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27 September 2008 7:54 PM, PDT | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news

Update: It has just been reported that Jonathan Rhys Meyers will quit The Tudors, and more about his upcoming filming of From Paris With Love. [ read more (http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/hotshot-rhys-meyers-quits-the-tudors-1485260.html) ] He can play King, rocker, spy... You name it, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers can! As one of our favorite actors, we're putting him in the spotlight- with a list of upcoming films and his recent movie, The Children of Huang Shi (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0889588/)! - - - Latest Project: Variety (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992789.html?categoryid=13 cs=1)has recently announced that Jonathan Rhys Meyers is set to star alongside John Travolta in an upcoming thriller directed by Pierre Morel called From Paris With Love (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179034/). The films plot concerns a young embassy worker and an American secret agent who cross paths while working on a high-risk mission in Paris. [ read more (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992789.html?categoryid=13 cs=1) ] Screen Daily (http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyArticle.aspx?

25 September 2008 7:32 AM, PDT | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news

Variety (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992789.html?categoryid=13 cs=1)has recently announced that Jonathan Rhys Meyers is set to star alongside John Travolta in an upcoming thriller directed by Pierre Morel called From Paris With Love (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179034/). The films plot concerns a young embassy worker and an American secret agent who cross paths while working on a high-risk mission in Paris. [ read more (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992789.html?categoryid=13 cs=1) ] Screen Daily (http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyArticle.aspx?intStoryID=41014 Category) also reports producers EuropaCorp are to begin shooting on From Paris With Love: EuropaCorp has announced the start of principal photography on the $55m (Euros 38m) From Paris With Love, starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Director Pierre Morel began filming Monday near Annecy and will carry on to Paris and its environs for a total 12-week shoot. The film is based on an original idea from EuropaCorp principal Luc Besson,

15 September 2008 11:15 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

When is a Terror Train remake NOT a Terror Train remake? When it's a movie called Train, which kinda began as a Terror Train remake, but definitely isn't anymore. And we know this for sure because someone out there is very interested in making an actual Terror Train remake.

Will all this going on, you might actually be duped into believing that Roger Spottiswoode's Terror Train somehow demands a remake -- when in fact it's just another slasher flick that Jamie Lee Curtis did right after Halloween because that's all she was being offered at the time. Aside from the fact that the flick features unlikely co-stars like Hart Bochner, Ben Johnson and David Copperfield (as "Ken the Magician"), there's not much to distinguish Terror Train from, say, Killer Car, Eerie Elevator, or Satanic Scooter. OK, so I just made those up.

Here's how the two new trains break down,

Scott Weinberg

13 September 2008 8:23 AM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Ryan Rotten over at ShockTillYouDrop.com says he heard that producer Phillip Goldfine is ready to develop a remake of Roger Spottiswoode’s 1980 horror flick “Terror Train.”

Goldfine said he wants the remake to stay close to the original. Although no director or writer is on board yet, he would also like to have the film ready for fall 2009.

In the original, a bunch of fraternity guys throw a party on board a chartered train, where a cold-blooded killer joins in on the fun. The film starred Jamie Lee Curtis, David Copperfield and Hart Bochner.  

Goldfine’s project is not the only “Terror Train” remake currently in development. Gideon Raff recently wrapped filming for “Train,” which tells a similar story and stars Thora Birch. No release date has been announced yet.  

Goldfine’s producing credits include “Lost Boys: The Tribe,” “Half Past Dead” and “The Art of War II: Betrayal.

Franck Tabouring

25 May 2008 3:47 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

The cast and crew of new movie The Children Of Huang Shi left a permanent reminder of the time they spent filming in Mongolia's Gobi Desert in the shape of a new pebble road.

Moviemaker Roger Spottiswoode called on his stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Radha Mitchell to join extras and crew members on an all-night hunt for stones to help stop heavy filming equipment and vehicles from sinking into the sand.

The Tomorrow Never Dies director says, "Great areas of the Gobi are just thin crusts of hardened sand, and underneath that it's very soft sand.

"Where we were there was a two-inch crust and, if you break through that it's extremely difficult to get back up, so if you're out there with 50 vehicles and they all sank through the crust one day, you're in trouble.

"We were sent on a detour by the government and we took a crane with us to help pull vehicles out of the sand but that was one of the first things to start sinking. So we had to build a road back.

"Our cast and crew of 500 people went out at night into the desert looking for little pebbles and bigger pebbles for hours and hours when we should've been shooting and watching the dawn come up.

"Over a period of hours we collected enough rocks and slowly we had built our own road to put them back under the wheels of the vehicles that were stuck.

"It was an enormous amount of work but I'm sure the road is still there. It will be there for the next thousand years, this short road that got us out of trouble."

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20 May 2008 6:59 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Jonathan Rhys-meyers has come under fire from animal rights activists after his latest co-star, Radha Mitchell, let it slip that he ate dog while filming in China.

Mitchell coos about the movie hunk's "adventurous pallet" but officials at People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) are less than impressed.

The actress insists dining out in rural China, where she and Rhys-Meyers, shot new film The Children of Huang Shi was a challenge - and her co-star decided to go native.

She says, "The challenge was ordering lunch and getting chicken claws, just these weird things that you don't expect and you're not used to so you're constantly adjusting.

"Jonathan did the dog's meat. We were in some restaurant and there was dog meat on the menu and there was someone next to us just sitting there with their Chihuahua in a handbag.

"I was thinking, 'That could've been dessert.'"

But Peta bosses are appalled that Rhys-Meyers, who plays British journalist George Hogg in the Roger Spottiswoode film, sampled man's best friend.

Spokesman Michael McGraw rages, "Most people are appalled to hear about Jonathan Rhys Meyers eating dog flesh."

And he urges anyone sickened by the story to consider turning veggie: "They should take a look at what's on their own plates. Chickens and cows may not be as cute and cuddly as puppies, but when it comes to their ability to feel pain and suffer, they are no different from animals people call pets.

"The best way to avoid harming any animals is simply not to eat them and go veggie."

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20 May 2008 12:05 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Moviemaker Roger Spottiswoode has offered his condolences to the crew of the new James Bond film, insisting the current run of stunt disasters could have taken place on any 007 film set.

Spottiswoode, who directed Pierce Brosnan in 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies, admits he feels sorry for fellow filmmaker Marc Forster, who is in charge of new movie Quantum of Solace.

The production is currently filming in Europe and South American and has been hit with a string of on-set accidents - including a car crash which left one crewmember critically injured.

Spottiswoode says, "I'm sure they're being very careful. We were being incredibly careful. It's very bad luck. You're always trying to work on the edge doing things (stunts) that have never been seen... but things happen.

"They've been hugely unlucky but I'm sure they're as careful as they've ever been. I'm sure they're in pain because of it (the stuntman's accident) but they're doing everything they can to be careful."

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19 May 2008 2:51 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

It's a battle of filmmaking titans this week, the kind of event that comes around once in a lifetime . Steven Spielberg and Uwe Boll will duke it out at the multiplexes. (Forgive us, but that might've been our only opportunity to ever get to put those two names in the same sentence.)

"The Children of Huang Shi"

Set during the Japanese occupation of China during the 1930s, this sweeping historical epic comes from Roger Spottiswoode, the director behind both "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot" and the narrative remake of "Shake Hands with the Devil." The first official co-production between Australia and China, the film tells the true story of Australian nurse (Radha Mitchell), who with the aid of a British journalist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), escorts 60 orphaned children 700 miles through the Liu Pan Shan Mountains to evade Japanese secret police. "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" co-stars Michelle Yeoh

Neil Pedley

8 articles from 2008