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‘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....
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]...
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...
CANNES: Millennium Films and West Coast Film Partners Launch $100 Million Collaboration With ‘White House Taken’
Millennium Films decided to dress up its Saturday-night Croisette party on Baoli Beach with $100 million worth of decoration. While ostensibly celebrating the company's new Gerard Butler action thriller “White House Taken,†Millennium chairman Avi Lerner took the...
Gerard Butler is coming back to the Ark-La-Tex for a new film
[i Gerard Butler is set to return to Hollywood South this summer to film the lead role in Millennium Studio's next and biggest project yet: "Olympus Has Fallen."[/i SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - Millennium Films has confirmed their next major project will be an action...
‘Hansel & Gretel’ Director Boards Gerard Butler Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Afterburn’ (Exclusive)
[i]Based on the graphic novel by Scott Chitwood and Paul Ens, "Afterburn" is set in a future where solar flares have left half the world a ravaged wasteland filled with mutants and pirates.[/i] Tommy Wirkola is attached to rewrite and direct Afterburn, Relativity's...
FilmDistrict gets back into theatrical distribution
Independent studio FilmDistrict is getting back into the theatrical distribution business with the hiring of a veteran MGM and Paramount executive. The company behind "Insidious," "Drive" and this weekend's science-fiction thriller "Lockout" has been without a...
Antoine Fuqua Circling ‘Olympus’ as White House Thriller Race Heats Up
Gerard Butler is set to star in one of two competing movies described as " 'Die Hard' in the White House. Antoine Fuqua has an offer and is in early talks to direct Olympus Has Fallen, an Nu Image/Millennium action thriller that has been described as “Die Hard in...
Gerard Butler climbs ‘Olympus Has Fallen’
[i Thesp to topline White House-based actioner[/i Just days after Millennium Films acquired the spec "Olympus Has Fallen" from first-time scribes Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, "300" star Gerard Butler has signed on to topline the action pic. Described as...
Frosty Hesson to release memoir ‘Chasing Mavericks’ in October
[i]Behind every great athlete is a coach. Jay Moriarity was no exception.[/i] When the 16-year-old surfer from Santa Cruz was catapulted into the spotlight after surviving one of the worst wipeouts ever captured on film, he had already been training to surf big waves...
New Posters for THE BOURNE LEGACY and CHASING MAVERICKS
The narrative architect behind the Bourne film series, Tony Gilroy, takes the helm in the next chapter of the hugely popular espionage franchise that has earned almost $1 billion at the global box office: The Bourne Legacy. The writer/director expands theBourne...
Gerard Butler: Near-Death Surfing Accident Was ‘Close Call’
Butler, 42, says he wanted to get right back into the water after his near-death experience when he was pulled underwater and dragged over a reef in Northern California last month while filming the surf movie Of Men and Mavericks. "I was going to go back that day,"...
Gerard Butler survives Maverick’s two-wave hold down
On a day reminiscent of last January when Jacob Trette, a rookie big-wave surfer, nearly lost his life out at Maverick's, the infamous Northern California break has sent yet another beginner to Stanford Medical Center. In this case it was the star of the Hollywood...