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How to Train Your Dragon trailer

Liam — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:24:46 +0000

The full trailer for DreamWork’s How to Train Your Dragon has just been unleashed over at Yahoo! and can be watching using the player below:

It’s common for DreamWork’s to hire well known actors to fill the voice cast, and they’ve done the same with this film. While it will help during the marketing it doesn’t always work on-screen, and I think that may be the case this time. The main guy’s voice doesn’t really ‘fit’ for me.

How to Train Your Dragon, which will be released next March, is co-directed by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders who both worked on Lilo and Stitch, and features the voice talents of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and America Ferrera.

Gerard Butler talks 300 sequel and Sin City

Liam — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:08:44 +0000

Earlier this year 300 and Watchmen director Zack Synder said that Frank Miller was busy writing and drawing the graphic novel that the sequel to 300 will be based on, and that it would take place between the Battle of Thermopylae and the Battle of Plataea (the big battle we got a taste of at the end of 300). Unless things have changed this means Gerard Butler won’t be returning as King Leonidas, as he was getting impaled by quite a few spears the last time we saw him. However, Butler recently told MTV that he would be up for returning, if they need him.

“I had an incredible time doing the first one, and I think that if the first one was a stand-alone, as a one-off, there’s no bad thing in that,” explained Gerard Butler when we caught up with him recently, saying he’d be willing to bring his character back to life—even if it meant re-animating arguably the most dead person in movie history (remember all those spears?). “But, you know, let’s see what it might bring forward with a second one.”

Butler also dropped a small nugget of info about possibly appearing in Sin City 3:

“I could see myself working with Frank again,” explained the “Law Abiding Citizen” star. “But, I don’t know. Graphic novels are things that I wouldn’t do a lot of, so I would have to really choose carefully before I did.”
“At one point, he talked to me about one of the ‘Sin City’ [movies],” explained the actor, possibly revealing some casting details for whenever Miller and Robert Rodriguez get around to filming their supposed sequels to the gritty 2005 graphic novel-turned-blockbuster. “And we discussed that.” Although Butler didn’t reveal his character’s name, he reported that Miller wanted him not for this next film, but likely for the one after that.
“There’s a kind of cool character I think in the third one,” Butler revealed, “But it was all very kind of soft talk.”

Gerard Butler appearing in Sin City 3 would be quite cool, although they need to make the second movie first. The latest we’ve heard is that it could start filming next year, however nothing is official yet.

Gamer trailer

Liam — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:17:55 +0000

It looks like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has some new competition in the explosion department! The first trailer for Gerard Butler’s Gamer is now online (we got the poster 2 days ago) and it kicks a variety of asses.

Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments, a star player (Butler) from a game called “Slayers” looks to regain his independence while taking down the game’s mastermind (Hall).

Transformers, District 9 and Gamer posters

Liam — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:16:56 +0000

Three new posters have appeared online today. One is for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, another is for District 9 and the third is for Gerard Butler’s Gamer.

A cool flash version of the Gamer poster can be seen over at UGO. Gamer was originally called ‘Game’ and is set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments.

Gerard Butler Unsure Of 300 Prequel/Sequel

Liam — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:01:10 +0000

There has been talk of another charge into the 300 universe ever since it made Warner Bros rather rich last March. Well, Gerard Butler was recently asked to share any details he may have while on the rounds for the Guy Ritchie crime flick RocknRolla. From Superhero Hype!

Unfortunately, Butler hasn’t heard anything more then we have, and he seemed rather dubious of the film’s franchise potential. “I’ve heard some backroom chatter, but nothing more, so I don’t know if it would be a sequel or a prequel. I don’t want say anymore than that, because I really don’t know. I haven’t read anything. I can’t see it myself–sequel for me absolutely not, but I just mean the idea generally, I’m really not sure which way they would go with that.”

I feel the same as Butler. I am happy with 300 staying as a standalone film and I can’t see what they would do if they were to make a prequel/sequel. If Zack Snyder ends up directing then it may increase my interest.

Where do you think they can go if another movie is made?

Game Pushed Back To Summer 2009

Liam — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:41:12 +0000

According to Scifi.com Gerard Butler’s Game has been pushed back to Summer next year to complete visual-effects work.

Game, from writer/directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank), is the story of a futuristic video game in which players control actual human beings, including Butler’s Kabel.
Creating the video-game world poses visual-effects challenges. “Game is a ’sim-world’ movie, so you have a young kid who is controlling an avatar,” Lucchesi said. “There are lots of visual effects.”

This is fine by me, and just means 2009 will be a heck of a year for movies. We have X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Watchmen, Avatar, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and now Game.

So with this delay, when will we be getting a trailer to feed our appetites?

“I think soon,” he said. “Christmas, I would think.”

RocknRolla Too English For Warner Bros

Liam — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:53:09 +0000

Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla, starring Gerard Butler and Thandie Newton, is due for release by Warner Bros in October in the States. However, producer Joel Silver is out and about shopping it to studios such as Lionsgate and Sony Pictures. Why is this?

The Los Angeles Times explains,

Silver was looking for a buyer for the film. People who’ve seen the film say it’s not bad at all. But as Warners goes through the arduous process of absorbing two dozen or so New Line films into its distribution system, the studio simply has too many movies to release, so it’s starting to pick out the weak calves from the herd.

If people say the film is not bad why is it considered one of the ‘weak calves’? Well the LA Times spoke with Warners chief Alan Horn, and he had this to say,

“I think it’s a well-made picture, but while it’s funny in spots, it’s very English,” he said. “I don’t think it’s broadly commercial. It feels like a film that deserves a spirited release, but not a wide one. Joel has an 800-screen deal, which we’ll honor, but we might not be willing to spend the marketing money he wants us to.”

So because the film is ‘very english’ Warner Bros don’t know how to go about marketing it and are therefore not willing to spend the money. Producer Joel Silver would rather get another studio to buy and release the film so that it can get a wider release, more than the 800 screens Warner Bros intend.

Being an English person I am a little disgruntled by the fact a movie is considered a ‘weak calf’ just because it is English. Are Gerard Butler and Thandie Newton not big enough actors in the States to promote a film? Or is this a case of the big movie studio thinking the American public won’t be interested in a film not set in America with American actors, when in fact they may be?

USA people give me your thoughts on RocknRolla! Below is the trailer to remind you how English it is:

Guy Ritchie Has Written RocknRolla Sequel

Liam — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:44:24 +0000

Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla isn’t even out yet, however he revealed to wenn that he has already got a second film lined up.

“I’ve written one. So people better go see it. It’ll allow me to make the next one.”

RocknRolla will be out on September 5th in the UK and October 31st in the US. It stars Gerard Butler, Thandie Newton and Jeremy Piven, and follows London gangsters fighting for a share of a real estate scam.

RocknRolla Poster

Liam — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:31:24 +0000

Warner Bros have released a new poster for RocknRolla staring Gerard Butler, Thandie Newton, Jeremy Piven and Idris Elba.

RocknRolla will be out in the UK on September 5th and in the US on October 31st.

Gerard Butler Trades Sword And Shield For A Huge Gun And Bulletproof Vest

Liam — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:23:00 +0000

GerardButler.net got a few scans from the Australian version of Empire magazine, which included a few new images of Gerard Butler in Game.

Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments, a star player (Butler) from a game called “Slayers” looks to regain his independence while taking down the game’s mastermind

First Butler had to take down the Persians with their ‘arrows that block out the sun’ and pathetic elephants, and now he has to take down Dexter. Game has a release date of November 30th, but those lucky enough to attend ComicCon will be getting a sneak peek.

To check out the rest of the scans click here.