**** GAMER (with Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Ludacris) Synopsis: Humans control other humans in a mass-scale, multiplayer online game. Reclusive billionaire Ken Castle has created the controversial form of entertainment, "Slayers," a hugely popular game that...
PRESS ARCHIVES
Month: August 2009
Gamer Directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor on Wanting to Be Abused
The twisted minds behind the Crank series turn their attentions to human video games and real-life Second Life in Gamer. They talk about their controller fantasies and the top secret sequel they can't talk about. Q: Where did you get the inspiration for Gamer? MN: We...
Butler Bringing The Action Back for “Gamer”
It was Gerard Butler's first UFC event, and the star of the upcoming film “Gamer†(which opens in theatres this Friday, September 4th), and as he makes clear, being in Philadelphia for UFC 102 earlier this month was quite an eye-opening experience. “It's pretty...
Gamer Get in the Poster at Facebook (Blog)
Gamer Get in the Poster at Facebook The movie website for Gamer is like a world in itself. Once the website finally loads, you can use your mouse to navigate around and explore the world - different bulls eyes become available navigating you to the cast and crew,...
For Butler, it’s all part of the game
He doesn't have his movie star game on. Sex symbol Gerard Butler is hiding out on a hotel roof in Los Angeles when he's spotted and asked to leave the premises. Is this any way to treat someone who has ascended to the top of the the A-list in Hollywood? The star of...
Gerard Butler’s just a regular ‘Gamer’
After hearing the war stories from the making of his latest action thriller, "Gamer," it's no wonder Gerard Butler made a tactical retreat to romantic comedies like this summer's "The Ugly Truth" and "The Bounty," currently filming in New York. Filming the intense...
The Fast and Furiously Lampooned
THE filmmaker Mark Neveldine sat in a booth at Rudy's Bar & Grill, a dimly lit dive in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan, working on a pitcher of beer. Looking the part of a happy-hour regular on this late July afternoon, he wore a mustache and a trucker cap. “My...
Check out a ‘Gamer’ clip featuring Gerard Butler
Gerard Butler's been spending his summer with Jennifer Aniston — rumor is they're even dating — filming the new movie The Bounty in New Jersey and New York, and that's where our Brian Truitt found him when he talked with Butler for a feature in this weekend's...
Law Abiding Citizen Movie Trailer (Blog)
Beat me now for being a mom blogger and promoting a "R" movie but I am doing it THIS time because I had the fortune of being called to be an extra in this movie in the courtroom for a day. I don't know if I'll be seen in the movie BUT if you pause the trailer around...
Gerard Butler heats up the summer
Nobody can question whether Gerard Butler is a true action hero on the big screen. In real life, though, he may have some work to do. Just ask Jennifer Aniston. "Her life was in my hands," Butler says with nervous laughter. While filming a chase scene with Aniston...
Director F. Gary Gray Talks Law Abiding Citizen
Director F. Gary Gray is taking a lot of pleasure in the fact that that his upcoming “Law Abiding Citizen†thriller is going to show moviegoers new aspects of both Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. “The chemistry between them reminds me of the on-screen chemistry...
Movies – Sept 2009
**** Gamer We'd be complete hypocrites if we didn't cover this movie, even though it is rated R for language and violence, so parents be forewarned. Why is it so important? Because it's a loving homage to video games, a prominent feature in our editorial picks as you...
Anticipating Gamer – The Greatest Video Game Movie Ever… Or the Worst (Blog)
Gamer hits theaters next week, and if you're intensely ambivalent about it, I don't blame you. Is it a goofy parody of video game stereotypes, or a lowest-common-denominator exploitation of society's fear of them? Is it a balls-to-the-wall action flick, or a weird...
Versatile star Gerard Butler’s best role? Fun-loving guy
NEW YORK — "I married Jennifer Aniston yesterday." Gerard Butler casually drops this bit of paparazzi bait during a conversation last week, between more mundane talk of his upcoming projects. He wore a tux, she wore a white gown. "She looked beautiful," Butler says....
Q&A: After ‘300,’ Gerard Butler is still battling
NEW YORK—In the new action film, "Gamer," video games have conjoined with reality, and gamers can control the lives of real people from the comfort of their couches. It can sound a little like today's Hollywood: teenage boys rule the world. The star of "Gamer,"...
Gamer: Play to Live Trailer (Blog)
Gamer is gearing up to look pretty impressive mixing MMO multiplayer addiction and barbaric blood sports. We've been keeping a pretty close eye on this upcoming action flick with Gerard Butler becoming the next action star with big thanks to testosterone nerd film...
Humans Control Other Humans in Upcoming Film ‘Gamer’ (Blog)
Gamer is set in the near future, a time when mind-control technology has taken society by storm. Humans control other humans in a mass-scale, multiplayer online game. Reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall) has created the controversial form of...
What the Geek Gyrl is Squeeing Over Right Now (Blog)
A Squee is a personal thing; we each have our own squee-worthy moments and memories and activities and “thingamabobsâ€. Right now, I'm squeeing over a few movies, a couple TV shows and a video game (no partridges in pear trees, though, please.) I'm very excited...
Jennifer Aniston booted by Gerard Butler (Blog)
LONDON - It seems that actor Gerard Butler is tired of going the usual way of wooing a woman, for he was recently seen dumping actress Jennifer Aniston into the boot of a car. The two have been romantically linked recently, though they have both denied it, reports the...
Aniston movie shoots scenes at Monmouth Park
A grand entrance, by helicopter, of Hollywood stars Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler in the morning. Six hundred extras acting as if there was a real race taking place at Monmouth Park. Instead of the normally scheduled day off for the Oceanport racetrack on...
Gerard Butler Is Ruthless and Deadly in ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ Trailer
[i]“A man who loses everything is capable of anythingâ€[/i] “The Italian Job†director F. Gary Gray is making a return to movie screens this year with “Law Abiding Citizen,†a drama / action movie starring power couple Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler as two...
What geek movie is worth paying theater prices to see? (Blog)
Gamer opens September 4. The film looks like it will walk the line between science fiction and horror, one of my favorite genre combos. Through in a little gladiator, and this movie has a lot going on. The premise is simple and has been done before — video games...
F. Gary Gray’s Law Abiding Citizen – Color Timing
‘Law Abiding Citizen’ Trailer (Blog)
A while back we posted the one sheets and synopsis for this new film starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx. Here's the rundown from Overture films in case you missed it: Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally...
Law Abiding Citiaen Starring Gerard Butler Movie Trailer (Blog)
I have to admit that I saw this trailer for Law Abiding Citizen the other day on You Tube. I wanted to see it because I had heard that Gerard Butler's performance was amazing in it. And I have to say that they were right. He looks crazy. But with the premise of the...