Henry Cavill: Happy New Year Superman (Lainey Gossip)

January 3, 2012Posted at 12:12 PM

Posted by Lainey

Henry Cavill arrived back in Vancouver last night to resume shooting Man of Steel which probably means he really wasn’t allowed to indulge during the holiday and the way I feel today, ugh, I wish I wasn’t allowed to indulge either. Am heading to LA for work this weekend. Love being surrounded by anorexics!

As for Henry, Sarah from Cinesnark told me the other day that of the top grossing movies of 2011, 8 of 10 were sequels and the other 2 were Thor and Captain America. Man Of Steel opens in 2013. Will box office trends be the same in 2 years? If so, it’ll be a different reality for Henry Cavill who has been walking around Vancouver for months totally unrecognised. Like, Snooki could come here and people would sh-t their pants, and Henry Cavill is never, ever stopped. Fame is such a strange thing.

http://www.laineygossip.com/Articles/Details/22246/Henry-Cavill-arrives-back-in-Vancouver-after-holidays-to-resume-Man-of-Steel

Henry Cavill Graces The Cover of SFX Magazine: SUPERMAN OF STEEL.COM

If you’re a spandex salesman, 2012 is going to be your year! Supes returns in The Man Of Steel, Andrew Garfield dons a brand new web-slinging outfit in The Amazing Spider-Man and the Marvel movie universe comes together in The Avengers. We’re taking a look at them all this issue, from dissecting the new Avengers trailer to looking at 50 thing you need to know about the new Superman movie and an interview with Andrew Garfield. Blimey! Happy Whomas! SFX 217 is on sale Wednesday 14 December, in stores and through Newsstand and Zinio. You can also subscribe to the print version of SFX to save loads on the shop price.

http://www.supermanofsteel.com/2011/12/13/henry-cavill-graces-the-cover-of-sfx-magazine/

#YVRShoots – Now that’s a Man of Steel in the new Superman

Vancouver is Awesome

POSTED November 4, 2011 BY Susan Gittins

This series had its genesis when I began photographing Vancouver area location shoots in the summer of 2010 to get over a post-Olympics funk. Film and TV productions like Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Fringe, Supernatural and The Killing showcase our city in similar fashion and sometimes put a celebrity actor or two in the frame.

Director Zach Snyder is so secretive about his new Superman movie that crew must check their cell phones before entry into Mammoth Studios in Burnaby and paparazzi had to climb trees in Ucluelet last month to catch glimpses of the filming.
So it came as a shock last week to see the Man of Steel himself and shirtless to boot on a big green screen set on the North Shore. Henry Cavill, the first non-American to play the iconic role of Clark Kent/Superman, is best known to me for playing Charles Brandon on The Tudors. While Brandon is a handsome rake he didn’t look buffed-up like this so kudos to Cavill and his trainer Gym Jones. These aren’t CGIed muscles as some of abs in Snyder’s 300 are rumoured to have been.



Man of Steel filmed in the small town of Plano and the big metropolis of Chicago, Illinois, this summer before heading to Vancouver for the autumn. August casting calls in Ucluelet and Nanaimo foreshadowed that the Vancouver Island west coast town would play an Alaskan fishing village and that a Nanaimo dive hotel would play an Alaskan loggers bar.

In early October Henry Cavill and crew spent time battling the ocean swells off the coast of Ucluelet in boats. Two enterprising Vancouver paparazzi managed to snap him on land as Clark Kent (no black glasses) in a grey sweatshirt working on a fishing net, as well as Russell Crowe in Kryptonian costume as Superman’s father Jor-El. Crowe’s presence in Vancouver is well-documented by his almost daily workout tweets, like this one on September 24th — “24 km bike out to Horseshoe Bay. This place is beautiful” — and by his surprise appearance on stage with his Aussie pal Keith Urban at the country star’s Rogers Arena concert.

From Ucluelet, Man of Steel moved to Nanaimo on the east coast of Vancouver Island to film at the old, turquoise-roofed Cassidy Hotel, with four prop logging trucks parked outside. I know that hotel, having spent a summer during university working as a surveyor on the Island highway outside. And in another strange coincidence, I arrived on a ferry to Departure Bay for the Thanksgiving weekend just as Henry Cavill and Man of Steel crew wrapped filming there.

Man of Steel is said to have filmed at Whistler the following week but I haven’t seen any photos or any confirmation of that yet. Meantime, someone tweeted that she’d spotted AF signs (Autumn Frost is the production codename for Man of Steel) on lower Lonsdale and that was the first indication of the green screen helicopter pad being built east of Vancouver Drydocks on Vancouver Ports private property. On October 19th, ace photographer John Biehler put up a photo of the under-construction set on his Flickr page. I checked it out two days later in the rain and put up the photo below on my Flickr page, later damaging my Blackberry by trying to force it in the downpour.


So I was without a working Blackberry on Tuesday morning when a friend told me that someone had tweeted about a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter flying at the Man of Steel green screen set. Filming had begun. I headed for the seabus not expecting to find more than the usual green screen stunts with no cast. When I got there late morning I spotted two paps below me on the Lower Level Road arguing with RCMP about their right to be there. Man of Steel had hoped they could keep photographers back up where I was by citing safety concerns, but the paps won because the roadway is public property.

I soon understood why the paps had fought for that vantage when a shirtless man appeared on set. I photographed the Henry Cavill rescue scene as best I could for about twenty minutes, maxing out at 48 x digital zoom on my Canon compact, until Cavill retreated to his trailer next to the railroad tracks (on the right of the photo above). The Man of Steel set photographer got the closeups of Cavill’s amazing physique.

I haven’t been able to confirm but the scene looked like a rescue from a floating Alaskan oil rig. Between takes, Cavill wrapped himself in a big black coat, hanging out below the stage with the extras.

At lunchtime, the Coast Guard helicopter turned itself around and crew started laying out green screen cloth on the tarp for the next scene. I retreated to Lonsdale to find wifi and spotted a filming notice on the way. I checked #yvrshoots and discovered two tweets about the Man of Steel filming but nothing about a shirtless Henry Cavill so I uploaded two photos around 1 p.m. and then left the North Shore to see what was going on at the University of British Columbia with the Robert Redford film The Company You Keep.

I don’t often scoop the paps with my compact camera on things that matter to them but I knew it wouldn’t be long before they sold their photos and the feeding frenzy began (I have a policy of not selling my set photos). Paparazzi multiplied at the green screen set that afternoon as filming resumed with more shirtless Henry Cavill. I should have known it would. Director Zach Snyder is a noted perfectionist, said to have spent 18 to 19 hours here one day to film just a page and a half of script. Production is at least week behind already.

Now there are hundreds and hundreds of photos of shirtless, scruffy Henry Cavill online. On the second day of filming at the green screen set, Cavill did more shirtless rescue scenes in pouring rain and gloom. It must have been well lit because I’ve seen some amazing photos (and a video from Ken Redekop) of him pumping up by doing chinups before a scene where he lifts a cross of steel girders to get the men out.


On the third day of filming, Man of Steel moved to their burning building set at the same location. I dropped by to see it, expecting fireball explosions high in the air, but they kept the explosions inside set so I didn’t stay. On the upper road I found half-a-dozen paps with their 300m to 500m lenses (and extenders) trained down on the west side of the burning building where Henry Cavill entered and exited. John Biehler took a better photo of them from below which showed the lenses and tripods.


I do know and am on friendly terms with most of the local paps, who while not exactly welcome on sets (no one with a camera is) are nothing like their L.A. brethren. It’s hard not to know them if you go to location shoots regularly like I do, where I usuallly run into one or two at most not half a dozen lined up side by side.

The next day — a week ago — Man of Steel abandoned the green screen and burning build sets to film on Mount Seymour in the fog and the rain. Someone spotted them at a cabin, probably @Reel_Cabin, the log cabin regularly used for filming by local productions from Twilight to Fringe. On Halloween night, Man of Steel returned to Mount Seymour to film a stunt sequence with an overturned logging truck.

Man of Steel continues filming here until early 2012 so here’s hoping there will be more Alaskan fishing, logging and oil rig scenes to see before it wraps. There can never be enough shirtless Henry Cavill photos in my opinion.

Man of Steel is expected in theatres in 2013.

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Actors Who Could Play James Bond (hint: Henry Cavill, Clive Owens, Gerard Butler)

Female First

03 November 2011

 
There has been a lot of talk about James Bond in recent weeks what with the twenty third film in the series due to begin shooting next year.

And Hugh Jackman has revealed that he turned down the role of 007 because it was the wrong time in his career when he was offered the role.

So this got us thinking here at FemaleFirst… who could play the role of the super spy when Daniel Craig finally leaves the role behind - and we by no means what Craig to turn his back on Bond any time soon.


Hugh Jackman - I appreciate that Jackman may not be a Brit but I personally would love to see him take on the role of 007.
The Aussie actor turned down the role because he had just taken on the role of Wolverine and he didn’t want to take on two franchises at the same time.
There is not doubt that Jackman has the looks to pull of the role of the suave spy - and it would be a very popular casting.


Idris Elba - the actor has long since voiced his desire to play James Bond; and there is no denying that Elba is a great actor.
And he has shown that he has the power and presence to take on the role of 007 with his central performance in Luther - and he is also known in the U.S. after playing Stringer Bell in The Wire.


Henry Cavill - the Brit actor was one of the major contenders when Pierce Brosnan left the role and he underwent screen tests for the part.
But, sadly, it seems that that boat may have sailed with Cavill having been cast as Superman in a reboot of the franchise.
His star is set to soar when he stars as Clark Kent in 2013 and he would be the perfect Bond and it would be interesting to see a younger actor take on the role.


Tom Hardy - I am a huge fan of Hardy and I have to admit that he would be my pick to eventually take over the franchise.
He is young enough to stay with the franchise for many years and there is just that little bit of something about him.
Much like Craig he is the rough around the edges kind of Bond and he would bring a certain rawness and unpredictability to the role and the character.

Gerard Butler - the Scotsman is another actor who has been linked to the role of James Bond in recent years.
Butler has the looks the charm and the charisma for 007 and we have seen him take on a series of action roles during his career - that he would be a perfect fit.


Clive Owen - when casting the role of James Bond actor Clive Owen has been mention more times than I care to remember.
But at the age of 47 sadly I feel that Owen’s chance may have gone - although he still has all the attributes that would have made a perfect 007.


There are a whole host of contenders who have the potential to take over the role of 007 when Craig is done - but let’s hope the lovely Daniel won’t be going anywhere just yet!!
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw

The Necklace Around Superman's Neck? - Henry Cavill

Comic book Movies

We've seen Henry Cavill wearing the same necklace in all of the leaked set photos thus far. I want to know your thoughts on what it could be.

In all of the set pictures of Cavill shooting as Clark Kent, we've seen him wearing the same necklace.



I've seen many ideas on what it could actually be, here are a few:

The first idea I've seen and probably the most obvious is that it is a gift from his Kryptonian mother and father. It makes a lot of sense that it might have been put around Kal-El as a child before he was put in the ship and therefore he wears it to remember his true home and true mother and father.

Another idea I've seen which is a bit more out there is that it could be where his suit is stored. Although it would be conventional for this to happen as i have no idea how Clark would wear his costume under his work suit.



However I can't see this going down well with Superman fans as it would obviously upset them by changing Superman too much. As it's a reboot I feel that there should be nothing of the films of old included however I still think staying true to the comics should be a must.

The final idea I've seen knocking about is that it could either be the key to his fortress or could be the fortress itself, for example the crystal in Smallville that became the fortress. Again, maybe a good idea but we'd have to wait and see how that one goes.

Anyway, that's just a few ideas I've seen but I'd like to know what the comic book community think about the necklace.

Thoughts?

Supermodel and film star come to Windsor

 

5:12pm Tue 11th Oct 11:: written by Justin Burns

It is not often a supermodel and an A-list film star visit Windsor on the same day - but it happened yesterday afternoon.

Kerri Parker, who won Miss Supermodel England this year, cat-walked into Windsor Racecourse in Maidenhead Road after being invited by Ladbrokes, her main sponsor.

Also enjoying the day's races was star of the films Closer, Children of Men and The International, actor Clive Owen, who was attending an Aegis Trust charity event.

Kerri has just returned from Fiji, where she won the People's Choice Crown and finished fourth overall in the World Supermodel Pageant contest on September 30 - entered by 150 countries.

The 27-year-old is not your stereotypical supermodel.

She competes in boxing and martial arts bouts and is a successful businesswoman with her Kerri Parker Academy, which nurtures young models.

The model was visiting the racecourse for the first time and said: "It is lovely, everyone is so friendly - if only it was sunnier."