Michael Sheen News

It's hard to do a movie about sports without falling into all the trappings of the genre.

HOLLYWOOD actor Michael Sheen is coming home to Wales to act as creative director for the nation's new National Theatre.

A play about teenage suicide in Bridgend is among the works due to be performed in National Theatre Wales's inaugural year, it was announced today.

Reporting from Vancouver, Canada - It's a crisp May morning on the set of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," and Michael Sheen strides into an elaborate reconstruction of an Italianate marble hall in costume as Aro, the head of the Volturi, a menacing group of age-old vampires that metes out justice in the realm of the supernatural.

You dona TMt have to be a sports fan to get a kick out of Reel Alternativesa TM next movie, The Damned United, which follows the early rise to fame a ' and infamy a ' of one of Englanda TMs great football managers, Brian Clough.

In most sports movies the big moments are big : Robert Redford 's star-spangled mega-homer in "The Natural." By contrast the best of many good scenes in "The Damned United," a winner for soccer fans and soccer idiots alike, is a small one.

Tom Hooper directs Michael Sheen and Timothy Spall in this period soccer movie inspired by the life of English football manager Brian Clough.

Michael Sheen as Brian Clough in "The Damned United." Photo taken by Laurie Sparham i 1 2 Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics, All Rights Reserved.

Spall and Sheen celebrate, but not for long. Details: Opens at Seven Gables and Uptown, Fri., Oct.

Michael Sheen has played Tony Blair and David Frost, but his latest incarnation of a British historical figure suggests a path the actor's life could have taken.

The Volturi are the ancient ruling coven of vampires in Stephanie Meyers' wildly popular Twilight series.

A new movie takes an actor known for prowling the halls of power - Michael Sheen of "The Queen" and "Frost/Nixon" - and has him prowling the sidelines of British soccer stadiums.

The Damned United Review Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 10.12.2009 The story of the greatest manager England never had Directed by: Tom Hooper Written by: Peter Morgan Starring: Michael Sheen - Brian Clough Timothy Spall - Peter Taylor Colm Meaney - Don Revie Jim Broadbent - Sam Longson Maurice Roeves - Jimmy Gordon Henry Goodman - Manny Cussins ...

The second movie based on Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga, New Moon , is set to be released on November 20, 2009.

If Michael Sheen isn't doing something biographical, chances are it's supernatural.

Talulah Riley as Annabelle Fritton, along with some of her classmates at 'St. Trinian's.' The Damned United 4 stars Biopic about a legendary British soccer coach.

Michael Sheen never felt he was playing second fiddle as British leader Tony Blair or TV interviewer David Frost.

Daft Punk will make a cameo in Tron Legacy , the upcoming new Disney remake of 1982's classic Tron that's due in theatres in Dec.

Actress Kate Beckinsale reckons her family set-up is groovy and her 10-year-old daughter Lily loves having two dads.

You'll want to blink seeing Michael Sheen in The Damned United a ' but the Welsh-born actor is hoping your ears will be even more surprised.