Lionsgate scored a triple win on the national home video charts the week ending Jan. 24, as the sci-fi actioner "Gamer," with a mere $20.5 million in theatrical receipts, topped all three charts. Lionsgate typically saves some of its moderately successful theatricals...
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Collider Attends DreamWorks Animation Event; Watches Footage from SHREK FOREVER AFTER, MEGA MIND and HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
Earlier today, I attended a DreamWorks Animation event at the Pacific Design Center here in Los Angeles. The purpose of the event was to showcase what DreamWorks will be releasing in 2010 to an audience of journalists from around the world. While some of the footage...
Gerard Butler and Craig Fergson talk ‘Dragon’ and NBC Late Night controversy
DreamWorks Animation had a very entertaining show and tell for its 2010 slate today. The animation powerhouse showed extended scenes of the Will Ferrell and Brad Pitt voiced "Megamind," a nice chunk of "Shrek Forever After" and an almost completed full cut of this...
Cosmotot’s Green Room: Craig Ferguson and Gerard Butler
What do you get when you combine Craig Ferguson's comedic stylings with Gerard Butler's smoldering sexiness? Two hot Scotsmen that play off each other so well that the highly anticipated DreamWorks Animation picture, How To Train Your Dragon, is this year's must watch...
Lucky Lisa jets out to LA for a Golden opportunity
[b Lisa Cannon is off to LA in the run up to the Golden Globes Awards. [b The Xpose reporter will be the envy of the nation's females after nabbing an interview with the Scottish star of 300, Gerard Butler, as well as Knocked Up actor Jonah Hill.[/b She is expected to...
The Top Ten Movies of 2009 (Blog)
The best movies of 2009, as determined by arbitrary email consensus between two guys with similar taste. December 22, 2009 ShareThis Buzz up! It is indeed that time of year when everyone and his brother writes a “best movies of the year†article. We here at...
Gerard Butler off to war in ‘Coriolanus’
[i]Signed on to star opposite first-time director Ralph Fiennes[/i] SANTA MONICA -- Gerard Butler is the lure for buyers at AFM eyeing a deal for rights to Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut "Coriolanus." Butler has signed to star opposite Fiennes in what is billed as a...
Gerard Butler Signs On For Ralph Fiennes’ Shakespeare Movie (Blog)
Get ready Gerard Butler fans: The Scottish hunk is going back to the ancient world in Ralph Fiennes' movie version of Shakespeare's most violent play, “Coriolanusâ€. However, 300 buffs, eager to catch a glimpse of Gerard's six—pack, might not see as much of the...
Players – Gerard Butler Joins Coriolanus
Gerard Butler has boarded Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut "Coriolanus." Butler will play Tullus Aufidius opposite Fiennes, who will play the title role of the proud but contemptuous soldier spurred on by his ambitious mother to run for the Roman Senate, which...
Gerard Butler Is Coming To Serbia! (Blog)
Yep, Gerard Butler is coming to Serbia! He will star in “Coriolanusâ€, which will start shooting next March in Belgrade. This modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's famous play will be directed by Ralph Fiennes, who will also take the lead male role. Beside Butler...
Gerard Butler Fights For Rome And Shakespeare Next
I was having a conversation earlier this week with some movie friends and had to balk when someone described Gerard Butler as "great actor." Good actor, fine by me-- he screamed convincingly in a Speedo in 300 and managed a rage-filled American accent in Law Abiding...
Gerard Butler tells Quint who he’s playing in Ralph Fiennes’ Shakespeare adaptation of CORIOLANUS!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I just got off the phone with Gerard Butler who is still out there beating the drum for the really fun LAW ABIDING CITIZEN, pushing for its second weekend. During the chat he revealed a bit of news about appearing in the Ralph Fiennes...
Gerard Butler Cast in Ray Fiennes’ ‘Coriolanus’ (Blog)
Those of you who are familiar with this site know that I cannot resist posting any news that deals with Shakespeare film adaptations (my senior year Honors project in college was a 30-page paper comparing Olivier's Hamlet to Michael Almereyda's Hamlet). Even though...
Gerard Butler Goes Shakespearean in ‘Coriolanus’ (Blog)
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, many of you feel my client Gerard Butler should be placed on movie star probation. In the light of new evidence, I plan to petition for a retrial as it would appear that Mr. Butler has abandoned romantic comedies in order to accept a...
Gerard Butler announces his plans to co-star with Ralph Fiennes in Coriolanus
Gerard talks to WJZ Baltimore about an upcoming movie with Ralph Fiennes, the big screen adaptation of Coriolanus. This will be Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut in which he will also play the lead....
Ralph Fiennes to direct ‘Coriolanus’
Ralph Fiennes is making his directorial debut with a feature adaptation of William Shakespeare's Roman tragedy "Coriolanus." Fiennes, who stars in Stephen Daldry's "The Reader" alongside Oscar-nommed Kate Winslet, has already scouted for locations in East Europe and...
Thesp trio joins Ralph Fiennes film
Hurt, Redgrave, Chastain board 'Coriolanus' William Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave and Jessica Chastain have boarded Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut "Coriolanus." Pic is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's study of the way power corrupts, set in the early years of the...
Movie Review: Gamer (Blog)
Directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, known for both Crank films, Gamer is another adrenaline-fueled, action-packed film under this duo's belt. Starring Gerard Butler as Kable, and Michael C. Hall as multi-millionaire Ken Castle, Gamer takes its audience into...
Movie Review – the Gamer (Blog)
Brisbane - Last week, I found myself wondering at the cinema trying to find a movie to watch. Finally I decided to go for Gamer, the movie which was showing for the 2nd day that afternoon, and not knowing how its review was, I took the risk to buy the ticket and...
Gamer Movie Review (Blog)
At first glance, this film may not appeal to the general public due to the title. I mean come on, Gamer should be all about shooting and killing and it should only be entertaining for the gaming enthusiast, right? Not really. In fact, what makes Gamer worth watching...
Theatrical Review: GAMER
Rating: 8/10 Summer blockbusters, a genre unto themselves, rarely extend beyond the borders of a flat plot and big explosions into anything more thought provoking. Yet, they entertain us in a popcorn munching mindless daze. GAMER, brought to us by the dynamic duo...
‘Gamer’ Should Be Played Again and Again
An overplayed plot is eclipsed by thrilling cinematography Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's newest project "Gamer" is a combination of violent action, frequent nudity, and a corrupted world, but what it lacks in storyline, it makes up for in first-rate filming. Kable...
Gamer: The Movie Review )Blog)
The movie sees Gerard Butler (300), play Kable, a death row inmate who is forced to participate in a brutal game in order to earn his freedom, and save his wife and daughter from the other side (?). The weird and interesting part is the “Game†is infact an actual...
Gamer is Deviant Fun
The movie "Gamer" is the most brilliantly hilarious, beautifully disturbing and dangerously mind-warping action-thriller I have seen in years. Your brain will melt. You will be offended. And you will love every moment it. The plot has all the prerequisites of a sci-fi...
‘Gamer’ is An Action Film With A Message
Rating: A- Set a decade or so in the future, "Gamer" depicts a world in which current trends in video gaming, reality TV, Internet pornography and our obsession with the lives of celebrities are taken to their logical conclusion. Billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C....