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...
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Exclusive Interview: 300’S Gerard Butler Jokes That He Only Does Full Frontal with a Fluffer
King Leonidas spills on work outs, nudity, and the cost of being absurdly buff 300, which utterly destroyed the competition at the box office last weekend, is continuing to have strong numbers and box office take this week. Actor Gerard Butler plays King Leonidas, the...
New Line plotting Butler ‘Escape’
New Line has won the bidding war for a remake of "Escape From New York," with "300" star Gerard Butler attached and Neal Moritz producing through his Original Films banner. Minimajor closed the deal Thursday, three days after CAA began shopping the package to studios...
Gerard Butler confirmed as Snake Plissken
Could it really be true about the rumour I wrote up here on Filmstalker the other day about Gerard Butler starring in a remake of John Carpenter's Escape From New York? Well a story today is suggesting just that. While everyone else still refers to it as a rumour,...
New Line cuffs ‘Escape’ redo
New Line Cinema has gotten the keys to the new "Escape From New York." The remake of the cult John Carpenter movie, being produced by Neal Moritz with Gerard Butler attached to star as Snake Plissken, hit the town this week and had several studios trying to capture...
Exclusive Interview: 300’S Gerard Butler Jokes That He Only Does Full Frontal with a Fluffer
King Leonidas spills on work outs, nudity, and the cost of being absurdly buff 300, which utterly destroyed the competition at the box office last weekend, is continuing to have strong numbers and box office take this week. Actor Gerard Butler plays King Leonidas, the...
The New Snake Plissken
[b Hollywood has a new action star, and his name is Gerard Butler.[/b After the huge success of ā300,ā Butler appears to have become a viable star ā which we already knew, didnāt we? Wasting no time, Variety reports that CAA has attached Butler to a remake theyāre...
‘300’ Star to ‘Escape from New York’
'300' star Gerard Butler may play Snake Plissken in a remake of 'Escape from New York.' Newly minted action hero Gerard Butler may step into Kurt Russell's boots; Eddie Murphy plays a gunslinger; Naomi Watts talks to the animals and more in ET Movie News! GERARD...
I Heard You Were Dead — and Scottish
Sheesh--yet another remake of a John Carpenter classic is on the way--this time, it's his 1981 s.f. actioner "Escape From New York" (which was actually shot in St. Louis and in Carpenter's garage at his home in L.A.), which is a great film I can pretty much watch...
Big Surprise: The Tarts Love 300
What a lot of people don't know is that there is a huge, female fanbase that was more excited about the release of 300 than even the geekiest of fanboys. Why is this so? Two words - Gerard Butler. One of the "Tartans" wrote in with a review that that most likely sums...
Big Surprise: The Tarts Love 300
What a lot of people don't know is that there is a huge, female fanbase that was more excited about the release of 300 than even the geekiest of fanboys. Why is this so? Two words - Gerard Butler. One of the "Tartans" wrote in with a review that that most likely sums...
Gerard Butler Set to Escape from New York
Gerard Butler has signed on to star in the remake of John Carpenter's 1981 action Escape From New York for producer Neal Moritz; no studio is attached. Ken Nolan is writing the screenplay; Butler would play Snake Plissken, the one-eyed convict who's charged with...
GERARD BUTLER YOU SNAKE (PLISSKEN)
This is how I find out theyāre remaking Escape From New York, with an announcement that King Leonidas (or the Phantom of the Opera, depending on how non-charitable youāre being) is going to take on the ultimate badass role that Kurt Russell originated in the 1981...
Gerard Butler to star in Escape From New York remake?
THIS IS BUTLER! Unbelieveable news here, and this could be either a complete triumph or disaster, but Gerard Butler could be starring in a remake of the classic John Carpenter film Escape From New York and playing the superb character of Snake Plissken made famous by...
Gerard Butler: Call Him Snake
Uber-agency CAA has begun shopping a package around Hollywoodās studios. For those not familiar with the Variety lingo, a āpackageā is a movie project with famous names already attached, all of them clients of whatever agency is doing the shopping. This one happens to...
Gerard Butler to Escape From New York?
I am now certain that John Carpenter made a Pact With the Devil. With this evil bargain Carpenter gained an awesome career making classic after classic in the 70s and 80s. Satan, on the other hand, gained remake rights to all of these classics, which he is now selling...
Gerard Butler to Escape From New York
[b It is now official: Gerard Butler is the world's premier kicker of ass.[/b His band might be doomed in 300, but they whoop a lot of bottom on the way armed only with leather pants and a lot of facial hair; and the US box office frankly didn't stand a chance in the...
Butler has ‘Escape’ plan
Hot off the socko bow of "300" this past weekend, star Gerard Butler is at the center of a package that CAA began shopping Monday for a remake of John Carpenter's 1981 actioner "Escape From New York." Neal Moritz is attached to produce, with "Black Hawk Down" scribe...
Bloody epic “300” earns big numbers at box office
The blood-soaked ancient epic "300" slaughtered its foes at the weekend box office in North America, setting a new record for a March release by selling about $70 million worth of tickets, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said on Sunday. The grim warrior tale stars...
Bloody epic “300” earns big numbers at box office
The blood-soaked ancient epic "300" slaughtered its foes at the weekend box office in North America, setting a new record for a March release by selling about $70 million worth of tickets, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said on Sunday. The grim warrior tale stars...
Then we will fight in the shade! (Blog)
One word for 300: ASTIG. Ok, actually I've got more than just one word š I love the storyline. It's actually a fictionalized account of the Battle of Thermopylae, where Spartan King Leonidas led 300 elite Spartan warriors against Xerxes' massive Persian army....
Then we will fight in the shade! (Blog)
One word for 300: ASTIG. Ok, actually I've got more than just one word š I love the storyline. It's actually a fictionalized account of the Battle of Thermopylae, where Spartan King Leonidas led 300 elite Spartan warriors against Xerxes' massive Persian army....
300 Star – Gerard Butler
In 480 B.C., King Leonidas of Sparta led his army of 300 to one of the greatest battles in history, the Battle of Thermopylae. The soldiers fought to the death against Xerxes I and his colossal Persian army. Their courage and fearless altruism led to all of Greece...
300 Star – Gerard Butler
In 480 B.C., King Leonidas of Sparta led his army of 300 to one of the greatest battles in history, the Battle of Thermopylae. The soldiers fought to the death against Xerxes I and his colossal Persian army. Their courage and fearless altruism led to all of Greece...
Of History and Comic Books
Since "Gladiator" put back the peplum in fashion, we cannot stop counting the number of productions bidding on a kind of historical reconstitution of the Antiquity. After Gladiator, Troy and Alexander, here is then 300, a war drama which takes root in the Spartans...