Russell Crowe

American Gangster

source: Yahoo! Movies

British director Ridley Scott may not seem a logical choice for this truly American crime drama, but the filmmaker does an excellent job. The film is based on a true story and set in 1968 Harlem, where Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) is a driver for Bumpy Johnson, one of the top figures in the...

Published Sun, Sep 6

The Summer of Death for Movie Stars

source: Defamer

Brooks Barnes has a piece in today's New York Times pondering this very question. Barnes points out that stars such as Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts, Eddie Murphy, John Travolta, Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks, Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell have all starred in big releases that have floppe...

Published Thu, Aug 20

Sam Worthington as Perseus in Clash Of The Titans

source: Screen Rant

MTV.com  UT Is Sam Worthington the new Russell Crowe? By the looks of this first official image from Louis Letrrier's forthcoming Clash of the Titans, Worthington is channeling Crowe in Gladiator for his role as Perseus. When news of a Clash of the Titans remake ...

Published Tue, Jun 2

VIDEO REVEALED: Barcelona's Gladiator film that inspired Euro ...

source: Daily Mail - UK

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Published Tue, Jun 2

Barca inspired by Guardiola film

source: BBC Sport

 UK The pictures were set to a soundtrack from the Russell Crowe film Gladiator and the opera Turandot performed by Italian legend Pavarotti. The film had the desired effect as Barcelona went on to outclass United to become champions of Europe for the ...

Published Mon, Jun 1

Gladiator clip used to motivate Barcelona players

source: Globe and Mail

Coach Pep Guardiola ended the pre-match warm-up session early to show the players a seven-minute video that included clips from the film Gladiator, the newspaper El Pais said. The Ridley Scott film, which won five Oscars in 2000, stars Russell Crowe as ...

Published Mon, Jun 1

Gladiator Josep Guardiola inspires epic win in Rome

source: Times Online

 UK It was a carefully paced combination of sequences from the Oscar-winning movie Gladiator, starring Russell Crowe, and images from Barcelona's season: the craggy features of Crowe, the defiant Roman warrior, would cut to the delicate Andres Iniesta, ...

Published Sat, May 30

Russell Crowe Begins Filming 'Robin Hood'

source: Elites TV

 TX The film is already being heralded the most hotly anticipated blockbuster of next year and Scott and the lead actor, Russell Crowe, must be hoping to recreate a film of such Oscar-winning potential as Gladiator which they cleaned up with at the Academy ...

Published Sat, May 30