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Rabbie biopic set to run at Ayr races
Burns film to premiere at horsetrack 'drive-in' The first feature film based on the life of Robert Burns to be made since 1937 will be given its UK premier just a few miles from the poet's Ayrshire birthplace. Ayr Racecourse, the home of the Scottish Grand National,...
LITTLE BIG MAN
TOUGH GUY COSMO LANDS ROLE IN POUNDS 13.5M HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE SCOTS movie hardman James Cosmo is shedding his tough guy image to star in Little House On The Prairie. James, 55, best known for roles such as Mel Gibson's English-killing sidekick Campbell in...
Del Frisco’s serves up meaty role in a thriller
SWAT teams and sharpshooters took over a corner of 11th and Somerset Streets in North Philly for two days of drama last week. And this coming week, look out for the steak-out unit. It's all for Law Abiding Citizen, the thriller being filmed in town with Jamie Foxx and...
Old Delco jail brings movie stars to Delco
[img]http://www.gerardbutler.net/news/Uploads/delcotimes-1.jpg[/img] There was a shooting at the former county prison this weekend involving some fairly well-known celebrities. No need to worry, though — it was only principle photography for the film “Law Abiding...
Mayor Nutter is demoted
Michael Nutter, master thespian. The mayor plays a mayoral aide in Law Abiding Citizen, the thriller starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. Viola Davis, an Oscar nominee for Doubt, stood up as Philly's mayor in scenes shot Friday night at City Hall. In one, Nutter...
Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx Law Abiding Citizen Filming In Philadelphia (Blog)
It's over for filming across the street from where I work, filming ended yesterday at Philadelphia's City Hall. Throughout the day filming went on in the 6th Floor Caucus room. People were texting me of Gerard Butler sightings. He even stopped and signed a few...
LAC Filming News
Eyewitness News anchor Dave Huddleston will play a reporter doing a stand-up from prison in Law Abiding Citizen, the Jamie Foxx-Gerard Butler flick filming here. (LAC will finish two weeks at City Hall tomorrow, head to private homes, and emerge later in the week at...
East Ayrshire Council pledges support to Robert Burns film
EAST Ayrshire Council has become the first subscriber to pledge its support for a new film production on the life and works of Rabbie Burns. Scotland's First Minster, Alex Salmond MSP, launched the new appeal at the official Homecoming Burns Supper which was held in...
Viola Davis a ‘Law Abiding Citizen’
Oscar nominee Viola Davis has joined psychological thriller "Law Abiding Citizen" alongside Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. F. Gary Gray is directing the pic, which began shooting Jan. 21 in Philadelphia, for the Film Department. It's set for domestic release in 2010...
Overture deals with Film Department: Companies pact for ‘Citizen’
Overture and The Film Department could be the latest minimajor and production company to hook up. The Liberty Media production/distribution company has finalized an agreement to release "Law Abiding Citizen" from Mark Gill and Neil Sacker's Film Dept., and the two...
Dan Gross: Gerard Butler invites the risque remark
GERARD BUTLER says that most women that he's met in town have been nothing but polite to his face, but he does enjoy hearing their more-risque remarks second-hand. The "300" and "PS, I Love You" star drove women wild at City Hall Friday when Mayor Nutter presented a...
Butler to star in Robert Burns biopic (Blog)
Gerard Butler will reportedly begin work on the long-awaited Robert Burns biopic later this year. According to The Times, production on the £5 million movie has been given the greenlight after a government-backed campaign to raise funding. Most of the budget is...
Burns biographical film with Gerard Butler returns (Blog)
It's been an absolute age since I heard anything about the planned Robert Burns film that Gerard Butler was being linked with, and the last word was that it was dead due to lack of funding. That may have changed though with this year's Scottish Homecoming, an event...
Gerard Butler To Get His Robert Burns Biopic (Blog)
Poor Scotland -- it seems only if you have Mel Gibson or Liam Neeson in a kilt can you get one of your native heroes onscreen. Not that Gerard Butler hasn't tried. He's long cherished plans of starring in a biopic of Scottish poet Robert Burns. The problem has always...
VIDEO: Salmond promises new Burns film starring Gerard Butler
[b]Click the source link above to view the video.[/b] Alex Salmond, Scotland's First minister, today pledged his support to the last stage of fund-raising for a new feature film about the life of Robert Burns. The film, written by Alan Sharp, who wrote Rob Roy, is to...
Burns film launches a unique opportunity for THE Immortal Memory, will be co-produced by Evil Twins
It was announced today (January 25th 2009), on the 250th anniversary of Scotland's National poet Robert Burns' birthday, that a unique opportunity is being launched to invest in the much anticipated feature film of the Bard's life. It was in 1786 with a system of...
Local actress Brooke Stacy Mills is playing the part of Gerard Butlers wife in the upcoming thriller Law Abiding Citizen
Local actress Brooke Stacy Mills is playing the part of Gerard Butlers wife in the upcoming thriller Law Abiding Citizen staring Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, and Leslie Bibb. Filming started this month and is taking place in our very own Philadelphia. It's always a...
Butler to star in Burns movie
The long-awaited film based on the life of Scotland's favourite son is to start filming this year A biopic of Robert Burns, starring the Scots actor Gerard Butler, will begin shooting in Scotland this year. The £5m production, which has been beset with financial...
“Burns” The Feature Film UPDATE
January 2009 Its been a while since there has been an update on the Robert Burns film, but hopefully this will be the first of many more regular updates. There will be an exclusive article in the Sunday Times on Sunday 25th January 2009. This will be availabe to read...
Foxx and company charm City Hall, tease Nutter
Rarely do City Hall press conferences feature appreciative catcalls, whistles and quality impressions of Mayor Nutter, but that was the scene minutes ago, as Jamie Foxx and other crew members of the film now taping in City Hall appeared with the mayor for a few...