Showing posts with label matthew mcconaughey. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Gerard Butler, Sam Worthington, and Matthew McConaughey to Star in Epic 3D Film About Capture of Baghdad Casting Couch By Kate Erbland on May 15, 2012 |
True-life American military tales are gunning for a real resurgence lately – what with Ben Affleck’s Argo, Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, and the Robert Pattinson-starring Mission: Blacklist – and it looks like that means we’re not safe from a 3D take on such projects. A morning press release out of the Cannes Film Festival (oh, and heads up, get ready for a metric ton of these in the coming days) reveals that Freedom Films and Paradox Entertainment have made a deal to produce the “epic action pic Thunder Run,” based on the book “Thunder Run – The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad.”
In case that title doesn’t quite clue you in on the film’s subject matter, it will detail “the untold story of the dangerous and bloody capture of Baghdad by American Forces at the onset of the Iraq War. In April 2003, three battalions and fewer than a thousand men launched a violent thrust of tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles into the heart of a city of five million, igniting a three-day blitzkrieg, which military professionals often refer to as a lightning strike, or ‘thunder run.’”
READ MORE: http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/gerard-butler-sam-worthington-matthew-mcconaughey-thunder-run-kerbl.php
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Alan Rickman to star as U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 'The Butler' (MUGGLENET)
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Alan Rickman - who portrayed Potions Master and ultimate good guy Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films - is slated to star as the 40th United States President, Ronald Reagan, in a new film titled The Butler.
Alan Rickman is just the latest of the big-name stars to join the cast that includes Oprah Winfrey, Forest Whitaker, Jane Fonda, Liam Neeson, and John Cusack. Matthew McConaughey, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Terrence Howard have also been mentioned for the film.
The Butler will present the details of the life of Eugene Allen (Forest Whitaker), a White House servant who worked for every president from Harry Truman to Reagan
READ MORE: http://www.mugglenet.com/app/news/show/5640
Friday, May 11, 2012
Alan Rickman: McConaughey, Rickman, & More Attached to Lee Daniels' 'The Butler' by Ben Pearson May 10, 2012 Source: THR (FIRST SHOWINGS.NET)
Since he left romantic comedies behind in 2009, Matthew McConaughey has been reclaiming his spot in the industry as a respectable leading man. He recently worked with John Cusack on Lee Daniels' The Paperboy, the director's follow-up to his Oscar-nominated Precious. According to THR, there's a reunion in the works since McConaughey is now attached to star alongside Cusack in Daniels' upcoming historical drama The Butler, led by Forrest Whitaker as a White House servant who worked under the reign of eight presidents. Cuba Gooding Jr., Alan Rickman, and Terrence Howard are all attached, too. Read on!
http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/mcconaughey-rickman-more-attached-to-lee-daniels-the-butler/
Friday, February 24, 2012
Gerard Butler will be filming Thunder Run in Baton Rouge, La (LOCATION VACATIONS)
‘Thunder Run’, starring Gerard Butler, Sam Worthington, & Matthew McConaughey, is headed to Baton Rouge, LA
by CHRISTINE on FEBRUARY 23, 2012 ·
Gerard Butler, Sam Worthington, and Matthew McConaughey have all signed on to star the Iraq War movie, Thunder Run, which will be filmed in Baton Rouge, LA this spring. The action-thriller from director Simon West will be made using 3D motion-capture technology and will center on the 2003 capture of Baghdad. According to Louisiana Film, the movie will shoot from May 1, 2012 to July 15, 2012 in Baton Rouge.
Read further: http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2012/02/23/thunder-run-starring-gerard-butler-sam-worthington-matthew-mcconaughey-is-headed-to-baton-rouge-la/comment-page-1/
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Gerard Butler: 'Los Angeles Confidential' Cover Party!
Sun, 30 October 2011 at 2:20 am
Gerard Butler attends Los Angeles Confidential men’s issue cover party held at Palihouse Holloway on Saturday (October 29) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The 41-year-old Scottish stud celebrated his cover of the magazine with several guests, including Rose McGowan.
In case you missed it, check out Gerard on the cover of Los Angeles Confidental’s October 2011 issue and find out what he said it feels like to be a celebrity.
It was recently announced that Gerard will be teaming up with Matthew McConaughey and Sam Worthington for the upcoming action thriller Thunder
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Gerard Butler, Sam Worthington, Matthew McConaughey Team for Iraq War Pic 'Thunder Run'
The Hollywood Reporter
Simon West is set to direct Freedom Films' motion-capture action thriller.
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Lather up the beefcake! Gerard Butler, Sam Worthington and Matthew McConaughey are teaming up for Thunder Run, an all-CG 3D action thriller being made by Freedom Films.
Simon West is set to direct, according to Freedom Films, while Hyde Park International is handling international sales and launching the title at AFM.
The movie is adapting the novel Thunder Run - The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad, by Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent David Zucchino. Robert Port, who won an Oscar in 2003 for best short documentary, and Ken Nolan, who co-wrote Blac
k Hawk Down, penned the script.
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The project aims to recount the capture of Baghdad by American forces at the start of the Iraq War in 2003. The three-day assault was referred as a “lightning strike” or “thunder run.” The producers want to paint “the harrowing picture of the soldiers on the front lines and the realities of modern warfare.”
The Graphic Film Company has been tapped to utilize proprietary facial-capture technology it used on West’s upcoming Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D movie along with the motion capture technology used in Avatar, said Freedom Films.
Producing are Freedom Films’ Brian Presley, along with the company’s Carissa Buffel and Kevin Matusow as well as Jib Polhemus of the Graphic Film Company.
The trio's work will consist mostly of voicework but there will be green-screen aspects as well.
“What we capture in our cameras will be them,” Presley told The Hollywood Reporter. “It’ll have a stylized effect to it but we are shooting them. We’re not ageing them down like Jeff Bridges in Tron Legacy, it’ll be them for two hours in a highly intense tank battle.
“The scope of the movie is going to feel huge and thegoal is to appeal to the Call of Duty world. It’s not going to have a video game world feel but to have a stylized look to it.
"We’re locked and loaded and will shoot next year."
Thunder Run is repped by Gersh with CAA also coming on board to rep the movie. Gersh also reps Freedom Films.
Butler is repped by CAA and Alan Siegel Entertainment, Worthington by CAA and Anonymous Content, McConaughey by CAA and attorney Kevin Morris. West is also repped by CAA.
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