Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is the protagonist of How to Train Your Dragon. He's the son of Viking King Stoick the Vast, chief of the Hairy Hooligans. But it's hard to live up to his father's expectations. Hiccup gives the introduction to Cressida Cowell's book:...
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Month: March 2009
First Look: DreamWorks Animation’s How To Train Your Dragon (Blog)
Animatoons has the first official promotional image for DreamWorks Animation's How To Train Your Dragon. The image also gives us our first real plot synopsis: “Meet Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, heir of the Viking chiefdom, but a boy with one very big problem: a...
Lights, camera, action in Bucks
Filming for the latest Jamie Foxx movie turned heads in Pineville. There are few places in Bucks County more serene than Pineville, where horses graze in expansive green pastures and streams sparkle in the sunlight. But the bucolic peace was shattered during the...
On-Set Informant: Gerard Butler Naked, Gives Crew Massages
[i]Actor Gerard Butler is shooting nude scenes for the locally-filmed movie "Law Abiding Citizen."[/i] All right, I know I've gotten your attention by selling the story like a cheap, cheap whore. So let me be clear: 1.) Gerard Butler is naked in the Philadelphia area...
Videos of Marc Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s GAME panel at CUT! 2009
Game directors Marc Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank) joined cast members Milo Ventimiglia, Zoe Bell, and Terry Crews to talk about their long overdue post-apoclayptic / dystopian /cyberpunk actioner at CUT! Film Festival 2009. True to their image as directors of...
Scenic work for movie set – Law Abiding Citizen (Blog)
I got my introduction to the world of movie set production this week. I was brought on to the set of "Law Abiding Citizen" staring Jamie Fox and Gerard Butler. The scenic department needed assistance faux painting two action sets on the last two days before filming....
GERARD BUTLER – Your Daily Gerry Tues 3/17/09 (Blog)
Please check out my other entry today regarding a story that is in the same vein of "PS I Love You" The St. Patrick's Story above this entry. Thanks HughE Guess what, remember last week when I reported that the casting company wanted a lot of black, high end cars? I...
“Citizen” gathers three Hollywood meteors in Philly
'City Hall has no bad angles," notes F. Gary Gray, admiring the Second-Empire tower Wednesday during a break on Law Abiding Citizen. His $65 million psychological thriller stars Jamie Foxx as an assistant DA and Gerard Butler as a vigilante out to bring him down....
GERARD BUTLER – Your Daily Gerry FRI 3/13/09 (Blog)
After work I took a walk around the City. I thought I would go by Gerry's hotel just to see if he was there. His car was waiting for him, and you can kinda see the reflection in the door, but I really didn't feel like waiting for him to come out. Now b4 all you fans...
Jamie Foxx & Gerard Butler Thrill as ‘Law Abiding Citizens”
Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler team up for a deadly game of cat and mouse in the psychological thriller 'Law Abiding Citizen,' and ET has a first look with the stars on location at the Philly set! [b]If the above embed doesn't work, click the link above to view the...
Inqlings: ‘Standing O’ for an impresario (Blog)
******** A role as an extra on Law Abiding Citizen, the currently shooting Jamie Foxx-Gerard Butler movie, sold for $1,300 last week as part of CityStyle, a benefit for the Gershman Y. Greater Philadelphia Film Office head Sharon Pinkenson worked the gavel. Buyer...
300: A conversation with director Zach Snyder
Hollywood Spin Dictionary Entry #5676: When a filmmaker says that “the landscape was like another character in my movie,” unless that director is Terrence Malick, it usually means that the acting stunk and the script stumbled, but the cinematographer got some stunning...
Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx Law Abiding Citizen Film (Blog)
Hello readers. I hope you had a great weekend. I was incredibly busy, big thanks to Mike for letting me run around town and then sleep til 11AM and do it again. I will be writing about the Red Cross Ball tomorrow. Also GERARD BUTLER FAN SITES please do me a favor and...
Cinema Notes
A role as an extra on Law Abiding Citizen, the currently shooting Jamie Foxx-Gerard Butler movie, sold for $1,300 last week as part of CityStyle, a benefit for the Gershman Y. Greater Philadelphia Film Office head Sharon Pinkenson worked the gavel. Buyer Juliet...
Want to be in “Law Abiding Citizen”?
Ever dream of working in the movies? Tonight, Sharon Pinkenson, head of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, will auction off a walk-on role in Law Abiding Citizen starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. The auction is part of CityStyle, the third annual fund-raiser...
They serve steak in prison?
Shang Skipper, general manager of Del Frisco's (15th & Chestnut), will be on set at Holmesburg Prison tomorrow, when "Law Abiding Citizen" shoots a scene that centers on food from the steakhouse being delivered to a prison where Gerard Butler's character is locked...
Actors help out Film Office
The Greater Philadelphia Film Office brings film projects to the area, hoping to steer civic pride and a few bucks into the area. Saturday night, movie folk came to the aid of the film office, helping to bring in nearly $20,000. The top-liners of the film Law Abiding...
Lights, Camera, Action
It was lights, camera, action with virtually all of Market Street shut down Thursday night for the latest segment of the action thriller Law Abiding Citizen. "It's kind of exciting you don't see this everyday," said Joshmin Ray of East Oak Lane. The movie, which stars...
Inqlings: Overbrook Farms starring again (Blog)
Hollywood has returned to Overbrook Farms, and the cinematic results again won't be cheery. In 2007, director M. Night Shyamalan shot a chilling hanging scene on a front lawn near City Avenue for The Happening. [b]Friday night, Law Abiding Citizen director F. Gary...