Fox Looking at Gerard Butler & Katherine Heigl for 'Romancing the Stone' Reboot?

Fox has wanted to relaunch a reboot of the classic adventure/comedy Romancing the Stone (1984) since 2007, and have possibly netted their next Jack Colton and Joan Wilder.  According to Movie Hole, the studio likes The Ugly Truth pair of Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl in the lead roles.  Nice to see reboot casting I can agree with for a change.

The original film, directed by Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future trilogy) starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, who had excellent chemistry.

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Gerard Butler Saves Soul, Kicks Ass in 'Machine Gun Preacher' Trailer

The movie gods must've heard my complaints about Gerard Butler not playing enough dramatic action roles anymore.  He now has two tremendous looking movies on the way in Coriolanus, directed by and co-starring Ralph Fiennes, and Marc Forster's Machine Gun Preacher, which we have the trailer for today.

The Machine Preacher is a based upon a true story (aren't they all these days?) about Sam Childers, a former drug-slinging, biker bad ass who found God.

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Epic International Trailer for Shakespeare Inspired War Film 'Coriolanus'

Coming this December, Ralph Fiennes stars in and directs the modern retelling of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus.  Fiennes plays Caius Martius Coriolanus, a feared and respected Roman general who's banished and chooses to align himself with his sworn enemy (Gerard Butler) to exact revenge on the city and its people.

Coriolanus is convinced by his overbearing, power hungry mother (Vanessa Redgrave) to seek a powerful Consul position, and must integrate himself with the masses, an idea he's in great opposition of.

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Gerard Butler Returns to Action Roots for 'The Bricklayer'

I'm glad to see a tough mofo like Gerard Butler has ditched the romcom crap in favor of a new action flick.  Butler has signed on to star in the thriller The Bricklayer, THR claims.  He'll play a retired FBI agent turned bricklayer who's summoned back into action by the feds when a band of criminals starts "demanding an escalating series of multi-million dollar ransom payments".

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Arnold Schwarzeneggar Wants To Be Like Gerald Butler?!

Say it isn't so Arnold!  As he prepares to come back as an old yet cut up action star like Sly Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger admits he was impressed by Gerald Butler's body in the movie "300" and wanted to know who Butler's trainer is.  Only problem is, a lot of it was CGI enhanced.

Says Schwarzenegger, "I said to ['300' producer] Mark Canton, 'You have got to get a hold of [Butler]. I want to know what his training regimen is.' Canton said, 'What are you talking about? [That look] cost me a lot of money."

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