[i Fellow Scots Gerard Butler and Craig Ferguson have been pals for more than two decades. But it took How to Train Your Dragon, an animated movie about Vikings and dragons, to bring them together on screen [/i Gerard Butler's fierceness may have frightened the...
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Month: February 2010
“Law Abiding Citizen” Does Not Disappoint (Blog)
If you love a great, nail-biting film, "Law Abiding Citizen" is an excellent choice. Directed by F. Gary Gray, and starring Academy Award winning actor Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, it's a story of corruption and revenge. Jamie Foxx plays cocky Philadelphia prosecutor...
Artists for Peace and Justice Announces Details of Celebrity Themed Online Auction Hosted by charitybuzz
[i]Hollywood actors donate red carpet gowns and tuxedos[/i] Los Angeles, California. February 24, 2010 - Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ) will partner with popular online auction site charitybuzz.com for a special celebrity awards-themed auction that will begin on...
‘Law Abiding Citizen’ takes top DVD sales and rental spot
Law Abiding Citizen, the $73 million theatrical powerhouse starring Gerard Butler and Academy Award® winner Jamie Foxx, continued its winning streak from the silver screen to the small screen this week, as it beat all new video titles released the week of February 16...
Anchor Bay’s Box-Office Hit ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ Captures Top Spots on Video Charts (Blog)
[b]Acclaimed Action-Thriller #1 For Both Sell-Through And Rentals In First Week of Release [/b] Law Abiding Citizen, the $73 million theatrical powerhouse starring Gerard Butler and Academy Award® winner Jamie Foxx, continued its winning streak from the silver...
Lack of creativity handcuffs ‘Bounty’
Apparently, the makers of "The Bounty Hunter" believe in recycling. The plot is familiar as an old shoe: Two hotheaded ex-lovers are thrown together in a dangerous situation with explosive results. The man and woman in this case are...
Law Abiding Citizen – Blu Ray Review (Blog)
When a vicious home invasion takes a man's family away, he turns to the legal system for justice. When that system fails him, he has to take matters into his own hands. It's a good thing that he's got more in common with Jack Bauer than your average homeowner. Clyde...
Stars pull up their socks for Sport Relief
Today's the day that a new range of limited-edition red and white stripy socks go on sale exclusively at Sainsbury's to help raise money for Sport Relief 2010. And some of the nation's best-loved celebrities couldn't wait to sport their pair. Modelled by Girls Aloud...
Now Hunk Butler is a Socks Symbol
MOVIE hunk Gerard Butler puts his feet up for charity - and proves he has SOCKS appeal. [img]http://www.gerardbutler.net/news/Uploads/butler.jpg[/img] The Scots 300 star was happy to sit back and relax with a cuppa to promote next month's Sport Relief weekend. The...
Retailers Offer ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ Rewards
Entertainment merchants have added an added incentive to fans of Law Abiding Citizen, the action thriller from Anchor Bay Entertainment starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx, which hits retail shelves Feb. 16. Best Buy and Amazon are offering the standard DVD Citizen...
How to Train Your Dragon – Q&A with the Author, Directors and Producer (Blog)
A couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be invited along to a super early screening of How to train your Dragon. The movie wasn't in it's finished form but was 90% complete with a few wire frame models with shading in some parts. The audio wasn't 100% complete...
NBC Heats Up DreamWorks “Dragon” (Blog)
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. report they have entered into a televised promotional partnership with NBC, debuting today (Tuesday, February 9th), three days before the start of NBC's broadcast of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. DreamWorks Animation produced...
Gamer 2009 (Blog)
Gamer, 2009 Directors: Mark Neveldine, Bryan Taylor Cast: Gerard Butler, Amber Valetta Stage: City's colloseum (multiplex cinema) Gamer in short: Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments, a star...
Gerard Butler Offers Himself Up For Charity (Blog)
Gerard Butler is auctioning off a night of his company to raise money for a children's cancer charity. The 300 star is offering up the date to benefit non-profit organization Kids Kicking Cancer, which teaches martial arts to empower young patients. Fans who make a...
The Bounty Hunter (Blog)
Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler), a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, gets his dream job when he is assigned to track down his bail-jumping ex-wife, reporter Nicole Hurly (Jennifer Aniston). He thinks all that's ahead is an easy payday, but when Nicole gives him the slip so...
Law Abiding Citizen Unrated Director’s Cut DVD Review (Blog)
While one man's terrorist may be another's freedom fighter, it's not quite as simple when it comes to CIA operatives and your basic serial killer. Though John Travolta as a gleefully homicidal secret agent currently into one size fits all assassination mode in From...
Gamer (Blog)
There are movies that try to tell a very important message, and there are ones that try to entertain you for an hour or so. However, appearances can sometimes be deceiving. For instance, a movie or show that looks like it's meaningful can turn out to be an empty...
Shakespeare is Fiennes-tuned
Ralph Fiennes premieres his directing debut, an adaptation of the Bard's Coriolanus, at the Berlin Film Festival next week. Making the precarious leap from actor to director, Fiennes headed to Belgrade, Serbia in early 2010 to shoot the film, in which he takes the...
Weinstein Co In Talks To Buy ‘Coriolanus’
EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company is negotiating for U.S. distribution rights to Coriolanus, the Ralph Fiennes-directed John Logan-scripted contemporized adaptation of the Shakespeare play. Gerard Butler, Fiennes, Brian Cox, Vanessa Redgrave and Jessica Chastain lead...
News on Shakespeare in Serbia
Most people have heard that Ralph Fiennes decided to film an adaptation of Shakespeare's “Coriolanus†in Serbia beginning next year. In the latest news, we've learned that during the Cannes Film Festival, the rights to screen “Coriolanus†were pre-sold to...
Is Gerard Butler a ‘Machine Gun Preacher’?
Gerard Butler is showing lots of interest in a new film, Machine Gun Preacher, being developed based on a book by Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnapped and pressed into...
Kennell’s work headed to the big screen
[img http://www.gerardbutler.net/news/Uploads/casey-kennell-trailer.jpg[/img The past few years have been especially good to Somerset artisan Casey Kennell. “I've done this all my life and it's all I've ever done,†said Kennell, who has earned his wages painting...
Gerard Butler: Everyone says I sleep with my co-stars.. this time it’s a dragon
GERARD BUTLER has a history of being romantically linked to his co-stars. But he's hoping that won't be the case with his new film - even though it's a successful Scot. But although his fellow thespian is tall and good looking, Gerry is happy to keep Craig Ferguson as...
Gamer (Blog)
As the resident video game expert for the site, certain movies will always fall into my lap. Any movie that includes something about video games, good or bad I will get the chance to review. Sometimes, I'm not so thrilled and sometimes I'm simply elated to take on the...