Cluster of Thuggery Blog Before catching Terminator Salvation last week, those of us in the audience were treated to Gerard Butler's (he of 300 fame) next hot dose of thuggery, care of the trailer for the upcoming movie Gamer. There's been buzz on the internet about...

Ive heard about this film, and just recently I saw a trailer for it. At first the idea seems too farfetched and I had quite a few WTF moments. The "simulation" of the people controlling the avatars looked about as cheezy as the simulated gameplay of Xbox in Michael...

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...

***** 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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 Game”. According to the synopsis, the movie takes place in the near future where mind control technology has taken...

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...

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...

This is one I've been looking forward to. The highly respectable Gerard Butler plays Kable in Gamer. Previously named “Game”. IMDB lists the synopsis as thus: Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming...

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...

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...