Millennium Films decided to dress up its Saturday-night Croisette party on Baoli Beach with $100 million worth of decoration. While ostensibly celebrating the company's new Gerard Butler action thriller “White House Taken,†Millennium chairman Avi Lerner took the...
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Gerard Butler is coming back to the Ark-La-Tex for a new film
[i Gerard Butler is set to return to Hollywood South this summer to film the lead role in Millennium Studio's next and biggest project yet: "Olympus Has Fallen."[/i SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - Millennium Films has confirmed their next major project will be an action...
Antoine Fuqua Circling ‘Olympus’ as White House Thriller Race Heats Up
Gerard Butler is set to star in one of two competing movies described as " 'Die Hard' in the White House. Antoine Fuqua has an offer and is in early talks to direct Olympus Has Fallen, an Nu Image/Millennium action thriller that has been described as “Die Hard in...
Gerard Butler climbs ‘Olympus Has Fallen’
[i Thesp to topline White House-based actioner[/i Just days after Millennium Films acquired the spec "Olympus Has Fallen" from first-time scribes Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, "300" star Gerard Butler has signed on to topline the action pic. Described as...
Ridley Scott And Gerard Butler Plot Film About Simon Mann, Who Tried African Coup
EXCLUSIVE: While the material marketplace has cooled as the holiday approaches, studios have been tempted by a pitch for a fact-based thriller that has Ridley Scott attached to direct and produce through his Scott Free banner, Gerard Butler to star, and Robert Edwards...
Best & Worst Of Gerard Butler (Blog)
Gerard Butler has not been seen on the big screen now in quite a while, which I am sure many of the ladies will agree that that is a travesty. But do not fear Butler fans as the Scotsman is making his return this week with Machine Gun Preacher - a completely different...
Gerard Butler To Become ‘Hunter Killer’; Sam Worthington Being Eyed To Co-Star (Blog)
Summit has been very aggressive with “Hunter Killer,†earmarking the picture for a December 2012 release date for months as Phillip Noyce decided whether he was the right man for the director's chair. Though he left the project in August, Summit continued to show...
Gerard Butler: Hollywood’s rare ‘really masculine’ star
It's hard not to think about the consequences of violence, in life and even in films, when the actor you're interviewing has a bodyguard standing outside his hotel room. But Gerard Butler, the Scottish star of movies that include 300, The Ugly Truth and RocknRolla,...
TSR interviews Gerard Butler for ‘Machine Gun Preacher’
Nick Allen sat down in a roundtable interview with Gerard Butler for the film Machine Gun Preacher. You can read Allen's Scorecard Review here. You can read his interview, which features Butler talking candidly about his potential and variety as an actor, if you keep...
Gunning on Behalf of Gerard Butler: Machine Gun Preacher (Blog)
I bumped into Gerard Butler two nights in a row -- first at a Producers Guild screening of his new movie, Machine Gun Preacher, and then again at a charity fundraiser and the premiere of it. What a film! What an actor! He is engaging and charming and at the top of his...
Gerard Butler On Why ‘Machine Gun Preacher’ Took Away — and Restored — His Faith in Humanity (Blog)
In 'Machine Gun Preacher,' Gerard Butler plays a former junkie biker who finds God, then becomes a savior to children in war-torn Sudan and Uganda. Sounds far-feteched, but it's all based on the true story of Sam Childers, a tough character who cleaned up, started his...
‘Machine Gun Preacher’ has decent first round in limited release
A gun-wielding Christian missionary packed some heat at the box office this weekend as "Machine Gun Preacher" got off to a respectable start in limited release. The film -- based on the real-life story of thug-turned-preacher Sam Childers, who traveled to Sudan to...
‘Machine Gun Preacher’ aims a little higher
TORONTO – There is no denying that the main attractions of the pulpy-sounding Machine Gun Preacher are the often harrowing and inspirational true-life adventures of Sam Childers, the wild-man biker, drug addict and ex-con turned self-made minister who found his...
‘Machine Gun Preacher’ Poses Tough Questions
[i A major new film presents an unsanitized portrayal of Christian conversion, but it also poses challenging questions about “redemptive violence.â€[/i Machine Gun Preacher, a new film starring Gerard Butler and Michelle Monaghan, poses challenging questions about...
TIFF11: “Coriolanus†Reminds Us Why We Loved Shakespeare in the First Place
“Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself, and so shall starve with feeding.†Thus says Volumnia, Coriolanus's mother, and in this particular adaptation the immensely powerful and portentous Vanessa Redgrave. The sentiment that “they just don't write like that...
TIFF ’11 Lists, Best, Worst, Couldn’t Get In To See, etc. (Blog)
So, in short form,(I hope) some TIFF lists ~ Best Film – Machine Gun Preacher Runner-Up- The Artist, Drive, The Skin I Live In, Coriolanus Best Actor – Gerard Butler in “Machine Gun Preacher†Runner-ups- Ryan Gosling “Drive,†Ralph Fiennes in...
Relativity Media Teams Up with eBay to Auction off Movie Memorabilia from Machine Gun Preacher for Charity
[i 100% Proceeds to benefit Angels of East of Africa Rescue Organization[/i Beverly Hills, Calif.) September 14, 2011– Relativity Media is proud to announce it is working with eBay to auction off premiere tickets, an autographed movie poster, and a custom-built...
Fiennes: Butler’s a true fighter
Ralph Fiennes has said Gerard Butler was just the warrior he needed for Coriolanus. In the big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy, the Scottish actor stars as Aufidius, the sworn enemy of Roman soldier Coriolanus - played by Ralph, who also directed the film....
Toronto 2011: ‘Machine Gun Preacher’ opens to standing ovation
You could feel the collective sigh of relief Sunday night coming from the filmmaker section of Roy Thomson Hall when the credits began to roll for the Toronto International Film Festival screening of "Machine Gun Preacher," the Gerard Butler-starrer about real life...
Marc Forster Talks The Perils Of The “White Man Saves Africa” Story With ‘Machine Gun Preacher’
Judging by his filmography since his 2001 breakthrough “Monster's Ball,†director Marc Forster seems unwilling, if not incapable, of repeating himself. That film's soul-baring drama offered no hints at the delicate beauty of his follow-up, “Finding Neverland,â€...
Michelle Monaghan says she was ‘witnessing greatness’ on ‘Machine Gun Preacher’
TORONTO - Michelle Monaghan says she felt she was "witnessing greatness" shooting "Machine Gun Preacher" with co-star Gerard Butler. The action-packed drama tells the real-life story of Sam Childers, a former biker gang member who found God and set out on a mission to...
Butler took time with ‘Preacher’
For Gerard Butler, there was a lot of practice before he preached. The 41-year-old Scottish actor spent more than a year developing the emotionally harrowing drama Machine Gun Preacher with director Marc Forster (Monster's Ball) and screenwriter Jason Keller. In the...
TIFF ’11 Review: The Ralph Fiennes-Directed ‘Coriolanus’ Is As Well-Acted As It Is Challenging
From what little we know of Shakespeare's life, “Coriolanus†was one of his later tragedies; compared to his other works in the same vein, it's one of his more complex ones, as well. It doesn't offer us a father betrayed, like†King Lear,†or a good man undone...
TIFF 2011 Preview Pt. 5: Machine Gun Preacher, Pina, and The Raid
Machine Gun Preacher Gala Presentation Director: Marc Forester Gerard Butler gives the best performance of his career in the true story of Sam Childers, an ex-con biker who finds Jesus and devotes his life to missionary work with orphans in war torn Sudan. Director...
OFFBEAT: Film actor Gerard Butler at Munster Family Christian Center today for free event Story
Movie actor Gerard Butler, the popular star of films such as "Law Abiding Citizen," "Bounty Hunter" and "P.S. I Love You" is in Munster today as a guest of The Family Christian Center to promote his new movie "Machine Gun Preacher." The public is invited to the free...