Gladiator star Russell Crowe donates almost £3k to student struggling to pay drama school fees

Tunisian-French film producer Tarak Ben Ammar has finalized a deal to purchase Studios de Paris, the production facility outside the French capital which recently housed the Netflix series Emily In Paris and Netflix’s Murder Mystery 2, Deadline can confirm.

Eamonn Holmes has revealed that where he grew up, in war-torn Belfast during the infamous era of the Troubles, cancel culture "was a bullet in the head". However, the former This Morning presenter has revealed he admires Piers Morgan for his fighting spirit during his own cancel culture scandal, when he clashed with ITV over his Meghan Markle comments.Praising Piers for standing up for his beliefs, he exclaimed: "He saved ITV Breakfast!"Without him, the viewing figures will probably slump because he brought a different way of doing it," he added."You have to evolve or die."He also related to the host's refusal to suck up to people in the industry, admitting that he and his wife Ruth Langsford are also "not good at kissing bottoms"."Sometimes it is really quite pathetic the way some people suck up to influential people," he continued."Ruth and I have to genuinely like people to socialise with them."Despite this, he also told the Daily Mail's Weekend Magazine that he can't quite match Piers' outspoken tendencies explaining: "Piers is much braver than I am.

BBC Breakfast star Sally Nugent shared a 12 second phone call with co-host Dan Walker before accepting her new role on the show.The 50-year-old journalist began filling in as a temporary host on the iconic red sofa 10 years ago.However, she was made main presenter on the programme since October last year following the departure of Louise Minchin. She has opened up about how she accepted her role and the question she asked Dan before agreeing to the presenting job.Speaking to The Mirror, Sally said: "I did have a 12 second conversation with Dan before all of this started where I said, 'You are staying for a bit aren't you?' And he went, 'Yeah, I think so.'"So I was like right.

Russell Crowe is lending a hand to a fellow actor who can really use it.

Russell Crowe is doing something wonderful.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: If Beale Street Could Talk star Stephan James is in final negotiations to co-star with Russell Crowe in Paramount’s thriller American Son, which is based on the critically acclaimed French film A Prophet.Andrew “Rapman” Onwubolu is on board to direct the movie from a screenplay by Dennis Lehane. Neal H.

@YorkshireTea and I’m hoping he’s @LUFC. Thoughts ⁦@TerryGeorge⁩ ?Fundraiser by Harry Pritchard : Get Harry to LAMDA Drama School https://t.co/oiSvb0ydxi— Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) August 24, 2020“In the first four days I was getting lovely, kind donations from family and friends, and I couldn’t quite believe that,” Mr Pritchard told PA.“I started to put it out on Twitter, hoping somebody would see it and retweet it… it got a bit of buzz, then all of a sudden I see a tweet tagging Russell Crowe… I couldn’t believe it.”The actor tagged businessman and friend Terry George, who then made his own donation of £1,000 to the fund.“From there it started snowballing,” Mr Pritchard told PA.

Gladiator heartthrob was moved when he read about 23-year-old Harry Pritchard, a student from Yorkshire who started a GoFundMe to help him raise the £13,799 he needs after winning a place at the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.The actor said he had once been in a similar situation and could not pay for drama school, telling fans “it took the wind out of my sails at the time”.To help Pritchard realise his dream of becoming an actor, Crowe shared his appeal on Twitter and urged his followers to chip in.“I was once in a situation like Harry,” he wrote.I was once in a situation like Harry. I couldn’t afford to go to Drama School.

Harry Pritchard received an offer to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), but feared he would struggle to cover living expenses along with the course fee of £13,799.After being told he must pay a deposit of £2,760 by Thursday, the 23-year-old from Harrogate created a GoFundMe page in an effort to raise the necessary cash.But having spotted the appeal, Gladiator star and avid Leeds United fan Crowe shared the fundraiser with his 2.7 million followers on Twitter, tagging friend Terry George.His post said: "There's a lot of plans and dreams being shattered these days...

Russell Crowe's thriller Unhinged took in $4 million at the box office as theaters gradually reopened in the United States for first time since March.Theaters in states including Florida, Georgia and Texas opened, with the Solstice Studios release headlining the reopening at 1,823 North America venues (of an estimated 6,000 nationwide), Variety reported Sunday.The studio is expected to roll out the film in 2,300 more theaters next weekend.

Russell Crowe’s ex-wife, Danielle Spencer, is to bare all on risque Australian TV show The All New Monty: Guys And Gals.She is one of 15 Australian stars who have signed on for the Channel Seven show, revealing she wants to raise breast cancer awareness on the series.Spencer admits her teenage sons from her marriage to Crowe, Charles and Tennyson, were initially mortified when mom told them she’d be stripping off in public, but they are getting used to the idea.“My sons are a little nervous about it,” she told The West Australian. “They were like, ‘Really? You’re what? Oh my God’.

Rebecca Rubin News Editor, OnlineAfter months-long cinema closures, the U.S. box office has opened to the most significant degree since pre-pandemic times.Movie theaters in Florida, Texas, Georgia and other parts of the country that were able to safely reopen welcomed the first major theatrical premiere since March: Solstice Studios’ “Unhinged,” a thriller starring Russell Crowe.

Had Sharon Stone not put her foot down years ago concerning an Australian actor she wanted in her film, Russell Crowe may never have become a household name in American. While visiting Late Night with Seth Meyers on Tuesday to promote his recent film, Unhinged, Crowe reminisced about the importance of Stone getting him cast in 1995’s Western The Quick and the Dead, on which she was the star and a producer.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticLagging a few weeks behind the rest of the world (where Russell Crowe road-rage thriller “Unhinged” released in several territories late last month), the United States is slowly seeing cinemas reopen in anticipation of Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” — still optimistically dated for Sept. 3.But that doesn’t mean film fans don’t have options, opening on drive-in screens, virtual cinemas and subscriptions services.With more than 30 new movies releasing in the U.S.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: The adage you never forget your first time might be especially true for Mark Gill and his Solstice Studios cohorts, who decided to offer up the first film they financed as the litmus test of whether theater goers are ready to return to U.S. cinemas for the first time since they abruptly went dark in March.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorCaren Pistorius can only describe her experience on “Unhinged” as wonderful but “surreal.” The actor was working at a fabric store in Sydney when she got the call to audition for the road rage thriller starring Russell Crowe.Within hours, she found herself in New Orleans for a screen test. She ended up staying in the city as she quickly landed the role, and the film began shooting a week later.

 Movie theaters are set to reopen the weekend of Aug. 21, which will also be first major theatrical film release since cinemas were shuttered amid the swift spread of the coronavirus.

Russell Crowe has Sharon Stone to thank for helping him break into Hollywood after fighting to have the New Zealand-born actor cast in 1995 western The Quick And The Dead.The Sam Raimi movie served as Crowe’s American film debut, but he was almost passed over for the role of Cort – until Stone, who starred in the project and served as a producer, saved the day.“I used to say my theory of Los Angeles was you have to be careful because they will nice you to death,” Crowe quipped during an appearance on U.S.

grown more sophisticated and clever, you heave a sigh of relief to be handed a thriller that’s so dumb. There are lots of laughs at the gruesome deaths and a few solid shocks in director Derrick Borte’s film.

Gladiator 2.The actor, who played Maximus in Ridley Scott’s 2000 historical epic, recalled a conversation with producer Doug Wick suggesting a Bible-inspired plot development for the character, seeing him carried into a cave and resurrected a few days later.“Last time I talked to Doug,” Crowe began in an interview with Screen Rant, “he said he had this great idea where Maximus gets carried from the stadium and they pull back this big rock and he gets put into this cave and then the rock closes over and he’s anointed with oils.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaWhen “Unhinged,” a road rage thriller starring Russell Crowe, opens in the U.S. on Aug.