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Bulgari To Host Star-Studded Celebrity Charity Event
On Thursday, January 13, 2011, Bulgari will host an exclusive event in Los Angeles honoring award-winning producer Simon Fuller and Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis for their personal commitments to helping the world's most vulnerable children through their...
Asche & Spencer scoring ‘Machine Gun Preacher’
Asche & Spencer have been hired to score the upcoming action biopic Machine Gun Preacher. The movie tells the story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been forced to...
Ralph Fiennes’ Directorial Debut Showing in Berlin
Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut, "Coriolanus," to premiere at Berlin film festival Actor Ralph Fiennes' debut as a director a version of the Shakespeare tragedy "Coriolanus" is to premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. Organizers said...
Berlin reveals first competish titles Pics from Fiennes, Wenders in lineup
BERLIN -- Ralph Fiennes' modern take on Shakespeare's "Coriolanus," starring Gerard Butler; "Pina," Wim Wenders' 3D portrait of late choreographer Pina Bausch; and Sundance screener "The Future," by Miranda July ("Me and You and Everyone We Know") are among the first...
Berlin Film Festival unveils 2011 line-up (Blog)
Berlin - Films from Turkey, Israel, Britain, Germany, France and the US are to form part of the main competition line-up for next year's Berlin Film Festival, organizers announced Wednesday. The movies unveiled include the directorial debut by British actor Ralph...
What Villains Do You Like More Than Their Hero Counterparts? (Blog)
**** While many may disagree, I thought that one of the more surprisingly enjoyable movies from last year was F. Gary Gray's Law Abiding Citizen. It served as a safe yet cinematically violent way to vent over a sometimes corrupt legal system and to allow a parent like...
‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Dominates Annie Award Noms With 15
With 15 nominations, DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon dominated the noms for the 38th annual Annie Awards, announced Monday by the International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood. It will contend in the best animated feature category against...
Gerard Butler presents award to Scots charity founder
[i]Hollywood star honours Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow for his 'extraordinary' work as founder of Mary's Meals.[/i] Hollywood actor Gerard Butler has presented an award to the founder of a Scottish charity for his work feeding hungry children, it has been announced....
Gerard Butler in talks for ‘Afterburn’
Relativity Media pic based on Red 5 graphic novel Gerard Butler is in talks to topline Relativity Media's sci-fi adventure "Afterburn," set up with Neal Moritz's Original Films and Tobey Maguire's Maguire Entertainment. Antoine Fuqua is in negotiations to direct....
“Dragon” fires up DVD charts
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – The DreamWorks Animation hit "How To Train Your Dragon" topped the national home video sales charts for a second consecutive week on Wednesday -- and was also the No. 1 renter in its first full week in stores. Coming in at No. 2 on...
How To Train Your Dragon (Blu-Ray) (Blog)
All Rise... Judge Roman Martel hopes this DVD will give pointers on dealing with an ornery Hungarian Horntail. The Charge I usually get worried when the main characters in any story have names like Hiccup and Toothless. If there's a viking named Farty or B.O. in this...
Gerard Butler to bid farewell to SA
Hollywood heart-throb Gerard Butler will say goodbye to South Africa this weekend. The actor has been filming scenes for the movie Machine Gun Preacher for the past few weeks. Butler has been shooting parts of the movie, which is based on the life of drug addict...
‘How to Train Your Dragon’ fires up Oscar race
DreamWorks Animation has officially launched the Oscar race for 2011. This week, the company took the unusual move of mailing out For Your Consideration fliers of its highly-regarded "How to Train You Dragon," throwing the movie in contention for not only best...
How To Train Your Dragon heading to Blu-ray on October 15th (Blog)
Dreamworks Animation has announced HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON is hitting store shelves on October 15th of this year. The film was well received by critics and audiences alike, featuring a warm-hearted tale of a boy befriending a dragon and attempting to change the...
‘Bounty Hunter’ Tops Weekly BLOCKBUSTER(R) Hit List of Top 10 Renting DVDs (Blog)
'Bounty Hunter' Tops Weekly BLOCKBUSTER(R) Hit List of Top 10 Renting DVDs DALLAS, July 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Topping the BLOCKBUSTER® (Pink Sheets: BLOKA, BLOKB) Hit List of "Top 10 Renting DVD Titles" for the week ending July 18, 2010 is the comedy "Bounty...
Projections: ‘Bounty Hunter’ Set for Top Spot
Sony Pictures July 13 came out with the action comedy The Bounty Hunter, starring Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, which earned $67 million in domestic theaters. Also out July 13 from Fox was the comedy Our Family Wedding ($20 million), starring Forest Whitaker and...
In Photos: Gerard Butler on the set of ‘Machine Gun Preacher’
[img http://www.gerardbutler.net/news/Uploads/gerry2.jpg[/img Thanks to Heather who sent us these pictures from the set of Machine Gun Preacher in West Bloomfield, MI on Thursday, July 8. As you can see from the photos, the movie's star, Gerard Butler, was filming...
Hollywood stars in town to film ‘Preacher’
MELVINDALE – The city is getting its first taste of Hollywood this month as filming for “Machine Gun Preacher†starts at a local mobile home park Monday. The film, starring Gerard Butler (“300,†“P.S. I Love Youâ€) as lead character Sam Childers, will be...
Report: Gerard Butler starts filming ‘Machine Gun Preacher’ in Garden City
There are reports today that the Gerard Butler film "Machine Gun Preacher" has started filming in Metro Detroit. The film location website beforethetrailer.com is reporting that the film is shooting at the "Chevy dealership on Ford Rd." which they refer to as being in...
Despicable Them: 5 Underrated Voice Performances In Modern Animated Films (Blog)
This week the new animated feature film "Despicable Me" opens in AMC Theatres everywhere. As is the trend in modern animated films, the voice cast is a star studded line up featuring Steve Carrell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand and many others. Many of today's animated...