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Madonna And Michael’s Rivalry: Exhumed!

12:05AM Andrew Belonsky | Michael Jackson saw rivalry in Madonna’s eyes, Kelly Rutherford’s husband won’t be coming near her, and Jude Law’s not the best father. All that and more in your Friday Gossip Roundup! More »

Sorry, ‘The International’ Will Not Rescue You From The ‘09 Movie Doldrums

8:01AM STV | The Berlin Film Festival launched today with the world premiere of Clive Owen’s financial-intrigue thriller The International, and we regret to inform that it was critically wounded almost instantly. But recovery is expected! More »

From the Director of ‘Michael Clayton’: Clive, Julia, and Her Thong

8:25AM Kyle Buchanan | Sure, sure, Titanic couple Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio are reuniting on-screen in the upcoming Revolutionary Road, and that’s great. Still, the romantics over here at Defamer HQ would prefer a reprise of the light and fluffy lovers played by Clive Owen and Julia Roberts in Closer (”You like him coming in your face?” “Yes!” “What does it taste like?” “It tastes like you but sweeter!”), so this trailer for their upcoming Duplicity will have to do. Oh, and what’s this? A brand-new costar in the form of Julia Roberts’s thong? How did the suddenly sexed-up Natalie Portman get left out of this Closer coffee klatch? The trailer, after the jump: More »

Trade Roundup: Everyone’s Reteaming!

7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | · A mere nine years after the first X-Files film surfaced in theaters, Fox announces that the second of Mulder and Scully’s big-screen adventures (a reteaming, if you will) will arrive on July 25, 2008, a project that will begin shooting in December in Vancouver, far away from the picket lines of Los Angeles. [Variety] · NBC puts off indefinitely the production of Heroes spin-off Heroes: Origins, with possible reasons for the sudden shelving including the possible writers’ strike, the mess the original series has become in its second season, and a strategic redeployment of hit-recycling development brainpower to that rumoured The Office offshoot. More »

Clive Owen Embraces Joys Of Exposing Babies To Heavy Artillery

7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | New Line’s upcoming gun-porn action flick Shoot ‘Em Up has already demonstrated the entertaining merits of ripping off a few rounds in the direction of an armoured baby. But according to the movie’s star, burgeoning imperiled-infant junkie Clive Owen, the real value for America is when you strip them of their defenses and chuck the helpless pawns into a steady stream of danger: “[T]he babies were great. I wish we could have put the babies in even more dangerous situations because they centred the action sequences.” More »