WHISKY, haggis and women were in plentiful supply at the most glamorous Burns Night held in the capital. Ewan McGregror was the star turn at the party at the St Martin's Lane Hotel, which raised funds for CLIC Sargent and The Children's Hospice Association Scotland....
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Past Lives/Current Films: Palm Springs Has Banner Year and Sunshine, Too
"This is the most interesting gathering I've been to in 5000 years," Shirley MacLaine quipped at the 2006 Awards Gala where she garnered a Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to her by pal Kathy Bates, who noted they were in four flop films together. One could...
300 Babe: ‘I Wear Very Little’
Lena Heady talks about her costume, or lack of it, in the movie version of Frank Miller's 300 comic. Lena Heady (The Brothers Grimm) talked with Superhero Hype about her character Queen Gorgo, wife of Gerard Butler's King Leonidas: "I just wear very little," she...
New Video Journal for 300!
I have a little secret that I figure might as well come out. HBO has been playing the crap out of The Phantom of the Opera starring Gerard Butler and I have now watched the film at least a dozen times. Obviously one of the biggest reasons I dig the film is that I can...
300’s Queen Gorgo
A few weeks back, ComingSoon.net had a chance to visit the Montreal set of Zak Snyder's production of 300, based on the Frank Miller graphic novel. Although we got to see a lot of cool things and talk to a lot of people, and we can't really say much about either, we...
300 Set Visit Preview
In 1998, after five years writing and drawing "Sin City", Frank Miller decided to do something different, releasing the mini-series 300 about a little known battle between a small band of Spartan warriors and the vast and powerful Persian army. The lesser-known...
Gerard Butler watch: “I’M BEOWULF!”
Oh dear lord. The BEOWULF & GRENDEL trailer is up -- not to be confused with just BEOWULF, which is the Zemeckis/Gaiman production. But this version stars dear, dear Gerard Butler, who reminds us that long before there was Batman...there was BEOWULF! With a...
The Tarts are here!!
A few more words on BEOWULF AND GRENDEL. I've gotten quite a few emails concerning my remarks about the movie. According to one of these emails, my blog "created a stir on GerardButler.net" (Butler being the lead actor in the film), and I figured public forum would be...
Miller as Director
Comics scribe Frank Miller once wrote a pretty bad movie called Robocop 2. More recently, he wrote and co-directed a very good movie called Sin City. And now, Miller has several more film projects in the works that are based on his various graphic novels, including...
BEOWULF director is quite the ladies man
Ok, I'm going to come clean and admit that I don't think I ever read the epic poem of BEOWULF AND GRENDEL in high school. What most likely happened is that I picked up the Cliff Notes version and screeched by on the test. I sincerely regret that now after seeing the...
`Beowulf & Grendel’
Screening: 4 p.m. Nation: Canada/Iceland/United Kingdom Director: Sturla Gunnarsson Synopsis: Director Sturla Gunnarsson ("Such a Long Journey") brings visual panache and psychological depth - as well as touches of humor - to this tale of retribution and revenge,...
E-Talk Daily Reports on 300
[i]transcript from television segment:[/i] Gerard Butler's movie [i]300[/i] is set to wrap in the next couple of weeks, and one Montréal company got the contract for the wrap gifts. Image Network, which provides the best celebrity gifts in Québec, will be...
Icelanders invade Goteborg
Viking drama 'Beowulf' to open premier Scandi event STOCKHOLM -- Sturla Gunnarsson's Viking drama "Beowulf & Grendel," starring Gerard Butler, will open the Goteborg Film Festival, part of an unusually strong presence by Icelandic directors at the premier showcase...
World Exclusive: New 300 Artwork!
[b]Feast your eyes on tasty posters here:[/b] [img]http://www.gerard-butler.net/4images/data/thumbnails/878/149300 Reviews.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.gerard-butler.net/4images/data/thumbnails/878/14973.jpg[/img]...
Ex-postie’s red letter year
A SCOT who gave up his job as a postman to chase his Hollywood dream is being tipped as the movie star of 2006. Tony Curran, 37, is lined up to appear in a series of blockbusters. Last year the Glaswegian, whose film credits include Gladiator and The League Of...
Film of Miller’s 300 Nears Completion
The film adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel 300, set in ancient Greece, has launched its official website and has only about three weeks of shooting remaining. Miller's original graphic novel tells the tale of Thermopylae, the pass at which some 300 Spartans...
Cine-Byte does DI
Toronto digital film service house Cine-Byte Imaging has been busy adding some impressive digital intermediates credits to its reel. After completing George Romero's Land of the Dead for Universal, it did a DI and color correct on Deepa Mehta's critically acclaimed...
Northern Lights
Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, and Laura Linney are among the stars who will brave the Canadian winter to make new movies and TV shows in Hollywood North. Canada’s three biggest cities will be bustling with lights, cameras and action between now and the dawn of...
3-D: soon to be better than specs
The era of the hologram is upon us, says JAMES CHRISTOPHER -as are the nearly instant releases of DVDs and movies in all formats How Hollywood responds to new technology and falling box-office figures will determine the way movies are made and distributed, perhaps for...
‘300’ Movie Nears Completion
Four Weeks of Shooting Left Zack Snyder, director of the film adaptation of Frank Miller's 300 graphic novel, has completed nine weeks of filming and expects to have wrapped up principal photography on the movie before the end of January. The film, which stars Gerard...
Montreal Stages Spartan War For Miller’s 300
CG Recreation of 'Battle of Thermopylae' Based on the graphic novel by Frank "Sin City" Miller, 300 is a retelling of the ancient 'Battle of Thermopylae' in which 'King Leonidas' (Gerard Butler) and 300 'Spartans' fought to the death against 'Xerxes' and his massive...
Now we’ve got Zach Snyder’s Production Diary of Frank Miller’s 300!
Hey folks, Harry here - I love the Zone - it does a certain amount of "scout" work for us. Take Braniac's post alerting folks to Zach Snyder's Production Diary going live! Sure enough - there it is. My understanding is that Zach is going to be making a very stylized...
Northern Lights: Stars Come to Canada This Winter
Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, and Laura Linney are amongthe stars who will brave the Canadian winter to make new moviesand TV shows in Hollywood North. Canada's three biggest cities will be bustling with lights,cameras and action between now and the dawn of spring....
300 Movie Site Debuts
You may have heard of an itty-bitty movie called Sin City, based on a graphic novel by Frank Miller. Yeah, that one. Back away from your "recut, extended, unrated" DVD for a moment and check out promos for his latest adaptation, 300. By clicking here...
300 Site Goes Live
The official website for the Warner Bros. film 300 has gone live this week. The site offers features production blogs from director Zack Snyder (the Dawn of the Dead remake), concept art, and video journals that are coming soon. 300 is based on the Frank Miller...