Acting has taken a back seat for Minnie Driver, as next month’s sold-out King Tut’s gig testifies, writes Anna Burnside When Minnie Driver arrives in Glasgow next month to play at the legendary rock venue King Tut’s, there is one face she wants to see in the audience....
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Two new ‘Beowulf’ movies in the works
Plans are under way for two movie versions of the epic poem "Beowulf," Daily Variety said Friday. A live-action version starring Gerard Butler ("Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera"), and being produced by a group of Canadian, Icelandic and British...
‘Phantom’ spotlights actor Butler
NEW YORK — You are entrusted with the career-defining role of a lifetime in a lavish blockbuster based on one of the most popular stage musicals of all time, beating out such possible contenders as Antonio Banderas and John Travolta. Butler beat out Antonio Banderas...
Golden Globe Awards: Red Carpet Big on Glamour, Short on Surprises
LOS ANGELES - Shorter and friskier than the Academy Awards (news - web sites), the 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (news - web sites) on Sunday night ushered in the bold and the beautiful of Hollywood, from 1940s "Aviator"-style femme fatales and A-list actresses...
Red carpet, star-studded show, parties-my, oh my!
LOS ANGELES-What a day it was. On the red carpet leading to the Beverly Hilton at Sunday's Golden Globe awards, our first glimpse of a celebrity in the glorious sunshine was Joan Rivers, TV's harshest fashion critic at awards events. Mentally, we gave her a thumbs...
The cream of Scottish acting talent
The nominations for the Bowmore Scottish Screen Awards exclusively offer readers of The Sunday Times the chance to vote in Scotland's democratic version of the Oscars. Be sure to cast your vote - and win the opportunity to attend this year's glittering award ceremony...
Stars of Critics Choice Awards Show Grace & Compassion
Celebrities Donate Gift Bags to Raise Funds for Tsunami Relief The usual glitz and glamour of the 10th Annual Critics Choice Awards was outshined this year when Tinsel-Town’s brightest showed hearts of gold. As celebrities at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, CA...
PHANTOM STAR’S DREAM FLAT IN NY
SCOTS hunk Gerard Butler has bought a huge flat in New York, but can't move in. Since landing the title role in The Phantom Of The Opera the money has been rolling in and Gerard has treated himself to a loft apartment. He told the Razz: 'It's a fantastic space, a big...
2005.. HERE’S WHAT’S IN THE STARS FOR THE STARS
WE saw celebrities struck by tragedy, triumph, true love and scandal last year. From the untimely death of Superman Christopher Reeve, to Colin Farrell's reported romance with Angelina Jolie and U2's massive new album. But what does 2005 have in store for the stars?...
A YEAR WITH SAM MANN
MOST STYLISH CELEB: Sienna Miller Not content with snagging the most handsome actor Britain has to offer, the 23-year-old’s film career has got off to a flying start with roles in Layer Cake and Alfie. When it comes to fashion, her unique style has seen her on...
ERIC McCORMACK RETURNS TO HOST THE 10th ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARDS
THE WB NETWORK TO TELECAST GALA CEREMONY LIVE ON MONDAY, JANUARY 10TH 8:00PM-10:00PM ET/PT WHO: Nominees Attending: Liam Aiken, Javier Bardem, Don Cheadle, Thomas Haden Church, Bill Condon, Jamie Foxx, Paul Giamatti, Taylor Hackford, Virginia Madsen, Michael Moore,...
Actor unmasks talent and torment
It took some 15 years, but "The Phantom of the Opera" has finally made it to the big screen - though, somewhat surprisingly, without a big-name actor in the title role. While many had been considered to play the tormented, disfigured Phantom - including Michael...
Gerard Butler is a lot more than that hottie from Tomb Raider 2
Strut's Vicki Hogarth explains why he deserves your respect. He's a master of disguise, mask or no mask. Despite the fact that Joel Schumacher dubbed him 'the Scottish Colin Ferrel', you probably don't even know the guy's name. Which is a shame, considering he's the...
Man in the mask
It took some 15 years, but The Phantom of the Opera has finally made it to the big screen -- though, somewhat surprisingly, without a big-name actor in the title role. While many had been considered over the years to play the tormented, disfigured Phantom -- including...
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom Of The Opera: An Interview with Gerard Butler
When word went out that "The Phantom of the Opera" would finally be made into a film, many wondered if the original Broadway star, Michael Crawford, would reprise his role. Surprising, Crawford didn't get the call. After all, he played the role over 15 years ago and...
Eight films ready for the Nordic Competition
Eight new Nordic films have been chosen to take part in the Nordic Competition at the Göteborg Film Festival. The award consists of an award sum of 150 000 SEK and the statuette Filmdraken (the Film dragon) by Swedish artist Ernst Billgren. Göteborg Film Festival will...
Gerard Talks Beowulf in Capri
Gerard Butler certainly has his opinions. The "Phantom of the Opera" star blabbed that he originally hated the script for his upcoming film "Beowulf and Grendel," derived from the 11th-century Old English epic. "Actually, I thought the script was a piece of [bleep],"...
Star of ‘Phantom’ is ‘invisible’ actor
Gerard who? It's Gerard Butler. The relatively unknown actor who won the right to don that eerie white half-mask by beating out the likes of Antonio Banderas, Hugh Jackman and the original Phantom of the Opera, Michael Crawford, understands if you do not know who he...
Finally, the Phantom
When Joel Schumacher was first offered the chance to direct a film version of "The Phantom of the Opera," he instinctively jumped at the opportunity. It was 1988, and Schumacher was a near-novice director with just four films - among them "The Incredible Shrinking...
Rocking the opera
FILM THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Opens in Australia on Boxing Day THE man behind the man behind the most famous mask in showbusiness is seeking an Australian bride. "The woman I settle down with will no doubt be Australian," says Gerard Butler, the Scottish-born actor...
BEHIND THE PHANTOM
'I was absolutely scared," says Joel Schumacher, talking about his decision to do the film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera: "This was my first musical and my first real period piece. And it wasn't like I was going to get away with doing this movie and no one...
PHANTOM POPS IN TO SCARE HIS FAN CLUB
IMAGINE the joy on the faces of members of the Gerard Butler fan club the other day in New York. There they were meeting up in a pub for a chat about the star and who pops in out the blue but The Phantom of the Opera himself. Apparently Butler had heard about the...
Wicked Whispers – Some winters I got frostbite.
'We could have relied on the welfare system, but my father had too much pride. So a lot of times we suffered.' SCOTTISH actor and Phantom Of The Opera star Gerard Butler cites a bizarre reason for his landing the plum lead role in the movie. Says Butler:'Celtic were...
Gerard Butler: The Man Behind the “Phantom” Mask
Fashion Wire Daily December 21, 2004 - LOS ANGELES - As the wildly anticipated movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" rolls into theaters on Wednesday, December 22, many fans of the musical are asking the same question: Just who exactly is...
Interview : Gerard Butler
Gerard Butler has much to be thankful for, "Dracula 2000" for one. Dashing, witty and masculine, Butler seems the perfect phantom in the screen version of "Phantom of the Opera". Also to be seen in "Dear Frankie" and "Beowulf", Gerard Butler is a star on the rise, but...