FRIDAY PM/SATURDAY AM: Warner Bros didn't know what to expect on such a unique project as Spike Jonze's Where The Wild Things Are since it couldn't find a single comp. Finally, the studio settled on Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas since it had a famous...
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Law Abiding Citizen Entertains
[i]Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx deliver solid performances in a film designed to entertain.[/i] "Pure entertainment." We generally turn to movies for one of three things: entertainment, education, or enlightenment. The Oscar films usually toe the divide between...
Movie Review: Law Abiding Citizen
The night after watching the recent horror release Paranormal Activity, I found myself having some difficulty getting to sleep as every sound in the house roused my attention. While Law Abiding Citizen is not the kind of film to stick with you like that, there is a...
Law Abiding Citizen – Review
[b]Rating: 8 out of 10[/b] Cast: Jamie Foxx as Nick Rice Gerard Butler as Clyde Shelton Colm Meaney as Detective Dunnigan Bruce McGill as Jonas Cantrell Leslie Bibb as Sarah Lowell Michael Irby as Detective Garza Gregory Itzin as Warden Iger Regina Hall as Kelly Rice...
Fate of ‘Wild Things’ fuzzy as ‘Paranormal’ and ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ shine
Audiences came out to the movies in droves this weekend, sending ticket sales up 41% from last year, but the future of the No. 1 movie is still unclear. "Where the Wild Things Are" sold a healthy $32.5 million worth of tickets in the U.S. and Canada, according to...
Gerard Butler talks to AskMen about his hardest role to date
Q1: You've had a very busy year, haven't you? Well, [laughing] I just want to start crying … Q2: You played a very active role in the making of Law Abiding Citizen. How many hats did you actually wear? Officially, two, but it felt more like to me, seven. [laughing]...
Cinematical Seven: The Smartest Unlawful Citizens (Blog)
This Friday is all about wild things at the multiplex. Some are furry and lovable, and explore the emotions of childhood. Others are law abiding citizens, blowing up Philadelphia and showing off their follow-me-lines for no plotworthy reason. I decided to honor the...
Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler Seek Justice With ‘Law Abiding Citizen’
[i]Butler makes his producing debut while taking a stab at the law's shortcomings.[/i] BEVERLY HILLS, California — By now, you know that King Leonidas and Ray Charles are getting ready to square off against each other in "Law Abiding Citizen," a new crime thriller...
Law Abiding Citizen – Review
[i]Gerard Butler makes revenge a dish served too cold for an Eskimo[/i] The revenge film has made an interesting comeback since the events of September 11, 2001. From The Brave One and both Punisher films to Death Sentence and Man on Fire with various films of wildly...
Law Abiding Citizen Review
Revenge is a dish best served with car bombs and chainsaws in "Law Abiding Citizen," a twisty hybrid of serial-killer suspenser, legal thriller and prison drama that, in between grisly setpieces, attempts to raise significant questions about the failures of the...
Law Abiding Citizen — Film Review
Bottom Line: An implausible thriller with a few horror elements in the guise of social criticism. In "Law Abiding Citizen," a sociopath goes on a rampage, killing major officials in Philadelphia and holding the entire city hostage. He essentially is a character...
Jamie Foxx-Gerard Butler stand-off punches up the gory Law Abiding Citizen
Before 1974's Death Wish, which turned Charles Bronson from an obscure semi-heavy into a full-fledged action hero, Westerns were the genre that specialized in sagas about easygoing types turned vigilantes by fate and the vagaries of the legal system. But the Bronson...
‘Law Abiding Citizen’: savagely raising Cain
Even during its most preposterous circumstances, "Law Abiding Citizen" keeps us intrigued with a creepy vibe. That the latter is so easily provided by the "good guy," as portrayed by the usually affable Gerard Butler, something's gotta give in the viewer's mind, if...
Review: Law Abiding Citizen
PLOT: Ten years after his wife and daughter are killed during a home invasion, a seemingly mild mannered inventor, Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) brutally kills the two men involved in the crime. He's quickly arrested for the crime, but this turns out to just be the...
Philly-set ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ is predictable, but enjoyable
[i]Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx star in the legal thriller "Law Abiding Citizen," which was filmed in and around Philadelphia.[/i] [b]Movie Review: "Law Abiding Citizen," 3.5 stars (out of 5)[/b] Moviegoers in and around Philadelphia will likely eat up “Law Abiding...
Counting down to Friday – Law Abiding Citizen finally opens! (Blog)
I'll give you a moment to take in this intense and alluring poster (ok, I've said it before and I'll say it again, Mr. Butler has mesmerizing eyes!). EMPIRE Online just released the UK posters for LAC and boy, this is a much more superior version that the US version...
Gerard Butler: ‘I Have a Lot of Fire in Me’
Gerard Butler hasn't wreaked this much havoc on the big screen since he took on the Persian hordes in 300. He's co-starring with Jamie Foxx in Law Abiding Citizen, playing a widower who leaves a trail of death and destruction after the man who killed his family plea...
Gerard Butler Says Some Paparazzi Are A Nightmare (Blog)
Gerard Butler says the paparazzi and the constant flashing of the cameras made it nearly impossible to film the new movie he stars in with Jennifer Aniston – The Bounty coming out sometime in 2010. “Unfortunately for poor Jennifer, this roadshow comes out all the...
Movie Scoop: F. Gary Gray, Jaime Foxx and Gerard Butler Put Their Foot In “Law Abiding Citizenâ€, Viola Davis Shines! (Blog)
Last night I had the chance to check out a private screening of F. Gary Gray's new film, “Law Abiding Citizen.†To call this movie great would be an immense understatement. But let me first start off by bowing down to the fantastic Viola Davis. Her role in this...
Exclusive Interview: Gerard Butler
When Gerard Butler first read the psychological thriller Law Abiding Citizen, he never imagined he would be co-starring in or producing the film. But once he rolled up his sleeves to help develop the characters and script, Gerard was ready to transform himself into...
Exclusive Interview: Law Abiding Citizen Director F. Gary Gray
F. Gary Gray thinks people go to the movies to see what they can't see on television, and I guarantee you, Law Abiding Citizen is like nothing you'll see at home. The violent thriller stars Gerard Butler as a father mourning the loss of his wife and child at the hands...
Gerard Butler Interview – Law Abiding Citizen
Gerard Butler. The mere mention of his name conjures up images of a Spartan king slaying his way through countless Persian warriors with abs of Scottish steel pulsating on screen. No doubt, he's a man's man of an actor. He kept your girlfriend tuned in to 300 while...
Gray days in Philly for “Law Abiding Citizen”
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - So many films take tortuous years of dealmaking to reach the screen that it's reassuring to find a project that came together practically overnight. Such is the case with "Law Abiding Citizen," a psychological thriller starring Jamie...
Law Abiding Citizen (Blog)
Gerard Butler stars alongside Jamie Foxx in a new thriller entitled "Law Abiding Citizen", a story of a man, ten years after his wife and daughter are brutally murdered, who returns to extract justice from the assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case...
Foxx and Butler bond in Hollywood
Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler were feeling the love as they hit Hollywood to premiere their new action flick Law Abiding Citizen. After signing autographs for the hundreds of fans who packed out Hollywood Boulevard, Jamie told reporters: "The movie is absolutely...