USA DVD Cover

To be released in America on 29th May 2012. Pre-order on Amazon!

http://www.amazon.com/Goon-Seann-William-Scott/dp/B0079ZWTOO/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1337264171&sr=1-1

UK DVD Cover

Will also be released in the UK on 4th June 2012. Pre-order on Amazon!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goon-DVD-Seann-William-Scott/dp/B006DZZZYW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337264462&sr=8-1

Liev & Naomi

With the Tribeca Film Festival in full swing, Liev and Naomi attended the Chanel  Artist Dinner last night, both looking resplendant in black!

Liev & Naomi

Liev and Naomi attended the TriBeCa Ball on the evening of April 17th, both looking suave and sophisticated in their gladrags!

Liev Schreiber used to make collages, he told us last night at the New York Academy of Art Tribeca Ball. “Very silly collage craft things,” he explained. “I’d make a backgammon board out of collage funnies; I made my mom a diary; I made a painting out of it.” But he hadn’t worked on his art projects in years, he added, until recently.

“I made one for her for Valentine’s Day, actually,” Schreiber said, nodding toward his partner, Naomi Watts, who was nearby at the crowded pre-dinner cocktail party. The new collage consists of photos of the couple’s two children, he said, and then revealed his artistic process: “You make a collage first, and then you sort of do pastels over it, then you do a wash. You just make it as messy as you possibly can,” he said. “And put a really fancy frame on ’em and they think it’s good.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/04/tribeca-ball-live-schreiber-kim-cattrall-helena-christensen#slide=11

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Is there a curse of sci-fi movies set on Mars? We don’t believe that, but there’s plenty of evidence to support that theory, with virtually every film set on our nearest planetary neighbor — from “Mission To Mars” to “Red Planet” from “Ghosts Of Mars” and “Mars Needs Moms” to “John Carter” — all disappointing critically, commercially or both. But director Ruairi Robinson ain’t afraid of no curse.

Robinson’s been attached to a sci-fi picture originally called “The Animators,” then “The Last Days On Mars,” for a year-and-a-half now, but according to Baz Bamigboye, it’s finally getting moving, and has attracted a fairly impressive cast, with Liev Schreiber, “Happy-Go-Lucky” lead Sally Hawkins, and Romola Garai from “Atonement” all signing on to star in the picture.

The story centers on a crew of astronauts on Mars who discover evidence of bacterial life, only for them to start to being killed off when things go horribly wrong. We’ve read the script by “The Bunker” writer Clive Dawson, based on a short story by Sydney J. Bounds, back in the day, and had a good time with it, Robinson has undeniable visual chops (and WETA are doing the effects, which are sure to be superb), and we’re big fans of all three actors involved, particularly as it’s the kind of film that they rarely do. Could we be looking at the next “Moon?” Filming on the project, backed by QWERTY Films (“The Duchess“) and Focus Features, gets underway very soon in London and Jordan, so we’ll soon find out.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/liev-schreiber-sally-hawkins-romola-garai-to-star-in-ruari-robinsons-sci-fi-the-last-days-on-mars-20120413

Just a few goodies from the set of Ray Donovan!

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TORONTO – Goon, the Jay Baruchel-starring local hockey comedy from director Michael Dowse, had a pucking blast on its opening weekend at the Canadian multiplex.

Distributor Alliance Films reports that the homegrown film filled with on-ice brutality beat out the Hollywood competition to take in an estimated $1.2 million through Sunday on 251 screens.

That’s impressive for Canadian films, which rarely pass the $1 million box-office mark against studio and other foreign film competition.

The Canadian bow for Goon bodes well for Magnolia Pictures’ Magnet division, which paid a reported $2 million for the U.S. rights to the picture after it debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Goon focuses on Doug Glatt (Seann William Scott), a bouncer who uses his right hook and skates to help a downtrodden hockey team to new heights.

The ensemble cast also includes Liev Schreiber, Alison Pill and Marc-Andre Grondin.

Baruchel and Evan Goldberg, the frequent collaborator of Seth Rogen, wrote the script, inspired by the book Goon: The True Story of an Unlikely Journey Into Minor League Hockey, written by Doug Smith and Adam Frattasio.

Baruchel also shares producer credits on the film with Don Carmody, David Gross and Jesse Shapira.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jay-baruchel-starrer-goon-tops-295413

From the New York Goon Premiere on 23rd February.

More Hi-Res pics can be found on the forum, courtesy of JustJared – http://lievschreiber.net/forum/index.php?/topic/877-ny-goon-premiere/

Seann William Scott and Liev Schreiber beating the ever-loving snot out of each other, on ice no less? Yeah, that sounds like my idea of an awesome time at the movies.

That’s precisely what “Goon” has in store for viewers when the hockey flick from Scott, Schreiber and Jay Baruchel hits theaters in select cities on March 30. Of course, you can get a load of “Goon” way before that release date — it’s currently available on VOD as of today (February 24)!

Ahead of your first “Goon” viewing experience, check out these “Goon” trading cards, exclusively here at MTV Movies.

Yeah, that Ross Rhea card is going up on my wall immediately.

“Goon” hits VOD on February 24 and arrives in select theaters on March 30.

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/02/24/goon-trading-cards/

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TORONTO — The new Canadian comedy “Goon” is rife with blood and brawls as a minor-league hockey enforcer is encouraged to pull no punches in order to win.

While the film’s on-ice violence brings to mind recent headlines about player concussions and the deaths of three NHL enforcers, co-star Liev Schreiber says the intention was to celebrate the sport’s bruisers and highlight how undervalued and underappreciated they are.

“I only saw the film for the first time two nights ago and that’s really what I came away with,” said Schreiber, who plays veteran minor leaguer Ross (The Boss) Rhea.

“I was surprised … that there was so much heart in this movie, particularly when you look at a guy like Ross Rhea who — at the tender age of 39, 40 years old — is leaving the only thing he’s ever known his whole life,” added the actor.

“If I could say anything to Ross, or for that matter any of these guys, it would be, ‘You’re not underappreciated, you’re not undervalued. We know who you are and we know what you’ve done and we know what you’ve given for the game and for your teammates and we love you for that.’

“And to me, that’s what ‘Goon’ ultimately is, is a love letter to those guys.”

In theatres Friday, “Goon” stars Seann William Scott (a.k.a. Stifler of “American Pie”) as Doug Glatt, a bouncer who finds fame when he joins a local hockey team and beats down his opponents, much to the delight of fans.

Schreiber plays Doug’s enforcer enemy, whose career is fizzling. Actor Jay Baruchel, the film’s co-writer, plays Doug’s crass best friend. Other co-stars include Alison Pill as Doug’s love interest and Marc-Andre Grondin as a star player Doug protects.

Schreiber, who lives in New York, said he signed on to the film because “it felt real and it felt funny as all hell.”

He was also lured by the offer of being sent to hockey camp for six weeks to train for the role.

“That was something I’ve always wanted to do and I figured I didn’t have many years left or the legs to do it with so I better do it now,” said Schreiber, 44, noting he’s now looking for a league to play in.

“Now I can really skate and arguably I can play hockey.”

Born in San Francisco, Schreiber skated a bit as a child but didn’t play hockey. For the first four years of his life, he lived in Winlaw, B.C., where he was more preoccupied with wildlife than pucks.

“It was in one of the most beautiful places in the world,” he recalled. “I have fleeting images of the mountains there and the snow and bears and one very aggressive cow. That’s all I have. It was my dad’s cow. Her name was Rose and she’d get in the middle of the road and she wouldn’t let you pass. It was like, ‘You’re a cow, not a bull. Stop that.”‘

The deep-voiced Schreiber has narrated several HBO sports documentaries, including the “24/7″ series. As a New Yorker, he’s also loyal to the Rangers.

But he’s never been an ardent sports follower, he noted.

“I always feel like an ignoramus at the table when people start talking about playoffs and stats and things like that. I just don’t follow it very well,” said Schreiber, who was nominated a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy for playing Orson Welles in the 1999 HBO film “RKO 281.”

Director Michael Dowse (“Fubar,” “It’s All Gone Pete Tong”) shot “Goon” in Winnipeg and nearby Portage la Prairie in 2010.

Schreiber flew in from Thailand, where Naomi Watts — with whom he has two children — was shooting a film. He said he didn’t mind the frigid temperatures, noting they were inside a rink most of the time.

He did, however, have to endure some injuries during the gruelling shoot, which largely took place on overnight shifts when the rink was free.

“Oh many, many, many, many, but nothing serious,” said Schreiber, who has slimmed down since shooting the film — weight loss that’s due to shoulder surgery for muscle atrophy, not an injury sustained on the “Goon” set, he noted.

Schreiber went through exhausting training to learn how to hustle on the ice.

“We really, really drilled the skating,” he said. “Skating, skating, skating, stopping, turning, backwards, stopping, turning, backwards. Just really, really drilling it until I looked like I wasn’t drilling it. And then it was about learning to use the stick. That was a very brief week of training.

“And then the rest of it was about — because of what I had to do in the film — was about fighting: being in your edges and positioning and timing and how you grab the guy you’re going up against and all of those little dirty tricks.”

Schreiber also received tips from former NHL tough guy Georges Laraque, who briefly appears in the film.

Inspiration also came from reading about famed enforcer Bob Probert, who died in 2010 of heart failure at 45.

“I read a lot about Bob Probert and really, really grew very close to him in my own mind, emotionally, and thought he was a wonderful guy and a wonderful player and obviously a great enforcer as well,” said Schreiber.

“While I didn’t base the character on him, I think he was certainly in my heart while I was playing it.”

MONTREAL — Jay Baruchel, the only current Hollywood movie star born, raised and still living in NDG, launched his long-awaited comedy Goons in Montreal Monday amid the ghosts of the old Montreal Forum.

The red carpet was rolled out for Tinseltown comedy co-stars, including Seann William Scott and Liev Shreiber who fielded questions about the issue of fighting in hockey.

Both, however turtled at the rough interrogation about the role of fighting in hockey.

The duo insisted that they didn’t know enough about hockey to comment on whether the subject of their movie – fighting in hockey – should be banned.

Baruchel argued that fighting should remain part of the national pastime.

Former NHL pugilist Georges Laraque played a small role in the film and agreed, even stating that NHL teams still need an enforcer to succeed.

Schreiber, who plays veteran tough guy Rhea Ross in the film, said he studied such old pros as Laraque, Bob Probert and Dave Schultz and decided that goons look best in mustaches, and thus grew a particularly ugly one for the film.

But in spite of ungainly facial hair, Shreiber offered the enforcers some genuine praise.

“I have found that these players had a real depth and it’s true for all hockey players. There is something unique about them, strength coupled with a great sense of respect,” he said in an interview a few hours before curtains drew on the comedy.

Shreiber, however, admitted that he couldn’t bear the idea of seeing his two sons, aged three and four, playing hockey. “The idea of them crossing the street scares me, so imagine seeing them on the ice.”

http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120220/mtl_goon_120220/20120221/?hub=MontrealHome