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RSVIP: Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks Fete "The Next Three Days"

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Prepare to hold your breath and feel the seconds tick as the action ratchets up in "The Next Three Days," starring Russell Crowe and his fetching wife in the film, Elizabeth Banks, far right, who plays a convict.

Two years ago in Paris, Luxist happened to catch a small French thriller called "Pour Elle ('For Her')." The plot: Diane Kruger, a loving mother, is accused of murder and sent to jail. With no legal means left to get her out, her husband becomes involved with French criminals and creates a clever plot to break her out of prison. Kruger is ravishing in the film and speaks flawless French. When RSVIP was invited to the premiere of "The Next Three Days," a film by the Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis, a few details instantly recalled "Pour Elle." But Haggis had embellished the story and the chase scenes. Crowe plays the male lead, and Elizabeth Banks takes Kruger's role.

Olivia Wilde, wearing Celine on the carpet, who plays a mom Crowe meets on a playground, said that she had seen both features, French and American. "Diane is extraordinary in the original," said Wilde.

What's different? "Russell Crowe is one of the best living actors. My heart was pounding harder. They upped the stakes, upped the intensity."

Banks, wearing a unique black Versace getup with a clear plastic panel at her waist, also gave Kruger a nod. "Yes, I have seen the French version. Diane Kruger is great. I think she's an incredible actress," said Banks. "But we really have a totally different movie. The main thing that is different is the prison system in France. Apparently, they allow you to wear whatever you want, because she wore jeans and a sweater throughout the movie. And I'm in full prison garb . . . a serious drag. I'm not sure I'm pulling it off in a lot of scenes. She got to look much lovelier."

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up: 08/29/10

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--David W. Higgins, the president of production at Sobini Films, has listed a midcentury home in Sherman Oaks at $949,000. The listing for the colorful home is here.
--Internet pioneer David Bohnett has sold his Holmby Hills compound to art dealer Larry Gagosian for $15.5 million.

From the NY Observer:
--Real estate mogul Aby Rosen's townhouse at 22 East 71st Street may have finally sold or at least been pulled off the market. It was listed at $75 million in 2008 but later had a price cut to $59 million.

Gallery: Forstmann Mansion

--Official records show that Damon Dash's foreclosed Tribeca condo at 25 North Moore Street went to Platinum Capital for $5.6 million.
--Society staple Countess Sharon Sondes sold her Trump International Hotel & Tower pied-a-terre for $1.45 million.
--Allen Ginsberg's apartment at 437 East 12th Street is now up for rent for $1,700 a month.
--Interior designer Jamie Drake purchased an apartment at 200 11th Avenue (the star-filled building where Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban recently bought) for $4.662 million and is already planning renovations.
--CB Richard Ellis vice chairman Darcy Stacom and her husband, Chris Kraus, a managing director at Jones Lang LaSalle bought a four-bedroom apartment at 447 East 57th Street for $4.775 million.
--Actor Liam Neeson recently sold his two-bedroom co-op at 91 Central Park West for $1.352 million. He and his late wife, actress Natasha Richardson, bought the apartment for $1.4 million in 1994.
--Ponzi schemer James Nicholson's three-bedroom at the Time Warner Center has finally been sold by the U.S. Marshal's office for $6.75 million. Nicholson bought the home for $8.5 million two years ago.
--New York Philharmonic flutist, composer and pianist Gary Schocker and Richard Norton purchased a brownstone at 215 West 137th Street in Central Harlem. They purchased the home from Vincent and Kim Van Doorn for the listing price of $2 million even.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
-- Winecup-Gamble Ranch in Nevada, one of the largest in the West, with access to nearly one million acres of land has hit the market for $50 million. The ranch is owned by a corporation headed by Paul Fireman, the former chairman and chief executive of Reebok and the chairman of Fireman Capital Partners. The listing is here.
--A Beverly Hills home owned by Max Palevsky, the late philanthropist, art collector and a founder of Intel is listed for $9.5 million. The property website is here. His Malibu home remains listed at $55 million.
--Bert Saberhagen's Calabasas, California home is back on the market. The former Major League Baseball pitcher listed his home for $3.25 million last year but it is now for sale for $2.699 million.

Gallery: Bret Saberhagen in Calabasas

From the Real Estalker:
--Filmmaker Brett Morgen and actor/director/writer Debra Eisenstadt have listed their home in the Rockaways, Queens, New York for $4.495 million. The listing is here.
--Rumor has it that Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are cozied up in a contemporary love nest in Bel Air.
--Courtney Love has leased actress/model Milla Jovovich's West Village townhouse.

Gallery: Milla Jovovich in New York City

--Andrew Dice Clay has sold his Hollywood home for the asking price of $1.399 million.

From Housing Watch:
--Christina Aguilera has dropped the price again on her Hollywood Hills home. It is now listed at $5.995 million, a full $2 million off the original asking price when she put it on the market in 2008. She bought the home in 2003 for $5 million.

Gallery: Christina Aguilera in West Hollywood