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Facts about Orlando Bloom

admin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:21:28 +0000

1. Won the award at the 2002 Empire Awards for “Best Debut.”
2. His cousin, the photographer/director Sebastian Copeland, is Brigitte Nielsen’s ex-husband.
3. He used to be a vegetarian, but he had to go back to eating meat when he was filming The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).
4. Has an older sister, Samantha Bloom.
5. Is “mildly dyslexic”.
6. His first car was a dark green VW Golf that costed £160.
7. First concert he attended was in Canterbery watching Jamiroquai.
8. He used to smoke, but quit in 2002, which started making him bite his nails instead.
9. Very good friends with actress Jennifer Aniston.
10. Split with girlfriend Kate Bosworth [September 5, 2006].

10 Cool Facts about Daniel Craig

admin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:54:20 +0000

As the new James Bond is out soon I have compiled a list of Daniel Craig facts

1. One of the many actors considered to take over James Bond from Pierce Brosnan. He officially accepted the role in October, 2005.

2. Was the only member of the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) cast to be a huge fan of the Tomb Raider video games. His favorite in the series was Tomb Raider II (1997) (VG), released in 1997.

3. He’s a fan of Liverpool Football Club.

4. Is the shortest actor to play the role of James Bond, despite being relatively tall standing at 5 feet and 11 inches.

5. October 2007 – Signed on to play James Bond in four more films after Casino Royale.

6. Quit smoking before making Casino Royale (2006).

7. Became good friends with Nicole Kidman, after they worked together on The Invasion (2007), and The Golden Compass (2007).

8. 2000: Named as one of European films ‘Shooting Stars’ by European Film Promotion.

9. He is the first Bond actor to have been born after the Bond series began.

10. Was the last actor considered for the role of “Rorschach” in the doomed movie adaptation of Alan Moore’s comic-book mini-series, Watchmen (2009).

10 Facts About Madonna

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:05:04 +0000

Her videos “Justify My Love” and “What It Feels Like For A Girl” were banned from VH1 & MTV. “Erotica” (1992), though not banned, was only played after midnight on MTV.
Unanimously condemned by the Puerto Rican House of Representatives for pulling a Puerto Rican flag between her legs in an October 26, 1993 concert.
Her daughter Lourdes was named as a tribute to Madonna’s mother, who wanted to visit Lourdes, France, where the Virgin Mary, the Madonna, appeared in 1858, but died before doing so.
Was good friends with Gwyneth Paltrow before she declined her invitation to join her Kabbalah study group in London. A similar thing happened to her friendship with Debi Mazar, who didn’t like Madonna‘s participation in the Kabbalah.
Her birthday is also the anniversary of Elvis Presley‘s death.
A September 2000 Rolling Stone article estimated her worth as $650 million. Since then, she has released the album “Music”, which sold 12 million copies, has had a 47-date sold-out worldwide tour, completed a movie, and released a greatest hits compilation.
Her wedding dress for her 2000 wedding to director Guy Ritchie was designed by her friend Stella McCartney.
Nude pictures of her taken years earlier, when she was a starving dancer, ran in Penthouse magazine. Due to the success of that issue, she posed nude again in the coffee table book “Sex” which became an instant best seller.
Is a distant cousin of Gwen Stefani. Gwen’s great-aunt’s mother-in-law shares the same last name with Madonna.
Her 1989 album “Like A Prayer” ranked #100 on VH1′s 100 Greatest Albums.

Hellboy movie facts + Hellboy 2 trailer

admin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:42:40 +0000

1. Director Guillermo del Toro for years considered this film a dream project and had always wanted to cast Ron Perlman in the lead, but could never secure a budget or studio approval. After the massive success of Blade II (2002), del Toro was offered Blade: Trinity (2004) or Hellboy, and though he briefly considered trying to schedule both in, he chose Hellboy.

2. Baby Hellboy, Sammael, Ivan the corpse, Train Driver and Kroenen were all voiced by Guillermo del Toro

3. The studio wanted Vin Diesel to play Hellboy.

4. Ron Perlman broke a rib while filming the subway scenes. He jumped onto a train that was coming towards him at about 45 mph.

5. One of the headstones in the graveyard in Moscow reads “Here Lies Mike Mignola” – the creator of Hellboy.

6. Hellboy’s line to Liz, “I’ll always look this good,” was originally spoken by Guillermo del Toro to his future wife when she took issue with his casual mode of dressing.

7. WILHELM SCREAM: when the Nazi scientist is sucked into the portal.

8. Hellboy was originally going to have cloven hooves for feet, like in the comics, but it was decided that it would be easier and safer for Ron Perlman to perform his stunts with normal, booted feet.

9. The “cover identity” for the BPRD is “Squeaky Clean Up waste management” (seen on the plaque at the front gate as Myers arrives).

10. The motto, depicted in the lobby floor, of the Bureau of Paranormal and Psychic Defence (Defense) is: “In Absentia Luce Tenebrae Vincit”. Meaning, in the absence of light, darkness prevails (or triumphs).

Hellboy 2 trailer:

10 secret facts about Indiana Jones

admin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:17:32 +0000

Was a master carpenter before becoming a movie star, a craft he still does as a hobby.
Piloted his helicopter to rescue dehydrated 20-year-old hiker Sarah George from Table Mountain near his ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. [31 July 2000]
Listed in the 2001 Guinness Book of Records as the richest male actor.
Both his Indiana Jones jacket and fedora hat are on display at the Smithsonian Institution.
Once described Han Solo as “The great rapscallion of the universe.”
Said in an interview that he felt compelled to do his own stunts for the Indiana Jones trilogy because the film was very “action oriented” and that he felt if he weren’t in the middle of it, then were really wasn’t much else for him to do.
Indiana Jones was voted the second greatest screen hero of all time by the American Film Institute, just behind Gregory Peck‘s Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).
He initially argued against casting Sean Connery as his father Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) because Connery was only twelve years older. He later changed his mind and found he enjoyed working with Connery immensely.
Of all the characters he has played, he frequently cites Indiana Jones as both his favorite and the one he is most proud of.
The scar from his seat belt injury happened in 1968.

10 weird facts about Angelina Jolie

admin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:46:20 +0000

1. Has a tattoo of the Tennessee Williams quote, “A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages.” on her left forearm.
2. Was married to Jonny Lee Miller in a black leather pants and a white shirt. On the white shirt she painted her husband’s name in her own blood (across the back).
3. Collects knives and has an interest in mortuary science.
4. Angelina and her brother, to whom she is very close, publicly spoke out to deny false rumors that the two were having an incestuous love affair.
5. “Jolie” means “pretty” in French.
6. Her favorite Disney character is Dumbo the flying elephant, she has said that she cried when he was able to fly.

7. Started modelling at the age of 14.
8. Used to own several pet reptiles, including two snakes. Therefore she had no problem shooting the snake scene in Alexander (2004).
9. Has a fondness for Liverpool Football Club because her son Maddox “only wants to play for Liverpool”.
10. In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated her earnings for the year at $20 million.