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Gerard Butler-Led Action Thriller ‘Kandahar’ Set for 2023 Theatrical Release
The film was penned by Mitchell LaFortune, and is based on his personal experiences as an intelligence officer working during the Snowden leaks. It was announced today that Open Road Films has acquired the North American rights to Kandahar, an explosive action...
Gerard Butler’s G-Base Boards Remi Adeleke’s Human Trafficking Thriller ‘Unexpected Redemption’
Butler and Alan Siegel's production company is teaming with Adeleke for his feature directorial debut, which delves into the world of human trafficking and organ harvesting. Gerard Butler and Alan Siegel have teamed back up with Remi Adeleke, the star of upcoming...
‘Law Abiding Citizen’ Sequel In The Works With Village Roadshow & Rivulet Films
A follow-up to the $130M-plus grossing movie Law Abiding Citizen is happening with producer Lucas Foster and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer returning, as well as Gerard Butler and his G-Base partner Alan Siegel reprising their roles as producers. The storyline is being kept...
‘Kandahar’: Capstone’s Christian Mercuri Talks Shooting Gerard Butler Actioner In Saudi Arabia, Plus Behind The Scenes Photos
Shooting wrapped last month on the long-awaited Gerard Butler project Kandahar and here are some exclusive behind the scenes photos from the film, which is notably one of the first major U.S. titles to shoot its entirety in Saudi Arabia. The film, which is produced by...
Gerard Butler Headlines Action Thriller ‘Chase,’ Voltage Pictures Swoops For International Rights
Gerard Butler (“Greenland”), Jaimie Alexander (“Thor: The Dark World”), Russell Hornsby (“Creed II”) and Ethan Embry (“First Man”) have wrapped principal photography on director Brian Goodman’s action-thriller “Chase,” with Voltage Pictures swooping for international...
Gerard Butler’s ‘Greenland 2’ Sells for Whopping $75 Million, STX Beats Out Streamers
Gerard Butler has the most explosive deal of the Cannes 2021 market so far. Who would've thought? The 2021 Cannes virtual market got its first bombshell as the Gerard Butler-starring “Greenland” sequel, “Greenland: Migration,” has sold to STX in a deal worth a...
‘Copshop’: Open Road Films Sets Up Gerard Butler-Frank Grillo Action Thriller For Fall Release
EXCLUSIVE: Open Road Films, which didn’t pull back on theatrical releases for cinemas during the pandemic like other studios, has set a release date of September 17 for its Gerard Butler action movie Copshop from Joe Carnahan. Written by Carnahan and Kurt McLeod,...
Gerard Butler’s Meteor Disaster Thriller Greenland Is Getting A Sequel
Thunder Road Pictures has greenlit a sequel to Greenland, the film where Gerard Butler and his family sought refuge from a meteor. Many of film history's classics fall into the disaster genre, but over the past few years, the category hasn't reached the same heights...
Gerard Butler Reunites With Ric Roman Waugh For Sequel ‘Greenland: Migration’ — Cannes Market
Gerard Butler is returning to Greenland. The Scottish actor is set to reprise his role as John Garrity in Greenland: Migration, a sequel to action thriller Greenland. The core filmmaking team will return with director Ric Roman Waugh headlining from a script by...
Gerard Butler takes pictures with Rincon PD during filming break
RINCON, Ga. (WTOC) - Movie star Gerard Butler has been in Rincon filming a movie. On Tuesday, he took a break to pose for pictures with the Rincon Police Department. Butler has been filming the movie, “Chase” in the area. On Tuesday, several WTOC viewers noticed a...
Hear me out: why PS I Love You isn’t a bad movie
Continuing our series of writers sticking up for loathed films is a defence of the commercially successful yet critically lambasted romance I’m not here to defend the accent. You can have that. I am not going to say that in PS I Love You, Gerard Butler – whose real...
Gerard Butler Celebrated His 50th Birthday By Releasing Sea Turtles Into The Ocean
Gerard Butler is sharing more about how he marked the big 5-0. The now 51-year-old Scottish actor opened up about his 50th birthday bash in a new interview with Total Film Magazine. Butler turned 50 in Nov. 2019 but has only just shared details about the celebration...
Gerard Butler fraudsters use fake passport and driving license in online scam
Fans have told the star fake forms of ID are being used to dupe people into believing they are speaking to him. Gerard Butler fans have raised concerns after an online scammer has used a fake passport ID to dupe social media users in private messages. Fans have even...
Gerard Butler: Coronavirus pandemic will help audiences relate to Greenland
Gerard Butler believes that viewers will have a deeper understanding of his disaster movie Gerard Butler believes that the coronavirus pandemic will give viewers a "deeper understanding" of his new movie 'Greenland'. The 51-year-old actor plays John Garrity in the...
A Forgotten Gerard Butler Action Movie Is Dominating Netflix Today
Netflix has become a reliable platform for underrated and forgotten movies to find new audiences, or be re-appreciated by fans. One title that’s currently enjoying a bump is the Gerard Butler-starring Den of Thieves, which sits in the top 20 films being watched on the...
Greenland is Basically a Non-Gerard Butler Movie that Happens to Star Gerard Butler
When a comet threatens his wife and child — well, let's just say the star doesn't react quite as you'd expect I thought I knew plot twists. I’ve seen The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects and every Planet of the Apes movie ever made, including that terrible one by Tim...
Gerard Butler’s excellent end-of-world thriller Greenland will make you sick, in a good way
The new movie Greenland will make you sick. And I cannot recommend it highly enough. An end-of-the-world thriller that arrives during, well, all of this, director Ric Roman Waugh’s film represents the best of a historically stupid genre. While there are still loads of...
Gerard Butler: I don’t know if I have the intelligence to survive a real disaster (exclusive)
Click the link to the right to view the video interview. He might be an on-screen action hero, but Gerard Butler has little faith in his ability to survive a real-life disaster. Butler, who flees a planet-destroying comet in new blockbuster Greenland, said his years...
‘It felt very timely’: Gerard Butler on releasing a disaster movie mid-pandemic
It might be argued that a global pandemic is not the best time to be releasing a movie about the end of the world but Gerard Butler begs to differ. The Scottish action star’s new film, Greenland, has planet Earth facing destruction from an approaching comet, and leans...
Gerard Butler caught up in ‘toxic masculinity’ row after South African beer ad starring tee-total star is banned for gender stereotyping
He is depicted as the macho action hero for our generation and has been tee-total for almost two decades, but Gerard Butler has been caught up in a gender stereotyping row, leading to the banning of a South African beer advert. The Paisley-born actor, famous for his...