Guy Ritchie
- Profession: Film Director and Writer
- Place/Date of Birth: Hatfield, 10 September 2020
Guy wants more kids with Madonna - Sept 05
Guy Ritchie is desperate to have more kids with Madonna. The film director, who is father to five-year-old Rocco and stepfather to eight-year-old Lourdes, has confessed he wants to extend his family with the pop queen. He revealed: "I’d like to think that we would have more children. I love it. I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids for ever." Guy has also admitted he and Madonna argue like every other couple. He confided: "Normal man and wife stuff. Relationships are about eating humble pie. We are not unique. We’re quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn’t work exponentially when we are together."
However, despite their occasional tiffs, the ’Snatch’ director says he loves Madonna because she gets on with things rather than just talking about it. He explained in an interview with the Times magazine: "She’s a manifester. She has an idea and can then manifest the idea. Not everyone’s like that. The world is divided between those that waffle and those that do."
Kabbalah film in pipeline - April 04
Guy Ritchie is rumoured to be making a film based around celeb fad religion Kabbalah.
The Lock Stock director converted to the religion along with his ultra famous missus and now, as if the Jewish based faith needed any more publicity, he apparently plans to make a film about it. Based on Madonna’s mentor’s book ’The Power Of Kabbalah’. A bit of a change from Guys usual mobster movies.
No TV in the Ritchie household - 10/01/03
Guy Ritchie has admitted he and wife Madonna have a self-imposed ban on watching TV.
He has told Bella magazine that he and Madonna have not read or watched television for over 3 years.
The film director, who is currently making a new reality series called Swag, says the censorship began by reading untruthful stories in the tabloids.
He says that reading "bad" and inaccurate articles made them question themselves.
New direction for Guy - 19/12/02
Madonna seems to be influencing her hubby in more ways than one. Firstly she involves him in the dire film Swept Away (it bombed, big time!) and now it’s been revealed that Guy is currently working on doing a film about the Kabbalah.
The film will study the Jewish mysticism, called "The 49th Gate." (Madonna is a massive Kabbalah follower) Stick to what your best at Guy!
Guy sells part in his new movie for charity - 04/12/02
Director Guy Ritchie is auctioning off two parts in his upcoming gangster movie, 49th Gate, over the Internet, one male and one female, to complete unknowns.
The cash raised will go to the: Guy has said, "It would be a crime for it to go at that price. The film is being shot in Los Angeles next spring and the prize includes return flights and two-nights accommodation in a hotel."
Guy Ritchie admits film is S*** - 14/11/02
Guy Ritchie told the prestigious Oxford Union on Tuesday night that his movie with the missus Swept Away will go straight to video in the UK because American critics have slammed it.
Guy said: "It won’t be released here because it’s s*** ". He added "It broke records in America. It must be the first film to make front-page news with a review. I think 21 papers in America ran a story on how appalling it was."
Judge for yourselves when Swept Away comes to a video store near you in the New Year.
Mockney gangster film director and Madonna’s spouse Guy Ritchie addressed the Oxford Union on Tuesday night.
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Dean Gaffney
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Brian May
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His second film, Snatch, also did well, taking £3m in its first weekend earlier this year, a record opening for an 18-rated film. The diamond-heist drama has so far grossed £12.3m in the UK and is soon to be released in the US. But, of course, it is not just Ritchie’s film successes that command the hundreds of column inches written about him each week. The 32-year-old’s marriage with pop icon Madonna and the birth of their son Rocco has caught the imagination of the public.
He began his career as a film runner in the UK in 1993, quickly progressing to directing music promos for bands and commercials by 1995. The money he made from this enabled him to direct his first film - Hard Case, a 20-minute short and after meeting his producing partner Matthew Vaughn, the two formed SKA Films. They went on to make Lock Stock, and two years later Snatch was released.
Ritchie also spotted the acting potential in footballer Vinnie Jones, who terrified opponents on the field with his crunching tackles.
He is now working on a 17th Century civil war action drama, which is slated for production in 2001.
He spent much of his childhood at Loton Park, in Shropshire, the 17th century home of his baronet stepfather.
Ritchie was born in Hatfield in Hertfordshire in 1968. His parents divorced when he was five, and he went to live with his mother, Amber, who was a model, and her new husband, Sir Michael Leighton, until she divorced again when he was 12.
It is reported that his severe dyslexia meant he attended a total of 10 schools, and left with one GCE in film studies. He got a job at Island Records, before pursuing his interest in film-making.
July 2007