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27 September 2008 7:54 PM, PDT | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news

Update: It has just been reported that Jonathan Rhys Meyers will quit The Tudors, and more about his upcoming filming of From Paris With Love. [ read more (http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/hotshot-rhys-meyers-quits-the-tudors-1485260.html) ] He can play King, rocker, spy... You name it, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers can! As one of our favorite actors, we're putting him in the spotlight- with a list of upcoming films and his recent movie, The Children of Huang Shi (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0889588/)! - - - Latest Project: Variety (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992789.html?categoryid=13 cs=1)has recently announced that Jonathan Rhys Meyers is set to star alongside John Travolta in an upcoming thriller directed by Pierre Morel called From Paris With Love (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179034/). The films plot concerns a young embassy worker and an American secret agent who cross paths while working on a high-risk mission in Paris. [ read more (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992789.html?categoryid=13 cs=1) ] Screen Daily (http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyArticle.aspx?

25 September 2008 7:32 AM, PDT | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news

Variety (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992789.html?categoryid=13 cs=1)has recently announced that Jonathan Rhys Meyers is set to star alongside John Travolta in an upcoming thriller directed by Pierre Morel called From Paris With Love (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179034/). The films plot concerns a young embassy worker and an American secret agent who cross paths while working on a high-risk mission in Paris. [ read more (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992789.html?categoryid=13 cs=1) ] Screen Daily (http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyArticle.aspx?intStoryID=41014 Category) also reports producers EuropaCorp are to begin shooting on From Paris With Love: EuropaCorp has announced the start of principal photography on the $55m (Euros 38m) From Paris With Love, starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Director Pierre Morel began filming Monday near Annecy and will carry on to Paris and its environs for a total 12-week shoot. The film is based on an original idea from EuropaCorp principal Luc Besson,

8 July 2008 5:28 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Superhero movie Hancock has knocked Kung Fu Panda off the Australian box office top spot. Will Smith's action adventure took nearly twice as much as the DreamWorks animated comedy to land the number one spot. Elsewhere, Steve Carell's comedy vehicle Get Smart fell to third, while The Children Of Huang Shi climbed to number nine. The top ten in full: 1. (-) Hancock - $$7,280,548

2. (1) Kung Fu Panda - $$3,828,577

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By Alex Fletcher

22 May 2008 2:04 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Too many biopics simplify their subjects' lives down to the point where it seems like great people never suffer through false starts: From childhood on, they aim themselves, arrow-like, at their goals. Which makes for good mythmaking, but a lousy portrayal of real life. The Children Of Huang Shi, a portrait of British journalist George Hogg, is romanticized in some respects, with enough lit-fic gloss that it resembles a respectable film adaptation of a Somerset Maugham novel. But at least it gets across the way Hogg stumbled into his life's work unintentionally: Even great lives don't always work out as intended. Opening in 1937 with the Japanese occupation of China, Huang Shi follows Hogg (played with bristling energy by The Tudors star Jonathan Rhys Meyers) as he cockily infiltrates a dangerous contested area, eager to scoop his competition. When he witnesses a mass execution of Chinese civilians—part of the...

Tasha Robinson

4 articles from 2008