Shooting wrapped last month on the long-awaited Gerard Butler project Kandahar and here are some exclusive behind the scenes photos from the film, which is notably one of the first major U.S. titles to shoot its entirety in Saudi Arabia. The film, which is produced by...
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Gerard Butler Headlines Action Thriller ‘Chase,’ Voltage Pictures Swoops For International Rights
Gerard Butler (“Greenland”), Jaimie Alexander (“Thor: The Dark World”), Russell Hornsby (“Creed II”) and Ethan Embry (“First Man”) have wrapped principal photography on director Brian Goodman’s action-thriller “Chase,” with Voltage Pictures swooping for international...
Gerard Butler’s ‘Greenland 2’ Sells for Whopping $75 Million, STX Beats Out Streamers
Gerard Butler has the most explosive deal of the Cannes 2021 market so far. Who would've thought? The 2021 Cannes virtual market got its first bombshell as the Gerard Butler-starring “Greenland” sequel, “Greenland: Migration,” has sold to STX in a deal worth a...
‘Copshop’: Open Road Films Sets Up Gerard Butler-Frank Grillo Action Thriller For Fall Release
EXCLUSIVE: Open Road Films, which didn’t pull back on theatrical releases for cinemas during the pandemic like other studios, has set a release date of September 17 for its Gerard Butler action movie Copshop from Joe Carnahan. Written by Carnahan and Kurt McLeod,...
Gerard Butler’s Meteor Disaster Thriller Greenland Is Getting A Sequel
Thunder Road Pictures has greenlit a sequel to Greenland, the film where Gerard Butler and his family sought refuge from a meteor. Many of film history's classics fall into the disaster genre, but over the past few years, the category hasn't reached the same heights...
Gerard Butler Reunites With Ric Roman Waugh For Sequel ‘Greenland: Migration’ — Cannes Market
Gerard Butler is returning to Greenland. The Scottish actor is set to reprise his role as John Garrity in Greenland: Migration, a sequel to action thriller Greenland. The core filmmaking team will return with director Ric Roman Waugh headlining from a script by...
Gerard Butler takes pictures with Rincon PD during filming break
RINCON, Ga. (WTOC) - Movie star Gerard Butler has been in Rincon filming a movie. On Tuesday, he took a break to pose for pictures with the Rincon Police Department. Butler has been filming the movie, “Chase” in the area. On Tuesday, several WTOC viewers noticed a...
Hear me out: why PS I Love You isn’t a bad movie
Continuing our series of writers sticking up for loathed films is a defence of the commercially successful yet critically lambasted romance I’m not here to defend the accent. You can have that. I am not going to say that in PS I Love You, Gerard Butler – whose real...
And…we’re back! Happy 20th Anniversary GBdotNet!!
Well, it's certainly been a year, hasn't it? The world turned upside down and so did this website. So, we took a break. Thought about it a bit and decided, this website, and its history must go on. But, we saw it as a challenge to reconstruct things, get a little more...
Gerard Butler Celebrated His 50th Birthday By Releasing Sea Turtles Into The Ocean
Gerard Butler is sharing more about how he marked the big 5-0. The now 51-year-old Scottish actor opened up about his 50th birthday bash in a new interview with Total Film Magazine. Butler turned 50 in Nov. 2019 but has only just shared details about the celebration...
Gerard Butler fraudsters use fake passport and driving license in online scam
Fans have told the star fake forms of ID are being used to dupe people into believing they are speaking to him. Gerard Butler fans have raised concerns after an online scammer has used a fake passport ID to dupe social media users in private messages. Fans have even...
Gerard Butler: Coronavirus pandemic will help audiences relate to Greenland
Gerard Butler believes that viewers will have a deeper understanding of his disaster movie Gerard Butler believes that the coronavirus pandemic will give viewers a "deeper understanding" of his new movie 'Greenland'. The 51-year-old actor plays John Garrity in the...
A Forgotten Gerard Butler Action Movie Is Dominating Netflix Today
Netflix has become a reliable platform for underrated and forgotten movies to find new audiences, or be re-appreciated by fans. One title that’s currently enjoying a bump is the Gerard Butler-starring Den of Thieves, which sits in the top 20 films being watched on the...
Greenland is Basically a Non-Gerard Butler Movie that Happens to Star Gerard Butler
When a comet threatens his wife and child — well, let's just say the star doesn't react quite as you'd expect I thought I knew plot twists. I’ve seen The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects and every Planet of the Apes movie ever made, including that terrible one by Tim...
Gerard Butler’s excellent end-of-world thriller Greenland will make you sick, in a good way
The new movie Greenland will make you sick. And I cannot recommend it highly enough. An end-of-the-world thriller that arrives during, well, all of this, director Ric Roman Waugh’s film represents the best of a historically stupid genre. While there are still loads of...
Gerard Butler: I don’t know if I have the intelligence to survive a real disaster (exclusive)
Click the link to the right to view the video interview. He might be an on-screen action hero, but Gerard Butler has little faith in his ability to survive a real-life disaster. Butler, who flees a planet-destroying comet in new blockbuster Greenland, said his years...
‘It felt very timely’: Gerard Butler on releasing a disaster movie mid-pandemic
It might be argued that a global pandemic is not the best time to be releasing a movie about the end of the world but Gerard Butler begs to differ. The Scottish action star’s new film, Greenland, has planet Earth facing destruction from an approaching comet, and leans...
Gerard Butler caught up in ‘toxic masculinity’ row after South African beer ad starring tee-total star is banned for gender stereotyping
He is depicted as the macho action hero for our generation and has been tee-total for almost two decades, but Gerard Butler has been caught up in a gender stereotyping row, leading to the banning of a South African beer advert. The Paisley-born actor, famous for his...
The Ordinary-Guy Action Movie Lives On, Thanks to Gerard Butler
Gerard Butler seems determined to keep a nearly extinct idea of the ordinary-guy action movie alive. So it is perhaps appropriate that one of our most underrated and likable screen presences (to whom I once wrote this only mildly embarrassing critical mash note) would...
Gerard Butler’s disaster movie Greenland isn’t what you think it’s going to be
When you hear that Gerard Butler is headlining an end-of-the-world movie, you can't help but have expectations of what that movie will involve. Perhaps, say, Butler will find a way to go all Mike Bannon on a comet. Greenland takes any notions you might have about such...
Gerard Butler on being haunted by bush fire disaster that burned down his home
The Paisley-born star, 51, had his own real-life brush with disaster when his home was destroyed in the Woolsey Fire in California Gerard Butler is a Scots superstar who has brought in billions to Hollywood’s box office with a string of disaster movies. From Olympus...
‘Greenland’: Review
Delivering the apocalypse on a budget, the disaster film Greenland dramatises the end of the world with no-nonsense efficiency. Gerard Butler’s sturdy performance is perfectly suited to the modest proceedings: Playing a husband and father trying to protect his family...
‘Greenland’ Review: Gerard Butler Stars in a Disaster Movie That’s Better than 2020 Deserves
After the hellscape of a year that was 2020, it stands to reason that a disaster movie about a regular guy and his family trying to stay alive as the world goes to shit around them would feel redundant and/or too close to home. Either way, it seems like something that...
‘Greenland’ Review: Gerard Butler Faces a Comet Hitting Earth, but This Domestic Sci-Fi Thriller Achieves a Mostly Shallow Impact
Most disaster movies are about going big. But “Greenland,” in which Gerard Butler runs around trying to save his family as a comet gets ready to hit the earth, is a movie that takes pains to make the end of life as we know it look like something that could actually...
Gerard Butler Is Singlehandedly Keeping the Everyman Action Hero Alive
Saluting an A-plus B-movie star. One night, when he was 15 years old, Gerard Butler dreamed about the movie Krull. The 1983 science fiction saga, which he calls “a cheap version of Lord of the Rings,” earned poor reviews and flopped at the box office. But its...