Matt Bomer: White Collar actor appropriately wearing white-collared shirt at movie premiere.
‘White Collar’ actor Matt Bomer images: DreamWorks’ ‘Shrek Forever After’ premiere
Chuck and White Collar actor Matt Bomer is pictured above at the premiere of DreamWorks Animation’s soon-to-be blockbuster Shrek Forever After. The premiere was held on May 16 at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, not far from downtown Los Angeles. Matt Bomer has no role in Shrek, but he has kept busy this past decade, chiefly on television.
Matt Bomer.
Matt Bomer Superman?
And finally, Matt Bomer reportedly almost got to play Superman in what was to have been a Brett Ratner project in the early 2000s. The reasons why Bomer failed to land the title role of what eventually became Man of Steel remains fuzzy. Was that because he was gay? (Or so claimed Jackie Collins using an unnamed studio executive as a source.) Or was that because Ratner was ultimately replaced by Bryan Singer? (Or so claimed another unnamed source “in the business.”)
And never mind the fact that Singer (The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie) also happens to be gay.
“I actually screen-tested for Superman, and there was a time when Brett Ratner and I were going to work together on it,” Bomer explained to MTV. “That particular incarnation of that franchise sort of fell apart, and then it became a whole different beast.”
Brandon Routh starred in that reincarnated “beast,” which was disappointingly received by U.S. critics and (in relation to its exorbitant cost) U.S. audiences, though Man of Steel did fare remarkably well internationally.
Booboo Stewart.
Booboo Stewart image: ‘Shrek Forever After’ premiere
Booboo Stewart plays Seth Clearwater (one of the young werewolves) in David Slade’s upcoming The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
Melanie Griffith: Best Actress Oscar nominee.
Melanie Griffith: Best Actress Oscar nominee at ‘Shrek Forever After’ premiere
Pictured above is Best Actress Oscar nominee Melanie Griffith (Working Girl, 1988) arriving at the premiere of DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek Forever After at the Gibson Amphitheatre.
Melanie Griffith and husband Antonio Banderas.
Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas
Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas were married in 1996. They costarred in Fernando Trueba’s poorly received, Miami-set comedy Two Much (1995). Additionally, Banderas directed Griffith in the 1999 comedy-drama Crazy in Alabama.
Directed by Mike Mitchell, and written by Josh Klausner and Darren Lemke, Shrek Forever After is scheduled to open in the U.S. on May 21.
Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith images: Kevin Winter | Getty Images for Paramount Pictures.
Cameron Diaz.
Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz, who will next be seen opposite Tom Cruise in James Mangold’s comedy-adventure-thriller Knight and the Day, arrives at the premiere of DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek Forever After at the Gibson Amphitheatre on May 16 in Universal City. Diaz provides the voice of Princess Fiona in the animated film directed by Mike Mitchell from a screenplay by Josh Klausner and Darren Lemke.
Eddie Murphy.
Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy, whose movie career has gone from 48 Hrs. and Beverly Hills Cop in the early 1980s to Norbit and Imagine That in the late 2000s, is seen above at the Shrek Forever After premiere. In the DreamWorks Animation’s feature, Murphy provides Donkey’s voice.
Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas (Puss in Boots), Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers.
Fourth Shrek movie
The fourth feature in the Shrek movie franchise – trailing Shrek (2001), Shrek 2 (2004), and Shrek the Third (2007) – Shrek Forever After is one of the year’s most eagerly awaited summer releases.
Mike Myers, Antonio Banderas, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz images: Kevin Winter | Getty Images for Paramount Pictures.
Shrek Forever After director Mike Mitchell and composer Harry Gregson-Williams.
Mike Mitchell and Harry Gregson-Williams
Shrek Forever After director Mike Mitchell and composer Harry Gregson-Williams are seen above as they arrive at the premiere of the DreamWorks Animation feature.
Movies featuring the British-born Harry Gregson-Williams’ music – working solo or with co-composers – include Bille August’s Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997), with Julia Ormond and Gabriel Byrne; Andrew Adamson’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), with Georgie Henley and Skandar Keynes; and Adamson and Vicky Jenson’s Shrek (2003) and its sequels.
Harry Gregson-Williams was nominated for a British Academy Award (BAFTA) for Shrek (with co-composer John Powell) and for a Golden Globe for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Shrek Forever After voice cast
After a somewhat slow start in North America, DreamWorks Animation’s costly 3D feature How to Train Your Dragon, featuring the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, and America Ferrera, performed quite well at the worldwide box office, becoming one of the biggest hits of the year.
Written by Josh Klausner and Darren Lemke, Shrek Forever After features the voices of Antonio Banderas, Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Jon Hamm, Craig Robinson, Jane Lynch, John Cleese, Lake Bell, Mary Kay Place, in addition to Best Actress Oscar winner Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, 1964).
Mike Mitchell, Harry Gregson-Williams, and Booboo Stewart images: Kevin Winter | Getty Images for Paramount Pictures.
Steven Spielberg: DreamWorks co-founder and two-time Best Director Oscar winner.
Steven Spielberg
Director/producer Steven Spielberg (Jaws, The Color Purple), whose The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn is currently in post-production, is seen above as he arrives at the premiere of DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek Forever After. Spielberg, of course, is one of the founders of DreamWorks, now part of Paramount Pictures.
Steven Spielberg and Matt Bomer images: Kevin Winter | Getty Images for Paramount Pictures.