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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...
‘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...
‘Game’ has guns blazing Downtown
[img http://www.gerardbutler.net/news/Uploads/albuquerque-journal-113007-small.jpg[/img It’s not so much the dynamite that’s making noise Downtown — it’s the antiaircraft guns. No, a military junta hasn’t taken over, it’s just the guys on the set of “Game” doing their...
Alison Lohman’s got ‘Game’ (Blog)
Last year’s high-adrenaline Jason Statham action flick “Crank” wasn’t exactly “Citizen Kane” (hell, it wasn’t even “Citizen Ruth”), but even the haters have to give debut writer/directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor credit for trying really, really hard. If that...
CAA: bridging the UK-US gap
A year on from opening a London branch of the US-based Creative Artists Agency, Emma Banks and Mike Greek, a "perfect fit of chemistry and like vision", are making serious transatlantic inroads for a wealth of UK- based talent A contacts book rammed with top movers...
Photos: New Gerard Butler Movie Destorys Downtown Albuquerque
[img http://www.gerardbutler.net/news/Uploads/gamebts13.jpg[/img A couple weeks back I got the chance to visit the set of the new Gerard Butler video game sci-fi action movie codenamed Game (it will have a different title when it hits theaters). I saw some very cool...
On the Set of Gerard Butler’s New Sci-Fi Action Flick!
The last time ComingSoon.net was in Albuquerque, New Mexico, it was for the Broken Lizard's Beerfest comedy, which was being filmed at the local botanical gardens. This time, we were brought down there to visit the green screen sets of Frank Miller's movie based on...
Gerard Butler, Ludacris Show What Happens When ‘Second Life’ Becomes Real Life In Upcoming Flick
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — When invited to the set of the new film from the makers of "Crank," the e-mail said the flick was simply called "Game." The backs of the director's chairs, the clapboard and everything else around the set also referred to the winter '08...
Exclusive: Ludacris Joins Gerard Butler’s Game
Chris “Ludacris” Bridges (Fred Claus, Crash, 2 Fast 2 Furious) has joined the cast of Lionsgate/Lakeshore’s upcoming Gerard Butler sci-fi action thriller which is currently being filmed under the title of Game. The film, written and directed by Crank helmers Mark...
Ludacris and Zoe Bell Challenge Gerard Butler’s Game
Chris "Ludacris" Bridges (Fred Claus, Crash, 2 Fast 2 Furious) and stuntwoman Zoe Bell (Death Proof) have joined the cast of Lionsgate's upcoming untitled sci-fi action-thriller from Crank writers/directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. Previously titled Game, the...