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Watch the presentation below:

Watch an interview with Access Hollywood after the nomination announcements:

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Gerry’s birthday is November 13.  Wishes can be posted until November 15, 2011.

BIRTHDAY CHARITY CAMPAIGN
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The campaign will run until the end of November.

GALLERY

Gerard attends the Los Angeles Confidential Men’s Issue Cover Party.  View more pictures…

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THUNDER RUN

Gerard Butler, Sam Worthington and Matthew McConaughey are teaming up for Thunder Run, an all-CG 3D action thriller being made by Freedom Films.  Simon West is set to direct, according to Freedom Films, while Hyde Park International is handling international sales and launching the title at AFM.

The movie is adapting the novel Thunder Run - The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad, by Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent David Zucchino. Robert Port, who won an Oscar in 2003 for best short documentary, and Ken Nolan, who co-wrote Black Hawk Down, penned the script.

Read more from The Hollywood Reporter…

HUNTER KILLER
Gerard us currently in negotiations to star in Antoine Fuqua’s “Hunter Killer.”

Based on the novel “Firing Point” by George Wallace and Don Keith, the story follows an untested submarine captain who must work with a Navy SEAL team to rescue Russia’s president, who’s taken prisoner during a military coup. The two sides team to stop a rogue Russian general from igniting WWIII.

Butler is in talks to play Capt. Joe Glass, the commander of the USS Toledo, while “Avatar” star Sam Worthington is being eyed for the role of Bill Beaman, the leader of a special Navy SEAL unit called the Dev Group.

Read more from Variety…

OF MEN AND MAVERICKS
  

Gerard is currently at work on Of Men and Mavericks in California.  Set pictures are in the gallery and at Pacifica Patch.

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Watch Gerard’s photo shoot for the cover of LA Confidential below, then read the article and check out the pics!

MAVERICKS
Fox 2000 will co-finance and distribute Of Men and Mavericks in the US.  Curtis Hanson is scheduled to start shooting later this month in Northern California.  Elisabeth Shue and Abigail Spencer are joining the cast.  Read more…

ODDS AND ENDS

Listen to Gerard interview audio clips from Now Toronto.  Click here.

UK Facebook Fans, enter for a chance to win tickets to the screening of Coriolanus at the 55th BFI London Film Festival.  Click here to read more and enter!

The UK poster for Machine Gun Preacher is released in anticipation for the November 2 UK release date for the film.  View larger.

Read a whole host of new interviews with Gerard. Click here.

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‘Machine Gun Preacher’ has decent first round in limited release
based on the real-life story of thug-turned-preacher Sam Childers, who traveled to Sudan to help children affected by the war there — opened in four theaters and collected $44,000, according to an estimate from distributor Relativity Media. The gives the movie, which played in New York and Los Angeles this weekend, a decent per-theater average of $11,000. Read more from the Los Angeles Times…

For a list of theaters currently scheduled to release the film, visit the official website.  To get the film in your area, contact your local theater (try small independent theaters first) to solicit for the film in your area.

Virgin Mobile is donating four water wells to help orphans in Sudan have access to clean, safe water.

Please spread the word of the Machine Gun Preacher by taking two actions:

1. Visit Virgin Mobile’s Machine Gun Preacher Page on Facebook to sign-up and pledge to see the movie. Everyone who signs up will have their name engraved on a well donated by Virgin Mobile to recognize their support of this cause.

View pics from the members only screening of Machine Gun Preacher at the California Film Insitute on Facebook.  All photos copyright by Tommy Lau.