Russell Crowe almost turned down stalker role in 'Unhinged'

Looking forward to watching An American Pickle this week? The one where Seth Rogen falls into a vat of pickles in 1920 and wakes up in modern day New York? Chances are you haven’t been looking forward to it for too long, since the trailer only dropped at the start of July. You might have also missed Unhinged, the Russell Crowe road-rage thriller and the first new film to reopen cinemas along with Eva Green’s astronaut drama, Proxima.

Russell Crowe and an Edinburgh-born musical theatre star have gone viral with their lockdown recording of The Confrontation from hit West End musical Les Miserables. The video racked up over a million hits in just 48-hours with fans clamouring for more from Pilton-born Jeff Leyton and the Hollywood A-lister.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorWhile Universal’s Dolittle and Warner Bros’ reissue of Interstellar were the big kahunas in China this weekend, Russell Crowe-starrer Unhinged hit the road in 19 new markets over the session. Among them, the UK, Australia, Netherlands and New Zealand where the Solstice Studios pic was No.

Naman Ramachandran Road-rage thriller “Unhinged,” starring Russell Crowe, topped the U.K.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThe 2008 comedy Pineapple Express was a hit with audiences and a box office success, earning over $100 million worldwide so it had all the ingredients for a sequel and it was about to all happen — until it didn’t.

Any movie that casts Russell Crowe as a hulking great slab of thin-skinned, two-fisted, short-fuse machismo has got to be aiming a self-aware wink at its target audience. But the knowing humor ends right there with Unhinged, the kind of stubbornly lowbrow revenge thriller that could easily have been released 20 or 30 years ago, probably with a washed-up minor action star as the lead.

Guy Lodge Film CriticOver a staggered series of pandemic-delayed release dates, “Unhinged” has been consistently hyped as the film that will bring the dormant theatrical scene back to life — the one that, as other major releases have either postponed themselves into the distant whenever or bit the bullet and premiered online, has stuck to its guns as a summer big-screen experience.

Russell Crowe revealed why his teenage boys chose not to live with him during lockdown as he did an interview with Sunrise Thursday.

Gladiator star Russell Crowe has opened up about the guilt he felt when he won an Oscar for his role in the hit 2000 movie.The actor took home the Best Actor Academy Award for his role as Maximus Decimus Meridius in the Ridley Scott movie, which also won the Best Picture.However, he has admitted that he felt bad for getting all the attention when he believed that Scott deserved awards for the film.“It’s funny because some days it feels so close, and other days it feels like another lifetime

The Hollywood star Russell Crowe has reportedly stated that the director Ridley Scott should get all the praise for his hit film Gladiator becoming a massive success. The A Beautiful Mind actor Russell Crowe reportedly said while talking in an interview with the Australian show, Today that when he saw the film's live streaming some time back at Rome's Colosseum, he felt that the director, Ridley Scott deserves all the credit for the film tremendous success.

Unhinged, has just been released – watch it exclusively below.Crowe stars as a stranger chasing down a young woman, played by Caren Pistorius, in the new film by Derrick Borte and written by Carl Ellsworth.Unhinged is set to be the first major film released in cinemas following the global coronavirus lockdown, with the release date moving from July 10 to July 31 in keeping with the US date.Watch the new clip here: The official synopsis for Unhinged describes the film as “a timely psychological

Russell Crowe won best actor in 2001 at the Oscars for his role in “Gladiator,” but he doesn’t believe he earned it. On Australian show “Today,” Crowe, 56, revealed that he thought the film's director, Ridley Scott, should have gotten most of the praise for the success of the movie.

It’s been 20 years since the world was introduced to Bryan Singer’s film, “X-Men.” And though it wasn’t the first (superhero films existed decades prior) and it wasn’t the most successful (Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man” would break records two years later), “X-Men” holds a significant place in the history of superhero films—proving they could be serious and meaningful in a post-“Batman & Robin” world and that they could be blockbusters once again.

Will Thorne Staff WriterAdam Goldberg, star of “God Friended Me” and the upcoming Russell Crowe pic “The Georgetown Project,” is developing a series at Quibi which is loosely based on his own experiences with social media, Variety has learned exclusively.The project in question is called “@GeneralStories” (working title) and also hails from Eric Siegel (“The Emoji Movie,” “Men at Work”) and Stampede Ventures.

Kelly Preston, who died at the age of 57 on Sunday, July 12, after privately battling breast cancer for two years.John Travolta, who married Preston in September 1991, announced the news of the actress’ death “with a very heavy heart” via Instagram in the early hours of Monday, July 13.“She fought a courageous fight with the love and support of so many,” the Grease star, 66, told his 2.8 million Instagram followers.

Also Read: Kelly Preston, 'Jerry Maguire' Actress, Dies at 57Crowe on Monday shared a brief anecdote in which he remembered auditioning with Preston in the film “Breaking Up” for a role that eventually went to Salma Hayek.“Can’t remember where, but, met first in late ’92 I think. Such a lovely person,” Crowe said.

Kelly Preston has sadly passed away at the age of 57, after a two-year battle with cancer. The Jerry Maguire star is now survived by her husband of 29 years, John Travolta and children Ella, 20 and Benjamin, 9.