Happy Monday cats and kittens! Our favorite party animal, Gerard Butler, was doing his thing at Coachella again yesterday and we have the pics! (Although admittedly not the ones I wish we had, but I guess the man does deserve some privacy…just sayin’.)

As much as I love seeing G out and about, healthy and happy, enjoying the ongoing carnival that is his life, I wish he’d get back to work. Given Machine Gun Preacher’s ridiculous, almost non-existent release and Coriolanus’ understandably limited one, for a lot of folks out there, it has been a long time between movies.

Thunder Run (with Sam Worthington and Matthew McConaughey)  is reportedly gearing up to shoot this Spring/Summer, Robert Luketic’s Brilliant may still get off the ground this Fall. Supposedly now that Antoine Fuqua is on board as director Olympus Has Fallen will move fairly quickly but all of this feels very vague and very far away. We were promised Playing the Field this Spring, now we have to wait til December. I won’t even go into that Farrelly Brothers comedy.

*Taps vein – See Name of Site* C'mon G…gimme somethin'!

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Recently unearthed has been a Guinness commercial called “The Water Tower”.  The content of the ad, although extremely well made and with high production values, is kind of a head scratcher. What the hell does all of this have to do with selling ale? What does it mean?

EDIT –  Apparently this is what it all means, according to PR Week:

The 80-second ’water tower’ ad is based on the bond between twins. One male twin lives in Dublin while the other works on a farm in California.

Although separated by thousands of miles, their emotions are very close.

When the farm worker in the US hits his thumb with a hammer, his twin in Dublin feels the pain. When the Dublin twin drinks Guinness and experiences refreshment, his twin is engulfed in an exhilarating surge of water as a water tower collapses.

Okay, did any of YOU get that from the ad? 

All of that is secondary, of course, to the fact that the ad stars one Gerard James Butler. No release date is given, but it is reportedly from 1997. While some who are more recent devotees of The Butler may not recognize him, for those of us who have long been under his spell, there’s no mistaking that walk.  In the spot, he sports two looks (it’s unclear if one of his selves is fantasy or memory), one is a well-groomed version of his mop top of curls (variations of which can be seen in his earliest screen work, be it tv or film) and the other the shorn and butch look complete with WB t-shirt (a la Terry Sheridan from Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life or The Stranger from Dear Frankie- both of which were filmed 2002/2003 so go figure) 

This has been on Youtube for a year and yet very few people have seen. Since I’m such a giver, I’m posting it for you now.

Okay, that’s the “then”, here’s some “now” as our boy does what he does best when not on screen (for some inexplicable reason there have been very few instances of it on screen – talk about your waste of a talent) and that’s get his flirt on.  Today’s examples come from that hotbed of musical hedonism, Coachella. (Ostensibly Butler was there to attend an Art of Elysium event although from that, we’ve had no pics.) Here we seem him in his natural habitat, surrounded by women and performing one of his signature moves:

You're welcome.

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Is there nothing that Gerard Butler can't do? Actor extraordinaire and Scottish hunk took to the stage at The Darby supper club in Manhattan where he sang Oasis' Wonderwall and didn't do a half-bad job either. You can hear his accent in his singing which is adorable. 

Should he give up his day job? I don't think so, but I would totally pay to see him up on stage performing. Trench coat and all.

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I read a news tidbit in Variety this week that was somewhat disturbing. They reported that the Peter Farrelly and Charles Wessler star-packed comedy anthology known as Movie 43 has been moved from April 13, 2012 back to January 25, 2013. Relativity Media it seems, does not believe that April 13^th is suitable, (God forbid this comedy should compete with The Three Stooges) nor is there another suitable date in all of 2012 that’s right for it. 

Seriously??  Either this thing is a complete piece of crap (it went into post-production in June 2010) and should just go directly to DVD and be done with it or Ryan Kavanagh has lost his damn mind.

If he can’t figure out how to market a movie with this cast: Johnny Knoxville, Gerard Butler, Anna Faris, Seann William Scott, Hugh Jackman, Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Halle Berry, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Kate Bosworth, Kate Winslet, Terrence Howard, Liev Schreiber, Elizabeth Banks, Justin Long, Kristen Bell, Patrick Warburton, Josh Duhamel, Jason Sudeikis, Chloe Grace Moretz, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Bibb, Jack McBrayer, Tony Shaloub, Bobby Cannavale, Kieran Culkin, and Chris Pratt, then he should pass the torch to someone with cajones and go back to his lab and put his talents to other uses.

Actually, not wanting to “compete” with The Three Stooges does make a modicum of sense. It’s a big budget, big studio broad comedy and it’s only rated PG-13 while Movie 43 is rated R. Despite the ratings gap, there could be some overlap. Although, if that’s your target audience, you’ve really set the bar pretty low to start with.  I'm sure not all of the segments are of equal quality, but can the bad so outshine the good that it warrants being continually pushed back? Again, I ask, why bother? Send it to the home market and recoup your losses.

On January 25, 2013, Movie 43 (Can’t someone come up with a better name?) will face off against the action thriller Parker with Jason Statham (so I have to choose between Gerard Butler as a foul-mouthed leprechaun or The Stath being all Stath-y? How is that fair? Well, Statham’s movie does lose points for having J-Lo in it), and the break-dancing drama Battle of the Year: The Dream Team.  Yes, the sound you just heard was my eyes rolling.

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Okay, he is only “in talks” to star in Motor City for Albert Hughes (a pic that has seen its share of leading men sign on and then abruptly depart, including Dominic Cooper who left due to “scheduling conflicts”, then Jake Gyllenhaal who left for the same reasons – not a good sign. “Scheduling conflicts” is generally believed to be a blanket euphemism used by involved parties to get out of a project for a variety of reasons – before producers approached Jeremy Renner, to whom a formal offer was never made), but since the source is Variety, I give them a little more credence than say, The Hollywood Reporter.

If he signs, the role Gerard Butler would play is that of a felon who, after being released from prison, begins tracking down the men who framed him. While that may sound a little like territory Butler covered in Law Abiding Citizen, there’s a kicker…hold on to your hats…GARY OLDMAN is already on board. Yes, that’s right, I just mentioned Gary Oldman and Gerard Butler in the same sentence for the same movie.  *Uncle Peter! My smelling salts!*  Amber Heard (The Rum Diary) has also been signed.

The script is by Chad St. John, Joel Silver (whom Butler worked with on Rocknrolla) is producing via his Dark Castle shingle.

More as we get it!  (Is it just me or does the fact that this will make the seventh title in his queue – not counting those that are complete but not yet released – negate that whole "out -of-control-trainwreck" that certain segments of the media are trying desperately to make him out to be? Something's rotten in the state of Denmark.)

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See, there was a reason I posted Chris Cornell’s video for “The Keeper" yesterday! After months of waiting and wondering, not to mention weeks after it was released in the UK, Marc Forster’s Machine Gun Preacher has, at last, been given a release date. It will come out June 5 on Blu-ray and DVD from Fox Home Entertainment.  (I don’t pretend to know the ins and outs of the “business”, but if Relativity Media has handed off to Fox for the home market, please sweet baby jeebus, I hope they promote it!)

I know you know Gerard Butler stars in Machine Gun Preacher as ex-criminal and crusader Sam Childers (because you read this site). Based on a true story, the film follows Sam's mission to save the children of East Africa from Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA – the subject of that now-infamous viral video campaign.). All of that is far too simplistic to encompass all that this movie is. It received a standing ovation at its world premiere last fall at TIFF. You can read more here and then spread the word. It’s my new mission to make this movie the hit on dvd that it should have been (but never got the opportunity to be) in the theaters.

The Blu-ray will be presented in 1080p video and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. Bonus features will include a feature-length commentary at minimum, with additional extras not yet detailed. More details as I get them!

Also starring Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Kathy Baker and Soulemane Sy Suvane, you can preorder the Machine Gun Preacher DVD and Blu-ray at Amazon.com.

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You know it could be MONTHS before we see Gerard Butler at all unless some photos happen to appear of him shooting a movie on location. But lately it's like he's everywhere! Just not my boudoir kittens. Seriously he's roaming all over Los Angeles and frankly that's just a little too far away for my liking. 

We have him pictured here shopping along Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and while I realize there is little difference between these photos, it's GB so I'm pretty sure you are okay with this.

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That rumor is rearing it's ugly head again. Reports are that Gerard Butler and Lindsay Lohan were sharing sexy face time the other night. While no bodily fluids were apparently exchanged between the two, they were all flirty pants at Chateau Marmont according to the Daily Mail.

Perhaps they just have 'chemistry' but it's not sexual chemistry. Haven't you ever had that with a member of the opposite sex? I've worked with men in my life that we couldn't stop laughing but I would have projectile vomited at the thought of anything sexual. Maybe it's like that with these two? Is this denial speaking? I don't think so. Besides that this relationship could NEVER be because of the issues with addiction on both sides. Maybe that's the reason a relationship could work, but I think in their business with its temptations and whatnot it's a recipe for disaster. Some liar source claimed:

The two were laughing and telling jokes, and Butler kept his hands on both sides of her chair as he leaned in close to talk,' 'She was soaking up the attention and even asked him to come closer so she could whisper in his ear.'

So there they are in a loud public environment and Source McGee can hear her ask him to whisper in her ear? Bitch, please. Anyhoo these pictures are of Gerard arriving at the Staples Centre to watch the Lakers. 

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