My friend Niko sent me an e-mail last night with the subject "300". Initially, I thought he was quoting me on a little usability tweak that I asked him for Community-online.com! When I opened the e-mail, however, I realized that it was a link to a movie trailer...
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Leonidas and His 300 Spartans
[b]The Spartan 300: The Greatest Badasses in History[/b] Most bad-asses will be lucky to have their exploits remembered a year after their deaths. Some will be very lucky to be a foot note in a history book 50 years after the last shovel full of earth is dropped on...
Movies 2.0: Digital Effects Magic Explained
[align=left][img]http://www.gerard-butler.net/4images/data/thumbnails/921/0107-fx-wolf3.jpg[/img][/align]In today's digital Hollywood, cameras capture scenes in bits, not frames—and computer wizards conjure up everything from impossible beasts to cliff-top...
Another career turn as Canton rolls ‘300’
Mark Canton is a survivor. A born Hollywood insider, the son of PR maven Arthur Canton, he ran production at Warner Bros. Pictures and rose to chairman of Columbia TriStar Pictures, where he infamously promoted the 1993 Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle "The Last Action...
Butler climbs Hollywood ladder
He's currently one of the hottest talents in Hollywood, having just landed one of the most sought after roles in screen history. Yet Scottish actor Gerard Butler is still virtually unrecognised in Britain. "I always say I've never been more successful and less...
I LIVED A BIT OF A WILD LIFE BEFORE I FOUND OUT WHERE I’D END UP
GERALD BUTLER ON LIFE IN HOLLYWOOD SCOTS actor Gerard Butler has a knack of annoying people - in print at least. The tall, brooding 33-year-old, who played the male lead alongside Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, was on a roll when the film was...
Butler Rises To The Challenge
He's currently one of the hottest talents in Hollywood, having just landed one of the most sought-after roles in screen history. Yet Scottish actor Gerard Butler is still virtually unrecognised in Britain. "I always say I've never been more successful and less...
Recognition beckons Butler
Yet Scottish actor Gerard Butler is still virtually unrecognised in Britain. "I always say I've never been more successful and less recognised," he says with a self-deprecating laugh. "It's true I can walk down most streets in this country and people haven't got a...
Scottish Hollywood hero is the phantom film star
GERARD BUTLER's won the movie role of a lifetime, but he can still walk down the streets of glasgow unrecognised He's currently one of the hottest talents in Hollywood, having just landed one of the most sought after roles in screen history. Yet Scottish actor Gerard...
Rogue Male
In the Timeline of Gerard Butler's career, singing as The Phantom of the Opera is next. It's almost impossible to steal a scene from Lara Croft, but somehow Gerard Butler managed to hold his own against Angelina Jolie's sexy adventuress in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The...
Gerard Butler
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, November 13, 1969 Gerard Butler was raised (along with his older brother and sister) in his mother’s hometown of Paisley, Scotland. Gerry went on to attend Glasgow University where he studied to be a lawyer/solicitor. He served as president...
Small Talk
How does it feel losing to a woman in a fight? To be honest, I don't give a shit about being beaten by a woman. And the flirtiness and sexual tension between Angelina and me in the movie, I had no problem! That kissing scene must have been fun. Well, that certainly...
The man behind the mask
"My mum’s as happy as Larry," Gerard Butler tells me with a huge smile. Known to all his friends as Gerry, this is the man who is about to make his name as the next British movie star. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life - in which he stars alongside Angelina...
OPERA MAN
Gerard Butler is having the last laugh and it's a hearty one. Earlier this year, the Scottish actor surprised everyone from family to friends to limo drivers when he was cast as the masked title character in Joel Schumacher's screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's...
Gerard Butler, film raider
For Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Gerard Butler did some pretty scary stuff: racing off-road motorcycles, rappelling head-first down a cliff, tussling with Lady Croft (Angelina Jolie) in her PJs. But his hairiest movie-making moment happened in the...
A Conversation with Gerard Butler
Talkin' Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life with the future Phantom of the Opera. July 22, 2003 - It's a Sunday morning in New York, and actor Gerard Butler has finally caught up on his sleep. For him, the prior 48 hours were hectic. Friday, in St. Louis, he worked a...
A DARK STAR BEGINS TO SHINE
GERARD BUTLER BARES 'BAD BOY' SIDE IN BIG ROLES IN 'LARA CROFT,' 'PHANTOM' NEW YORK - Gerard Butler is trying hard not to smoke. It's been minutes since the Scottish-born actor's last cigarette, and he's determined to forego another for a little while longer. As he...
The Butler Did It
Last year I was sitting having coffee on Larchmont Boulevard in Los Angeles, when I noticed a guy a few tables away, sipping tea and reading the paper. I couldn’t get my eyes off him. Handsome? Oh, yes -- he was a Sean Penn-Aidan Quinn mix, with a little of Gil...
PEOPLE WATCHING WITH OUR GIRL ABOUT T
All bonding together I bumped into film star Gerry Butler who is back in Glasgow to film Natural History, and who is hotly tipped to be the new James Bond. Gerry, who appears in Dracula 2001, Reign Of Fire, Tomb Raider 2 and the Michael Crichton time-travel adventure...
World Premiere for Nick’s New Movie in Berlin Next Week! (Blog)
[b]Biani-Krycek Slash & NL News[/b] Nicks new movie "Butterfly on a Wheel" will be shown at the Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin as part of the EFM screenings (European Film Market) which is the main event for the film industry at the Berlin International Film...
HypeCast Episode #24: Oscar Nominations – Part 2
This Week's Episode: News: Rush Hour 3 / 1408 Trailers; Terry Zwigoff's Happy Days; Mira Nair's Shantaram; 300 Going IMAX; Katie Holmes Not in The Dark Knight Alex's Final Sundance Report Main Topic: Oscar Nominations Director's Spotlight: Roman Polanski Upcoming...
300 Brings Miller’s Unique Vision Back to Theaters
Just like the film adaptation of Frank Miller’s Sin City, produced with a unique combination of special effects, computer graphics and live acting, Warner Bros. Pictures film 300 promises to adapt a thrilling Frank Miller saga to the big screen in a startling and...
Get a Signed Copy of the 300 Soundtrack!
You can get a signed copy of the 300 soundtrack if you are one of the first 500 people to pre-order the Special Edition. The CD will be signed by composer Tyler Bates and director Zack Snyder! Be sure to pre-order your copy at the soundtrack's official website. 300...
TONIGHT WE DINE ON CRAFT SERVICES!!!!: 300 SET VISIT PART 2
“You want to take this outside?” Frank Miller says to me. Dinner’s over, and so is the visit to the set of 300. The visiting journalists have been taken to dinner at a French place a couple of frozen, icy blocks away from the hotel*, and we were joined by the...
300: First Look
Over the last few months when going to the theater, it's been a never-ending source of amusement to watch a bored audiences daydream their way through most of movie trailers, only to snap to attention hearing 300's King Leonidas growl at the top of his lungs,...