JONNY LEE MILLER NEWS 2006

MILLER: 'I REMAIN GREAT FRIENDS WITH EX-WIFE ANGELINA'

British actor JONNY LEE MILLER remains such good friends with his ex-wife ANGELINA JOLIE, she sent him to film a segment of an upcoming documentary in Angolan minefields.

Miller and Jolie divorced in 1999 after nearly three years of marriage, and the beautiful actress had no problem asking her ex to undertake the dangerous assignment for a new film on the state of the planet.

Speaking to US chat show host MEGAN MULLALLY he says, "There's so much crazy stuff written about Angie, but she's just one of the most down-to-earth girls you're likely to meet. "We're such good friends that this documentary she's been putting together about the globe - she's sent film crews all around the world - that she's sent me to a minefield in Angola. "There's a lot of love there."

Jolie recently gave birth to boyfriend BRAD PITT's baby daughter SHILOH.

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Angelina Jolie Calling ex-Hubby Jonny Lee Miller?

Each time it was alleged that Brad Pitt was phoning his ex wife Jennifer Anniston it made for great tabloid headlines. The calls were usually denied somewhere along the way.

Now a published report claims that Angelina Jolie is calling her ex Jonny Lee Miller.

In Touch Weekly claims in this week's issue that Angelina turned to her ex while Brad Pitt was away in New Orleans working on a project in the Big Easy to assist those displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Jonny Lee and Angelina married in 1996 and split within a year, but reportedly remain close.

"Whenever things aren't going well for Angie, she calls Jonny," a pal tells the weekly magazine. The pal claims that doesn't sit well with Mr. Pitt and one would figure that as a normal reaction.

According to friends cited in the article, Angelina feels like Jonny understands her like no one else. "He knows that deep down, she's still that mixed up, punky little kid that he met when she was just 19," the chatty pal tells IT.

Let's hope that's not the case as Jolie now has three kids and seems to have matured well past "19."

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Jolie's ex pulls out of marathon

Angelina Jolie's ex-husband Jonny Lee Miller has pulled out of a gruelling 150 mile marathon across the Sahara desert. The British actor was set to run the Marathon des Sables, a seven day
straight sprint across desert, for UK charity Mencap.

Instead, he will be filming his new movie, the fittingly titled Marathon, in Los Angeles. A source said: "Jonny would have given the event some much-needed publicity so it was a real blow when he cancelled."

A spokesperson for the actor, who shot to fame in cult Scottish movie Trainspotting, said: "Jonny is very disappointed too. He's been doing an awful lot of training for it, but unfortunately he will be in Los Angeles filming at the time."

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Baker smitten by CBS drama pilot ‘Smith‘ 07 March, 2006

Simon Baker , who earned a Golden Globe Nomination for his role in CBS‘ short-lived 2001 drama "The Guardian," is returning to the network in "Smith," a drama pilot told from the criminals‘ point of view.

Also cast in the pilot is Jonny Lee Miller . He and Baker join the previously cast Ray Liotta and Virginia Madsen .

Baker, who most recently starred in Focus Features‘ romantic comedy "Something New," next will be seen in Fox 2000‘s "The Devil Wears Prada."

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Stars sign up for Marathon, the movie

When it was first run a quarter of a century ago, it attracted just 7,000 competitors of whom more than 1,000 did not manage to cross the finishing line. Today, it is one of the world's most famous sporting events, attracts almost 50,000 athletes a year, huge crowds of supporters and has been completed by more than 500,000 people.

Now, the London Marathon is set for a starring role on cinema screens around the world - as the subject of its own Hollywood film, entitled simply Marathon. Jonny Lee Miller, the star of Trainspotting, Toby Stephens, who was a Bond villain in Die Another Day and Parminder Nagra, the star of Bend it Like Beckham, are set to star in the £20 million film which is being dubbed the new Chariots of Fire.

The cast will be entered into this year's race on April 23 to ensure that the film captures the drama of the event which is watched by millions around the world.

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Jonny Lee Miller practices TELEPATHY

FANGORIA has learned of a new British psychological thriller that Beyond Films will be unveiling at the Berlin Film Festival next month. The movie, called TELEPATHY, stars TRAINSPOTTING’s Jonny Lee Miller and Oscar nominee Tom (EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE) Wilkinson. Directed by Lesley (GHOSTWATCH) Manning and produced by Andrew (MINOTAUR) Curtis and Laurie Borg, TELEPATHY mixes sci-fi and dramatic thrills. The official synopsis goes like this:

“Josef and Viktor Shelest are identical twin brothers who are chosen by the Russian government as the subjects of a top-secret experiment to test the powers of telepathy as a form of communication between Earth and outer space. While Josef is wired up to complex technology on a remote military base, his brother is launched into space in order to test their powers of telepathy. Forced into intimate and prolonged contact after years of estrangement, the twins become mentally and emotionally closer until Josef discovers by means of intuition a secret that his brother has kept hidden for many years. Devastated by his discovery, Josef abandons the experiment and returns to his farm, willing to let his brother meet whatever fate awaits him."

MILLER EXTENDS CONGRATULATIONS TO EX JOLIE

British actor JONNY LEE MILLER insists he is nothing but "excited" for his ex-wife ANGELINA JOLIE, on hearing she is expecting a baby with BRAD PITT. Jolie's pregnancy was confirmed on Wednesday (11JAN06) and TRAINSPOTTING star Miller was delighted by the news.

He says, "I'm pleased and very excited for her."

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UK CELEBS SUPPORT JUDES SISTER

While she has long lived in the shadow of her more famous younger brother, Jude Law's sister Natasha is quietly earning column inches of her own these days as her artistic career goes from strength to strength.
Also spotted sipping champagne with Tasha - as she is known to family members - were Aeon Flux actor Jonny Lee Miller, popular TV thesp Sean Pertwee and veteran crooner Bryan Ferry.

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ANGELINA EXPECTING!

Angelina Jolie is expecting a baby this summer with Brad Pitt, their publicist has confirmed.Pitt's publicist, Cindy Guagenti, said Jolie was pregnant and that Pitt was the father. Jolie, whose films include Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Alexander, is divorced from actors Billy Bob Thornton and Jonny Lee Miller.

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Aeon Flux: Frank's Take

The standby decision not to screen Aeon Flux for critics may have been justified, decides Frank. After all, why would Paramount Pictures risk the uneasy notion of having sceptical movie reviewers bad-mouth their sci-fi jolting gibberish which could hurt the box office potential of seeing desirable Charlize Theron bend like a rubber pretzel in a tight-fitting black outfit?

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RED CARPET OF THE AEON FLUX PREMIERE

Paramount Pictures in the early part of December held the world premiere of AEON FLUX at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, California.

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BIKE FILM SADDLED US WITH £500K BILL

FURIOUS film workers say they've been left £500,000 out of pocket after a movie which went bust was rescued by administrators. The Flying Scotsman - a biopic about cyclist Graeme Obree - could be released next year after administrators Tenon Recovery agreed to stump up extra cash to get it finished.

But dozens of people who worked over the summer on the £3million film have not been paid - and they fear they will never see their money. Location manager Stephen Burt said: "I am personally around £4500 out of pocket.

"When the film went down it left loads of crew members, suppliers and other contractors unpaid"I am absolutely furious that it now looks like money has been found to finish the film while all these people are being left penniless. "There is every chance that the production will go on to be sold for a massive amount to a distributor while I and everyone else will never get paid."

The Flying Scotsman features Trainspotting star Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Boyd, hobbit Peregrine Took in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Kenneth Craig, of Tenon Recovery, said: "We are working hard to try to make sure the film gets finished and this is the best course of action. "If it doesn't get finished nobody will get any money back. This way there is an opportunity to turn the situation around

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Obree film makers go into Administration December 08, 2005

Mel Films, the production company behind the £3m Hollywood bio-pic on Graeme Obree, has been placed into administration. 'The Flying Scotsman', starring 'Trainspotting' star Jonny Lee Miller, had finished filming and should make it to the big screen despite the latest setback. In 2002, the film was scuppered when the US financier keeled over and died.

The film's production company may have been placed in administration but there are a raft of funding partners and the film should not die this time around.

The financing partners include NRW, BBC Scotland, Bank of Ireland, Glasgow Film Office, Pictorion Das Werk, IFC, and Scottish Screen.

Administrators Tenon Recovery say the film will go ahead. Kenny Craig, of Tenon Recovery, said: "Our priority is to make sure The Flying Scotsman is released."

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MILLER DOESN'T HAVE THE LEGS FOR ACTING ROLE

JONNY LEE MILLER's intensive training regime failed to prepare him for his role as cycling legend GRAEME OBREE in biopic THE FLYING SCOTSMAN, and the real life Obree was eventually brought in as a stunt double.

MILLER was thrilled to play the hero who rode a bike made out of washing machine parts to break the world hour-record in the 1990s, but was left embarrassed when his leg muscles didn't make the grade. Obree says, "I'm the legs in the movie but Jonny did well.

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MILLER'S WEST WING FIXATION

British actor JONNY LEE MILLER is such a huge fan of THE WEST WING he's starting to believe the stars of the hit drama are his best pals. The TRAINSPOTTING star, ex-husband of ANGELINA JOLIE, recently spent three months continuously watching the show, and it's become a huge part of his life.

He says, "I like getting boxed sets of TV shows and just sitting and watching the whole series. I was working in Germany and I watched four seasons of The West Wing in three months. "I was obsessed with it, and I feel like they are all my friends, like I know them intimately. "I'm (now) watching 24, because when I finished watching The West Wing my world fell apart. I had nothing left."

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MILLER'S 'EXTREME APPROACH' TO LATEST ROLE

JONNY LEE MILLER shocked co-star BRIAN COX with the gruelling fitness regime he has imposed on himself to take on the role of a cycling legend. The veteran British actor believes the 32-year-old need to play cycling legend GRAEME OBREE in THE FLYING SCOTSMAN as authentically as possible has seen him adopt a training regime usually only seen in sports professionals.

Cox says, "I often see him out of the car window when I'm driving to the set, and cheer him on. He's started riding Graeme Obree's bicycle too, which is partly made out of old washing machine parts. That Jonny's a strange lad. No one's making him do it - he just seems to be very enthusiastic."

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McGREGOR HATED HANGOVER MORNINGS WITH LAW + MILLER

EWAN McGREGOR used to dread hangovers when he lived with pals JUDE LAW and JONNY LEE MILLER in London, because they were such cheerful drunks.

The Scottish actor shared a home with the pair when they were all struggling actors looking for regular work - and he hated the fact that they could pay bills and vacuum with hangovers while he struggled to get out of bed.

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