***** 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...
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“Gamer” Movie Shows Early Promise
There's a long-running history of terrible movies based on video games, but perhaps things will turn out better if Hollywood simply focuses on the concept of the gamer itself. The movie "Gamer" is a "high-concept action thriller set in the near future, a time when...
‘Game’ Trailer Released (Blog)
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 Takes a Knife to Dexter’s Throat in New ‘Gamer’ Still (Blog)
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...
New Gamer Trailer Released (Blog)
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...
Must Watch: Explosive Trailer for Gerard Butler’s Gamer! (Blog)
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,...
Hyper-Insane ‘Gamer’ Trailer Now Online (Blog)
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...
Gerard Butler’s ‘Gamer’ Has a Trailer (Blog)
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...
GAMER Movie Trailer (Blog)
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 Gameâ€. According to the synopsis, the movie takes place in the near future where mind control technology has taken...
Nifty Interactive Teaser Poster for Gerard (Blog)
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...
Exclusive Poster Premiere: Gamer (Blog)
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...
Gamer (previously Game) motion poster released (Blog)
This is one I've been looking forward to. The highly respectable Gerard Butler plays Kable in Gamer. Previously named “Gameâ€. IMDB lists the synopsis as thus: Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming...
Masters of the Rumor Mill
Hot on the heels of their successful adaptation of 300, Legendary Pictures is reportedly looking to bring another genre epic to the big-screen: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. The rumor mill also suggests that they even have an A-list star in mind to play...
How to Train Your Dragon (Blog)
DreamWorks Animation and Paramount Pictures are not only enjoying Monsters and Aliens, but also Dragons! The companies are producing a new CG animated film based on the book by Cressida Cowell. The film, set to be in theaters for March 26th, 2010, stars the voice...
Writer/Directors Neveldine/Taylor Exclusive Interview
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...
Citizen Game (Blog)
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...
Lone Image Delivers First Look at ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ (Blog)
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is the protagonist of How to Train Your Dragon. He's the son of Viking King Stoick the Vast, chief of the Hairy Hooligans. But it's hard to live up to his father's expectations. Hiccup gives the introduction to Cressida Cowell's book:...
First Look: DreamWorks Animation’s How To Train Your Dragon (Blog)
Animatoons has the first official promotional image for DreamWorks Animation's How To Train Your Dragon. The image also gives us our first real plot synopsis: “Meet Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, heir of the Viking chiefdom, but a boy with one very big problem: a...
Videos of Marc Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s GAME panel at CUT! 2009
Game directors Marc Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank) joined cast members Milo Ventimiglia, Zoe Bell, and Terry Crews to talk about their long overdue post-apoclayptic / dystopian /cyberpunk actioner at CUT! Film Festival 2009. True to their image as directors of...
How To Train Your Dragon (Blog)
How do you train a dragon? Do you teach it how to fly? How to breathe fire? I know someone who could. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III knows how to train a dragon, er, I just think so. How to Train Your Dragon is a 2003 kid's novel by Cressida Cowell, slated to be...
Sci Fi Actioner ‘Game’ based upon emerging technology
Mark Neveldine is about to release Crank 2: High Voltage, but are you aware he also has a very promising sci-fi actioner on the way titled Game? Game stars Gerard Butler (of 300 fame) who plays Kable, a death row inmate who has become the champion of an online game...
Reel Life at Heart Truth Red Dress Show
Don't expect to see model Marcus Schenkenberg on the catwalk anytime soon. At the Heart Truth Red Dress show Friday morning, the veteran mannequin wasn't experiencing any runway envy. "I've done enough walking over the years," said Schenkenberg, who was there to...
SET: Game
No matter how exciting the film at hand, being on a film set can often be a dull and tedious process. And yet, there was something extremely satisfying about being on the set of the upcoming action sci-fi flick from CRANK creators Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor,...
Movie Rumor: Gerard Butler getting into The Game (Blog)
In September 2009 we'll see Gerard Butler in the role of Kable in movie theaters. Kable is the hero of a Lionsgate Sci-Fi movie called 'Game'. The game is in a world where humans play a massive multi-player game where people control other people. Tired of always being...
Gerard Butler is a ‘Machine Gun Preacher’ (Blog)
Given the rumors that occasionally dog Gerard Butler, I love when the meaty film related ones actually prove true. According to Deadline Hollywood Daily, Butler will be starring in Machine Gun Preacher, a big screen version of the life and work of Reverend Sam...