A “bulked up” Edward Norton takes his girlfriend, power producer Shauna Robertson, for some afternoon kayaking on Sunday (August 12) in Malibu, Calif.
Edward, 37, has been busy filming the sequel to The Incredible Hulk, which originally starred Eric Bana.
UPDATE: As of April 6, 2009, The Incredible Hulk has grossed $263,427,551 in worldwide box office and it made $85,755,879 in home video sales, bringing its total film gross to $349,183,430. Pretty impressive!!!
Edward Norton and Liv Tyler are currently filming The Incredible Hulk which is going to be released in June 2008.
Norton and Tyler will play Bruce Banner (The Incredible Hulk) and Betty Ross, respectively. Dr. Bruce Banner continues to find a cure for his gamma-radiation induced affliction where anger causes him to become the giant, green-skinned Incredible Hulk.
If you remember the 2003 film The Hulk, with Eric Bana and Jennifer Connelly, this movie will be a new take on the Incredible Hulk and not a direct sequel (thank goodness).
Edward Norton recently said he broke three vertebrae during a horse riding accident on the set of his new film The Painted Veil (movie stills below). The horse apparently threw him off while he was galloping before filming a scene for the movie.
Here’s what Ed said in a recent interview with AP Radio: “One of those horses chucked me off pretty badly. I broke my spine in like three places. I broke my back. I broke three vertebrae in my back. I felt like my back was horribly wrenched but I sort of assumed I was OK, and I didn’t actually find out I had broken it until I went to Hong Kong. I cracked my 10th, 11th and especially my 12th thoracic vertebrae.”
The Painted Veil tells the tale of a woman who becomes dissatisfied with her marriage, as her husband favors of his research over time with her. An affair leads her on a journey of self-discovery, and her new dedication to fighting cholera brings her to the Far East. The film is directed by John Curran, was shot entirely in China, and co-stars real-life couple Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts. The Painted Veil hits theaters tomorrow in limited release.
Ever since the August 15 premiere of The Illusionist in New York City, the whole industry has been buzzing about the mysteriously new X-factor on Jessica Biel’s body: her humongous butt. Everybody’s been wondering why Jessica’s behind is only beginning to get noticed now, especially since there’s no immediate speculation that she might have gotten it through surgery, meaning that she had to have had this asset all her life. Maybe a new workout routine helped bring it out?
In any case, it was hard to miss her large tail at The Illusionist premiere, but if for some reason you did, you can check out the photos of it (as well as the rest of Jessica) along with her co-stars Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti. Also, there are several photos of her returning to her hotel later on in the day.
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Jessica Biel ran into MTV’s TRL studios Monday to promote The Illusionist, in which she plays an 18th-century Viennese countess and co-stars along Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti. The Illusionist opens this coming Friday, August 18 in select theaters, and nationwide on Friday, September 1.
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Allow me to wave my wand and make all of the other summer "blockbusters" disappear… for The Illusionist tops them all!
Edward Norton plays the enigmatic magician who bewitches large audiences and Jessica Biel’s character alike. His acting is spot on but perhaps most impressive is that Norton actually did all of his own sleight of hand tricks (including rolling a ball around on his hand à la David Bowie in The Labyrinth–though David Bowie had a stunt magician do that for him). Director Neil Burger said, "The first week of filming, we were in a theater with about 350 extras in period dress for the stage performance scenes, and Edward performed a trick he had learned—and he fooled everyone in the theater, and all of us behind the camera. And it wasn’t a fluke, because later, during a different scene, where he had to produce something out of thin air, he got genuine reactions. Even Jessica and Rufus [Sewell] came up to him afterwards and asked, ‘How did you do that?!?’"
Speaking of Jessica Biel, who knew she could look so believable as an 18th century Viennese countess? Not being a fan of 7th Heaven at all, I was skeptical about the casting decision and pleasantly surprised by the quiet and assured performance, without any terrible overacting, that she gave.
Paul Giamatti’s fanboy-ish inspector added to the clever bits of situational and character humor scattered throughout the film. They helped liven up the sometimes moody (but very beautiful) atmosphere of the film without distracting from the main plot, a "tragic" love story really suited to the rich green and old gold settings and swelling Phillip Glass soundtrack.
With so much style, such pretty people, and such cool tricks (look out for the orange tree!), The Illusionist delivers more than you’d expect from a typical summer movie.
Check out The Illusionist when it hits theaters August 18. I wonder how the next magician movie will match up…
TIDBIT :: Norton studied a year behind Giamatti at Yale.
With their new film, the formula-freaking 21st-century western Down in the Valley, two cool customers — Edward Norton and Evan Rachel Wood — are out to kick up some dust. In an exclusive home-on-the-range portfolio, photographer Bruce Weber captures the outlaw magic. Will this season’s friskiest film challenge Hollywood to a duel at dawn? Check out all of the interviews from Interview Magazine May 2006 with all of the entries updated with high-quality scans in the galleries!
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In Down in the Valley, Edward Norton plays Harlan, a deluded 21st century cowboy whose contrived old-West masculinity and aw-shucks innocence attracts a restless teenage girl, desperate for something more authentic than the asphalt highways of suburban Los Angeles. Norton is again, as he did in Fight Club, exploring the strange avenues a person might take to eek out something natural in a consumerist, overdeveloped world. It’s also a theme to his personal life, which Norton surprisingly says, will someday not include making movies.
Actor Edward Norton, 36, poses for a portrait this past Saturday, in promotion of his new film Down In The Valley. So far, Down In The Valley has received a medicore 63% on the Critics Tomatometer on RottenTomatoes.com. More pictures in the gallery!
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