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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Gerard Butler 'escapes death after serious surfing accident’ - mirror.co.uk
Gerard Butler 'escapes death after serious surfing accident’ - mirror.co.uk
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Actor Gerard Butler was rushed to hospital after escaping death in a surfing stunt, it was reported yesterday.
The 42-year-old British star was trapped underwater after being hit by a succession of waves while filming in California
He has been shooting Of Men and Mavericks based on the true life story of a tragic young surfer Jay Moriarty.
The accident happened at Maverick’s, the infamous Northern California surf spot south of San Fransisco.
He was pulled from the water onto a jet ski and then brought to shore helped from the water and taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital.
Butler read out the Golden Globes nominations last week
Eye witness surfer Frank Quirarte said: “Butler
“He was then washed through the rocks on the inside before he was finally able to be plucked out.
“Even on small days the inside at Maverick’s can push 10ft plus and really tear you up.
“When they brought Butler
“After almost 20 years at Mavericks I’ve seen a lot of it, but at least he was standing on his own two legs.
“He was then carted away in a waiting ambulance.”
He was taken to Stanford Medical Center
Quirate said Butler
“With Maverick’s and the entire Northern Hemisphere big-wave season off to a slow start surfers and the film crew were chomping at the bit to get a few days of surfing and filming in.
“Waves were running at 12ft, but some large ones had got through.”
Quirate had turned for the beach, when sirens went off.
“We could here the faint sounds of sirens in the distance. And as the sirens got closer they turned down the road and headed straight for us.
“One of the film crew’s radio cracked and I heard they were “bringing Gerry (Butler
“No sooner did I hear that transmission then a ski and Zodiac turned the corner at the Half Moon Bay harbor mouth and were coming in fast. I ran down to the dock, help tie off the Zodiac, and noticed Gerard on board.”
It was the exact spot where almost eight months ago 35-year-old Hawaiian surfer Sion Milosky died in a near identical accident at Maverick’s, a big wave haven 25 miles south of San Francisco
Quirate, Water Operations Director of The Jay At Maverick’s Big Wave Invitational surfing event, said yesterday: “Butler
The actor’s representatives were yesterday unavailable to comment and Butler
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Gerard Butler | Gerard Butler Brands Co-Star Dating A 'Disaster' | Contactmusic
Gerard Butler | Gerard Butler Brands Co-Star Dating A 'Disaster' | Contactmusic
Gerard Butler is determined not to fall in love with movie co-stars after his previous on-set dalliances ended in "disaster". The Scottish hunk has been linked to a string of Hollywood beauties, including his The Bounty Hunter co-star Jennifer Aniston and Cameron Diaz.
But Butler has ruled out dating a fellow star during filming ever again, insisting it's too easy to become infatuated with an actress while at work.
He says, "That's a dangerous path. When you're making a film with someone, you get to know them very well indeed and it's too easy to develop a sort of obsession with them that you think at the time might be love. But it isn't.
"Earlier in my career, I had a couple of relationships with co-stars and both times it was a disaster."
Gerard Butler is determined not to fall in love with movie co-stars after his previous on-set dalliances ended in "disaster". The Scottish hunk has been linked to a string of Hollywood beauties, including his The Bounty Hunter co-star Jennifer Aniston and Cameron Diaz.
But Butler has ruled out dating a fellow star during filming ever again, insisting it's too easy to become infatuated with an actress while at work.
He says, "That's a dangerous path. When you're making a film with someone, you get to know them very well indeed and it's too easy to develop a sort of obsession with them that you think at the time might be love. But it isn't.
"Earlier in my career, I had a couple of relationships with co-stars and both times it was a disaster."
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Butler 'cried for five hours' after visit from estranged dad | BreakingNews.ie
Butler 'cried for five hours' after visit from estranged dad | BreakingNews.ie
Gerard Butler "cried for five hours" when he was reunited with his father after being estranged from him for 14 years.
The 42-year-old actor was raised by his mother Margaret Butler after his dad Edward left them when Gerard was just two years old, and he didn't even know his father was still alive until he turned up one day unannounced.
Gerard – whose family emigrated from Scotland to Montreal, Canada, when he was six before moving back to his home nation 18 months later - said: "My parents split up when I was young, so my mother was left with the task of being both my mum and my dad.
"My mother was everything to me. I used to have these horrible nightmares about something happening to her.
"I didn't even know my father for many years. He lived in Canada and I didn't know he was alive. One day when I was 16, I came home from school and my stepfather, who at the time was just my mother's boyfriend, said, 'Keep your jacket on, your dad's here.'
"I asked my father, 'Why didn't you get in touch?' I started crying and crying and I cried for about five hours – and I wasn't a guy who cried. It was a huge moment for me."
Following their reunion, the 'Machine Gun Preacher' star went on "great adventures" to his dad's house in Toronto, Canada, and enjoyed some "good times" with Edward before he passed away.
He added: "I stayed in touch with him and it changed my life. I'd go to Toronto for summers, which was a great adventure for a boy from Scotland who hadn't done much travelling. He took me to Jamaica once on holiday.
"He's long dead now but we had some good times."
The 42-year-old actor was raised by his mother Margaret Butler after his dad Edward left them when Gerard was just two years old, and he didn't even know his father was still alive until he turned up one day unannounced.
Gerard – whose family emigrated from Scotland to Montreal, Canada, when he was six before moving back to his home nation 18 months later - said: "My parents split up when I was young, so my mother was left with the task of being both my mum and my dad.
"My mother was everything to me. I used to have these horrible nightmares about something happening to her.
"I didn't even know my father for many years. He lived in Canada and I didn't know he was alive. One day when I was 16, I came home from school and my stepfather, who at the time was just my mother's boyfriend, said, 'Keep your jacket on, your dad's here.'
"I asked my father, 'Why didn't you get in touch?' I started crying and crying and I cried for about five hours – and I wasn't a guy who cried. It was a huge moment for me."
Following their reunion, the 'Machine Gun Preacher' star went on "great adventures" to his dad's house in Toronto, Canada, and enjoyed some "good times" with Edward before he passed away.
He added: "I stayed in touch with him and it changed my life. I'd go to Toronto for summers, which was a great adventure for a boy from Scotland who hadn't done much travelling. He took me to Jamaica once on holiday.
"He's long dead now but we had some good times."
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'Immortals:' How much is it like '300'?
'Immortals:' How much is it like '300'?
The millions of people this weekend who paid to see "Immortals," the mythology-laden story of Theseus and the cruel King Hyperion, turned out for plenty of reasons. But doubtless high on the list was the movie's underlying similarities to "300," the Gerard Butler-starring story of dueling Persians and Spartans.
Like the 2006 hit, Tarsem Singh's movie, which stars Henry Cavill and Mickey Rourke, is a swords-and-sandals swashbuckler heavy on the visuals (and the ketchup packets). "Immortals" also came from the same producers, a fact that the film's distributor, Relativity Media, was not shy about emphasizing in its television ads.
But those producers were not entirely keen to compare the two movies. "We don't really see them as that similar," Mark Canton, one of the producers who made both films, told 24 Frames last week. "This ['Immortals'] is about the journey of a man finding his faith, and '300'...is a great action movie."
He added that "300," based on the Frank Miller graphic novel, centered on a war between two human civilizations whereas "Immortals" mixed in legends of the gods. (Canton did allow for a superficial similarity: "'Immortals' is the most visually compelling movie that we've seen in a long time, and '300' before that was the most visually arresting movie we've seen in a long time.")
A Relativity executive heavily involved in "Immortals" was similarly inclined toward distinctions.
"We looked at the Greek mythology as a fantasy world more than a Greek world," said Tucker Tooley, the Relativity No. 2 who oversaw "Immortals" production. "We didn't approach this as a typical swords-and-sandals film."
He added that there were differences in the visuals department too: "As Tarsem has said on many occasions, he views '300' as a comic strip coming to life, and this is a painting coming to life."
There's a reason to put some distance between the two films -- apart from producers not wanting to feel like they're repeating themselves, a "300" sequel has long been in the works, and what's the sense of doing one if "Immortals" already fits the bill? (Of course, with Relativity's $32-million domestic opening for "Immortals," we wouldn't rule out a sequel for that film either.)
In at least one regard, though, "Immortals" has a long way to go before it can be uttered in the same breath as "300" -- the Butler pic grossed more than $200 million in the U.S.
The millions of people this weekend who paid to see "Immortals," the mythology-laden story of Theseus and the cruel King Hyperion, turned out for plenty of reasons. But doubtless high on the list was the movie's underlying similarities to "300," the Gerard Butler-starring story of dueling Persians and Spartans.
Like the 2006 hit, Tarsem Singh's movie, which stars Henry Cavill and Mickey Rourke, is a swords-and-sandals swashbuckler heavy on the visuals (and the ketchup packets). "Immortals" also came from the same producers, a fact that the film's distributor, Relativity Media, was not shy about emphasizing in its television ads.
But those producers were not entirely keen to compare the two movies. "We don't really see them as that similar," Mark Canton, one of the producers who made both films, told 24 Frames last week. "This ['Immortals'] is about the journey of a man finding his faith, and '300'...is a great action movie."
He added that "300," based on the Frank Miller graphic novel, centered on a war between two human civilizations whereas "Immortals" mixed in legends of the gods. (Canton did allow for a superficial similarity: "'Immortals' is the most visually compelling movie that we've seen in a long time, and '300' before that was the most visually arresting movie we've seen in a long time.")
A Relativity executive heavily involved in "Immortals" was similarly inclined toward distinctions.
"We looked at the Greek mythology as a fantasy world more than a Greek world," said Tucker Tooley, the Relativity No. 2 who oversaw "Immortals" production. "We didn't approach this as a typical swords-and-sandals film."
He added that there were differences in the visuals department too: "As Tarsem has said on many occasions, he views '300' as a comic strip coming to life, and this is a painting coming to life."
There's a reason to put some distance between the two films -- apart from producers not wanting to feel like they're repeating themselves, a "300" sequel has long been in the works, and what's the sense of doing one if "Immortals" already fits the bill? (Of course, with Relativity's $32-million domestic opening for "Immortals," we wouldn't rule out a sequel for that film either.)
In at least one regard, though, "Immortals" has a long way to go before it can be uttered in the same breath as "300" -- the Butler pic grossed more than $200 million in the U.S.
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