"Machine Gun Preacher," a new Gerard Butler movie, has been approved for the state's film incentives and is expected to begin shooting here this summer. Based on a true story, it stars the versatile Scottish actor as a former drug-dealing biker who finds religion and...
PRESS ARCHIVES
Month: May 2010
‘Machine Gun Preacher’ to begin production
Machine Gun Preacher, the Mark Forster directed film about a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnapped and pressed into duty as soldiers in the Lord's Resistance Army, will begin...
Michigan Incentives Transforming Motor City To Movie Magnet
With flicks like “Machine Gun Preacher†starring Gerard Butler, “30 Minutes of Less†by “Zombieland†director Ruben Fleicher, 50 Cent's “Love Me or Love Me Not†and Dreamworks' $80 million sci-fi flick “Real Steel,†with Hugh Jackman, all set to...
The Boys Are Back
Forget Stallone and Schwarzenegger. This year's Cannes market unleashed a tsunami of action movies starring 21st Century tough guys like Gerard Butler, Jason Statham and Clive Owen. The Cannes market this year had a serious injection of testosterone, namely in the...
Serbia dreams of becoming movie hotspot
BELGRADE (Reuters Life!) - Serbia basked in the Hollywood spotlight this spring as its capital became the backdrop -- and sometimes war zone -- for the screen adaptation of the lesser-known Shakespeare tragedy "Coriolanus". After isolation during real wars in the...
Belgrade film festival closes, Ralph Fiennes’ movie opens 2011 FEST
Belgrade - The annual 38th Belgrade international film festival (FEST) closed on Sunday evening with the German-British co- production of Pope Joan. More than 90,000 visitors saw 64 movies from 30 countries during the 10-day festival, which featured new releases from...
Cannes: Handicapping 2010 Movie Sales
Thankfully, the 63rd Cannes Film Festival marketplace is finally underway. Because who knew how much more pre-fest turmoil -- freakish waves that washed over the outdoor areas of beachfront restaurants, a belch from the Iceland volcano that rerouted air travelers, and...
Cannes: Handicapping 2010 Movie Sales
Thankfully, the 63rd Cannes Film Festival marketplace is finally underway. Because who knew how much more pre-fest turmoil -- freakish waves that washed over the outdoor areas of beachfront restaurants, a belch from the Iceland volcano that rerouted air travelers, and...
On the set in Serbia with a bloody Ralph Fiennes
BELGRADE (Reuters Life!) - Dressed in military fatigues and with their faces covered in blood, Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler are at each others' necks, fighting on the ground atop broken glass and debris, trying to kill each other. Still breathing heavily after an...
Gerard Butler Rounds Up His Cast
Most of you may not remember hearing about a film called Machine Gun Preacher in December, but it's back in the news again. Deadline reports that Lionsgate has decided to develop and distribute the film and given them a greenlight to start shooting this summer. Gerard...
Gerard Butler’s ‘Machine Gun Preacher’ Locks Start Date And Co-Stars
EXCLUSIVE: Back in January, I told you about the effort to mount Machine Gun Preacher, a fact-based drama directed by Marc Forster. Gerard Butler was keen to play reformed bad guy Sam Childers, a drug-dealing biker who found God and became the scourge of rebel forces...
Making a Fiennes fist of an anti-hero: First pictures of Coriolanus on the big screen
Ralph Fiennes has been obsessed with bringing Shakespeare's anti-hero Coriolanus to the screen ever since he played the human killing machine on stage. A decade later, the actor is directing the movie, as well as playing the central role. He has persuaded Serbian...
Ralph Fiennes’s full-metal Coriolanus
[i]Ralph Fiennes has picked a modern war-zone version of Coriolanus for his directorial debut. Cath Clarke finds herself embedded on set in Belgrade – bullets, bandanas, Gerard Butler and all[/i] A dozen or so soldiers are sprawled in front of a communist-era block...
Hunting for a Decent Chick Flick: Bounty Hunter Review
Milo Boyd, a relaxed and humorous bachelor, is a bounty hunter divorced from the successful journalist Nicole Hurley. Their lives are going well apart, until an accident brings them together again. The story begins with a scene in which Gerard Butler's character, Milo...
‘How to Train Your Dragon’ worth every 3D penny
I have enjoyed the growing trend over the past 15 years or so of animated films, which are just as much for adults as for children. "How to Train Your Dragon," the newest animated film from DreamWorks Studios, is no exception, using fantastic visuals to keep children...
How to Train Your Dragon movie review
How To Train Your Dragon is the latest from the stable of Dreamworks, but apart from the animation style, you'd never know it. How to Train Your Dragon is the story of Hiccup, a Viking who feels out of place since he's not a fan of killing the dragons the Viking's...
‘How to Train Your Dragon’
There's a good number of reasons that Dreamworks' “How to Train Your Dragon†reclaimed the top box office spot this week against a handful of new releases (including “The Back-up Plan,†“The Losersâ€) despite being in theaters for nearly a month, but the...