PLAYING Burns on the silver screen would be a dream role for most Scots actors. And none more so than Gerard Butler, star of the US Christmas smash Dracula 2000. Gerard is currently hanging out with the stars in Los Angeles. But he would jump at the chance to come...

A MACHO film portraying Robert Burns as a sex maniac is gearing up for production in the summer, with top Scottish talent on board. Screen heavyweights Brian Cox, John Hannah, and James Cosmo are set to join Lara Croft star Gerard Butler who will play the title role....

A MACHO film portraying Robert Burns as a sex maniac is gearing up for production in the summer - with some top Scottish talent on board. Screen heavyweights Brian Cox, John Hannah, David O'Hara and James Cosmo are set to join Lara Croft star Gerard Butler, who will...

Every year brings -- along with crops, allergies and insects -- a new yield of stars, trends and cultural upsets. Some will last, some will be fleeting. Among the stars, there are babes, beefcake and at least one bafflingly-popular geek. For them, this year will mark...

A BEVVY of beauties are lining up to play the Bard's bird in a new film. Several sexy Scots are to be screentested for the parts of the many lovers of randy poet Robert Burns. Telly totty will meet producers to discuss roles in the new film. Tomb Raider star Gerard...

Burns film to premiere at horsetrack 'drive-in' The first feature film based on the life of Robert Burns to be made since 1937 will be given its UK premier just a few miles from the poet's Ayrshire birthplace. Ayr Racecourse, the home of the Scottish Grand National,...

TOUGH GUY COSMO LANDS ROLE IN POUNDS 13.5M HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE SCOTS movie hardman James Cosmo is shedding his tough guy image to star in Little House On The Prairie. James, 55, best known for roles such as Mel Gibson's English-killing sidekick Campbell in...

EAST Ayrshire Council has become the first subscriber to pledge its support for a new film production on the life and works of Rabbie Burns. Scotland's First Minster, Alex Salmond MSP, launched the new appeal at the official Homecoming Burns Supper which was held in...

Poor Scotland -- it seems only if you have Mel Gibson or Liam Neeson in a kilt can you get one of your native heroes onscreen. Not that Gerard Butler hasn't tried. He's long cherished plans of starring in a biopic of Scottish poet Robert Burns. The problem has always...

It's been an absolute age since I heard anything about the planned Robert Burns film that Gerard Butler was being linked with, and the last word was that it was dead due to lack of funding. That may have changed though with this year's Scottish Homecoming, an event...

Gerard Butler will reportedly begin work on the long-awaited Robert Burns biopic later this year. According to The Times, production on the £5 million movie has been given the greenlight after a government-backed campaign to raise funding. Most of the budget is...

It was announced today (January 25th 2009), on the 250th anniversary of Scotland's National poet Robert Burns' birthday, that a unique opportunity is being launched to invest in the much anticipated feature film of the Bard's life. It was in 1786 with a system of...

[b]Click the source link above to view the video.[/b] Alex Salmond, Scotland's First minister, today pledged his support to the last stage of fund-raising for a new feature film about the life of Robert Burns. The film, written by Alan Sharp, who wrote Rob Roy, is to...

January 2009 Its been a while since there has been an update on the Robert Burns film, but hopefully this will be the first of many more regular updates. There will be an exclusive article in the Sunday Times on Sunday 25th January 2009. This will be availabe to read...

The long-awaited film based on the life of Scotland's favourite son is to start filming this year A biopic of Robert Burns, starring the Scots actor Gerard Butler, will begin shooting in Scotland this year. The £5m production, which has been beset with financial...

A year on from opening a London branch of the US-based Creative Artists Agency, Emma Banks and Mike Greek, a "perfect fit of chemistry and like vision", are making serious transatlantic inroads for a wealth of UK- based talent A contacts book rammed with top movers...

STARS of a big bucks movie were spotted strolling through Paisley yesterday as they wrapped up filming in the town’s oldest bar. Up and coming English lead actor Charlie Cox casually chatted with fellow screen-stars outside The Bull Inn – which has been transformed...

A LONG-DELAYED film about Robert Burns looks like getting the go-ahead at long last, thanks to the box office success of bloody Greek blockbuster 300. Scots actor Gerard Butler starred as the Spartan king Leonidas fending off the Persian hordes at Thermopylae in the...

SCOTLAND'S national bard owes a posthumous debt to one of the bloodiest war films ever made. The phenomenal success of the film 300 - which dramatises a battle between a small contingent of Spartan warriors and a huge Persian army 2,500 years ago - is good news for...

THE best-laid movie plans have been known to gang aft agley and, in the case of a £20 million film to portray the life of Scotland's bard Robert Burns, they've have done so again. One of its collaborators, Eric Rowan – ex-conman turned film producer who wrote the...

..I WAS IN A WORLD OF AGONY; SUNDAY MAIL SHOWBIZ SPECIAL EXCLUSIVE ROBERT RELIVES SMASH HORROR HUNKY Robert Cavanah has revealed how his starring role in hospital drama The Royal, set in the 60s, brought back painful memories of the car crash that threatened to...

WHISKY, haggis and women were in plentiful supply at the most glamorous Burns Night held in the capital. Ewan McGregror was the star turn at the party at the St Martin's Lane Hotel, which raised funds for CLIC Sargent and The Children's Hospice Association Scotland....

Nothing beats the thrill of singing at the Shanghai Shuffle, writes the actress. When people see me on television or acting on film with Samantha Morton in Morvern Callar, they ask why I still sing karaoke three nights a week at the Shanghai Shuffle on Glasgow's Bath...

Alan Sharp, the man who wrote the scripts for Rob Roy, the recently rereleased The Hired Hand and a new film about Scotland's national bard, Rabbie Burns, calls his work "pastiche". Brian Pendreigh finds that others are not so dismissive. Peter Fonda turned Hollywood...

Academic blasts Burns industry's 'false mythology' The film A Red Rose, about the life of Robert Burns, has been criticised as 'melodrama' by Dr Gerard Carruthers CONTEMPORARY books and films depicting the life and works of Robert Burns have created a "false...