A reminder that Gerard will be a presenter at this year’s Golden Globe Awards.  The awards will be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, January 17 and will air live on NBC at 8:00pm EST.

Gerard enjoyed the pre-gifting suite for the Golden Globes on January 14.  Check the gallery for more pictures!

KIDS KICKING CANCER CHARITY CAMPAIGN
We are in the home stretch of our charity campaign for Kids Kicking Cancer.  To date, over 960 donations have been made totaling more than $37,000!!  What an outstanding show of generosity!!  Thank you so much for your support to this very worthy cause.  There is still time to donate and enter your donation receipt for a chance to have dinner with Gerry.  Donation receipts will be accepted by us until February 14, 2010.  If you are mailing a check, it much be RECEIVED before February 14, so get it in the mail early.  We have already chosen 12 recipients for the gifts being offered.  All recipients have been emailed, but you can check the entry page for the names of the lucky fans.

HAITIAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF
While the above campaign is our primary charity focus at the moment, we would be remiss in not mentioning how much help is needed in the way of donations for the earthquake victims in Haiti.  If you would like to help, we recommend any of the following charities:

• Habitat for Humanity (Effort focuses on housing needs)
• American Red Cross (Supports emergency relief and recovery efforts)
• UNICEF (100% of donations go to relief aid)

Gerard and other celebrities have joined with Entertainment Tonight and the American Red Cross to film Haitian relief effort public service announcements to air on ET. (News via Twitter)

Watch the PSA below:

GAMER DVD
Don’t forget!  Gamer will be out on DVD on January 19!  Pre-order your copy from Amazon.com and help support GerardButler.Net!

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
Publicity has begun for Dreamworks’ How To Train Your Dragon, opening March 26, 2010.  Gerard and Craig Ferguson have been hard at work tag teaming bloggers and reporters in preparation for the films release.  Check the latest news and interviews here.

The DVD is out and if you want to share your review of RockNRolla, THIS IS THE PLACE! Rate the film and post your review here.  Please post reviews in that section only, not in our guestbook, in order to prevent spoilers from being posted elsewhere on the site.

Thanks to stagewomanjen for keeping the news archive up-to-date with the latest reviews of the film.  Browse through some of them here.

If you haven’t been able to find the DVD for purchase in your area, head over to our Amazon.com store and order your own copy and have some fun with The Wild Bunch!

MORE BURNS INFO… According to the official press release, Evil Twins will be co-producing Burns with The Mob Film Company.

GALLERY ADDITIONS

Thanks to jade-eyes for some great scans from the Japanese magazine, Cut.

NEW FEATURES AND SOCIAL WEB LINKS – You may have noticed small changes throughout the site in the last couple months.  We are constantly adding new features and links to make it easier for everyone to keep up-to-date with all the latest in Gerard’s career and share YOUR opinion on a variety of different topics.  A few of the highlights include:

• You can now rate the photos in our gallery.  Click any picture and the five-star rating appears at the bottom.  We’ll highlight the highest rated pic on the front page of the site in the future.
• We are now on Facebook, Networked Blogs (connected to Facebook), MySpace, Blogger, Flickr and Twitter!  Feel free to friend and follow us at all those links!
• We have expanded our former “Gerry on MySpace” page to include other official and unofficial social web links.  Check them out here!

Many thanks to Sharon for helping with the Flickr and Blogger set ups and maintenance!

OMG! Yahoo has placed Gerard at #3 on their 25 Hottest Hunks in Hollywood list!  Only Josh Brolin and David Beckham placed higher.  Congrats Gerry!  The world is FINALLY discovering what we already knew! 

Gerard will be a guest at the much-anticipated, grand opening of Dubai’s most luxurious resort and newest icon, Atlantis The Palm, this Thursday.  This information has been confirmed by Alan Siegel Entertainment. Gerard joins other A-listers like Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington and Oprah Winfrey for the red carpet event marking the official launch of the landmark and its flagship resort. Read more…

MORE GALLERY ADDITIONS

Thanks to Klaus Roethlisberger for sharing another one of his photo shoot pics taken of Gerard in 2003. Thanks also to Manon at GerardButler.jp for scans from HD Video Pro.

GB.NET ANNUAL CHARITY COOKBOOK
Thank you to everyone who submitted recipes for this year’s charity cookbook, “Party Favorites.”  We have a great collection of over 130 good eats!  Since we won’t be able to get to formatting the publication for CafePress until later in the week, feel free to submit more until Thursday, November 20.

300 Limited Collectors Edition + Digital Copy

A reminder that the 300 Limited Collectors Edition + Digital Copy will be released tomorrow by Warner Home Video. 300 Limited Collector’s Edition is available while supplies last and includes a brand NEW documentary about the 300 Legend, filtered through History, Graphic Novel and Film, a Digital Copy of the theatrical version, a 52-Page Hardcover Art Book with Personal Message from Director Zack Snyder, Lucite Display with Motion Film Clip, 6 Collectible Photo Cards and all contents from the 2- Disc Special Edition.

GALLERY ADDITIONS

New pics from the Perry Hagopian photoshoot and InStyle.com (with Maria Menounos) have been added to the gallery.

COMIC CON 2008
IESB.Net is reporting that Warner Bros. will feature RockNRolla at this years Comic Con to be held in San Diego. Read more…

NIM’S ISLAND DVD

Nim’s Island is now available for pre-order at Amazon.com.   The DVD will be released on August 5, 2008.   Available in Blu-Ray or standard format or visit our Amazon Astore to place your order today!

CHARITY HAPPENINGS

The 2008 Australian Official Convention has been scheduled for September 5, 2008 in Albury, New South Wales. Interested in attending? Contact squirtie at squirt52 @ iprimus.com.au for all the details (remove the spaces around the @ before sending the email).

The 2008 Gerard’s Grove & Phantom’s Phorest Un-raffle is in its final days. To date, the combined efforts of past campaigns and the 2008 campaign has raised over $27,400. That’s a fantastic grand total of 2,813 trees!

In a message on the Grove for Gerard Butler webpage, Alan Watson Featherstone, Trees for Life’s Executive Director wrote: “I’m deeply touched by the tremendous support of the fans of Gerard Butler, who have donated trees for what is by far the biggest grove we’ve yet had sponsored in the Caledonian Forest. Well done and thank you to everybody.”

If you would like to donate to Trees for Life, visit the donation page. Thanks to Peigi McCann for her continued dedication and commitment to the Trees for Life campaigns. This campaign ends June 24.

Another year, another successful Las Vegas Gerard Butler Fan Convention!! Congratulations to all involved! For more details on the happenings and excitement of this annual charity event, visit Gerard Butler GALS.