At San Diego Comic Con Lionsgate Pictures, let a group of us ask questions to co-creators, Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor about their upcoming film, Gamer. Based on what we covered, the film promises to be a wild ride based on the worst case scenario of video games....
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Month: July 2009
Gerard Butler: ‘Gamer’ action makes ‘300’ look like ‘a walk in the park’
After a brief jaunt through chick-flick land, Gerard Butler is going back to the bloody battlefields. The actor who so memorably led the Spartans to a dinner date in hell in "300" is starring this September in "Gamer," the latest movie from "Crank" codirectors Mark...
New Gamer Film Clip — It’s Cool, Yeah (Blog)
Lionsgate released a new clip for their upcoming Gerard Butler film Gamer and they asked me to share this clip with you. Butler is the badass of the week with this clip, telling the teenager “If you want to win this game, let me go.†Gamer opens September 4, 2009....
Release Date Shuffle: ‘Wolf Man’ and Matt Damon Banished to 2010 (Blog)
Poor, poor Benicio Del Toro. A former resident of last February, last April and this coming November, his take on The Wolf Man has been bumped back to next February now. That's right: for all the re-scheduling and re-shoots, Joe Johnston's version of the classic...
Deauville reveals line up for 35th edition
The Deauville Festival of American Film has unveiled its line-up for the upcoming 35th edition. It has also announced that Jean-Piere Jeunet will be president of the competition jury, which so far includes nine US indie titles. European and French premieres include...
SDCC 09: Gamer Talk from Neveldine and Taylor
Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor are not known for quiet, thoughtful dramas, taylor made for the Lifetime channel. Crank 2 can easily be described as an all out orgy of carnage and psychotic behavior, but Gamer is a whole different animal. This is a near future in an...
Gerard Butler charmingly tells ‘The Ugly Truth’
[i]Gerard Butler will tell the truth, no matter how ugly it is, with charm (lots of it). Don't let that look fool you.[/i] How do true movie stars respond in the face of a bomb threat? The show must go on, bien sûr. Two hours after an anonymous phone call forced the...
The Ugly Truth of Gerard Butler
Interview with star Gerard Butler and review of the outrageously sexy romantic comedy The Ugly Truth from Columbia Pictures **** 4 Stars HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 7/23/09 - “I took inspiration from Spencer Tracy and Cary Grant, the way the words are always...
Gerard Butler breaks the mold
Gerard Butler set a new standard for belligerent bluster as "300's" Spartan king. He has also been the ancient hero Beowulf in an Icelandic feature and Attila the Hun in a TV movie. In his new comedy "The Ugly Truth," the Scottish actor plays Mike Chadway, a TV love...
Exclusive: Gerard Butler talks GAMER (Blog)
While Gerard Butler has been making a lot of romantic comedies since playing King Leonidas in Zack Snyder's “300″, he's about to return to the action genre in Neveldine/Taylor's “Gamerâ€. If you aren't familiar with the name Neveldine/Taylor, they made...
Comic Con : Saw 6, Gamer Event
This Thursday at Comic Con San Diego, Lionsgate will be distributing tickets at the Lionsgate booth (located at Booth 3729) – the first 100 people to hit the booth will be able to grab a ticket to a talent signing with COSTAS MANDYLOR (Detective Hoffman) and BETSY...
Gerard Butler: Clowning Around On Set (Blog)
Though he's played some pretty tough roles in his career, Gerard Butler is really a kid at heart. And yesterday (July 20) he was spotted goofing around on the set of his new movie “The Bounty.†The “300†stud jumped around and waved his arms at the fans and...
Brian Tyler: Law Abiding Citizen
According to the Gorfaine-Schwartz Agency, Brian Tyler is attached to F. Gary Gray's thriller Law Abiding Citizen, starring Gerard Butler, Michael Gambon, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb and Christian Stolte. Gray previously worked with composers Anne Dudley (American History...
Gerard Butler interview for The Ugly Truth
[i]Gerard Butler interview for The Ugly Truth Muscular action hero one moment, sensitive rom-com lead the next, Gerard Butler's talent for mixing the rough with the smooth has made him one of Hollywood's most bankable stars.[/i] Gerard Butler is in mid-flow, telling...
Butler’s career is cruising but it’s about to get Ugly
[i]Butler's career is cruising but it's about to get Ugly Star of 300 says new film with Katherine Heigl will shock with frankness[/i] Gerard Butler + 300 = life-changer. "300, that really changed everything," Butler growls in his Scots burr. And who could disagree?...
Gerard Butler Describes Gamer as Violent and Beautiful
With all the summer blockbusters hitting theaters there hasn't been much buzz for director Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's upcoming sci-fi thriller, Gamer starring Gerard Butler, but it sounds like this may be the thriller we've been looking for all summer. In a...
Gerard Butler on Jennifer Aniston: She’s “Sexy” (Blog)
When two of the world's sexiest celebrities make headlines for their on-screen romance, we can't help but wonder what happens after the cameras stop rolling. Such is the case with Bounty Hunter co-stars Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler. Jen has been linked to a slew...
Gerard Butler on what makes Gamer a winner
Gerard Butler always talks a good game, but the 300 star sounds truly jazzed about his upcoming sci-fi action movie Gamer, in which humans manipulate other humans in mass-scale, multiplayer online games. The film won't be released until Sept. 4, but Butler just...
300 Things We Didn’t Know About Gerard Butler
[i]We sent one of our most open-minded reporters, a man largely unsullied by any familiarity with our Hollywood-obsessed world, to interview this guy. We gave him a first name and an address, nothing more. We were pretty certain Cal had never heard of him. This is...
Jennifer Aniston films scenes at Daily News for upcoming film ‘The Bounty (Blog)
Jennifer Aniston stepped off an elevator Saturday and became one of the hottest reporters at the Daily News. Well, kinda … Aniston - along with a film crew and an enthusiastic cadre of extras - were shooting scenes for the upcoming action comedy “The Bounty.â€...
Gamer Augmented Poster Debut
US, July 7, 2009 - IGN Movies is excited to present you with this exclusive first look at the augmented reality movie poster for Lionsgate's upcoming action film, Gamer! This is the first time that augmented reality technology has been utilized for a movie poster, and...
Gerard Butler Gets The Drop On Jennifer Aniston (Blog)
Posted on Jul 09, 2009 @ 05:13PM print it send it In their new movie, Gerard Butler plays a bounty hunter whose latest fugitive target turns out to be his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston. The pair is on location in Queens, New York where this getaway scene was shot. Gerard's...
EXCLUSIVE: ‘300’ Producer Says Sequel ‘Looking Good,’ Won’t Rule Out Gerard Butler Resurrection (Blog)
Now that “300†is coming out with a super-duper, bells-and-whistles “Complete Experience†Blu-Ray disc on the 21st, it's had me thinking about the first few times I saw the movie. Like many, I went in not knowing what to expect and came out in awe of Zack...