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Relativity to Distribute Marc Forster’s ‘Machine Gun Preacher’
[i The film, starring Gerard Butler and Michele Monaghan, is a biopic of Sam Childers.[/i Relativity Media is taking over U.S. distribution of Marc Forster's Machine Gun Preacher from Lionsgate. The film will be released in the fall. The film, starring Gerard Butler...
CORIOLANUS | Shakespeare’s super-soldier enters The Hurt Locker for Ralph Fiennes ferocious directorial debut… (Blog)
It's got more battles than any other Shakespeare play and its Rambo - it mught be the bard, but you won't be bored. For his directorial debut, Ralph Fiennes charts the path of destruction of a brilliant, fearless general undone by pride and arrogance. Updated to a...
Hollywood star Gerard Butler’s good turn for Strictly
HOLLYWOOD actor Gerard Butler has donated an undisclosed sum of money to a glitzy Inverness charity event. The heartthrob, who hails from Scotland and has starred alongside Jennifer Aniston in The Bounty Hunter, has given his backing to Strictly Inverness 2011 which...
SCOTS GMTV AND HOLIDAY STAR JENNI FALCONER REVEALS ALL ABOUT THE NEW
GORGEOUS Scots TV presenter Jenni Falconer has spoken for the first time about new boyfriend James Midgley. He plays gay hairdresser Shane in BBC 1 drama series Cutting It, but she says: 'He's not gay and he's not a hairdresser. 'When I told my dad he was my boyfriend...
Baz Bamigboye
GERRY BUTLER burst into a Soho club like a bat out of hell. To add to that impression, he was wearing a long black leather jacket with red silk lining. As it happens, the dashing actor plays the prince of darkness in Dracula 2000, which Miramax Films plan to release...
WHAT THE BUTLER SAW
WE HADN'T met before but, even in the crowded lounge of London's Charlotte Street Hotel there was no mistaking Gerard Butler. And not just because I recognised him from the big screen. Sure, the slim, dark-haired Scot was the only movie star in the room. But while...
The Male Box – Gerard Butler
Star of Dracula 2000 age: "Thirty-one. My goal for this year would be to continue tasting some of the success I had in my 30th year. I loved it." scot free: "I love to get back to Scotland [my home]. My mother and I like to go walking through the hills, right into the...
THE BIG INTERVIEW: GERARD BUTLER
GERARD Butler is excited, but not because he is just about to go on the London Eye for a ride on the city's newest tourist attraction. The adrenalin is pumping because the 29-year-old Scottish actor's dreams are all starting to slip into place. He has just been cast...
COURTING CELEBRITY
This time, Dracula is a Glaswegian. As the curtains are raised tomorrow on Wes Craven's latest gorefest, Dracula 2001, it won't be the grim, powdered face of Christopher Lee staring back at the whimpering audience. Instead, it will be that of Gerard Butler, a...
Gerard Butler Interview
Gerard Butler sits in the Dorchester Hotel after being rushed in from the set of his new film. He has something of a Wolverine look, mixed in with a little Dougray Scott( the actor originally picked for that mutant role). His shoulder length hair and lyrical Scottish...
Gerry Butler: staking everything on Hollywood
You get your Kicks walking in front of cars. but what do you do if that's not enough? you go to hollywood The couch is worrying. Its pale green bulk fills a fair portion of the intimate back room, little more than a snug, in London's Soho House where I'm to talk to...
Ralph Fiennes to Open Belgrade Film Festival
[i]Oscar contenders dominate the lineup at this year's International Film Festival FEST in Belgrade.[/i] The British actor and director is to open the International Film Festival FEST in Belgrade, which runs from February 25 to March 6. Among the most eagerly...
DFI Film Review : Coriolanus (2011) (Blog)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cos, Vanessa Redgrave Widespread civil unrest. Riots over food prices. Politicians banished. Who says Shakespeare isn't relevant? Set in Rome (though the film was shot in Belgrade with a...
Gerard Butler, Ralph Fiennes in Coriolanus (Blog)
Ralph Fiennes is no stranger to the title role of “Coriolanus,†having played it in 2000 on the London stage at the Almeida Theatre, Gainsborough Studios. Fiennes says he's been determined to reprise the demanding role on the big screen ever since. This is,...
Gerard Butler Will Return for HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Seq
As we reported back in October, Jay Baruchel, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, and Kristen Wiig will reprise their roles in DreamWorks Animation's sequel to How to Train Your Dragon. Empire now reports that Gerard...
Fiennes modernizes Shakespeare’s ‘Coriolanus’
Ralph Fiennes has pulled Shakespeare tragedy "Coriolanus" into a present-day world of 24-hour news television and modern warfare for his debut as a director. Fiennes takes the lead role as a great but flawed Roman general in the movie, which has its premiere Monday at...
Fiennes directorial debut a hit in Berlin
BERLIN — British actor Ralph Fiennes won applause at the Berlin film festival Monday for his directorial debut, "Coriolanus", a modern adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy about a vengeful Roman general. The all-star cast includes the two-time Oscar nominee in the...
Ralph Fiennes: Shakespeare Would Make a Great Screenwriter (Berlin)
[i]Courtesy of Berlinale 2011 At a press conference at the European Film Market, where the actor-director's "Coriolanus" screened, he said that he would like to do another contemporary-set version of one of the playwright's works.[/i] BERLIN -- Ralph Fiennes, whose...
Weinstein Co. buys Ralph Fiennes’ ‘Coriolanus’
[i]Berlin competition pic stars Gerard Butler[/i] BERLIN -- The Weinstein Co. has snapped up U.S. rights to Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut, "Coriolanus," in Berlin. Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave and James Nesbitt star in the $10 million pic, which is...
Weinsteins to Distribute Ralph Fiennes’ ‘Coriolanus’ (Berlin)
Set for a 2011 release, the contemporary political thriller centers on the life and times of Shakespeare's Roman general antihero. The Weinstein Company has taken U.S. rights to Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut Coriolanus, which is due to unspool in Competition at the...