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Butler’s eerie performance pushes ‘Citizen’ to top
Crime thriller will keep audiences guessing until final twist is revealed. Last Friday was a day of great anticipation in the movie community. Everyone who ever had a childhood was excited for the release of "Where Are the Wild Things Are." But another movie was...
Law Abiding Citizen grabs another $12.4 million
Law Abiding Citizen took fourth place in this weekend's box office race with a take of $12.4 million. The film only dropped 40% from its opening weekend total. The flick is Overture Films' most successful production to date. LAC impressively topped new releases...
Gerard Butler Rages in ‘Law Abiding Citizen’
Law Abiding Citizen is a whirlwind of premeditated madness. Saw, Fracture and Seven seemingly team up for a mind-blowing (literally) series of sadistic murders coordinated flawlessly by the brilliantly conniving Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler). In the beginning of the...
Gerard Butler Fights For Rome And Shakespeare Next
I was having a conversation earlier this week with some movie friends and had to balk when someone described Gerard Butler as "great actor." Good actor, fine by me-- he screamed convincingly in a Speedo in 300 and managed a rage-filled American accent in Law Abiding...
Paramount, Momentum seal pact
[i]Major to distribute six pics from U.K. indie's slate[/i] 'Law Abiding Citizen' is part of the six-pic Par-Momentum deal. LONDON -- Paramount Pictures International and U.K. distrib Momentum Pictures have inked a six picture distribution deal that will see Par execs...
‘Citizen’ a winner for indie companies
[i]Foxx-Butler thriller is Overture's biggest opening yet[/i] The opening of Jamie Foxx-Gerard Butler starrer "Law Abiding Citizen" is a victory for independent companies -- in this case, Overture Films and the Film Department -- seeking mainstream success in a brutal...
“Law Abiding Citizen” Review
As someone who formerly worked in the court system, I can tell you that “justice†is rarely fair. It is not meant to be really. The criminal justice system is set up so that the innocent people get a fair shake, even if it means the guilty get too much leeway. The...
Justice is served?
Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx investigate the age-old question of what constitutes justice. Law Abiding Citizen shows how you just “can't fight fate†in this cinematic spectacle criticizing the issues of a seriously flawed United States justice system. Gerard...
Gerard Butler tells Quint who he’s playing in Ralph Fiennes’ Shakespeare adaptation of CORIOLANUS!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I just got off the phone with Gerard Butler who is still out there beating the drum for the really fun LAW ABIDING CITIZEN, pushing for its second weekend. During the chat he revealed a bit of news about appearing in the Ralph Fiennes...
Gerard Butler Cast in Ray Fiennes’ ‘Coriolanus’ (Blog)
Those of you who are familiar with this site know that I cannot resist posting any news that deals with Shakespeare film adaptations (my senior year Honors project in college was a 30-page paper comparing Olivier's Hamlet to Michael Almereyda's Hamlet). Even though...
Gerard Butler Goes Shakespearean in ‘Coriolanus’ (Blog)
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, many of you feel my client Gerard Butler should be placed on movie star probation. In the light of new evidence, I plan to petition for a retrial as it would appear that Mr. Butler has abandoned romantic comedies in order to accept a...
Gerard Butler is ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ gone mad
Gerard Butler in 'Law Abiding Citizen' The star of “300,†Gerard Butler is poised to surprise as he stars opposite Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx in the upcoming action-packed thriller “Law Abiding Citizen†where they are pitted against each other in a deadly...
Gerard Butler announces his plans to co-star with Ralph Fiennes in Coriolanus
Gerard talks to WJZ Baltimore about an upcoming movie with Ralph Fiennes, the big screen adaptation of Coriolanus. This will be Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut in which he will also play the lead....
Ralph Fiennes to direct ‘Coriolanus’
Ralph Fiennes is making his directorial debut with a feature adaptation of William Shakespeare's Roman tragedy "Coriolanus." Fiennes, who stars in Stephen Daldry's "The Reader" alongside Oscar-nommed Kate Winslet, has already scouted for locations in East Europe and...
Thesp trio joins Ralph Fiennes film
Hurt, Redgrave, Chastain board 'Coriolanus' William Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave and Jessica Chastain have boarded Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut "Coriolanus." Pic is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's study of the way power corrupts, set in the early years of the...
Law Abiding Citizen review (blog)
When two men break into his house, kill his little girl, and rape and murder his wife, Clyde Shelton(Gerard Butler) is positive that the justice system will put both men behind bars and essentially on death row. However, when the police botch the forensics on the...
Unreal Movie Review: Law Abiding Citizen
Law Abiding Citizen is a film flying completely under the radar at the moment, drowned out due to the sounds of children's screams exiting Where the Wild Things Are this weekend. But ignoring its seemingly unoriginal plot and massive pile of negative reviews, it's a...
Auds embrace ‘Wild Things’ on Friday
Warner Bros.' "Where the Wild Things Are" tore up the October record for a PG live-action film yesterday, grossing a boffo $11.9 million off 3,735 theaters. Pic's first day easily exceeded Warner Bros.' expectations as the studio was predicting a weekend take in the...
Law Abiding Citizen takes 2nd Place with $21 Million
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Where the Wild Things Are" stomped off with the top spot at the North American box office with $32.5 million in ticket sales this weekend, according to studio estimates on Sunday. The Spike Jonze-directed film, which is based on the classic...
Where the Wild Things Are Begins With a $32 Million Rumpus (Blog)
Well, it was an interesting weekend at the theaters, though perhaps not as earth-shattering as some had hoped. As expected, Where the Wild Things Are was the weekend's big winner, with an opening haul of $32 million. Frankly, though, I had expected a much bigger...