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http://www.eurweb.com/story.cfm?id=17662
As 2004 draws to a close, Don Cheadle?s film release schedule is just cranking into full gear. The hardest working man in show business this side of Jude Law opens Dec. 10 in ?Ocean?s Twelve,? his second of three films to be released before New Year?s Day.
Much has been said in the press about the cast shacking up at George Clooney?s villa in Lake Como, Italy.
?We had to pay, it's not like it was free,? Cheadle joked during interviews for the film earlier this mongh. ?They gave us a cut rate, sure.:
?I thought that it was generous,? Clooney replied.
In this sequel to 2001?s ?Ocean?s Eleven,? Danny Ocean (Clooney) and his band of thieves regroup for a series of international heists to repay the $160 million stolen from Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) at a Las Vegas hotel. Cheadle returns ? accent and all ? as British explosives expert Eugene ?Basher? Tarr, who joins returning crooks played by Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Bernie Mac, Elliot Gould, Casey Affleck Scott Caan and Carl Reiner in such exotic locations as Amsterdam, Paris, Monte Carlo and Castellamare del Golfo in Sicily.
?[Director] Steven [Soderbergh] set the tone and could've really been safe and tried to do the same thing again--but this film was a complete departure,? Cheadle said. ?It was almost more fun, I think, and a lot more cinematic. It just opened up, which is neat.?
Before jetting off around the world to begin the shoot, initial production began in Chicago, where the cast gathered together for the first time in three years.
?The first day we just stood around for two hours talking,? he said. ?We were just kind of reminiscing and talking about different things that we'd made, and Steven was walking through us just getting reacquainted. And then after a couple of hours we were like, 'Are we going to shoot? Are we going to work today?' We all had lunch and came back and Steven had all these chalk marks drawn out on the floor and angles and heights and had done the whole thing in his head. You see that scene now, you see what he did and it's remarkable.?
Besides the addition of Catherine Zeta Jones as polished Europol agent Isabel Lahiri hot on their trail, another departure from the original film?s concept is the perfection of the heists. Jobs in ?Twelve? don?t go down as smoothly as the thefts in ?Eleven.?
?I think that it's a lot more fun working and playing people who are totally fallible and screwing up,? said Cheadle. ?That's a lot more fun. It was a lot more fun this time around.?
Hot on the heels of ?After the Sunset,? ?Ocean?s Twelve? will hit theaters next Friday, to be followed two weeks later by his Oscar-worthy turn in ?Hotel Rwanda,? due in limited release on Dec. 22. The true story stars the recent Gotham Award winner as Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who sheltered over a thousand Tutsis refugees from the Hutu militia during the genocide in Rwanda. Cheadle actually shot the film before reunited with the A-listers to film ?Ocean?s.?
?It was great to do 'Ocean's' because it was kind of a respite from what I'd been doing just before that, and I got to sort of reunite with all of these friends. We'd think of movie ideas on the set and be really creative and think about other projects that we wanted to pursue later. So it's just been a cool breeding ground in a good way, a great Petri dish for everyone.?
http://www.eurweb.com/story.cfm?id=17662
As 2004 draws to a close, Don Cheadle?s film release schedule is just cranking into full gear. The hardest working man in show business this side of Jude Law opens Dec. 10 in ?Ocean?s Twelve,? his second of three films to be released before New Year?s Day.
Much has been said in the press about the cast shacking up at George Clooney?s villa in Lake Como, Italy.
?We had to pay, it's not like it was free,? Cheadle joked during interviews for the film earlier this mongh. ?They gave us a cut rate, sure.:
?I thought that it was generous,? Clooney replied.
In this sequel to 2001?s ?Ocean?s Eleven,? Danny Ocean (Clooney) and his band of thieves regroup for a series of international heists to repay the $160 million stolen from Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) at a Las Vegas hotel. Cheadle returns ? accent and all ? as British explosives expert Eugene ?Basher? Tarr, who joins returning crooks played by Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Bernie Mac, Elliot Gould, Casey Affleck Scott Caan and Carl Reiner in such exotic locations as Amsterdam, Paris, Monte Carlo and Castellamare del Golfo in Sicily.
?[Director] Steven [Soderbergh] set the tone and could've really been safe and tried to do the same thing again--but this film was a complete departure,? Cheadle said. ?It was almost more fun, I think, and a lot more cinematic. It just opened up, which is neat.?
Before jetting off around the world to begin the shoot, initial production began in Chicago, where the cast gathered together for the first time in three years.
?The first day we just stood around for two hours talking,? he said. ?We were just kind of reminiscing and talking about different things that we'd made, and Steven was walking through us just getting reacquainted. And then after a couple of hours we were like, 'Are we going to shoot? Are we going to work today?' We all had lunch and came back and Steven had all these chalk marks drawn out on the floor and angles and heights and had done the whole thing in his head. You see that scene now, you see what he did and it's remarkable.?
Besides the addition of Catherine Zeta Jones as polished Europol agent Isabel Lahiri hot on their trail, another departure from the original film?s concept is the perfection of the heists. Jobs in ?Twelve? don?t go down as smoothly as the thefts in ?Eleven.?
?I think that it's a lot more fun working and playing people who are totally fallible and screwing up,? said Cheadle. ?That's a lot more fun. It was a lot more fun this time around.?
Hot on the heels of ?After the Sunset,? ?Ocean?s Twelve? will hit theaters next Friday, to be followed two weeks later by his Oscar-worthy turn in ?Hotel Rwanda,? due in limited release on Dec. 22. The true story stars the recent Gotham Award winner as Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who sheltered over a thousand Tutsis refugees from the Hutu militia during the genocide in Rwanda. Cheadle actually shot the film before reunited with the A-listers to film ?Ocean?s.?
?It was great to do 'Ocean's' because it was kind of a respite from what I'd been doing just before that, and I got to sort of reunite with all of these friends. We'd think of movie ideas on the set and be really creative and think about other projects that we wanted to pursue later. So it's just been a cool breeding ground in a good way, a great Petri dish for everyone.?
