Writer-director Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead) creates one of the most artistically beautiful films of the decade with 300, based on Frank Miller's graphic novel and starring Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Rodrigo Santoro and David Wenham. Snyder stuck closely to the...
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Page 2: Sin City 2, 300 Box Office, Star Wars Tv
Page 2: Sin City 2, 300 Box Office, Star Wars TV, byPeter Sciretta dateMarch 4th, 2007 at 10:56 am wonderconbig.jpg Check out these new stills from The Hills Have Eyes 2. George Lucas is now claiming that the live action Star Wars television show is still “years...
Into the Valley of Film Rode ‘300’
Frank Miller has had more luck in Hollywood than your average comic book or (as they're known nowadays) graphic novel writer/artist, whose works usually lose their snap by the time they reach the big screen. His 1980s reimagining of Batman as an obsessed "Dark Knight"...
Page 2: Sin City 2, 300 Box Office, Star Wars Tv
Page 2: Sin City 2, 300 Box Office, Star Wars TV, byPeter Sciretta dateMarch 4th, 2007 at 10:56 am wonderconbig.jpg Check out these new stills from The Hills Have Eyes 2. George Lucas is now claiming that the live action Star Wars television show is still “years...
Into the Valley of Film Rode ‘300’
Frank Miller has had more luck in Hollywood than your average comic book or (as they're known nowadays) graphic novel writer/artist, whose works usually lose their snap by the time they reach the big screen. His 1980s reimagining of Batman as an obsessed "Dark Knight"...
Man of action
He is the pure Scottish beefcake about to star in Hollywood's latest sex-and-sandals epic. But, Craig McLean finds, Gerard Butler is a warrior with a soft centre It's another sunny morning in Los Angeles, and I'm off to meet a superhero. That is, I have an appointment...
300 Movie Review: Spartan Women Shown Respect
Ok - so I was dragged kicking and screaming to see the movie “300″ by my Gerard-Butler-obsessed friend Kelli. Blood-and-guts movies do not interest me, especially when the plot has anything to do with ancient history. I lose interest in these types of films quickly...
New film ‘300’ takes blood and guts to a whole new level
Director Zack Snyder and writer Frank Miller combine to produce one of the year's best action films in "300," a visual eye candy extravaganza of blood and guts. The film centers on King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and his quest to protect Sparta from an oncoming Persian...
A fight to the death in 300
[i]Thanks to mjbooklady for the article![/i] Based on American graphic novelist Frank Miller's tale, 300 depicts the 480 BC Battle of Thermopylae in which 300 Spartan warriors took on the might of the Persian army, led by King Xerxes, who threatened to conquer Sparta...
Page 2: Sin City 2, 300 Box Office, Star Wars Tv
Page 2: Sin City 2, 300 Box Office, Star Wars TV, byPeter Sciretta dateMarch 4th, 2007 at 10:56 am wonderconbig.jpg Check out these new stills from The Hills Have Eyes 2. George Lucas is now claiming that the live action Star Wars television show is still “years...
Into the Valley of Film Rode ‘300’
Frank Miller has had more luck in Hollywood than your average comic book or (as they're known nowadays) graphic novel writer/artist, whose works usually lose their snap by the time they reach the big screen. His 1980s reimagining of Batman as an obsessed "Dark Knight"...
Coming on strong: Gerard Butler muscles his way into Frank Miller’s ‘300’
In “300,” the violent big-screen re-creation of Frank Miller’s (“Sin City”) graphic novel opening Friday, Gerard Butler plays a Spartan king who leads 300 of the ancient world’s most fearsome fighters into a battle to the death with a Persian force numbering 250,000....
Page 2: Sin City 2, 300 Box Office, Star Wars Tv
Page 2: Sin City 2, 300 Box Office, Star Wars TV, byPeter Sciretta dateMarch 4th, 2007 at 10:56 am wonderconbig.jpg Check out these new stills from The Hills Have Eyes 2. George Lucas is now claiming that the live action Star Wars television show is still “years...
Shady Filmmaking
[b]Giving '300' movie a comic-book grandeur: Director Zack Snyder mixes tricks to create a comic-book grandeur for '300' on the screen [/b] A pack of tourists and a museum docent fanned out in front of "Leonidas at Thermopylae" in the Louvre a few months ago. Spotting...
Into the Valley of Film Rode ‘300’
Frank Miller has had more luck in Hollywood than your average comic book or (as they're known nowadays) graphic novel writer/artist, whose works usually lose their snap by the time they reach the big screen. His 1980s reimagining of Batman as an obsessed "Dark Knight"...
Gerard Butler for Watchmen?
Now if we don't hype this up like some sites and say that Gerard Butler definitely has a part in Watchmen under Zack Snyder, we can bring you the news that Snyder has said he would like to work with Butler again and that he's sure there's a part in Watchmen for him....
On a low budget, with a cut-price cast and an oven-ready graphic novel script
On a low budget, with a cut-price cast and an oven-ready graphic-novel script, 300 is the tale of a blockbuster battle that's framing the future of the action movie, says Jeff Dawson Back in 480BC, on the cliffs of Thermopylae, it's unlikely that the band of Spartans...
You’re Not Getting Rid of Gerry so Easily
We know you are all sick of Gerard Butler, and thought that once 300 opens we’ll toss him aside like a used Dixie cup, but not only does he have a starring role in the manga-adaptation PRIEST coming up, but now he may just have a role inTHE WATCHMEN: IESB caught up...
WONDERCON:
The standing-room-only WonderCon panel discussion of Zack Snyder's new film, "300," attracted a pack of ardent admirers of the screen adaptation of Frank Miller's Battle of Thermopylae graphic novel. The first big buzz movie of 2007, "300" is presented by Warner Bros....
Wondercon report 3/3
WonderCon report, 3/3 I had to work this morning until 12:30 pm, but I work only a few blocks away from the convention center. I got there at about 12:40 pm and encountered a huge line to get tickets. Suckers! I already paid for mine online, so it didn't take long to...
Numbers game :’300′ plays up impossible odds – and a cheaper way to make battle epics
If you're wondering why the new movie "300" (opening Friday) looks like nothing you've ever seen, the basic reasons are as old as civilization itself: art and commerce. Director Zack Snyder was determined to render the drawings of Frank Miller's graphic novel, about...
VIDEO: 5 Minutes of Frank Miller’s 300
Watch 300 seconds (which is 5 minutes if my math is correct) of Zack Snyder’s upcoming film 300 online now. MTV has your first look. Click this link to be transported to the craptastic MTV flash-site where you can watch the video now. All I can say is WOW. Based on...
VIDEO: 5 Minutes of Frank Miller’s 300
Watch 300 seconds (which is 5 minutes if my math is correct) of Zack Snyder’s upcoming film 300 online now. MTV has your first look. Click this link to be transported to the craptastic MTV flash-site where you can watch the video now. All I can say is WOW. Based on...
VIDEO: 5 Minutes of Frank Miller’s 300
Watch 300 seconds (which is 5 minutes if my math is correct) of Zack Snyder’s upcoming film 300 online now. MTV has your first look. Click this link to be transported to the craptastic MTV flash-site where you can watch the video now. All I can say is WOW. Based on...
WonderCon ’07: Exclusive Video Int: Gerard Butler Builds A Space Craft to Mars!
Gerard Butler was a busy man at WonderCon this year with his latest film 300 on promotion overdrive. But, never one to seem tired out, Butler sat down with the IESB for a hilariously funny interview that will have you doubled over. This is for all the Gerard Butler...