Perhaps you've heard the story of startup cameramaker Red, which is aiming to shake up the world of cinematography in which high-end digital cameras offered by the likes of Panavision, Arri and Sony can list in the six figures. Red has broken the model with a $17,500...
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Month: March 2008
Indie working on knight moves
The Film Department, the indie production outfit run by Mark Gill and Neil Sacker, has won a bidding war for "Galahad," a revisionist King Arthur spec from newcomer Ryan Condal. Gill and the company's Robert Katz will produce with Energy Entertainment's Brooklyn...
Gerard Butler would have dodged explosions in law school, too
[img]http://www.gerardbutler.net/news/Uploads/nationalpost.jpg[/img] Gerard Butler can play a wily warrior or a sensitive sort. In Nim's Island, he gets to play both. Opening April 4, the action-fantasy film features Butler as a marine biologist living on a tropical...
Extra! Extra! More from Our April 2008 (Man)ifesto Interview with Gerard Butle
When we caught up with Gerard Butler, he had just wrapped up filming a movie in New Mexico and was on his way to the airport. Gerard didn’t have a lot of time to talk, but turns out you don’t need a lot of time to be completely won over by the outgoing, funny star....
The Film Department to unveil pic at Cannes
Catherine Zeta-Jones will star in an untitled romantic comedy for the Film Department, with Bart Freundlich directing from his own script. Shooting starts April 17 on the Process production. Tim Perell, Freundlich, Mark Gill and Robert Katz are producing; Neil Sacker...
Gerard Butler talks action heroes
Every now and then my magazine readers respond overwhelmingly to a particular actor. I'll be scrolling through the hundreds of questions I get each month and realize that I have dozens about one guy. When I first started writing my Who's News column it was Richard...
It Takes a Butler To Tame a Dragon (Blog)
I tried not to make that joke -- but hey, everyone else is using McLovin' ones! The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Gerard Butler joins America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel and Christopher Mintz-Plasse to voice How to Train Your Dragon. Get your minds out...
DreamWorks delays ‘Dragon’
Mindful of a crowded schedule for 3-D films late next year, DreamWorks Animation has pushed its offering "How to Train Your Dragon" by four months to March 26, 2010. The move leaves the studio with just one release, "Monsters vs. Aliens," scheduled for next year and...
Deal Clears Way For More 3-D Screens
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 11, 2008(AP) Hollywood took a big step Tuesday toward offering more movies in 3-D, announcing deals to convert as many as 10,000 more theater screens for the digital technology needed to accommodate the resurgent, eye-popping format. Access...
You’ll Learn How to Train Your Dragon a Bit Later
DreamWorks Animation announced today it is moving How to Train Your Dragon from November 20, 2009 to March 26, 2010. Based on the book by Cressida Cowell, "Dragon" is about Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, heir of the Viking chiefdom, but a boy with one very big...
DreamWorks Animation chief sees ‘new era’ with 3-D
LAS VEGAS (AP) — DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. chief executive Jeffrey Katzenberg promised a "new era" in moviegoing Tuesday, as Hollywood studios prepared a huge slate of 3-D movies for theaters that are increasingly going digital. "It is nothing less than the...
DreamWorks fires up ‘Dragon’ cast
[i Butler, Ferrera, Hill, Baruchel join animated pic[/i Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel and Christopher Mintz-Plasse will voice "How to Train Your Dragon" for DreamWorks Animation. Peter Hastings will helm the feature toon, and Bonnie Arnold...
DreamWorks’ ‘Dragon’ finds its voices
Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse have signed on to voice-star in "How to Train Your Dragon," the CGI fantasy feature from DreamWorks Animation. Based on Cressida Cowell's first novel in the children's book series,...
Crank 3 Going 3D with Bullet-Time: (Blog)
We previously announced that Crank 2: High Voltage is in the works, but now the plot thickens - they're also making Crank 3! And that's not it - it's going to be in 3D, too! Steve over at Collider caught up with filmmakers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, who told him...
Movie review Wrath of Gods- 2007 (blog)
Wrath of Gods is an challenging exploration into the rigors of film making as seen through the riotous production of 2005s Beowulf and Grendel (not to be confused with Henry M. Robert Zemeckis forthcoming motion conquer adaptation of the same famed narration). The...
Dear Frankie review (blog)
Dear Frankie is the story of a mother and her son Frankie. Frankie writes letters to his dad who works on a ship, but in reality, the mother pretends to be the dad and writes back. Frankie's father left the family when Frankie was a baby. When the boat comes to their...
Revolution, Lightstorm team for ‘Tale’ spin
[i Cameron strays from Fox hole for comedy/adventure pitch[/i Revolution Studios has picked up a pitch called "The Hanging Tale" from scribe Danny Rubin ("Groundhog Day") for low six figures to be produced with Jim Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment. Deal marks the...
BEOWULF AND GRENDEL (2005)…A Movie Review (blog)
I am a medievalist ... specifically, an Anglo-Saxonist. Don't panic ...all that means is that I am becoming something of an "expert" at the literature, and perforce, the history, of the Anglo-Saxons. And THAT means that among the things I must know is their greatest...