Clive Owen takes a break from filming The International and chows down some hot soup, as the rainy weather delays production on Park Avenue in New York City on Friday.

Clive, 43, plays an obsessive Interpol agent who investigates a global banking institution for corruption and murder with the help of a Manhattan assistant district attorney (Naomi Watts).

The International is being directed by Tom Tykwer and is set for an Aug. 15 release date.

Clive Owen and Naomi Watts film scenes for their upcoming movie The International in Milan, Italy on Tuesday.

The drama thriller follows an obsessive Interpol agent (Owen) investigating a global banking institution for corruption and murder with the help of a Manhattan assistant district attorney (Watts). Danish actor Ulrich Thomsen plays an investment banker who gets involved in an arms-dealing ring.

The International opens in theaters nationwide on August 15, 2008.

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British mega-stud Clive Owen is the September 2007 cover star and once-rumored Bond for Details magazine.

On his down to earth wife, Sarah Jane: “I have to drag Sarah-Jane to a premiere. Her ultimate present, which I bought her a few years ago, was a Volkswagen Caravan van. She’s into arts and crafts, and hanging with the kids, and going camping. She’s very unimpressed by what I do.”

On his equally un-impressed daughters: “The girls have very high status in my house. I’m the git in the family. Every time I go away, [daughter] Hannah gives me what I call her Roger Moore face.”

On quitting smoking: ““I f—–’ loved smokin’. Oh, God. I f—–’ loved it. I talked about [quitting] all through [my wife’s] pregnancy, but I didn’t do anything about it. I had smoked since I was f–king 14. I always used to say to myself, I’m going to die of lung cancer. That’s the choice I’m making. And then when Sarah-Jane was pregnant, I couldn’t think about anything else. I just had this image in my head of breathing smoke in a baby’s face. You just think about it going into their little lungs. And when Hannah was born, I stopped.”

And the funniest/weridest quote from the article: “If Brad Pitt is shiny and George Clooney is glossy, Owen is matte.”

Be sure to read Clive’s full interview with Details!

Clive Owen plays it cool and sexy promoting his new Michael Davis-directed action flick, Shoot ‘Em Up, at the 2007 Comic-Con convention in San Diego on Friday.

Clive, 42, stars as Mr. Smith, a mysterious loner who teams up with an unlikely ally ( Monica Bellucci) to protect a newborn baby from a determined criminal (Paul Giamatti) who hunts them throughout the bowels of the city.

Organizers of the Montreal World Film Festival are trying to secure the world premiere of Shoot ‘em Up, which would screen at the end of August.

Shoot ‘Em Up will be released nationwide on Sept. 7.

• Clive Owen goes on a shopping trip with his wife.
• More Britney in her panties…
• Jessica Alba is a Golden Goddness
• Ryan Phillippe takes his kids for a walk!
• An Olivia Wilde Picture Moment
• Alessandra Ambrosio looks clean and classy at Armani.
• Hollywood has gone baby crazy!
• Eva Longoria is getting married here. Ooh la la!
• All the stars want to wear white skirts nowadays!
• Does Britney change clothes for cash?
• Paris saw a plastic surgeon while under house arrest!
• Kelly Clarkson fires her manager, mere weeks before her new album drops.
• Mariah Carey has asked Island Def Jam Chairman L.A. Reid to stop Eminem from slandering her in his upcoming album. A source tells OK! magazine that Eminem raps about the old rumored fling for several new tracks.
• “Everything is going to be good. I can see her life picking up, and it’s going to be great for her,” Lynn Spears, Britney Spears’ mother, tells Us Weekly. The pair, who have been estranged since before Britney’s stint in rehab, reconciled Sunday at a family barbecue. Meanwhile, the Daily News today ran a photo of Spears experiencing a wardrobe malfunction after partying at Joseph’s in Hollywood Monday night.
• After attending a private reading of the work held last week, Jake Gyllenhaal might star in the political stage drama Farragut North, to open this fall. Gyllenhaal would play an idealistic communications director for an unorthodox presidential candidate said to be based on 2004 Democratic candidate Howard Dean.
• Rumor has it Brandon Davis, tired of people calling him “Greasy Bear,” recently went on a diet. He sowed of his leaner figure at a party the other night at the Diesel flagship store in L.A., where he drank only water.
• The July 1 concert for Princess Diana will air as an NBC prime-time special. Performers include Elton John, Duran Duran, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Kanye West, and Lilly Allen, among others. Princes William and Harry told Today show co-host Matt Lauer in an interview to be broadcast Monday on NBC that they still think about their mother’s death all the time. “There’s not a day goes by I don’t think, you know, that I don’t think about it once in the day,” said Prince William. This August will mark the 10th anniversary of Diana’s fatal car crash inside a Paris traffic tunnel.

Sultry Italian bombshell Monica Bellucci takes her 2-year-old daughter Deva Cassel to play at Pincio Park in Rome, Italy on Tuesday afternoon.

Monica and French actor Vincent Cassel have been married since 1999.

Monica, 42, is currently working with director Joel Schumacher (The Number 23, The Phantom of the Opera) in a new drama called Centricity set for a 2007 release. Plot details are being kept secret!

But before that, Monica has a new crime thriller out Sept. 7 called Shoot ‘Em Up co-starring Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti. With those three acting greats together in one film, I’m hoping it’s a great film!

Shoot ‘Em Up tells the story of a man named Mr. Smith (Owen) who delivers a woman’s baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen. Why is Clive holding a carrot, may I ask?

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