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FilmDistrict Renames Gerard Butler Soccer Comedy ‘Playing For Keeps’
The newly titled Playing For Keeps (formerly Playing The Field) remains set for a December 7 wide release from FilmDistrict, which acquired the title at the 20Interviews Cannes Film Festival. The Nu Image/Millennium Films comedy stars Gerard Butler as a retired soccer...
Cole Hauser Joins Action Movie ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ (Exclusive)
Continuing his action streak, the actor will appear alongside Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart in the movie. Cole Hauser has joined the cast of Olympus Has Fallen, Nu Image/Millennium's White House-set action thriller being directed by Antoine Fuqua. Gerard Butler and...
Melissa Leo and Rick Yune Joining ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ (Exclusive)
Antoine Fuqua is directing the Nu Image/Millennium's White House-set action thriller. Oscar winner Melissa Leo and Rick Yune are joining the cast of Olympus Has Fallen, Nu Image/Millennium's White House-set action thriller being directed by Antoine Fuqua. The movie,...
TRAFFIC ALERT: Downtown Shreveport streets to close for ‘Olympus’ filming
Starting Monday morning, some streets in downtown Shreveport will be closed for the filming of 'Olympus Has Fallen.' The action thriller stars Gerard Butler, Dylan McDermott and Aaron Eckhart. Butler will play an ex-Secret Service agent fighting to defend the White...
‘Olympus Has Fallen’ Adds Radha Mitchell
EXCLUSIVE: Radha Mitchell has joined the cast of Olympus Has Fallen. The actress will play “Leah†the wife of Gerard Butler's Secret Service character in the White House thriller. Mitchell, who starts filming next week in Shreveport, Louisiana, joins Butler,...
Dylan McDermott climbs ‘Olympus’
With TV's "American Horror Story" now behind him, Dylan McDermott is heading back to the bigscreen with a role in Millenium Films' "Olympus Has Fallen." Pic stars Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart and will be directed by Antoine Fuqua. Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin...
Angela Bassett joins ‘Olympus’
Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart co-star in Millennium actioner Angela Bassett is set to join Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart in Millennium Films' actioner "Olympus Has Fallen." Antoine Fuqua will direct from a script by first-time scribes Creighton Rothenberger and...
“White House Taken” set construction continues in South Bossier
BOSSIER CITY, LA (KSLA) - Things are moving along in the re-creation of the White House for a movie soon to begin filming in South Bossier. "White House Taken" tells the tale of a former Secret Service agent works to prevent a terrorist attack on the White House....
Aaron Eckhart joins ‘Olympus Has Fallen’
[i Thesp to play U.S. prez in Millennium Films' Gerard Butler starrer[/i After playing Gotham's district attorney, Aaron Eckhart is getting a promotion to commander in chief in Millennium Films' "Olympus Has Fallen." Pic stars Gerard Butler. Antoine Fuqua will helm...
‘Coriolanus’ gives us the Bard in our time
Ralph Fiennes is electrifying as the title character in Coriolanus, his directorial debut. In the film, adapted from one of Shakespeare's lesser-known tragedies, Fiennes plays a larger-than-life Roman military hero so commanding that crowds are silenced by his stare....
Bossier City already seeing economic benefits from upcoming film
[i Bossier City seeing economic benefits from upcoming film[/i The upcoming Millennium Films' production "White House Taken" is already pumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into the local economy, area businesses and film officials say. The action thriller...
Gerard Butler headed to Shreveport for one of two dueling White House action flicks
The race to the White House is in full swing, but it's not happening where you think it is. It's playing out in Hollywood -- and in Shreveport -- as dueling inside-the-beltway action films, both described as "'Die Hard' in the White House," are ramping up production....
Slide Switches from Baseball to Soccer with Gerard Buler (Blog)
Back during the wild days of Law Abiding Citizen, I asked Gerard Butler 19 questions about his ab routine and 1 question about his upcoming projects. This is what he had to say: “There's a few different projects that we've been working on, but there's one in...
Nu Image Sets March Start For ‘Playing The Field’ With Gerard Butler
Nu Image/Millennium has committed to a March start date for Playing the Field, the Gabriele Muccino-directed film that will star Gerard Butler. In the Robbie Fox-scripted comedy, Butler plays a retired world famous soccer star who tries to rebuild a relationship with...
Uma Thurman & Jessica Biel Are ‘Playing The Field’ With Gerard Butler (Blog)
It looks like two actresses have come aboard to add some flavor to a sports-world comedy that will find Gerard Butler weaving through relationships both on and off the pitch. Variety reports that Uma Thurman and Jessica Biel have joined “Playing The Field,†a...
Thurman, Biel to start ‘Playing the Field’
Uma Thurman and Jessica Biel have signed on to join Gerard Butler in Nu Image/Millennium Films' soccer comedy "Playing the Field." Gabriele Muccino is directing from a script by Robbie Fox. Butler stars as a former pro soccer player who finds himself dodging romantic...
James Tupper Joins Millennium’s ‘Playing the Field’
The actor, best known for TV roles in Men in Trees and Grey's Anatomy, will appear alongside Jessica Biel in the romantic comedy. James Tupper, best known for his TV roles in Men in Trees and Grey's Anatomy, has booked a role in Playing the Field, the Gerard...
FilmDistrict Playing The Field with Gerard Butler and Jessica Biel
EXCLUSIVE: Riding high on the success of its inaugural releases, FilmDistrict has picked up US rights from Nu Image/Millennium Films to Gabriele Muccino's rom-com Playing The Field, starring Gerard Butler and Jessica Biel. Shooting is underway in Louisiana now for an...
Construction begins in Bossier City on White House replica movie set
BOSSIER CITY, LA (KSLA) - Construction on a replica of the White House is under way in Bossier City for the latest movie production to come to Hollywood South. The set will be located in a field next to the CenturyLink Center at Arthur Ray Teague Parkway and Walker...
Gerard Butler arrives at Cannes to talk about Motor City and his soccer movie
[i]At the film festival in France to reveal all about his latest projects, the Scottish star had his head in his hands when he referred to his beloved football by its more commonly used name in the US...[/i]...