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‘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...
Hero’ on film
[i Motion picture to depict Reels Corners pastor[/i CENTRAL CITY — Sam Childers went from drug dealer to minister. Now, he's gone Hollywood. Film studio Lionsgate is making a major motion picture, “Machine Gun Preacher,†of Childers' life story as related in his...
Gerard Butler begins filming ‘Machine Gun Preacher’ in Melvindale, MI on July 8, 2010
Gerard Butler may be hanging out in Hollywood this weekend, but soon he'll have a whole new stomping ground- Melvindale, MI. The actor is set to start filming his next project, Machine Gun Preacher, in the city from July 8 to 28. Locations will include a trailer park...
‘Machine Gun Preacher,’ starring Gerard Butler, to film in Metro Detroit
Actor Gerard Butler will be in Melvindale July 8-28 to shoot scenes from the new Lionsgate film "Machine Gun Preacher" before moving to South Africa to film the remainder. The film is based on the true story of Sam Childers, a missionary in southern Sudan who really...
Lionsgate Acquires Machine Gun Preacher
Source: Lionsgate Lionsgate today announced that it has acquired North American distribution rights to the fact-based action drama Machine Gun Preacher, directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace). The film is the studio's first collaboration with Forster since the...
LIONSGATE Hits Bullseye With Marc Forster’s MACHINE GUN PREACHER
[i Studio Acquires North American Distribution Rights To Fact-Based Action Drama Starring Gerard Butler Fall 2011 Release Planned - Principal Photography Begins In July[/i SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LIONSGATE® (NYSE: LGF), the leading...
Hollywood star becomes patron of First Response
COMRIE'S First Response has been given a huge boost this week. Talking exclusively to Herald reporter Lynn Duke, Responder Manager Alan Moffat has revealed that Hollywood superstar Gerard Butler has agreed to be the charity's patron. Film favourite and regular visitor...
Butler film set to shoot here
"Machine Gun Preacher," a new Gerard Butler movie, has been approved for the state's film incentives and is expected to begin shooting here this summer. Based on a true story, it stars the versatile Scottish actor as a former drug-dealing biker who finds religion and...
Michigan Incentives Transforming Motor City To Movie Magnet
With flicks like “Machine Gun Preacher†starring Gerard Butler, “30 Minutes of Less†by “Zombieland†director Ruben Fleicher, 50 Cent's “Love Me or Love Me Not†and Dreamworks' $80 million sci-fi flick “Real Steel,†with Hugh Jackman, all set to...
‘Machine Gun Preacher’ to begin production
Machine Gun Preacher, the Mark Forster directed film about a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnapped and pressed into duty as soldiers in the Lord's Resistance Army, will begin...
The Boys Are Back
Forget Stallone and Schwarzenegger. This year's Cannes market unleashed a tsunami of action movies starring 21st Century tough guys like Gerard Butler, Jason Statham and Clive Owen. The Cannes market this year had a serious injection of testosterone, namely in the...
Cannes: Handicapping 2010 Movie Sales
Thankfully, the 63rd Cannes Film Festival marketplace is finally underway. Because who knew how much more pre-fest turmoil -- freakish waves that washed over the outdoor areas of beachfront restaurants, a belch from the Iceland volcano that rerouted air travelers, and...
Cannes: Handicapping 2010 Movie Sales
Thankfully, the 63rd Cannes Film Festival marketplace is finally underway. Because who knew how much more pre-fest turmoil -- freakish waves that washed over the outdoor areas of beachfront restaurants, a belch from the Iceland volcano that rerouted air travelers, and...
On the set in Serbia with a bloody Ralph Fiennes
BELGRADE (Reuters Life!) - Dressed in military fatigues and with their faces covered in blood, Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler are at each others' necks, fighting on the ground atop broken glass and debris, trying to kill each other. Still breathing heavily after an...
Gerard Butler Rounds Up His Cast
Most of you may not remember hearing about a film called Machine Gun Preacher in December, but it's back in the news again. Deadline reports that Lionsgate has decided to develop and distribute the film and given them a greenlight to start shooting this summer. Gerard...