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Movie Review – Copshop (2021)

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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 police station-but when […]

Mulan’s Yoson An joins Gerald Butler in The Plane

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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 himself […]

Trailer for action thriller Copshop starring Gerard Butler and Frank Grillo

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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 a […]

Gerard Butler suing Olympus Has Fallen producers over understated profits

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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, Butler […]

Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin to return for Greenland sequel

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In a move as surprising as the success and genuine quality of the first film, Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin have signed on to reprise their roles of John and Allison Garrity in a sequel to end-of-the-world drama Greenland.According to Variety, Ric Roman Waugh will return to direct Greenland: Migration from a script written by […]

Movie Review – Greenland (2021)

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Greenland, 2021.Directed by Ric Roman Waugh. Starring Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd and Scott Glenn.SYNOPSIS:John (Gerard Butler) and Alison (Morena Baccarin) Garrity need to make it to safety with their son Nathan (Roger Dale Floyd). Their journey is only the start. A lack of alpha male behaviour from Gerard Butler instantly makes Greenland impressive. […]

Movie Review – Greenland (2020)

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Greenland, 2020.Directed by Ric Roman Waugh. Starring Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, David Denman, Hope Davis, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn, Andrew Bachelor, Merrin Dungey, Holt McCallany, Gary Weeks, Tracey Bonner, Joshua Mikel, Cate Jones, Mike Gassaway, Anissa Matlock, Randall Archer, Scott Poythress, Claire Bronson, and Madison Johnson.SYNOPSIS:A family struggles for survival in the face of […]

New trailer for disaster thriller Greenland starring Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin

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With a little over a week on go until its release, STX Films has revealed a new trailer for director Ric Roman Waugh’s disaster thriller Greenland which follows estranged couple John (Gerard Butler) and Allison (Morena Baccarin) who along with their young son, try to seek sanctuary as a comet hurtles towards Earth, threatening a […]

Gerard Butler’s Mike Banning to return for Night Has Fallen

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Gerard Butler is set to reprise his action movie role of Mike Banning in the fourth film in the long-running Has Fallen series, officially titled Night Has Fallen.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ric Roman Waugh, who helmed the third instalment Angel Has Fallen, will be returning to direct the fourth instalment with Robert Mark Kamen (Taken) set to write […]

Gerard Butler and Frank Grillo team with Joe Carnahan for Copshop

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Filmmaker Joe Carnahan (The Grey) has enlisted Gerard Butler (Angel Has Fallen) and Frank Grillo (Avengers: Endgame) to star in his new action thriller Copshop.As per Variety, Copshop will take place in “a small-town police station that becomes the unlikely battleground between Butler’s professional hitman, a smart rookie female cop and a double-crossing con man […]