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A couple of pictures of The Game filming (blog)
Because Adam asked, a couple of pictures of The Game filming: Click link above to view.
DVD Review: Beowulf & Grendel (2005)
At one time the word "hero" was simply a designation given to anybody born from the union of mortal and God, but that was in simpler times when the Gods would routinely roam the earth, ravishing comely mortal maids, and scattering progeny everywhere. With the coming...
‘Dear Frankie’ made me weep like a little girl (blog)
Anyway, I watched 'Dear Frankie' on DVD yesterday. It's about a 9-year-old deaf boy, Frankie (Jack McElhone), who writes letters to his absent father all the time, but the letters he received from the father are actually make-believe letters written by his mother...
The 2007 Box Office Oscars (Blog)
Ballots for this year's Academy Awards were mailed out to voters today, and in honor of the official launch of Oscar season I present my own annual list of nominations. No, these aren't my "best" or anything. No, these are what the Oscar nominations would look like if...
The Game – Set Visit
UGO and a few other select outlets were flown down to New Mexico to visit the set of (depending on who your source is) Game, The Game or The Untitled Gerard Butler Action Pic. I'm sure we'll know by 2009 when the movie comes out. It was nighttime when we arrived at...
Revealing Film Shoot Turns Heads (Video)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A revealing movie shoot on the University of New Mexico campus Wednesday turned heads. Making movies is often about getting what's fake to look real. But during a risque scene being shot at the UNM campus Wednesday for the movie "Game," some...
Milo Ventimiglia Cast in Gerard Butler’s Game
Heroes star (and Rocky Balboa’s son) Milo Ventimiglia has joined the cast of the currently untitled Gerard Butler action sci-fi movie (codenamed: Game). You know, the film from the two maniacs who brought us Crank. Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor were also the guys...
Conan Star and Director Buzz! Butler, McTiernan wanted for franchise reboot?
December 13, 2007 - By Crom! The rumor mill has churned out a good one for you today, Conan fans. Two big names both associated with period genre movies are said to be in the running to star in and direct, respectively, Millennium Film/Nu Image's reboot of the Conan...
Will John McTiernan Direct the New ‘Conan’? (Blog)
So the last that most of us had heard from action-director John McTiernan was that there was the very real possibility that he was about to be incarcerated for four months -- however pesky little details like prison time have never stopped the rumor mill before; so...
‘300’ Blu-ray Disc Wins HD Title of the Year (Blog)
December 12, 2007 '300' Blu-ray disc wins HD title of the year Marc Saltzman at 8:08 PM | E-mail this post Presented last week at the inaugural High-Def 2.0 Conference in Los Angeles – a one-day event put on by Home Media Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter and the...
Gerard Butler Freakin’ Frenzy (Blog)
I feel like it's been sort of seething below the surface of polite Albuquerque ever since the film Game came to town: Our collective if covert lust for Gerard Butler. I mean it -- I've had countless conversations in the last two months with otherwise sober and sane...
Gerard Butler Might Still Escape From New York (Blog)
Rumors of Gerard Butler’s (300) departure from the Escape From New York remake have been greatly exaggerated. Butler, who has been doing press for his new romcom P.S. I Love You, insists that he hasn’t dropped out of the project, but is taking a wait and see position....
Gerard Butler to Play ‘Wolverine’ Baddie?
Poor Tyler Mane. Sure, he was pretty lame as Sabretooth in the first X-Men, but that doesn't mean he should be passed over in the casting of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. After all, while he may not be a big name actor, he did just star in a successful movie (he was...
Riot Launches DI Theatre for Features
Studio Hires Devin Sterling as Exec Producer for DI SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--Riot has unveiled an all-new DI Theatre at its Santa Monica facility, combining the latest in digital imaging technology with a flexible workflow designed to accommodate all...
Action! (Blog w/ Video)
Here was the scene yesterday evening as filming of a movie continues outside our office window. A coworker joked that Albuquerque sure has gone downhill. A cameraman followed the actor (Gerard Butler?) on rollerblades. The actor would do pushups before each take.
Scot Muscles In
SCOTS movie hunk Gerard Butler may be fit enough to be a Spartan but he's having trouble coping as a video game character. The Scots star of 300 is currently in New Mexico shooting new movie Game, in which he plays one of a group of real-life video game stars and it's...
Will Leonidas Take on Wolverine?
A closely placed and highly trusted source has told me that there's been some casting shake-ups on X-Men Origins: Wolverine. According to my source, Karl Urban had been in talks to play Creed - the guy who would become Sabretooth - but has fallen out. The production...
300 Conquers High-Def Awards (Blog)
Warner Home Video’s hit film 300 dominated the first ever High-Def Disc Awards, taking High-Def Title of the Year and Best Bonus Feature honors. But in an outcome that underscored the bruising format war between the two rival high-definition optical discs, the Blu-ray...
Photos and Video: Gerard Butler on the Set of Game
[img http://www.gerardbutler.net/news/Uploads/gameset.jpg[/img Kevin from Albuquerque, New Mexico caught a 15 second video clip of 300 star Gerard Butler running down Silver Street for the upcoming lakeshore/lionsgate movie Game (which will be getting a new title...
300 Board Game Review (Blog)
[IMG]http://www.gerardbutler.net/images/updates/300boardgame_1.jpg[/IMG] 300 Review: We march... from sacred Sparta... for glory! Introduction This is not my first review, but my first for a game that already has one. I had previously sought to avoid submitting...