Like the man said, "This has all happened before and it will all happen again". Over the years filmmakers have enjoyed envisioning sadistic, police-state-style doings resulting from the public's fascination with electronic entertainment and this year's incarnation of...
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Trailer Park: Nine Frogs Playing a Game With an Octopus (Blog)
***** Gamer This one will have you looking at your XBox 360 in a whole new way. In the not too distant future, convicted felons serve as player characters in a real life video game and the survivor gets to go free. The influences of The Running Man and the recent...
Gerard Butler Takes a Knife to Dexter’s Throat in New ‘Gamer’ Still (Blog)
Gerard Butler (left, as Kable) and Michael C. Hall (right, as Ken Castle) star in Gamer Photo: Lionsgate I don't typically put up a post simply for one image, but being a fan of “Dexter†and thinking the upcoming Lionsgate film Gamer starring Gerard Butler as an...
‘Game’ Trailer Released (Blog)
Take all the movies based on a video game and clump them together, you probably won't begin to come close to 'Game' the coolest movie centered around a video game (albeit a fictional one) since last year's Death Race. Gamer is an upcoming science fiction action...
Hyper-Insane ‘Gamer’ Trailer Now Online (Blog)
Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's latest piece of madcap action has a new name (from Game to Citizen Game to Gamer), a new poster, and a new trailer. Luckily though, it's still exactly the kind of film you've come to expect from the directing duo. The trailer looks...
Must Watch: Explosive Trailer for Gerard Butler’s Gamer! (Blog)
Over the weekend, Lionsgate debuted the trailer for Gamer, the next movie from Crank creators Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. Even though this was actually shot before Crank: High Voltage, it's coming out much later. The trailer was originally launched on Xbox Live,...
New Gamer Trailer Released (Blog)
The trailer for Gamer has been released, and it looks nothing like the original leaked teaser we saw some time back, no this looks much, much better, and that was something I thought was a pretty tough thing to begin with. The film from Mark Neveldine and Brian...
GAMER Movie Trailer (Blog)
The first trailer for Neveldine/Taylor's “Gamer†movie has just hit the net. This is the film that used to be called “Game†and “Citizen Gameâ€. According to the synopsis, the movie takes place in the near future where mind control technology has taken...
Gerard Butler’s ‘Gamer’ Has a Trailer (Blog)
It has been titled Game, Citizen Game and Lionsgate has finally decided on Gamer for their new film starring Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Amber Valletta, Alison Lohman, Zoe Bell, Kyra Sedgwick, Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges and Milo Ventimiglia. Gamer is directed by...
Gamer (previously Game) motion poster released (Blog)
This is one I've been looking forward to. The highly respectable Gerard Butler plays Kable in Gamer. Previously named “Gameâ€. IMDB lists the synopsis as thus: Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming...
Exclusive Poster Premiere: Gamer (Blog)
If you are Gerard Butler, then the Game plays YOU! The meaty Scotsman will appear in the forthcoming sci-fi actioner Gamer, which was previously known as Game, The Game or Citizen Game depending on who you asked. We imagine the film, a sci-fi action picture about...
Nifty Interactive Teaser Poster for Gerard (Blog)
It looks like Lionsgate has finally settled on an name for Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's follow-up to Crank: High Voltage. The futuristic action flick is now known as just Gamer (it was previously know as Game or Citizen Game) and is still set to hit theaters on...
Writer/Directors Neveldine/Taylor Exclusive Interview
I've interviewed a lot of people. So you can trust me when I say that interviewing writer/directors Mark Nevedline and Brian Taylor is sort of a challenge. While you'll always get straight answers out of them eventually, a lot of your time is spent waiting for them to...
Citizen Game (Blog)
In the not too distant future, Kabel (Gerard Butler), a death row inmate, has unwittingly become a pop culture hero. Every week, millions worldwide tune in online to watch him and hundreds of other convicts battle in Slayers, an ultra-violent multi-player online game...
Videos of Marc Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s GAME panel at CUT! 2009
Game directors Marc Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank) joined cast members Milo Ventimiglia, Zoe Bell, and Terry Crews to talk about their long overdue post-apoclayptic / dystopian /cyberpunk actioner at CUT! Film Festival 2009. True to their image as directors of...
Sci Fi Actioner ‘Game’ based upon emerging technology
Mark Neveldine is about to release Crank 2: High Voltage, but are you aware he also has a very promising sci-fi actioner on the way titled Game? Game stars Gerard Butler (of 300 fame) who plays Kable, a death row inmate who has become the champion of an online game...
SET: Game
No matter how exciting the film at hand, being on a film set can often be a dull and tedious process. And yet, there was something extremely satisfying about being on the set of the upcoming action sci-fi flick from CRANK creators Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor,...
Movie Rumor: Gerard Butler getting into The Game (Blog)
In September 2009 we'll see Gerard Butler in the role of Kable in movie theaters. Kable is the hero of a Lionsgate Sci-Fi movie called 'Game'. The game is in a world where humans play a massive multi-player game where people control other people. Tired of always being...
2009: The Year in Film – Part 3 (Blog)
While we race on with 2009, Filmstalker's selection of films coming up in 2009 continues with the third part in the 2009 release review covering July to September. There are some big releases, a much anticipated sequel, a definitely not needed remake, and some smaller...
DVD release finally puts GAMER under my skin (Blog)
Year: 2009 DVD release date: January 19, 2010 Directors: Mark Neveldine / Brian Taylor Writers: Mark Neveldine / Brian Taylor IMDB: link Trailer: linkDVD release finally puts GAMER under my skin Review by: agentorange Rating: 6.7 out of 10 I was pretty hard on Gamer...
The Top 9 Unknown Sci-fi Films to look out for in 2009 (Blog)
I've been noticing a recent trend in this years popular genre and no I'm not talking about comic book films for once; I'm talking about the lost art of SCIENCE FICTION! I think the last truly amazing piece of science fiction I saw was Children of Men and since than...
Game: Movie of the Day
If you got your hopes up that this was either the film-version of the CW comedy about football players' wives/girlfriends, The Game, or a biopic of the West Coast rapper of the same name, my apologies. Nope, this is the latest from the writer/director duo that brought...
Game Details Revealed
This past weekend we got the chance to speak with Alison Lohman about her upcoming film Game, which is written/directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (the madmen behind Crank). [quote “I’m doing a movie now called Game with Gerard Butler. I get to ride a...
Game Blows Up Already (Blog)
A test screening of directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s GAME has spurred early reviews, and with these early reviews, I’m going to assume early hype. Here’s what some people had to say about this film: “I’ll just say that this movie is going to blow people...
Early Buzz: Neveldine/Taylor’s Game (Blog)
Lakeshore Entertainment held a test screening of Game last week in Southern California. Game is the latest film from Neveldine/Taylor, the mad men behind Crank. It stars Gerard Butler, as a prisoner who is implanted with nano-technology which allows a video gamer to...