paddy Byng and a host of guests, including Helena Bonham-Carter, Tim Burton and Jamie Dornan, who sipped Veuve Clicquot and Belvedere cocktails. The book celebrates McGregor and Boorman's journey from John O’Groats to South Africa by motorcycle, the journey of which is now part of a documentary on BBC2. Guests also took part in a raffle to raise money for UNICEF, prizes including one of the company's Nancy bags and a limited-edition Smythson, handmade, leather bound set of Long Way Down, signed by both McGregor and Boorman. Less limited-edition but equally coveted are Smythson's Fashion Diaries: last year, for the tenth anniversary of the Fashion Diary, Smythson asked the likes of Alexander McQueen and Giambattista Valli to design an exclusive diary. This year it has collaborated with VOGUE.COM to offer all the latest fashion news throughout the year. Buy yours now at www.smythson.com. (November 22 2007, AM)

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Source: www.vogue.co.uk

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Tickets to see Ewan McGregor in the sold-out production of Othello are exchanging hands for more than £1,200 each.

Shakespeare's play at the Donmar Warehouse is proving more popular than the one-off Led Zeppelin reunion gig and the Spice Girls tour, according to ticket exchange company Viagogo.

The only tickets left for the 12-week run are for day seats and standing places. Donmar's box office prices range from £15 to £29 for the production but online the average price for a resale ticket is £1,220.

Eric Baker, CEO of Viagogo, said: "Who would have believed 400 years after it was written Othello would be the most popular ticket in town?"

Source: www.thisislondon.co.uk

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"Cassandra's Dream" press conference

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Ewan signing autographs

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Ewan along with director Woody Allen and co-stars, Hayley Atwell and Colin Farrell are the Venice Film Festival to present "Cassandra's Dream"

photos from the photocall:

By: W. Andrew Powell

The 32nd Toronto International Film Festival made its big announcement today, revealing all of the over 500 international guests, stars, and filmmakers who are expected to make an appearance this year. Every year the list seems to grow and grow, and Hollywood seems to make an ever-increasing rush to be in town during the event.

Whether you're in Toronto to see films at the festival, just want to catch sight of a few celebrities, or you just live here, September is always a good time star gaze.

Once again there are also a multitude of stars who will be returning to the festival after visiting in the past (It's actually harder these days to figure out who hasn't been at the festival before). Some of our personal favorites expected to return this year are: Brad Pitt, Ewan McGregor, Clive Owen, Charlize Theron, George Clooney, Sigourney Weaver, and Samuel L. Jackson… just to name a few.

Source: www.thegate.ca

We've added more photos to the LWD album

By Adam Forrest

IT WAS a trek featuring some of the most inhospitable terrain on earth, but two men on motorbikes have finally reached their journey's end.

After spending three months travelling through Europe and Africa, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman concluded their 15,000-mile adventure from Scotland to South Africa, celebrating in Cape Town yesterday against the spectacular backdrop of Table mountain.

Since they began in May in John O'Groats, the intrepid duo have ridden through 18 countries, including Libya, Ethiopia, Sudan and Rwanda. Along the way they encountered blinding sandstorms, searing temperatures, dodgy border crossings and armies of ants.
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But, despite the extreme riding conditions, McGregor insisted the trip, the successor to their BBC series Long Way Round, had been well worthwhile. "Long Way Down has been an amazing journey and it has been a real privilege to be able to experience these diverse and beautiful places," he said.

"We've had the opportunity to see such different ways of life to ours and have travelled to remote places very few people have access to. The sense of freedom and exploration has been incredible."

Boorman admitted the gruelling odyssey had involved some difficult moments. "There have been times when it has been unbelievably hard-going," he said. "But that has been countered by amazing riding and extraordinary people.

Source: www.sundayherald.com
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THEY have faced blinding sandstorms, flash floods, rampaging rhinos and even the odd burst tyre, but after 15,000 miles they have finally reached their goal.

Ewan McGregor and his friend and fellow actor Charley Boorman have completed an attempt to motorbike from John O'Groats to Cape Town.

Yesterday, after the gruelling trip which spanned three months and took the pair through 18 countries, they reached the finishing line.

The epic journey - dubbed the Long Way Down - will help raise money and awareness for three specially chosen charities; CHAS (Children's Hospice Association of Scotland), Unicef and Riders For Health, which distributes medical supplies and food to remote parts of Africa by motorbike.

Trainspotting and Star Wars star McGregor was euphoric after reaching his South African destination.

"It's been incredible, just incredible," he said. "Some of the places that we have passed through are almost indescribably beautiful, like something out of an Indiana Jones film. It's a great feeling and a real privilege to have achieved our goal.

"We've had the opportunity to see such different ways of life to ours and have travelled to remote places very few people have access to. The sense of freedom and exploration has been incredible."

Boorman added: "We were both up for an adventure and Africa has certainly given us that. There have been times when it has been unbelievably hard going but that has been countered by amazing riding and extraordinary people."

The intrepid pair were followed on every mile of their journey by a documentary camera crew.

"From sandstorms to floods, mosquitos to rhinoceroses we've encountered everything on Long Way Down," said film-maker Russ Malkin.

The journey will be shown in a BBC2 series this autumn.

Source: news.scotsman.com

We met up with Long Way Down Bikers Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman in Cape Town

The motorcycle journey of a lifetime has reached its epic conclusion. After spending three months travelling the Long Way Down through Europe and Africa, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman have concluded their 15,000 mile adventure on a beach in Milnerton South Africa in front of the dramatic backdrop of Table Mountain.(more images of Ewan and Charley coming on monday)

Ewan and Charley arrived on their motorbikes at the Milnerton Lagoon Beach Hotel in Cape Town accompanied by a cavalcade of local bikers, looking surprisingly good considering the journey that they had just undertaken.

Jovial and friendly they joked with the crowd before popping champagne magnums on the beach and in good “race end” style they soaked themselves and the media with bubbly. “We made it” shouted an ecstatic Charley Boorman.

Since they began in May 2007 in John O’Groats, Scotland, they have ridden their bikes through eighteen countries, including Libya, Ethiopia, Sudan and Rwanda. They have encountered some of the most inhospitable terrain on earth and negotiated blinding sandstorms, searing temperatures, dodgy border crossings and extreme riding conditions.

Ewan and Charley spent 3 months planning the expedition, deciding which countries they should visit and preparing the bikes for the ride. It was important to Ewan and Charley that they explored parts of Africa that are less travelled including western Ethiopia near the Eritrean border, Gulu in northern Uganda and western Tanzania close to the shores of lake Tanganyika.

Source: www.capetownmagazine.com
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Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman celebrate on Milnerton beach with Table Mountain behind after arriving in Cape Town completing the Long Way Down, motorcycle journey, Cape Town, South Africa.

Thanks to Eva Green's management for informing me that Franklyn is due to start filming in the middle of September. Unfortunately, they decided that the cast should be a little younger: the three leads in their twenties rather than their thirties. The new cast is yet to be announced. Eva's still in it, but the rest of the cast will be about her age.

As you may have noticed, our Forums were offline for a couple of days and we did our best to solve the problem and get it back online as soon as possible. I'd like to thank my host Gertie and also my friend Mary for their support and help. We apologized for any inconvenience, but it was beyond our control.

3 June 2007. Ewan and Charley along with Richard Branson during a motorcycle ride across Africa to raise money for a charity that supplies vital medical supplies and equipment to remote areas. Check the gallery for more pics!

Sir Richard Branson, President of Virgin Atlantic, today delivered the first batch of motorcycles that will help to bring much-needed medical support to small villages and communities in Kenya and throughout Africa.

The money for the motorcycles was raised by customers contributing to Virgin Atlantic’s onboard charity appeal and by staff who took part in a wide range of fundraising events over the past year. The money was then donated to support the work of the charity Riders for Health, which was selected by Virgin Group’s charitable arm Virgin Unite. Riders for Health has been working in Africa for 17 years and will buy and maintain the motorcycles.

The motorcycles will enable a team of healthcare workers to provide rural communities with improved access to essential drugs and basic health services. Many of the suffering who need help live in remote areas and are often many miles away from the closest hospital or clinic. Each mobile health worker could potentially reach thousands of people each year, offering health education messages as well as vital medicines.

Delivering the first of the 31 motorcycles in Kenya, Sir Richard was joined by two of the world’s most famous bikers – actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman – who are themselves currently raising money for Riders for Health through their own iconic adventure, traveling the Long Way Down through Europe and Africa.

Source: www.v-flyer.com
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Australian underwear firm has had to backtrack on claims that it sold manhood-enhancing briefs to actor Ewan McGregor.

AussieBum now says it's not true that the Scottish actor bought a huge order of Wonderjocks, described as a wonderbra for men.

AussieBum owner Sean Ashby claimed the 'Long Way Round' star had purchased a huge order of the underwear, which is designed to "lift and promote" a man's crotch area, in an interview last week.

And according to McGregor's publicist, the Aussie entrepreneur immediately regretted going public about his celebrity patron. She states, "AussieBum has written an apology to us over it, it is not true at all."

The company has now acknowledged the McGregor story was incorrect, but confirmed the actor had bought other styles of AussieBum pants, according to the Sydney Daily Telegraph.

A spokesman tells the publication, "He's a fan of the brand generally and has bought several different items from the range, but certainly not the Wonderjock. "Given his reputation, we doubt very much there would be a need for this."

Source: www.rte.ie

Author: Visordown News
Published: 24 May 07

EWAN MCGREGOR chatted to Radio1 DJ Chris Moyles this morning, plugging his latest adventure, The Long Way Down. Ewan and Charley will be heading from John O'Groats, Scotland to Cape Town in South Africa.

The trip will take 3 months and will see the riders and their support crew cross 20 countries in 3 months. Again, the pair will be riding on BMW Adventure bikes, this time, the R1200 GS Adventure.

Today's radio chat was with the team while they were stopping off in Florence. Their next country will be Tunisia, followed by Libya.

Moyles, Radio1's popular DJ, joked that he'll be taking on his own adventure, the Long Big Cake. Sounds about right!

You can listen to the interview here.

Source: visordown.com

I added more pics to the Long Way Down gallery:

I've just uploaded 13 HQs of Ewan and Charley filming "Long Way Down" in Rome.

BBC has launched a site for Long Way Down. There are many pictures, videos, and information. Check it out!

Source: BBC-Long Way Down

Ewan McGregor, often cast as the handsome hero (like Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars movies), will play Shakespeare's most amoral villain in a stage production of Othello which will also star two of our other top actors: Chiwetel Ejiofor and Kelly Reilly.

Donmar Warehouse theatre director Michael Grandage said it was like a board game, arranging for Ewan, Chiwetel and Kelly to be available at the same time for his production of Othello, in which Chiwetel will play the noble Moor, Kelly his Desdemona and Ewan is Iago, the jealous confidant who brings about their destruction.

The three thespians enjoy movie careers that pay handsomely, certainly in the case of the two leading men.

But when Othello begins performances at the Donmar on November 29, with an official first night on December 4, they will be on the Equity minimum wage.

"We're up to £400 a week now," Grandage joked.

However, he put that sum into perspective when he pointed out that his three leads "command, I hope, huge salaries for their films - but that hopefully means they can afford to come to the Donmar.

"It's the other members of the company who need to survive on £400 a week".

The factor that unites Grandage's chosen trio is that he has worked with them all before. Indeed, Chiwetel was in The Vortex, the first play Grandage directed as artistic director when he took over from Sam Mendes at the Donmar five years ago.

Later, he directed the brilliantly gifted Kelly in After Miss Julie and then persuaded Ewan to kick up his heels and croon in Guys & Dolls.

Grandage, just returned to London after his triumph on Broadway with the Donmar's Frost/Nixon, casually mentioned Othello to Ewan when they were working together on Guys & Dolls.

"I said, 'Have a read of Othello and if you have a response, then call me', in the way of these things," he laughed.

"Ewan did call me a year later and said: 'Oh, by the way...'"

Talking about the play, all the actors agreeing they liked the intimacy of it for the Donmar's stage was one thing.

"But the fact that they were all free at the same time meant the planets must have been in alignment somewhere," Grandage told me.

The director and Chiwetel have discussed the exoticism of Othello's world, with the actor introducing him to a 19th-century Ethiopian king who may or may not end up influencing the director's sense of the production.

But he's also, of course, intrigued by Iago, Othello's seemingly friendly lieutentant who deceives all around him.

"Iago has become a byword for manipulation, particularly in politics," explained Grandage, who told me he targeted Ewan because he was struck by how the actor manages to be charming without it seeming a front.

"You know, some people can act being nice. With Ewan, it's genuine.

"The whole point of people being duped by Iago is that they don't notice he isn't nice. He really has to be geuinely charming and charismatic, so all these people get taken in."

He added that with Ewan playing Iago "you're going to get that fantastic duplicity that lies at the heart of the character".

Ewan has just completed shooting the thriller movie Incendiary.

Next week, he continues his long-running charity motorbike adventure. This one's called The Long Way Down, and involves the actor travelling from Scotland to Cape Agulhas, South Africa, after which he goes into rehearsals for Othello.

Chiwetel was in Ian Rickson's sublime production of The Seagull at the Royal Court and he's in constant demand to make movies in the U.S.

In Kelly Reilly, meanwhile, we have one of our most fearless actresses.

She'll become a huge movie star when directors stop worrying what the studio money men think and just cast her - believe me, she would have enlivened any number of films that she was seen for but which ultimately went to other, bigger-named but lesser actresses.

You'll have to be patient to get tickets. Priority booking begins on September 10 and regular public booking on October 15.

• The box office is on 0870 060 6624.

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

By Louise Jury

Ewan McGregor is to lead a production of Othello to mark the fifth anniversary of Michael Grandage as artistic director of the Donmar theatre.

The Scot will be joined by Chiwetel Ejiofor, star of Kinky Boots and Dirty Pretty Things, and Kelly Reilly, who was in Mrs Henderson Presents.

It is a dream union of three actors who have played an important part in the Donmar's work over five years.

All turned down possible film roles to take on Shakespeare in the 250-seat auditorium and work with Grandage again.

He said: "They all cleared the decks and committed to it." McGregor, 36, made his West End musical debut in Guys And Dolls, which was the Donmar's first production initiated outside its own venue. He will play Iago.

Ejiofor appeared in The Vortex, Grandage's inaugural show as artistic director, and has the title role. Reilly, who won rave reviews for After Miss Julie, returns to play Desdemona.

The production, which will run from 29 November to 23 February, will launch the next stage of Grandage's work at the small but prestigious Covent Garden venue. Although he is on a rolling contract, he has committed to staying and will shortly present his next five-year plan to the board.

He said: "It's always nice to have an announcement of this calibre and to use it as an opportunity to say that I am looking forward to the next few years."

Grandage had a tough act to follow when he succeeded Sam Mendes, who ran the theatre for 10 years before leaving to make more Hollywood films after the Oscar-winning American Beauty.

Mendes built up a loyal following with clever West End revivals and strong American drama. Grandage added European-playwrights such as Albert Camus, Dario Fo and Luigi Pirandello to the repertoire. Othello will be his first Shakespeare at the Donmar.

He suggested the role of Iago to McGregor during Guys And Dolls.

He said: "I was very aware that I was working with someone who had an extraordinary ease, a charm that he didn't have to put on.

"One of the problems with Iago is everyone always plays him as a baddie and then the audience don't understand why people on the stage can't see that.

"But it's because he is utterly charming."

Source: thisislondon.co.uk

Donmar production to be directed by Grandage
By DAVID BENEDICT

Michael Grandage will helm a new production of "Othello" at the Donmar Warehouse, with Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role alongside Ewan McGregor as Iago and Kelly Reilly as Desdemona. It will play a limited engagement from Nov. 29 to Feb. 23, with a Dec. 4 opening.

Although Grandage sealed his reputation directing "As You Like It" and "Richard III" (with Kenneth Branagh) at Sheffield's Crucible theater, this is his first Shakespeare outing at the 250-seat Donmar, where he is artistic director.

"As one of Shakespeare's most intimate plays with one of the smallest casts, it's perfect for the Donmar," Grandage told Daily Variety. The strength of this cast will allow us to explore the internal, as well as the external, life of the play."

The production marks the start of Grandage's sixth year as Donmar a.d. Play will reunite his favored creative team of designer Christopher Oram, lighting designer Paule Constable and composer-sound designer Adam Cork; all three leading actors have worked with Grandage before as well.

Helmer has been in discussions with Ejiofor about the role since the thesp starred in his production of "The Vortex" in 2002. Reilly played the title role in "After Miss Julie" in 2003, while McGregor created the role of Sky Masterson in Grandage's revival of "Guys and Dolls," currently eyeing a Broadway berth.

Grandage also said that following the success of "Frost/Nixon," the Donmar's next Gotham project will be the transfer of its 2005 hit production of Friedrich Schiller's thriller "Mary Stuart." "Subject to the availability of director Phyllida Lloyd and actresses Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter, we are committed to making this our next Broadway presentation," he said.

Source: variety.com

Ewan McGregor is currently in Santa Catarina, Brazil, and he'll stay there until tomorrow. He's shooting a TV commercial for Davidoff male perfume.

Source: Blue Bus

By Emma Clark

CROWDS of people gathered in St Albans city centre on Tuesday to try and catch a glimpse of the shooting of Hollywood star Ewan McGregor's new film.

St Peter's Street, Market Place and St Albans Abbey will all be used this week as backgrounds to Incendiary, a romantic drama due out in 2008.

The film tells the story of an adulterous woman whose life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a football match.

It is based on the bestselling novel by British author Chris Cleave.

Extras, who auditioned in St Albans last weekend, were on stand-by while leading lady Michelle Williams, best known for her Dawsons Creek role, was filmed in a scene getting off a bus outside Monsoon on Tuesday.

On Wednesday Robert Dyas, in St Peter's Street, became a discount sports store for the day, Specsavers in Market Place was turned into a florist and on Thursday a funeral scene is due to be shot at the abbey.


Source: www.thisishertfordshire.co.uk

By Tom Rayner
04 May 2007 07:00

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are just days away from embarking on their latest adventure, the Long Way Down.

The pair are planning to go one better than their previous circumnavigation of the globe with a journey from the most northerly point in McGregor’s homeland of Scotland to Cape Town in South Africa.

BMW has confirmed it supplied two standard R1200GS Adventures to the globetrotters two weeks ago. Managing Director of BMW Motorrad UK, Adrian Roderick, said: “The bikes are totally standard – we’ve fitted some crash bars and some luggage but other than that they’re the same as you would see in the shops. The boys have had the bikes for two weeks to get used to.”

McGregor and Boorman opted not to fit BMW latest Satellite Navigation systems, preferring the romantic system of maps and stars. The trip to Cape Town is expected to take several months with McGregor promoting his favourite charity UNICEF en route.

The provisional dates for departure from John O’ Groats are May 10 or May 12 – depending on the filming schedule.

Source: MCN