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Gerard Butler Reprising ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Role for Live-Action Remake

Gerard Butler is returning to the How to Train Your Dragon fold, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The actor will reprise the father role of Stoick the Vast in the live-action remake that hails from original co-director Dean DeBlois. The Black Phone‘s Mason Thames and The Last of Us‘ Nico Parker are leading the project, […]

Gerard Butler’s $10M ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ Profits Lawsuit Settles

Gerard Butler has resolved a legal fight over allegations that he’s owed at least $10 million in profits from the 2013 blockbuster Olympus Has Fallen. Defendants Nu Image and Millennium Media notified the court on Tuesday of a settlement, which is conditioned on the completion of certain terms within 45 days. Specifics of the agreement […]

Michael Bisping Joins Gerard Butler in ‘Den of Thieves 2’ (Exclusive)

UFC champ Michael Bisping has jumped on board Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, where he will star opposite fellow returning actors Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. Bisping will reprise his role as Connor in the sequel after also doing a star turn in Millennium’s upcoming Red Sonja movie. His other credits include xXx: The […]

‘Kandahar’ Review: Gerard Butler’s CIA Thriller Is Déjà Vu All Over Again

The veteran action movie star plays a CIA operative trying to escape Afghanistan with the help of his translator.

Berlin: Mike Colter to Star in ‘Plane’ Sequel ‘Ship’

Mike Colter has jumped on board Ship, the sequel to the original Lionsgate thriller The Plane. The follow-up, set on a cargo ship, will focus on Colter’s character from Plane, accused murderer and former French Legionnaire Louis Gaspare. In the original pic, he escaped extradition to Canada when Trailblazer Flight 119 crash lands in the […]

Box Office: ‘Avatar 2’ Crosses $1.9B Globally, ‘A Man Called Otto’ Beats ‘Plane’

Marc Forster’s dramedy A Man Called Otto, starring Tom Hanks, is doing solid business at the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday box office in a much-needed win for adult-skewing movies. The Sony release, playing in 3,802 theaters, earned a better-than-expected $15.3 million over the long weekend, enough to beat new wide offering Plane, an action […]

‘Plane’ Review: Gerard Butler Genre Pic Gets the Job Done

Mike Colter co-stars in this action thriller about an airline pilot desperately trying to protect his passengers from violent militants after a crash landing.

Millennium Films’ Jeffrey Greenstein on Updating Hollywood’s Most Macho Studio for the 21st Century

In the 30 years since Avi Lerner founded Millennium Media, then Nu Image, in 1992, the company, legendary at the American Film Market for its straight-to-video mockbusters (Freefall, Cyborg Cop), creature features (Crocodile, Killer Rats) and cookie-cutter macho action mov- ies (Operation Delta Force, Deadly Outbreak) has grown up. A bit. Millennium hasn’t abandoned its genre roots, but […]

Gerard Butler’s G-Base Boards Remi Adeleke’s Human Trafficking Thriller ‘Unexpected Redemption’ (Exclusive)

Gerard Butler and Alan Siegel have teamed back up with Remi Adeleke, the star of upcoming action-thriller The Plane. The duo’s G-Base production company — behind The Plane, set for a January release with Lionsgate, plus fellow high-octane titles such as Greenland, Angel Has Fallen and Den of Thieves — has boarded Unexpected Redemption, Adeleke’s feature directorial […]

Can Saudi Arabia Become a World-Class Shooting Destination?

For the upcoming Gerard Butler action thriller Kandahar, which recently wrapped filming in Saudi Arabia, production had to go down the unusual route of building a makeshift studio inside a disused date processing plant. This move wasn’t due to budgetary constraints — there simply wasn’t a studio where they were shooting. While it may seem […]

MBC Studios’ Saudi Arabia Boss on “New Era” as A-List Features ‘Desert Warrior,’ ‘Kandahar’ Make History in the Kingdom

MBC, the Saudi-owned free-to-air satellite network giant, has been a dominant force across the Arab-speaking world for three decades and is now arguably the Middle East’s most recognizable media brand. With a reach of hundreds of millions of viewers and now offering more than 10 channels, it has been behind an influx of Western TV […]

Gerard Butler in ‘Copshop’: Film Review

Joe Carnahan's thriller, also featuring Frank Grillo and Alexis Louder, concerns a ruthless hitman and his would-be prey who get locked up in the same jail.