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Isaac Liev Schreiber (born October 4, 1967) is an American actor, born in San Francisco, California. At the age of 1, his family moved to Canada, due to his parents divorce, but at 4, he moved to New York City, where he grew up. His mother, who now lives in an ashram in Virginia, forbade him from seeing color movies as he grew up. His favorite actor, then, was Charles Chaplin. As a child, Liev was considered a rebel. Liev attended high school with actress
Amanda Peet. When he was a senior, she was a freshman.
His mother claims that she named him after her favorite author, Leo Tolstoy, while his father claims that Liev was named after the doctor who saved his mother's life. His nickname, adopted by his mother is "Huggy".
Liev is 6'3" and has four half brothers and a half sister. One of his brothers, Pablo, is an actor and amateur rapper. He is also accompanied by a Jack Russell terrier named Chichen. Liev enjoys basketball, fencing, cycling, and played football in the past.
Schreiber started acting at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Yale University School of Drama in 1992. He also attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He originally wanted to be a screenwriter, but was steered toward acting instead.
Schreiber had several small roles until his big breaker, as the accused murderer in the horror film Scream
and it sequels, Scream 2 and Scream 3. He portrayed the young
Orson Welles in the HBO original movie RKO 281, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award, and appeared as Laertes in the 2000 movie version of the William Shakespeare play Hamlet.
He has done narration work in a number of documentaries, many of them aired as part of PBS series such as American Experience
and Secrets of the Dead
. He recently starred in The Sum of All Fears. 2004's remake of The Manchurian Candidate was another major film for the actor, stirring some controversy as it opened during a heated presidential election cycle. He is also completing his first directed and screenwritten film starring
Elijah Wood, called Everything Is Illuminated, scheduled to be released in 2005. In the spring of 2005, he will star as Richard Roma in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross.
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EuropeCould 2009 be the year of 3-D?
January is the month known in Hollywood as the dumping ground, which seems an unreasonably narrow opportunity given the quality of American cinema these days. The studios will unleash their slew of sub-par nonsense in the coming weeks, but today is very light as 2009 gets under way with only one new release of note ? Ed Zwick's wartime thriller Defiance, starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber. The project was the talk of the town when it was announced at Cannes 2007, but the buzz died once people saw the finished product. The declining fortunes of the movie's moribund specialty distributor Paramount Vantage hasn't helped matters either, and the limited release probably won't live up to its name.This means last weekend's reigning champions, a boisterous bunch led by Fox's hit comedy Marley & Me, can continue to make money untroubled by new blood. The week between Christmas and New Year's Eve is traditionally one of the biggest of the year and the gains made by Marley & Me, Paramount's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (it's released by Warner Bros in the UK), Disney's Bedtime Stories and MGM/UA's Valkyrie provided a useful year-end boost to the 2008 box office. At the final reckoning, 2008 box office came in at about $9.6bn (£6.57bn), just short of the all-time record of $9.68bn (£6.62bn) set in 2007.Last year would have set a new record had Warner Bros gone ahead with its November launch of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The studio put the release back to this summer when it realised it didn't have a single bankable movie for the 2009 blockbuster season, which can't have left McG and Christian Bale, the director and star of Terminator: Salvation that's set to open on 22 May, feeling great. When Harry Potter vacated the Thanksgiving slot, in jumped a little picture called Twilight and the rest is history.Except that in box-office terms, 2008 wasn't history. It almost was. Studio top brass love their box-office statistics because they create the illusion of success and handily side-step any sort of quality analysis. But the fact is that audiences, faced with an expanding array of alternative entertainment choices, are declining. Overall cinema attendance in 2008 actually dropped 5% from the previous year to just over 1.3bn, although Hollywood made up for the shortfall by raising ticket prices, as it always does. Studio executives ? and their counterparts in the independent world ? are terrified of the video game industry in particular because it's the biggest growth sector in entertainment and steals audiences. Cinema owners in particular are feeling the heat, which is why everyone is so excited about 3-D. 2008 saw several movies released in the revived format and this year it looks set to take off, with such anticipated blockbusters as Monsters Vs Aliens, A Christmas Carol and James Cameron's Avatar. The surge in the number of 3-D films in 2009 promises much considering how well the relatively limited releases of the Hannah Montana movie, Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Bolt did in 2008. The great thing about 3-D as far as cinema owners are concerned is they can charge a premium on tickets, just as they do with Imax screens. So audiences face another price hike, although all but the most cynical have to admit that 3-D and Imax are taking the theatrical experience in a new direction, something it sorely needs.To get back to this weekend then, Marley & Me is expected to stay top and could reach a total gross of $100m (£68.4m) in the next few days if it grosses in the region of $25m (£17.1m), while The Curious Case of Benjamin Button could leapfrog the Adam Sandler family movie Bedtime Stories and surge towards $80m (£54.7m) with a second weekend haul of about $20m (£13.7m). Who'd have thought it? David Fincher's movie clocks in at nearly three hours and yet it's one of those rare movies that combines Oscar prospects with commercial appeal. Brad Pitt isn't known for opening a movie in the way that Will Smith does and he'll be enjoying the ride as Button heads for $100m (£68.4m). Bedtime Stories, the Tom Cruise Nazi thriller Valkyrie and Jim Carrey's Yes Man are expected to round out the top five.Speaking of Smith, Sony's Seven Pounds has amassed less than $45m after two weekends. While that doesn't necessarily mean the man known as Mr July is losing his mojo, it does show that he's human after all and reminds us that audiences won't reward everything that's slung their way.Brad PittDaniel CraigWalt Disney CompanyHarry PotterTom CruiseWill SmithOscarsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Published: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:28:48 GMT - Source: Guardian.Co.Uk - Read the articleSystemsComing Attractions: Defiance
In Defiance, the four Bielski brothers (played by Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, and George MacKay) recruit Jewish refugees to the Belarussian forest, where they ultimately build a 1200-person strong force of resistance fighters. The film, directed by Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai), opens in theaters on December 31.
Published: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:02:23 GMT - Source: Apple.Com - Read the articleLiteratureWolverine's Schreiber Is Feral
Liev Schreiber, who plays Victor Creed aka Sabretooth in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, told a group of reporters that Sabretooth is the most brutal character he has ever played. Schreiber takes over the role played by Tyler Mane in X-Men in a prequel tracing the early days of Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman).
Published: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:00:00 GMT - Source: Scifi.Com - Read the article
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