Steve Mcqueen

The bank-owned Santa Paula ranch that screen star Steve McQueen and his third wife, Barbara Minty, once owned has sold for $660,000. The property was listed in 2009 at $1.95 million but after multiple price reductions was lost to foreclosure in November at $699,283. The pair moved to the 15.3-acre Ventura County ranch in 1979 and were married in the home's living room in January 1980. The Victorian-style house, built in 1892, contains some of its original Victorian features, antique stained-glass windows and fireplaces in the family room and kitchen.

The release strategy for Steve McQueen's “Twelve Years a Slave” is coming into focus. Fox Searchlight announced Tuesday that it, not parent company 20th Century Fox, would be releasing the period drama. The larger studio has overseen production and initially had it on its autumn schedule. Searchlight also announced a release date of Dec. 27, saying it would open the movie in limited release and platform it into January. PHOTOS: Movies Sneaks 2013 “Slave” returns McQueen and his “Shame” star Michael Fassbender, this time playing a malicious slave owner who comes into possession of a free Northern man named Solomon (Chiwetel Ejiofor)

The Sand Pebbles McQueen earned his only Oscar nomination for lead actor for this 1966 Robert Wise-directed epic in which he plays a sweet, but rebellious U.S. Navy machinist mate Jake Holman toiling aboard a gunboat in the Yangtze River in China in 1926. The Great Escape McQueen gained superstar status in this iconic 1963 World War II adventure set in a German POW camp as the baseball obsessed "Cooler King" who makes a daring escape on a motorcycle. The Thomas Crown Affair McQueen traded in his customary jeans and bomber jacket for a suit in this 1968 romantic caper film as a millionaire businessman who pulls off the perfect crime.

Robert E. Relyea, who began producing films with actor Steve McQueen in the 1960s and rose to president of production for MGM/UA in the late 1990s, has died. He was 82. The Hollywood veteran, who also worked with such actors as Elvis Presley and John Wayne and directors John Sturges, Robert Wise, Peter Yates, Stanley Donen and William Wyler, died March 12 at a Thousand Oaks hospital of natural causes, his family said. Born May 3, 1930, in Santa Monica, the UCLA graduate was the third generation of his family to work in the film industry.

A triplex in Silver Lake that was once home to a teenage Steve McQueen is on the market for $599,900. The updated Spanish-style building, constructed in 1923, contains three one-bedroom units in 1,660 square feet on two levels. The landscaped property is walled and gated with a lawn and deck. There is also a storage room, wine cellar and laundry. McQueen, who died in 1980 at 50, was known for his tough-guy persona. The box-office star appeared in such films as "The Magnificent Seven" (1960)

The Santa Paula ranch that box-office star Steve McQueen and his third wife, Barbara Minty, once owned is now bank-owned, public records show. The property had been for sale in 2009 at $1.95 million and had been reduced to $799,000 when it was removed from the market late last year. The pair moved to the 15.3-acre Ventura County ranch in 1979 and were married in the home's living room in January 1980. He died that year at age 50. The Victorian-style house, built in 1892, has antique stained-glass windows, mountain views and fireplaces in the family room and kitchen.

Actors will endure a lot for a director they believe in. Michael Fassbender swallowed his pride and wore a superhero helmet for Matthew Vaughn in "X-Men: First Class" and toggled trickily between English and German for Quentin Tarantino in "Inglourious Basterds. " But none of that compares to what he's been willing to go through for Steve McQueen. Four years ago, when Fassbender began working with the punctilious filmmaker (no relation to that other Steve McQueen) in the prison drama "Hunger," the actor lost 35 pounds to incarnate Irish Republican Army hero Bobby Sands.

"Shame" is a dispassionate treatment of a disturbing topic, and therein lies its power. Sexually graphic enough to earn its NC-17 rating yet made with a restraint that's both unflinching and unnerving, this is a psychologically claustrophobic film that strips its characters bare literally and figuratively, leaving them, and us, nowhere to hide. Directed by Steve McQueen from a script he co-wrote with Abi Morgan, this story of the obsessive behavior of a man addicted to sexual activity demands an actor willing to completely reveal himself emotionally as well as physically.

Who doesn't love Steve McQueen? Three decades after his death, McQueen still embodies qualities ? effortless cool, dangerous masculinity, edgy charisma ? that are coveted by men, embraced by women. With his close-cropped sandy blond hair and piercing blue eyes, the rebellious, brooding actor seems as relevant today as he was decades ago when he starred in such films as "The Magnificent Seven," "The Great Escape," "The Sand Pebbles," "Bullitt" and "The Thomas Crown Affair. " He was a uniquely American movie star, tough and self-reliant, a man given to action, not words.

Just how cool was Steve McQueen? Norman Jewison, who directed the legendary actor in 1965's "The Cincinnati Kid" and 1968's "The Thomas Crown Affair," says McQueen was so cool that he couldn't understand him. "He looked at me at one point and said, 'Are you twisting my melon, man?,' " Jewison recalls with a chuckle. "I never knew what he was talking about, he was so hip."

The bank-owned Santa Paula ranch that screen star Steve McQueen and his third wife, Barbara Minty, once owned has sold for $660,000. The property was listed in 2009 at $1.95 million but after multiple price reductions was lost to foreclosure in November at $699,283. The pair moved to the 15.3-acre Ventura County ranch in 1979 and were married in the home's living room in January 1980. The Victorian-style house, built in 1892, contains some of its original Victorian features, antique stained-glass windows and fireplaces in the family room and kitchen.

If the thought of Bugattis, Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Alfa Romeos gets your heart revving, then the classic car gawk-fest of the third annual Concours D'Elegance at Greystone Mansion on Sunday could be your speed. Hosted by the City of Beverly Hills as a fundraiser for the restored historic setting once owned by the Doheny family, the upscale auto show is becoming one of Southern California's premier car events. It was recently endorsed by the world's vintage car watchdog, FIVA (Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens)

Ed Savko, who bought a small-town grocery known as the Rock Store on Mulholland Highway in 1961 and turned it into an internationally recognized motorcycle mecca frequented by celebrities, businessmen, outlaw clubs and other bikers, has died. He was 86. Savko, who made it a weekend ritual to ride the twisty Santa Monica Mountains roads and stop at his hangout to swap stories and grab a bite to eat, died April 2 of congestive heart failure at Los Robles Hospital's Transitional Care Center in Thousand Oaks, according to his daughter, Sandra Clark.

The Santa Paula ranch that box-office star Steve McQueen and his third wife, Barbara Minty, once owned is now bank-owned, public records show. The property had been for sale in 2009 at $1.95 million and had been reduced to $799,000 when it was removed from the market late last year. The pair moved to the 15.3-acre Ventura County ranch in 1979 and were married in the home's living room in January 1980. He died that year at age 50. The Victorian-style house, built in 1892, has antique stained-glass windows, mountain views and fireplaces in the family room and kitchen.

In "The Fades," which premieres Saturday on BBC America, Paul (Iain De Caestecker) and Mac (Daniel Kaluuya) are best friends; they would have to be, having no other ones. Seventeen going on 14, they share a world in which all useful metaphors, if little practical knowledge, are available in the works of Spielberg, Lucas and Tolkien. We've met them before, in many places: Mac is the Virgin Who Can't Stop Talking About Sex; Paul is the Guy Who Would Be Hunky If He'd Only Stand Up Straight.

Four human beings writhe together in the frenzied climax of Steve McQueen's "Shame. " There's Michael Fassbender, starring as the emotionally stunted, sex-addicted New Yorker Brandon Sullivan. Then there are two female actors, DeeDee Luxe and Calamity Chang, Brandon's playmates in his final bout of impersonal, soul-destroying physical release. And the fourth participant? Why, that would be you, dear viewer, says McQueen, the film's British director and co-writer with playwright Abi Morgan.

"I live for myself and I answer to nobody." "When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it." "I worked hard, and if you work hard you get the goodies." -- Steve McQueen * Lean, sexy, tough and wild, Steve McQueen drove fast cars and motorcycles and lived life on the edge. His acting style was magnificently minimal -- even his appearance was pared down with his buzz-cut hair, jeans, turtlenecks and denim shirts and jackets.

Two vastly different cinematic icons are being feted this week by the American Cinematheque. You will smile even as your heart breaks at the Aero's "Cine Lights: Charlie Chaplin on the Big Screen," which begins Thursday and continues through June 27. During the silent era, Chaplin's' endearing Little Tramp character was one of the most indelible figures worldwide. And some 80 to 90 years after they were made, the humor, pathos, sadness, pratfalls, sentiment and grace of his short and feature-length films still strike a chord with audiences.

"It was more nerve-wracking than the nudity. " Thus speaks Carey Mulligan about what she calls her toughest scene in "Shame," playing Sissy, the emotionally extroverted sister of repressed Manhattan sex addict Brandon Sullivan (Michael Fassbender). Mulligan first appears in Steve McQueen's psychological drama completely starkers, having barged unannounced into her sibling's apartment, where Brandon encounters her taking a shower. "It's funny because I've never been comfortable with the idea of nudity before and have never done it," Mulligan says.

"Shame" is a dispassionate treatment of a disturbing topic, and therein lies its power. Sexually graphic enough to earn its NC-17 rating yet made with a restraint that's both unflinching and unnerving, this is a psychologically claustrophobic film that strips its characters bare literally and figuratively, leaving them, and us, nowhere to hide. Directed by Steve McQueen from a script he co-wrote with Abi Morgan, this story of the obsessive behavior of a man addicted to sexual activity demands an actor willing to completely reveal himself emotionally as well as physically.