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First Look At Cate Blanchett’s How To Train Your Dragon 2 Character
After thrilling critics, proving 3D can be a worthwhile and wondrous storytelling device, and smashing box office records, how could How to Train Your Dragon go bigger for its sequel? Well, adding fantasy royalty to the cast is a great start. Director Dean DeBlois had...
Gerard Butler: King Among Men
Gerard Butler is a study in contrast. The actor skyrocketed to fame as the bad boy foil to Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, followed up by his epic, ultra-physical role in 300, but he's equally versed in musicals, as evidenced by his starring role in Phantom...
Gerard Butler Circling Videogame Adaptation ‘Kane & Lynch’ for Millennium (Exclusive)
[b F. Gary Gray is on board to direct the project, which could re-team the duo that made "Law Abiding Citizen."[/b Kane & Lynch seems to be the video game move adaptation with unlimited life points. The Nu Image/Millennium Films project, which has come and gone...
AFM: Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman to Reprise Roles in Sequel ‘London Has Fallen’
Aaron Eckhart is also returning for the follow-up to White House terrorist thriller "Olympus Has Fallen." Millennium Films is pushing ahead with sequel London Has Fallen, continuing the action-adventure that began with this spring's Olympus Has Fallen. Gerard Butler,...
Lionsgate lines up AFM power slate
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate International will commence pre-sales at AFM next month on the Johnny Depp action comedy Mortdecai that has begun shooting in London (October 21) as well as the action epic Gods Of Egypt with Gerard Butler. David Koepp directs Mortdecai, marking...
Gerard Butler Circling Lionsgate’s ‘Gods Of Egypt’
EXCLUSIVE: Olympus Has Fallen star Gerard Butler is in discussions to join Game Of Thrones' Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in Gods Of Egypt, the Lionsgate film to be directed by Alex Proyas. The script was written by Burk Sharpless & Matt Sazama, the team behind...
Gerard Butler to Join Summit’s ‘Gods of Egypt’
He will play the nemesis of "Game of Thrones'" Nikolaj Coster-Waldau's character. Gerard Butler is in negotiations to play a villainous god opposite Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in Summit's epic fantasy Gods of Egypt. OUR EDITOR RECOMMENDS Alex Proyas to Helm 'Gods of Egypt'...
Hollywood star Gerard Butler tells how visits to his homeland help keep him grounded
[i]WHILE Gerard is a multi-millionaire Hollywood A-lister, he says he doesn't care about the celebrity lifestyle and insists he will always be "little old Gerry".[/i] SITTING in the garden of his family home in Comrie, Perthshire, Gerard Butler is no longer the big...
Gerard Butler in Talks to Star in Sci-Fi Action Project ‘The Raven’
Gold Circle has come aboard to produce and co-finance the project with Universal. The Raven is once again hoping to take flight. Gerard Butler is in negotiations to star in the Universal sci-fi action project, which has seen several iterations since it made its debut...
TopGear.com chats with Gerard Butler
[i]King Leonidas himself talks BMWs, Mustangs and his new movie, Olympus Has Fallen[/i] The fear of being unceremoniously and painfully jettisoned into a black chasm of death by a leather-sandaled foot is currently taking up some of my thought process. I am sitting...
‘Olympus Has Fallen’ Star Gerard Butler: ‘I Train Harder Than Anybody, I Want Them To Say “He’s Nuts”‘
Gerard Butler faced his toughest test when he played his new film, 'Olympus Has Fallen' to a preview audience. At the end of the action thriller, all about the White House being taken over by terrorists, one man stood up and told him, “I'm Secret Service.†“I...
Gerard Butler: “There’s A Lot Of Gallows Humour When You’re In Dire Situations”
With Olympus Has Fallen in cinemas 17th April, we spoke to star Gerard Butler about the hugely enjoyable action film. Training Day director Antoine Fuqua threatens to give Roland Emmerich a run for his money in the destruction stakes, when North Korean terrorists take...
Gerard Butler on North Korea, motorcycle jackets and training with Navy SEALS
One morning recently, Gerard Butler walked into his hotel room, flicked on the news from North Korea, and for a moment felt like he was back on the set of his latest film. "It's almost like we had a crystal ball," says the 43-year-old native Scotsman, relaxing in a...
Gerard Butler: ‘There’s A Lot Of Gallows Humour When You’re In Dire Situations’
With Olympus Has Fallen in cinemas 17th April, we spoke to star Gerard Butler about the hugely enjoyable action film. Training Day director Antoine Fuqua threatens to give Roland Emmerich a run for his money in the destruction stakes, when North Korean terrorists take...
Gerard Butler on Sacrificing His Life, Declining The ‘300’ Sequel and His… Bar Mitzvah
The Scottish actor speaks to THR about his new film, "Olympus Has Fallen," discusses whether he could die for somebody and clears the air over why he's not returning to Sparta. Gerard Butler has seen these kind of odds before. The Scottish actor stars later this month...
The “Olympus Has Fallen†Cast Comes to Town, Mayhem Ensues
[b In interviews in Washington yesterday, Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett, and Antoine Fuqua talked falling in love, blowing up the White House, and leaving film for theater. [/b Yesterday was Aaron Eckhart's 45th birthday, and judging from the way he was...
‘Olympus Has Fallen’: Gerard Butler on Getting ‘Even’ With Dylan McDermott
The actor recalls the cigarette burn that left a mark while filming the Antoine Fuqua-directed action thriller. In Gerard Butler's latest action flick Olympus Has Fallen, the actor plays a former Secret Service agent who returns to the White House when the President...
Gerard Butler Talks Joining Twitter & Not Being Great at It!
Gerard Butler phoned in to “On Air with Ryan Seacrest†to chat about his latest action-packed flick Olympus Has Fallen. Gerard, who plays secret service Agent Mike Banning and has to save the President from a terrorist attack on the White House, revealed he...
Gerard Butler talks about his star-studded Oscars spoof
[i]Doing a Taken spoof with Jimmy Kimmel[/i] Total Film caught up with Gerard Butler recently, and the Scottish star told us about his role in Jimmy Kimmel's epic post-Oscars skit. When we asked Butler if he'd been working on anything on the day of our interview, he...
Gerard Butler: ‘Argo’ will take the Oscar
[i]The actor is still deciding on his Oscar day plans, Adrien Brody party-hops with girlfriend Lara Lieto and Paul Haggis dishes on his new movie.[/i] HOLLYWOOD -- Gerard Butler's officially in Argo's corner. "Ben Affleck is turning out to really be one of the...