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FROM the Highlands of Scotland to ancient Rome to Seattle Grace hospital, he is the man behind some of the toughest soldiers on screen.

By Craig Brown SCOTS Hollywood star Robert Carlyle has called on UK cinemas to help the British film industry by reserving screens for home-made productions.

ROBERT CARLYLE last night blasted the British film industry - and said there hasn't been a decent movie made since Trainspotting.

The men who stare at goats are part of a U.S. military unit that tries to use psychic powers.

Ewan McGregor: Staring down goats and others Ewan McGregor on The Men Who Stare at Goats: a Most of the stuff in the film a ' especially the most unbelievable parts a ' are all true.

He's moved to California, lined up a part in an all-star cast for The Men Who Stare at Goats and keeps a duck in his house, but the actor insists Hollywood hasn't changed him.

Whether in Yankee Stadium or the Land of Oz, getting home is an all-consuming mission.

By MARK McLAUGHLIN THE long arm of the law turned out to be very long indeed for a retired police inspector who successfully circumnavigated the globe thanks to the hospitality of dozens of international police forces.

Peter Mullan may be reluctant to talk about his gangland history, but with politics, a new crime drama and fatherhood to embrace it's little wonder the past is a foreign country, finds Aidan Smith THERE are hugs and there are hugs, and then there are full-on, full-nelson Peter Mullan grapples.

After his acclaimed portrayal of a drug-addict in director Danny Boyle 's Trainspotting, the British actor became a Hollywood star, playing a young Obi-wan Kenobi in three Star Wars movies.

The traditional feature-film release cycle is to start on movie screens and then move to television via DVDs, cable or network broadcasts.

ROBERT CARLYLE has revealed how he turned down a milliondollar offer to repeat his Full Monty striptease for a TV advert.

Ewan McGregor's next films are surrounded by controversy. There's Roman Polanski's unfinished film "The Ghost," a thinly veiled indictment of Tony Blair.

It certainly sounds juicy: A British starlet makes her Broadway debut opposite her ex-fiance's best friend in a play about a doomed love triangle.

RESPECTED Scottish actor Peter Mullan has agreed to become patron of the Paisley Film Society.

The heroin and crack cocaine addicted Britons of the 1980s and 90s, memorably depicted in Irvine Welsh's 1993 novel, " Trainspotting ." Reporting for The Times of London on the latest British drug addiction data, David Rose noted : Officials heralded the end of the "Trainspotting" generation as the number of 18 to 24-year-olds seeking treatment for ...

Though he comes from a long line of actors, Jonny Lee Miller was never an extrovert.

Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network 2009-10-13 04:36:06 - EWAN MCGREGOR has never recovered from a spooky experience on his 20th birthday - insisting a ghostly encounter left him scared of the supernatural.

Despite playing an essentially straight role, The Men Who Stare at Goats is Ewan McGregor's second comedy role this year.

Actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman braved the specter of armed kidnappers and fierce hyenas when they set out on a motorcycle journey in Africa but what they encountered was quite different: little violence and curious kids.