The Taurus World Stunt Foundation is pleased to announce that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will host the 2007 Taurus World Stunt Awards taking place on Sunday, May 20th at Paramount Pictures. The show, which will air domestically on Friday, May 25th at 10:30 p.m. EDT/PDT...
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300 – THIS IS SPARTA!
I'm not usually such a huge fan of violent films. Ok, maybe I am, but I don't generally seek them out because they're violent. I want to see realism, and if there's violence then it'd better be pretty realistic too. No cutting away lest we see something icky. So I...
300 – THIS IS SPARTA!
I'm not usually such a huge fan of violent films. Ok, maybe I am, but I don't generally seek them out because they're violent. I want to see realism, and if there's violence then it'd better be pretty realistic too. No cutting away lest we see something icky. So I...
300 Back On Top Of The World
War epic 300 continues to do battle in the world's cinemas, regaining the top spot as the globe's top film from new MR BEAN comedy, MR BEAN's HOLIDAY. The bloody movie, which recounts an ancient battle between the Spartans and Persians, took in $32 million (£16.4...
300 Back On Top Of The World
War epic 300 continues to do battle in the world's cinemas, regaining the top spot as the globe's top film from new MR BEAN comedy, MR BEAN's HOLIDAY. The bloody movie, which recounts an ancient battle between the Spartans and Persians, took in $32 million (£16.4...
Debut film festival underway(Wrath of Gods)
Director Jon Gustafsson answers questions from the audience after the U.S. premiere of his film during a special gala of the Oxford International Film Festival. Oxford will get a taste of the cinematic arts this weekend with Oxford's first international film festival....
First degree Burns;Poet is hottest property in Hollywood …due to Scots star Gerard
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...
Oxford film fest hosts debut of epic documentary
Who knew Gerard Butler was going to star in the biggest March movie opening ever? Nobody - which is why the debuting Oxford International Film Festival is the unlikely locale for the U.S. premiere of "Wrath of Gods" starring and co-produced by Butler. The documentary...
Movie Review: 300
Brothers and sisters, lend me your eyes so I may share with you the tale of brave Leonidas I, King of Sparta, son of King Anaxandridas II, descendant of Heracles, who led 300 Spartan warriors against the seemingly unending forces of Emperor Xerxes of Persia at The...
Movie Review: 300
Brothers and sisters, lend me your eyes so I may share with you the tale of brave Leonidas I, King of Sparta, son of King Anaxandridas II, descendant of Heracles, who led 300 Spartan warriors against the seemingly unending forces of Emperor Xerxes of Persia at The...
The Top 20 …Scottish movie moments
WELCOME to our Top 20 Scottish film moments of all time. The first thing you're probably wondering is: "Why film moments and not films?" The short answer is: we thought it would be more interesting. That's not to say that many of the films you would expect to appear...
My views on “300,” and a Rant Against Relying on Critics (Blog)
Rants and Ramblings Life in Chicago from the desk of a law student.... Monday, March 26, 2007 My views on "300," and a Rant Against Relying on Critics. One of the many things that I find irritating (and the list is long and distinguished) is the emphasis that so many...
My views on “300,” and a Rant Against Relying on Critics (Blog)
Rants and Ramblings Life in Chicago from the desk of a law student.... Monday, March 26, 2007 My views on "300," and a Rant Against Relying on Critics. One of the many things that I find irritating (and the list is long and distinguished) is the emphasis that so many...
Escape’s Russell Softens On Butler
Kurt Russell, who played Snake Plissken in the original Escape From New York, backed off his harsh criticism of Gerard Butler, who is slated to star in a remake, in comments to SCI FI Wire. "Oh, I don't know, I was just kidding around," Russell said in an interview...
Oxford fest full of indie premieres
The Oxford International Film Festival will debut April 5-8 with 77 independent films screened over four days, including more than a dozen U.S., Ohio and world premieres. The festival is a first for Southwest Ohio. Among the highlights: [b]the U.S. premiere of "Wrath...
Burns love life movie revived by actor’s success as a Spartan
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...
Kurt Blasts Escape Remake
March 22, 2007 - The news that New Line Cinema is remaking Escape From New York -- and have cast 300 Gerard Butler as Snake Plissken -- hasn't exactly met with universal approval from many fans of the original film. And one of those fans is the man who starred in it,...
Say Anything BlogFact or Fiction? 300 Gets the Big Ideas Right!
Victor Davis Hanson, historian, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution has this take on 300 Crowds are flocking to see the film 300 about the ancient Spartans’ last stand at the pass at Thermopylae against an invading Persian army. Yet many critics, in panning 300,...
Say Anything BlogFact or Fiction? 300 Gets the Big Ideas Right!
Victor Davis Hanson, historian, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution has this take on 300 Crowds are flocking to see the film 300 about the ancient Spartans’ last stand at the pass at Thermopylae against an invading Persian army. Yet many critics, in panning 300,...
Remake the Snake? Kurt Russell’s take.
For Kurt Russell, there's only one true ''Escape From New York'' Plissken -- and it isn't the Scottish guy that's been cast in the remake KURT REPLY ''People come up to me and say, 'You played Snake Plissken.' I didn't play Snake Plissken,'' says Russell, ''I created...
John Carpenter
In his 30 year career of writing, directing and producing movies, John Carpenter has made more people mess their pants than Billy Madison. He is best known for directing the original Halloween, The Thing and more recently he was unofficially “inducted” into the...
Escape From New York Prequel?
Last week we reported that New Line Cinema had won rights to remake Escape From New York with 300 star Gerard Butler attached to star. John Carpenter believes the new movie might actually be a PREQUEL. “I don’t know that it’s a remake,” Carpenter told...
‘300’ is Still Counting
It may have seen a 56-percent drop in ticket sales from last weekend, but Warner Bros.' 300 nevertheless remained far ahead of its rivals at the box office in its second weekend with an estimated take of $31.2 million. The biker comedy Wild Hogs remained in second...
‘300’ is Still Counting
It may have seen a 56-percent drop in ticket sales from last weekend, but Warner Bros.' 300 nevertheless remained far ahead of its rivals at the box office in its second weekend with an estimated take of $31.2 million. The biker comedy Wild Hogs remained in second...
Writing, Reading and More, Oh My! 300
I remember when I first saw the trailer for 300 and said to myself, "I can't wait until this movie comes out." After a morning of judging short stories in a high school contest, I took a midday break and scooted out to the mall to return a pair of shoes that killed my...