Yes it is true – and verified already! – Ewan has finally arrived on Twitter! Find his account @mcgregor_ewan and make sure you say hi!

By Celyn • May 08, 2012 • News • Comments: 0

HBO have passed on the new Ewan McGregor pilot The Corrections.

Variety reports that the cable network has chosen not to pick up the series, starring McGregor and based on a novel by Jonathan Franzen.

The bestselling novel tells the story of a troubled Midwestern family over a span of several decades, from the mid-20th century to Christmas in the new millennium.

Shot in February, the pilot was directed and adapted by Noah Baumbach, known for his work on the Ben Stiller movie Greenberg.

It featured a cast including Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans, Chris Cooper, Greta Gerwig and Dianne West.

McGregor recently starred opposite Emily Blunt in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.

He will next be seen in the drama The Impossible with Naomi Watts.

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By Celyn • May 02, 2012 • News, Rumours, TV • Comments: 1

Shortly after declaring the lineup for its official selection, the Cannes film festival has announced the jury for its 2012 edition, whose job it will be to pick the winner of the Palme d’Or.

Joining Nanni Moretti, whose presidency of the jury was announced in January, will be four men and four women, with the usual mix of star glamour and serious-minded cinephilia.

Two of the jurors are British: actor Ewan McGregor and writer-director Andrea Arnold. The latter, particularly, owes much to Cannes’ influence, as her first two films, Red Road and Fish Tank, both won the third place jury prize (in 2006 and 2009) after competing for the Palme d’Or.

France has supplied veteran actor Emmanuelle Devos, probably best known internationally for the 2001 thriller Read My Lips, and eccentric designer Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Oscar-winning writer-director Alexander Payne is the sole US representative on the jury; his only film in competition to date has been About Schmidt in 2002.

The panel is rounded out by: German actor Diane Kruger, whose most high profile film is (arguably) Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds; Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass, whose Lemon Tree was an international hit in 2008; and Haiti-born director Raoul Peck, best known for the documentary Lumumba, about the Congolese president.

The Cannes film festival opens on 16 May.

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By Celyn • April 25, 2012 • Appearance, News • Comments: 1

With Salmon Fishing in the Yemen in UK cinemas TODAY, Empire have released their Viewer’s Guide to the best films (and one to avoid!) from Ewan’s CV. You can check out the whole list here or beneath the cut – how many have you seen?

Velvet Goldmine’s opening epigram – “Although what you are about to see is a work of fiction, it should nevertheless be played at maximum volume” – could be equally well applied to Ewan McGregor’s CV. Everyone’s favourite Davidoff-scented Scotsman has always been capable of high volume. From Shallow Grave and Trainspotting to Moulin Rouge! and last year’s Beginners, the roles he’s picked have rarely lacked a subversive edge. This week’s Salmon Fishing In The Yemen, an altogether gentler adventure, gives the perfect excuse to delve into the McGregor tackle-box and sort the hot tuna from the rancid sprats.

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By Celyn • April 20, 2012 • News • Comments: 0

Today, Ewan McGregor celebrates his 41st birthday! We here at Ewan Online hope he has a great day, and cannot wait to see what the rest of 2012 has in store. Happy birthday Ewan!

By Celyn • March 31, 2012 • News • Comments: 2

For those who missed last night’s airing of Bomber Boys, fear not! UK viewers can catch up on BBC iPlayer until the end of the week (February 12). I am trying to find a copy to make screen captures, and hopefully some clips for those who haven’t been able to see it. Stay tuned!

Brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor follow up their documentary The Battle of Britain with a film exploring Bomber Command, a rarely-told story from the Second World War.

The film focuses primarily on the men who fought and died in the skies above occupied Europe, with numerous examples of individual heroism and extraordinary collective spirit, and Colin learns to fly the key aircraft of the campaign: the Lancaster bomber. But this is also the story of a controversy that has lasted almost 70 years.

The programme covers six years of wartime operations, and traces the obstacles and challenges that were overcome as the RAF developed and deployed the awesome fighting force that was Bomber Command.

By Celyn • February 06, 2012 • News, TV • Comments: 1

It’s something that happens all the time in Hollywood, and something every writer dreads. You’ve fallen in love with a story idea, come up with the perfect way to realize that story on screen…and then you find out somebody else is already making the movie. It’s not a phenomenon limited to armchair screenwriters as an excuse for not finishing their scripts either; it happened to Ewan McGregor.

The Scottish actor was planning to make his directorial debut on a movie about a 1968 yacht race. He had been researching the real-life story, he planned to pen the script himself, and he was even going to work on the project with his wife, production designer Eve Mavrakis. Then he found out that great minds think alike, and some other great mind had already bogarted his idea. He told Nylon Guys Magazine: “My wife was going to design it, I wasn’t going to be in it. And then I found out someone else is doing it. I was gutted.”

McGregor has apparently been toying with the idea of directing for a while now. In an interview with the Santa Monica Mirror last June, he joked, “The real reason I would like to direct is so that I can turn up at work and not take off my clothes. It seems like every day I turn up for work I have to take off my clothes and put on someone else’s clothes so it would be quite nice to just wear my own clothes all day.”

On a more serious note, McGregor said that he wasn’t interested in directing just for the hell of it, but that he wanted to find a particular story that fascinated him enough to justify settling into the director’s chair. As he said at the time, “I’m still waiting for that story to find me.”

Sadly, that story won’t be the yacht-race tale that had intrigued him, but hopefully he’ll find something else that catches his attention. He definitely hasn’t given up on the idea of directing. He told the magazine, “I think it would be so fascinating and satisfying. But I don’t pretend… I would be starting right at the bottom.”

In the mean time, you’ll be able to see McGregor in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, opening March 9th, 2012, and Haywire, opening January 20th.

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By Celyn • December 27, 2011 • News • Comments: 0

“Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,” starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, will open the Palm Springs International Film Festival January 5, organizers said Thursday.

The showing will mark the U.S. debut of the British comedy, which was directed by Oscar nominee Lasse Hallstrom (“My Life as a Dog”) and written by Oscar winner Simon Beaufoy (“Slumdog Millionaire”).

Two other McGregor films will also be shown at the festival: There will be a special presentation of “Haywire,” a Steven Soderbergh-directed action film also starring McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas, Channing Tatum and Bill Paxton; and the drama “Perfect Sense,” which co-stars Eva Green, is on the lineup, as well.

In total, the festival will host 187 films from 73 countries. There will be 61 premieres.

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By Celyn • December 24, 2011 • News, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen • Comments: 0

Ewan McGregor has been tapped to star in HBO’s drama pilot The Corrections.

The Star Wars and Moulin Rouge actor will co-star alongside Dianne Wiest and Chris Cooper in Noah Baumbach and Scott Rudin’s adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s best-seller, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

McGregor will play Chip, the middle child of an elderly Midwestern couple (Cooper, Wiest) who reunite the family for one last Christmas.

Rudin optioned the film rights for Paramount to the National Book Award-winning novel in 2001 and would executive produce the project.

Baumbach and Franzen will pen the project and exec produce, with Baumbach directing the drama, which is currently in production.

McGregor’s TV work includes guest starring on NBC’s ER in 1997 as well as appearing as himself in the U.K. TV docuseries Long Way Down.

McGregor’s upcoming features include The Impossible and Jack the Giant Killer.

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By Celyn • November 23, 2011 • News, TV • Comments: 0

Thanks to Rossanna for letting me know that Beginners will be availible via Movies on Demand from Tuesday November 1, 2011! If you haven’t seen the film yet, make sure you add it to your list of films to see, it really is a great watch.

By Celyn • October 27, 2011 • Beginners, News • Comments: 0