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An accident on the set of Jackson’s sci-fi movie caused the death of set dresser, David Ritchie (Photo courtesy Paramount) 56-year-old set dresser David Ritchie was killed instantly when a wall collapsed, burying workers below during production of the sci-fi thriller, Jumper, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Hayden Christensen, Diane Lane and Rachel Bison. Another stagehand suffered serious head and shoulder injuries and was rushed to the hospital. The wall was part of a movie set that had been being used during filming on location in Toronto.

Olivier Martinez: Leader of the Pack

He's that gorgeous dark and handsome hunk who had a steamy affair with Diane Lane's character in Unfaithful. He was a drug kingpin in S.W.A.T. and has recently played a Spanish bullfighter. The French actor (whose first name is pronounced like the classic actor Laurence Olivier) now stars as a hot Romanian who is the leader of a pack of werewolves in the romantic horror/fantasy Blood and Chocolate. We met with Olivier, who has a wicked sense of humor, in a gothic-style church in downtown Los Angeles. The place did remind us of the buildings shown in the film shot in Bucharest, Romania. In black pants and shirt and a brown v-neck sweater, Olivier was looking modern; especially since he has cut his hair which was quite long in the movie. Hadta ask him. Imagine him answering in that sexy French accent... TeenHollywood: You had long hair in the film. Now it's short. Did you cut it for a role? Olivier: Maybe one day I'll have it long again. I just cut it one morning because I was sick every morning of too much maintenance on my hair. TeenHollywood: Were you attracted to the script because the werewolf transformations weren't grotesque and the wolves are somewhat sympathetic?

Olivier: Yeah, that's part of what convinced me to do the part because, as an actor, you never know how the special effects are going to end up when you deal with horror make-up so, sometimes, it works extremely well and sometimes it looks ridiculous. At least, in that case, I knew that my part would be done by a real wolf and I thought that was cool.

Lane up north for reshoots

Producers of the movie Killshot are no doubt grateful for Ontario’s unseasonably mild winter. Even though a trailer for the flick is already out, new scenes were being shot last weekend in Port Perry with stars like Diane Lane. She and Thomas Jane play a couple placed in the witness protection program after witnessing a crime who find themselves the target of a cunning hit man (Mickey Rourke) and a psychopathic killer (Joseph Gordon Levitt). * * * Sometimes you’ve got to know when to fold ‘em. Country crooner and cosmetic surgery creature Kenny Rogers is selling his property in Georgia because neighbours were ticked off he cleared trees with plans to build a bigger home. Rogers has planted new trees and put the land on the market for almost $4 million (U.S.). … Meanwhile, veteran actor Charlton Heston is having real estate problems of his own. His neighbours are suing him, claiming their home was damaged in 2005 when heavy rain sent debris crashing down a hillside on his property. But Heston’s lawyer claims the star owns only 10 percent of the hill. * * * Readers of outzonetv.com have picked Oprah Winfrey’s designer Nate Berkus as the “Sexiest Gay Celebrity” of 2007. In the, er, poll, Berkus, um, topped contenders like Lance Bass, Neil Patrick Harris, Ellen DeGeneres and Canada’s Rufus Wainwright. In the “Sexiest Gay-Friendly Celebrity” category, Jake Gyllenhaal beat Hugh Jackman, Brangelina, Julian McMahon, Penelope Cruz and Justin Timberlake. (Of course, at least one of the names in the latter category technically belongs in the first.) * * * Celebrity couples news…Claire Danes and Billy Crudup, who hooked up in 2003 when he ditched pregnant Mary-Louise Parker, reportedly split up before Christmas. … House co-stars Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Allison Cameron) and Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase) for engaged over the holidays in Paris. … Laurence Fishburne and wife Gina Torres are expecting their first child together this summer. He has two kids from a previous marriage. … Jennifer Esposito and Bradley Cooper tied the knot quietly at the end of December after a short engagement. It’s the first marriage for both. … And you thought Mango was a fruit. The guy who played the character on SNL, Chris Kattan, proposed to model Sunshine Tutt on Christmas Eve. … Actor Alan Cumming wed his partner Grant Shaffer in a civil ceremony in London on Jan. 8 after two years together. Guests included Sir Ian McKellen, Rufus Wainwright and fellow Canadian Neve Campbell … According to Jim co-star Courtney Thorne-Smith secretly married Roger Fishman at her L.A. home on New Year’s Day. It’s her second marriage. ... Extra co-host Dayna Devon delivered Cole Brent Moelleken by C-section on Jan. 5. * * * Donald Trump isn’t the only celebrity who thinks there's a whole lot of Rosie O’Donnell not to love. Whitney Houston once described O’Donnell as a “fat bitch” in an interview with Newsweek. But writer Allison Samuels says the insult never made it into the article because the magazine’s editors felt it was demeaning. “Furthermore,” Samuels claims, “Whitney was clearly not in her right mind.” * * * Edward Norton and Naomi Watts, stars of The Painted Veil, were so worried about getting sick from the food while filming in remote China that they hired a Canadian chef. In interviews, Norton has praised the culinary Canuck for whipping up great meals in Beijing, Guangxi and Shaghai. Wonder if he was served poutine? * * * There are whispers that Rumer Willis, the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, has dropped out of the University of Southern California. Sources claim the teen has told pals she wants to pursue her acting career by taking lessons. She appeared in mom's Striptease and co-starred with dad in Hostage. * * * What was the biggest movie flop of 2006? It was Zyzzyx Rd. starring Tom Sizemore and Katherine Heigl. The murder flick, which opened in only one theatre, reportedly took in $20 (U.S.) on its opening weekend and another $10 in the days that followed. * * * Donald Trump left his beautiful wife and their baby boy alone on Christmas Eve and went to a movie with daughter Ivanka. The Apprentice stars caused a stir at a cinema in West Palm Beach – not far from Trump’s private Mar-a-lago resort – when he showed up for a screening of Rocky Balboa with four bodyguards. * * * The man selling a sex tape featuring former Saved By The Bell star Dustin Diamond is suggesting that parts of the homemade video might be fake – specifically Diamond’s part. David Hans Schmidt (who claims Diamond was in on the plan to sell the tape all along) points out you never see Diamond and the penis in the same shot. Schmidt vows to sue if it turns out Diamond used a body double.

'Blood & Chocolate' lets slip werewolves, cliches

Interspecies mating is always a challenge, particularly when one species likes to eat the other. In the lupine love triangle "Blood & Chocolate," a reluctant Romanian werewolf named Vivian (Agnes Bruckner) spends her days making chocolates in a Bucharest candy store. If her customers could see how she celebrates the full moon, they would think twice before letting her handle their macaroons.

Lurking in a church one evening, Vivian meets Aiden (Hugh Dancy), a cherubic graphic novelist researching the inner lives of werewolves. Soon it's Vivian's innards he's obsessed with, unaware that she's already promised to the leader of her pack, a sleek specimen named Gabriel (Olivier Martinez). Audience members still tingling from Martinez's seduction of Diane Lane in "Unfaithful" will agree that this is not much of a contest. Uninvolving and cliche-ridden (even shape-shifters, it seems, deserve a falling-in-love montage), "Blood & Chocolate" is "Romeo and Juliet" with fewer manners and more exotic dentition. Cribbing shamelessly from Joel Schumacher's 1987 vampire classic, "The Lost Boys," the director, Katja von Garnier, perches her pack on roofs and in rafters -- an aerial lifestyle that works for bats but seems a bit of a stretch for wolves. More in line with mythology is their vulnerability to silver cutlery; in the movie's best scene, Aiden battles for his love, armed only with a single place setting.

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