This week the new animated feature film "Despicable Me" opens in AMC Theatres everywhere. As is the trend in modern animated films, the voice cast is a star studded line up featuring Steve Carrell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand and many others. Many of today's animated...
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Hero’ on film
[i Motion picture to depict Reels Corners pastor[/i CENTRAL CITY — Sam Childers went from drug dealer to minister. Now, he's gone Hollywood. Film studio Lionsgate is making a major motion picture, “Machine Gun Preacher,†of Childers' life story as related in his...
LIONSGATE Hits Bullseye With Marc Forster’s MACHINE GUN PREACHER
[i Studio Acquires North American Distribution Rights To Fact-Based Action Drama Starring Gerard Butler Fall 2011 Release Planned - Principal Photography Begins In July[/i SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LIONSGATE® (NYSE: LGF), the leading...
Gerard Butler begins filming ‘Machine Gun Preacher’ in Melvindale, MI on July 8, 2010
Gerard Butler may be hanging out in Hollywood this weekend, but soon he'll have a whole new stomping ground- Melvindale, MI. The actor is set to start filming his next project, Machine Gun Preacher, in the city from July 8 to 28. Locations will include a trailer park...
‘Machine Gun Preacher,’ starring Gerard Butler, to film in Metro Detroit
Actor Gerard Butler will be in Melvindale July 8-28 to shoot scenes from the new Lionsgate film "Machine Gun Preacher" before moving to South Africa to film the remainder. The film is based on the true story of Sam Childers, a missionary in southern Sudan who really...
Lionsgate Acquires Machine Gun Preacher
Source: Lionsgate Lionsgate today announced that it has acquired North American distribution rights to the fact-based action drama Machine Gun Preacher, directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace). The film is the studio's first collaboration with Forster since the...
Hollywood star becomes patron of First Response
COMRIE'S First Response has been given a huge boost this week. Talking exclusively to Herald reporter Lynn Duke, Responder Manager Alan Moffat has revealed that Hollywood superstar Gerard Butler has agreed to be the charity's patron. Film favourite and regular visitor...
Butler film set to shoot here
"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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Minister Sutanovac on the set with the crew of “Coriolanus”
Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac visited today the crew of "Coriolanus," which captures the scene in the territory of the Military Museum in Belgrade. Sutanovac spoke with producers of the film and the main protagonists, Gerald Butler and actors Ralph Fiennes who is...
Minister of Defense on the set of ‘Coriolanus’
[b]NOTE: Click the link above to watch the video.[/b] Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac visited the crew of "Coriolanus," which captures the scene in the territory of the Military Museum in Belgrade. Sutanovac spoke with producers of the film and the main...
Stars in the Army Museum
The team of "Coriolanus," the recording continued yesterday in Belgrade, Kalemegdan. Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Slavko Stimac, and Radoslav - Rale Milenkovic were shooting scenes at military museum, a fortress in Belgrade was quiet, and passers-by did not know that...
Machine Gun Preacher–slated to go into production in June
Machine Gun Preacher, the film about Sam Childers, the biker preacher-defender of Sudanese orphans that James Bond vet Marc Forster wants to direct and Gerard Butler is slated to star in looks closer to a “go,†with a start date in June. They'll film this in...
‘Dragon’ Wings It Back To No. 1 With $15 Million
“How to Train Your Dragon†continues to breathe fire at the box office, while newer releases are mostly blowing smoke. The DreamWorks Animation adventure took in $15 million to reclaim the No. 1 spot in its fifth weekend of release. “How to Train Your Dragonâ€...
‘Dragons’ Dominate by Default
How to Train Your Dragon continued to do its thing over the weekend, and that was all it needed to return to the top spot. New releases The Back-Up Plan, The Losers and Oceans generated little interest, while Dragon's photo finish rival from last weekend, Kick-Ass,...
Butler barely fit in the uniform
Translated Text: Scottish actor Gerard Butler yesterday in the complex KPGT at sugar refineries, under the watchful eye of an enormous number of people from security, filming his first scene in "Coriolanus" and directed by actor Ralph Fiennes. The team arrived on the...