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Greenland: How to breath life into a tired genre and defy expectations

February 13, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at one of the surprise critical successes of the year, Greenland… Remember when there seemed to be a new disaster film out every 6 months? Some world ending disaster, either natural or extra-terrestrial, would put the fate of mankind in the balance. The CGI tools at the disposal of filmmakers also meant […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 2012, 300, Angel Has Fallen, Chris Sparling, Gerard Butler, Greenland, John Wick, Morena Baccarin, Ric Roman Waugh

The Butlernaissance: Gerard Butler’s Return to Form

September 18, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at the recent upturn in Gerard Butler’s career… Gerard Butler has been around a while now. The Scottish actor began by making a name for himself in Britain before a few choice breaks saw him become something of a go to in Hollywood. He has the distinction of having a franchise he […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 300, Angel Has Fallen, Copshop, Geostorm, Gerard Butler, Greenland, London Has Fallen, Olympus Has Fallen

Gerard Butler and Mike Cotler action thriller Plane readies for takeoff with trailer

October 28, 2022 by Amie Cranswick

Lionsgate has released the first poster and trailer for director Jean-François Richet’s upcoming action thriller Plane. The film stars Gerard Butler as a pilot who makes a risky landing during a storm on a wan-torn island. He soon discovers that surviving the landing was just the beginning of his troubles when his passengers are taken […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Claro de los Reyes, Daniella Pineda, Evan Dane Taylor, Gerard Butler, Jean-Francois Richet, Joey Slotnick, Mike Colter, Paul Ben-Victor, Plane, Remi Adeleke, Tony Goldwyn, Yoson An

Idris Elba is the bookmakers’ favourite for the next James Bond

December 5, 2014 by Gary Collinson

Yesterday EON Productions announced that Bond 24 will be going by the title of Spectre, but despite the fact it’s still the best part of a year away from release, the bookies are already turning their attention to who will be the next 007 once Daniel Craig hangs up his Walther PPK. So, who do […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Damian Lewis, Dan Stevens, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Dominic West, Gerard Butler, Henry Cavill, Idris Elba, James Bond, James McAvoy, jamie dornan, Jon Hamm, Michael C. Hall, Michael Fassbender, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Orlando Bloom, Richard Armitage, Sam Worthington, Tom Hiddleston

Gerard Butler teaming with John Wick’s Derek Kolstad for Just Watch Me

February 12, 2022 by Gary Collinson

Deadline is reporting that Gerard Butler is teaming with Derek Kolstad, creator of the John Wick franchise, for a feature adaptation of Dexter author Jeff Lindsay’s heist thriller novel Just Watch Me. Kolstad will script the film, while Butler produces and takes on the role of Riley Wolfe, “a master thief and expert in disguise who […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Derek Kolstad, Gerard Butler, jeff lindsay, Just Watch Me

Filming wraps on Kandahar starring Gerard Butler, first look images released

February 11, 2022 by Gary Collinson

Having just wrapped production after a seven-week shoot in Saudi Arabia’s desert region of AlUla and Jeddah, Thunder Road Films and Capstone have shared two first-look images from Kandahar, the latest collaboration between director Ric Roman Waugh and star Gerard Butler. The action thriller sees Butler starring as Tom Harris, an undercover CIA operative, stuck […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Gerard Butler, Kandahar, Navid Negahban, Ric Roman Waugh

Movie Review – Copshop (2021)

September 14, 2021 by Robert Kojder

Copshop, 2021. Directed by Joe Carnahan. Starring Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo, Alexis Louder, Toby Huss, Ryan O’Nan, Robert Walker-Branchaud, Kaiwi Lyman, Marshall Cook, Chad L. Coleman, Keith Jardine, Christopher Michael Holley, and Tracey Bonner. SYNOPSIS: On the run from a lethal assassin, a wily con artist devises a scheme to hide out inside a small-town […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Robert Kojder Tagged With: Alexis Louder, Chad L. Coleman, Christopher Michael Holley, Copshop, Frank Grillo, Gerard Butler, Joe Carnahan, Kaiwi Lyman, Keith Jardine, Marshall Cook, Robert Walker Branchaud, Ryan O'Nan, Toby Huss, Tracey Bonner

Mulan’s Yoson An joins Gerald Butler in The Plane

August 12, 2021 by EJ Moreno

Yoson An, one of the standouts in 2020’s Mulan, is joining Gerald Butler’s upcoming film. The Hollywood Reporter has broken the story that An will join Butler in The Plane, from director Jean-François Richet. The Plane follows Brodie Torrance (Butler), who, after a heroic job of successfully landing his storm-damaged aircraft in hostile territory, finds […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: Gerard Butler, The Plane, Yoson An

Trailer for action thriller Copshop starring Gerard Butler and Frank Grillo

August 7, 2021 by Amie Cranswick

A poster and trailer have arrived online for director Joe Carnahan’s upcoming action thriller Copshop which centres on a small town police station as it becomes a battleground to a con artist (Frank Grillo), a lethal hitman (Gerard Butler) and his competing assassin (Toby Huss); check them out here… Screaming through the Nevada desert in […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Alexis Louder, Copshop, Frank Grillo, Gerard Butler, Joe Carnahan, Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau, Ryan O'Nan, Toby Huss

Gerard Butler suing Olympus Has Fallen producers over understated profits

August 1, 2021 by Gary Collinson

Hot on the heels of the shock news that Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over Black Widow, Gerard Butler has become the latest Hollywood star to file suit – although this one doesn’t relate to any COVID-release shake-up, but rather unpaid backend compensation from the hit 2013 action film Olympus Has Fallen. According to Variety, […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Gerard Butler, Olympus Has Fallen

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