Russell Crowe did it on the big screen and now home-grown gladiators are to battle it out in the City. A giant re-enactment of a Roman tournament is to take place to mark the one-year countdown to the Olympics... more
Based on a 2008 French thriller, Pour Elle, The Next Three Days is a definite change of tack for Paul Haggis, who made the Oscar-winning Crash and In the Valley of Elah... more
Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett are expected to lend some Hollywood glamour to the Croisette as Robin Hood opens the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.... more
There’s an over-long election limping to its conclusion this week - the Oxford Professor of Poetry - a laureateship but with no daft obligation to write about Kate Middleton or corgis... more
The script for a new film about Robin Hood was such a hot property that it sparked a bidding war between three studios. Lee Marshall reports on an everyday Hollywood story.... more
Russell Crowe makes a good journalist, Helen Mirren is a great editor – and Hollywood has made a fine job of remaking Paul Abbott's State of Play.... more
Dame Helen Mirren and Russell Crowe received rave reviews from members of the public for the political thriller State Of Play in its premiere at Leicester Square... more
Body of Lies can't decide whether to be an all-out thriller or a savvy political drama but since it is directed by Ridley Scott, you can forgive a lot.... more
Gladiator star Russell Crowe once reigned over Hollywood as its most popular leading man. But as he stepped out in his hometown of Sydney yesterday, it was astonishingly clear his heartthrob status is now just a distant memory.... more
The director of the new Robin Hood blockbuster has pulled the plug on the film shoot after realising the green Sherwood Forest would turn brown before filming was over.... more
The director of the new Robin Hood blockbuster has pulled the plug on the film shoot after realising the green Sherwood Forest would turn brown before his crew had finished work... more
Gladiator star Russell Crowe is losing one important fight - the battle of the bulge. The Oscar-winning actor, once one of Hollywood's most lusted after film stars, looked more rotund than ever as he visited an mall in Los Angeles yesterday
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James Mangold's new version of 1957 Western 3.10 to Yuma has much to commend it, says Derek Malcolm, including good performances from Christian Bale and Russell Crowe.... more
Hollywood star Russell Crowe is set to play the Sheriff of Nottingham in a new Robin Hood film.
The movie, called Nottingham, will be a "revisionist" take on the age-old story.... more
Ridley Scott directs Russell Crowe in A Good Year, a film that leaves the viewer feeling that it would be fun to leave the real world behind and bask in wine, food and women in Provence.... more
All The King's Men showed up for this year's Toronto Film Festival. As well as the movie of that name, in which Jude Law put in his best performance for years, the festival's guest list outgunned Cannes and Venice.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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