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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Teaser Brings Back Old Memories, Doesn’t It?

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Universal Pictures is stoking the remake flames as of Tuesday with a teaser for Dean DeBloise’s How To Train Your Dragon. The live-action remake of his co-directed DreamWorks 2010 flick based on Cressida Cowell’s kids’ novel casts Mason Thames, Nico Parker, and Gerard Butler to start with, and the teaser itself does set the mood pretty well with all the familiar traits to boot. On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup (Mason Thames; The Black Phone, For All Mankind) stands apart. The inventive yet overlooked son of Chief Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler, reprising his voice role from the animated franchise), Hiccup defies centuries of tradition when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon. Their unlikely bond reveals the true nature of dragons, challenging the very foundations of Viking society. With the fierce and ambitious Astrid (BAFTA nominee Nico […]

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KANDAHAR: Gerard Butler Is Trapped Behind Enemy Lines In The Official Trailer

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Ric Roman Waugh’s new actioner, Kandahar, is out and about on Tuesday with a brand new trailer as the film inches closer to its May 26 release. The pic hails from Open Road Films and stars Gerard Butler, Navid Negahban, Ali Fazal, Travis Fimmel and Elnaaz Norouzi. Tom Harris (Gerard Butler), an undercover CIA operative, is stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan. After his mission is exposed, he must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding elite enemy forces and foreign spies tasked with hunting them down.

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KANDAHAR Trailer Teases An Explosive Thrill-Ride Ahead!

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Great news for any and all who’ve been riding the Gerard Butler train following the success of Plane with co-lead Mike Colter over at Lionsgate. The actor’s next big swing is set to arrive in time for Memorial Day weekend on May 26 as Angel Has Fallen helmer Ric Roman Waugh’s new action adventure, Kandahar, now lands an official trailer from Open Road Films. Tom Harris (Gerard Butler), an undercover CIA operative, is stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan. After his mission is exposed, he must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding elite enemy forces and foreign spies tasked with hunting them down. The cast includes Navid Negahban, Ali Fazal, Travis Fimmel, and Elnaaz Norouzi. The trailer is exactly the kind of stuff that promises a thrillride for a flick like this. Hence the headline, and I’m not […]

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Trailer: PLANE Crashes Gerard Butler And Mike Colter Into Hostile Territory

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The film may be something else entirely, but the award for mundane movie title of the year could go to Jean-François Richet’s new thriller, Plane. The official trailer is out as of Thursday and looks absolutely great featuring leads Gerard Butler and Mike Colter as two odd-couple would-be John McClaines forced to leap into action to save hostages from a bunch of terrorists when their plane crashes into a remote island bundle. In the white-knuckle action movie PLANE, pilot Brodie Torrance (Gerard Butler) saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island – only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare (Mike Colter), an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI. In order to rescue […]

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News Briefs: LAW ABIDING CITIZEN Sequel, Saban Nabs AMERICAN METAL, SISTER DARKNESS For Proyas; KID SNOW Gets In The Ring

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• Rivulet Films and Village Roadshow Pictures are pairing up for a sequel to F. Gary Gray’s 2009 thriller, Law Abiding Citizen. The original starred Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx in the story of a prosecutor in a battle of wits when a frustrated father commits a grisly act of vengeance for the murder of his wife and daughter ten years earlier. Plot details are under wraps but Kurt Wimmer is back to pen the sequel along with Butler who will produce with his partners via G-Base. (Deadline) • Nicholas Maggio’s feature debut now has a home at Saban Films with American Metal. The film stars John Travolta and Stephen Dorff and “tells the story of a desperate and struggling family man who robs a pill mill. However, when the theft turns violent, he finds himself hunted by both the police and the Dixieland mafia.” Shiloh Fernandez, Ashley Benson and […]

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LAST SEEN ALIVE Sees Gerard Butler On A One-Man Rescue Mission In The Official Trailer

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Fun fact: The director of Gerard Butler’s latest thriller out of Voltage Pictures and Vertical Entertaimment also played the father to lead actor Lucas Black in The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift. Do with that what you will as we dive into Brian Goodman’s third and newest feature film, Last Seen Alive with Butler joined by actress Jaimie Alexander from a script by Marc Frydman. When Will’s (Gerard Butler) estranged wife Lisa (Jaimie Alexander) disappears during a stop at a gas station, Will must embark on a frantic undertaking to rescue her while eluding the police who suspect him of foul play. The film is set to arrive on June 3! Lead image: The Searchers Distribution

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KANDAHAR Unveils A Pair Of Stills From The New Gerard Butler Action Epic

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Wrapped reportedly as of last month, filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh’s (Greenland, Angel Has Fallen, Shot Caller) new action thriller, Kandahar, has a pair of photos currently circulating online, two of which you can view above. The film marks a rare opportunity for a Hollywood production shoot in Saudi Arabia, billed as one of the first big-budgeted studio titles to shoot in the region. The cast is headlined by Gerard Butler, Ali Fazal and Navid Negahban, with a script penned by Waugh and co-writer Mitchell LaFortune. According to the official logline, Butler leads the international thriller as Tom Harris, an undercover CIA operative, stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan. He must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding the elite special forces tasked with hunting them down. Kandahar is produced by Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee and Brendon Boyea for Thunder Road, G-Base’s […]

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DEN OF THIEVES Sequel Casts Up, Plots Spring Production Start

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Some of the best news this month is coming right out of the European Film Market where deals are being made and casting is underway for numerous projects, developing or otherwise – namely the long awaited Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera, the long-awiated sequel to the inaugural hit 2018 heist thriller which starred Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. The sequel was greeinlit a month after the film’s release with an official title etched in the following year. Christian Gudegast is returning to direct the sequel from his own script, with Deadline‘s Andreas Wiseman reporting the return of Jackson Jr. to his role from the first film opposite Butler, and confirming the return of actress Meadow Williams along with the addition of actor Swen Temmel (After), with Jackson also returning this time to produce. The plan is to commence principal photography late Spring in […]

COPSHOP Trailer: Psychos And Pros In The Throes Of A Deadly Showdown From Director Joe Carnahan

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There’s no question the continuing creative partnership between actor Frank Grillo and director Joe Carnahan has been a flourishing one. That stride continues with the addition of actors Gerard Butler, Alexis Louder and Toby Huss as the official trailer for Copshop launched on Thursday. Screaming through the Nevada desert in a bullet-ridden Crown Vic, wily con artist Teddy Murretto (Frank Grillo) hatches a desperate plan to hide out from lethal hitman Bob Viddick (Gerard Butler): He sucker-punches rookie officer Valerie Young (Alexis Louder) to get himself arrested and locked up in a small-town police station. But jail can’t protect Murretto for long. Viddick schemes his own way into detention, biding his time in a nearby cell until he can complete his mission. When the arrival of a competing assassin (Toby Huss) ignites all-out mayhem, mounting threats force Viddick to get creative if he wants to finish the job and escape […]

Gerard Butler Action Thriller CHASE Launches At Cannes For Voltage And CAA

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Principal photography has since wrapped in Savannah, Georgia on action thriller, Chase, as of May, and with word out of Cannes that Voltage Pictures is repping international rights and will introduce to buyers immediately, with first-look footage to follow shortly. Voltage will co-rep US rights with CAA. Chase comes from director Brian Goodman (Black Butterfly, What Doesn’t Kill You) from a script by Marc Frydman (Black Butterfly), and stars Gerard Butler (Greenland, Angel Has Fallen, 300) as Will Spann, who pairs with the in-laws to engage the local Sheriff’s department in a frantic effort to find his missing wife, Lisa, when she disappears at a gas station without a trace. As the clock ticks, suspicion falls on Spann who must take matters into his own hands, plunging into the town’s criminal underbelly while running from the authorities in a race against time to find Lisa. The film also stars Jaimie Alexander […]

NIGHT HAS FALLEN Sees Butler, ‘Fallen’ Franchise Reteam For Fourth Installment

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Indeed, Millenium Media will ‘fall’ even further with a fourth installment into their Fallen franchise with Greenland star Gerard Butler headlining Night Has Fallen. The actor will also reteam with Angel Has Fallen director Ric Roman Waugh back at the helm with Robert Mark Kamen penning the script. Butler will also produce with Les Weldon, Yariv Lerner and Alan Siegel, with Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson, Millennium Media president Jeffrey Greenstein and Jonathan Yunger exec producing. The film will shoot at Millennium Media’s Nu Boyana Studios in Sofia, Bulgaria and throughout Europe, according to the report. The franchise launched in 2013 under Antoine Fuqua’s direction for Olympus Has Fallen, followed by Babak Najafi’s London Has Fallen, and Ric Roman Waugh’s Angel Has Fallen. The trilogy, in sum, sees Butler in the role of Secret Service Agent Mike Banning, battling terroristic threats from enemies invading the White House to mercs […]

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GREENLAND: Gerard Butler Action Adventure Reroutes Release Plans To PVOD, HBO/HBO Max

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Director Ric Roman Waugh’s new disaster survival epic, Greenland, is instead resolving toward home release status, according to a company press release issued on Thursday by ErosSTX Global Corporation. The Gerard Butler action adventure will debut on HBO, and then stream on HBO Max in the U.S. in early 2021, following a domestic release on Premium Video On-Demand (PVOD) beginning October 13. The film had been previously set to release in the summer before pushing to last month last month, only to pull its planned theatrical release as the pandemic crisis continued to affect theatrical exhibitors’ ability to open. The film centers on John Garrity (Gerard Butler), who along with his estranged wife and son, make a perilous journey to their only hope for sanctuary in a race against a planet-killing comet. Amid terrifying news accounts of cities around the world being leveled by the comet’s fragments, the family experiences […]

COPSHOP Action Thriller Headlines Grillo And Butler For October Production From ‘The Grey’ Director

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While there’s no news yet on Boss Level, actor Frank Grillo is still well on the way with several projects, the latest being Copshop, once again reunitung Grillo with The Grey and director Joe Carnahan. Grillo will be joined by Greenland star Gerard Butler, headlining the project storied by Mark Williams and Kurt McLeod who wrote the original screenplay. According to Deadline’s Andreas Wiseman, Carnahan penned the most recent draft. In Copshop, a small-town police station becomes the unlikely battleground between a professional hitman (Butler), a smart rookie female cop, and a double-crossing con man (Grillo), who seeks refuge behind bars with no place left to run. The film hails from production companies Zero Gravity Management and Sculptor Media with Butler also producing with Alan Siegel at G-BASE. Carnahan and Grillo, who recently transitioned their progress on a remake of Indonesian action thriller The Raid into the tentatively-titled Zeno, will […]

GREENLAND: Gerard Butler Races Against A Planet Killing Comet In The Official Trailer

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Soon landing another with Kandahar, the star/director pair that brought you Angel Has Fallen is set to heat up the summer a little more in disaster actioner, Greenland. The official trailer is live as of Thursday, returning Gerard Butler, alongside actress Morena Baccarin, with Ric Roman Waugh back at the helm. A family fights for survival as a planet-killing comet races to Earth. John Garrity (Gerard Butler), his estranged wife Allison (Morena Baccarin), and young son Nathan make a perilous journey to their only hope for sanctuary. Amid terrifying news accounts of cities around the world being leveled by the comet’s fragments, the Garrity’s experience the best and worst in humanity while they battle the increasing panic and lawlessness surrounding them. As the countdown to global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven. STX is releasing Greenland in theaters […]

KANDAHAR Reunites Butler, Waugh, Thunder Road And G-Base For Middle East Action Thriller

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Gerard Butler will soon be back to blow some more shit up once again with his Angel Has Fallen director Ric Roman Waugh for Kandahar. The film aims to continue “the oeuvre of production powerhouse Thunder Road (John Wick and Sicario franchises) in bringing high intensity action to character-based stories.” The move marks the latest update for Thunder Road Films who acquired the hot screenplay back in 2016, written by Waugh and former military intelligence officer Mitchell LaFortune, the latter whose experiences at the Defense Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan at the time of the Snowden leaks from 2013 onward, serve as the basis for the project. Kandahar will see Butler in the role of Tom Harris, an undercover CIA operative working in the Middle East. An intelligence leak dangerously exposes his classified mission and reveals his covert identity. Stuck in the heart of hostile territory, Harris and his translator must […]

REMOTE CONTROL: Gerard Butler Partners With STX, Hyde Park, ‘Bond’ Producers For Espionage Thriller Novel Adap From ‘The Rhythm Section’ Scribe

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Gerard Butler is off to the races with his latest involvement with STX at EFM in Berlin for Remote Control, which has been in the works for more than a decade. The project was at one point shopped to Sony back in 2009. Star from a script by Mark Burnell whose 2011 novel serves as the film’s basis, Butler will play ex-war correspondent Michael Rafter-turned-corporate security consultant. In the wake of a mysterious phone call, Rafter’s life is turned upside down when he becomes the target of shadowy organization, the 212. His identity is soon rewritten as notorious international assassin Julian Irving, forcing him on the run while in search for answers, with the only person he can trust: his ex-lover, Tracy, who is also implicated in the conspiracy. Oscar-nominated director of photography John Mathieson (Gladiator, Logan, Pokèmon Detective Pikachu) is directing from a script by Burnell whose The Rhythm […]

ANGEL HAS FALLEN: Gerard Butler Under Fire In The Explosive First Trailer

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Leave it to the cinematic stylings of Ric Roman Waugh to help bring the ‘Fallen’ trilogy full circle with the upcoming Lionsgate release, Angel Has Fallen. The official triailer is out before the film’s August 23 release and with a cast rejoining Gerard Butler with returning actor Morgan Freeman playing commander-in-chief. When there is an assassination attempt on U.S. President Allan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman), his trusted confidant, Secret Service Agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), is wrongfully accused and taken into custody. After escaping from capture, he becomes a man on the run and must evade his own agency and outsmart the FBI in order to find the real threat to the President. Desperate to uncover the truth, Banning turns to unlikely allies to help clear his name, keep his family from harm and save the country from imminent danger. Waugh penned the script with Robert Mark Kamen and Matt Cook […]

DEN OF THIEVES: PANTERA To Shoot Later This Year

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At long last, director Christian Gudegast’s highly anticipated Den Of Thieves sequel has an official with Den Of Thieves: Pantera, currently making the sales rounds at Cannes for eOne’s Sierra/Affinity. The sequel was announced last February in the weeks that followed the first film’s January rollout from STXfilms, firstly developing in 2003 between a few studios. Den Of Thieves overperformed up to $57 million dollars by its third week and ultimately grossed upwards of $80 million dollars by the end of its run. That film saw a sprawling battle of words, wits and bullets amid high drama and suspense with Butler playing Big Nick O’Brien, a Los Angeles detective who despite his unraveling personal life is bent on nabbing a gang of vicious bankrobbers hiding in plain sight led by Marine veteran-turned-career criminal Ray Merrimen, played by Pablo Schrieber. O’Shea Jackson Jr. also headlined the cast as Donnie Wilson, a […]

GREENLAND: ‘Angel Has Fallen’ Star And Director To Reteam For Diaster Pic

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Last weekend saw big news out of Berlin with actor Gerard Butler set to star in upcoming disaster pic, Greenland. STXinternational is repping the film intermatonally for buyers in Berlin and releasing in the UK. Production in Toronto is currently slated for May with the actor set to reteam with director Ric Roman Waugh, both whom are currently in talks. Greenland hails from Thunder Road and Anton, with Butler leading the tale about one family’s fight for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster. Producing the film is Thunder Road’s Films Basil Iwanyk (A Star is Born, Sicario, John Wick) who developed the project with Butler and Alan Siegel via their G-BASE banner. Anton is fully financing with Anton’s Sébastien Raybaud and Harold van Lier exec producing. CAA Media Finance reportedly arranged the film’s financing and will rep the film’s domestic rights alongside Anton. Butler and Waugh’s Angel […]

HUNTER KILLER: Don’t Miss The Final Trailer

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Donovan Marsh’s latest, Hunter Killer, is now out with an official trailer ahead of its October 26 release. Arne L. Schmidt and Jamie Moss adapted the screenplay from the novel “Firing Point” by George Wallace and Don Keith. Deep under the Arctic Ocean, American submarine Captain Joe Glass (Gerard Butler, Olympus Has Fallen, 300) is on the hunt for a U.S. sub in distress when he discovers a secret Russian coup is in the offing, threatening to dismantle the world order. With crew and country on the line, Captain Glass must now assemble an elite group of Navy SEALs to rescue the kidnapped Russian president and sneak through enemy waters to stop WWIII. Also starring are Oscar® winner Gary Oldman (Best Actor, Darkest Hour, 2017), Common (John Wick: Chapter 2), Linda Cardellini (Avengers: Age of Ultron), and Toby Stephens (Die Another Day), with actor Michael Nyqvist (John Wick) getting some […]