Den of Thieves

Hey Annie,

Good update! He gets to play a baddie - Keanu always shines at that opp -- see The Gift, Neon Demon. Solid change for Gerry to broaden his work.

Btw, I was 'kidi' but in the spirit of Gerry's passion projects - I'm now "KeepersBurns"

A new year 2017. Woopie!

Have caught up with the GB news online. I will be up to date with board soon.

Anyone see photo of Gerry bumping into lady walking her dog in Scotland? Sweet. 11 hours ago.

Mostly that's what he really looks like, casually at home, without the tanner and man-makeup. Or as Gerry says "it's all grooming". I love that he can be very self-effacing and humble, aside from all the other crap (women/commitment).

Hope Holidays relaxed all the GB board visitors.
Cheers to a New Year!
Must be what GB is thinking.... With Geostorm pushed back and fans angry about NOLA photos. I finally saw them but didn't see the fuss?

With their gf a man can be changeable, needy, a great friend --
or all the above! He still took plenty candids with fans, so it's not like he ever gets to be in a bad
mood. (Or must try not to show it in public!)

Cheers from KeepersBurns ??

KeeperBurns

could to hear from you

May this New Year bring you every happiness

for me, I try to be the best person I can be and celebrate that I'm here

I think what annoys people about Butler and his gf is the all PDA's, the papped photos (hey I used to think Paps were instrusive but I learned from two publicists that I know that's not the case 95% of the time- it's his handlers or her calling the paps. how else would they know where he/she are at? at that precise moment?)the manipulation of the media for his /her's own selfish reasons whatever they might be then suddenly he's manning up protecting the woman he dearly loves from the prying/instrusive/annoying eyes of the silly stupid media! You can't have it both ways.

Did see the pic of him and the dog owner. I do like it when I see the gray/white flecks in his beard. He's terribly handsome then to me. Maybe Butler needs to find out who he is before he can love someone

At work, no one knows who he is and if they do its that guy from 300- how long ago was that? Only JJ covers him and lately they've laid off him. If your work speaks for itself, you don't need this PR crap. Hollywood can eat you up and spit you out before you can say your name

Leo loves and leaves them as it were and has been offscreen for nearly a year and there's no real photos about of him. I follow him on twitter and he always tweets about the environment/thinks that matter and when he met the Holy See. Should Leo marry, the press would give him his privacy. A few pics to OK! and or People, and that's it. Butler would earn a shrugging "whatever"

EDIT- Yep Keanu has had a diversified career he takes chances which I like- did see The Gift/ will never see Knock Knock/my folks and I thought he and James Spader were pretty good in The Watcher but the studio messed that up. I thoroughly enjoy John Wick!

annie

"Find out who you are PS then you'll know how to love someone" Vanessa

Leo loves and leaves them as it were and has been offscreen for nearly a year and there's no real photos about of him. I follow him on twitter and he always tweets about the environment/thinks that matter and when he met the Holy See.

I don't do Twitter, but if I did, I'd probably follow Leo. He's always been one of my favorites, and beyond his acting and films, I share a lot of his social and political views and respect him for those. He seems extremely intelligent to me, and a nice guy in general. I still remember the first time I discovered him when I had to go see his Romeo & Juliet in the theater for a Shakespeare class I was taking in college to finish out my teaching certification. Instant love! LOL! Then Titanic came along and I just thought he was the best thing. I watched all of his early work and knew he'd be a huge star. He just had that "thing" that some of them have.

Love me some Leo.

SiriusGrande


Love me some Leo.

Me too. I've seen much of his work ( probably more than Renner/Butler/Cumberbatch actors whose work I like to varying degrees)(but Hardy has my cinematic heart)

annie

and yes like his costar Hardy has that indefinableness....

"We shall see." James delaney

Glad to see people are watching TABOO. Shows that a big film actor like Hardy doesn't mind doing TV on FX. but then edgy is Tom's middle name.

What does anybody think of Butler in a project like that?

Haven't seen him in anything period/ historical since 300 which was his biggest hit. Gerry had that 'timeless' quality at that time which Tom seems to always have.

What does anybody think of Butler in a project like that?

I haven't watched Taboo, but I think if Butler can figure out how to tap into whatever it is that Hardy has tapped into, it couldn't hurt. I'm just not sure it's in him. He and Hardy are very different in their approaches to their careers, it seems. Gerry seems to have chosen acting as a vehicle to become a celebrity, whereas Tom seems to have acting as the goal with celebrity being the by-product.

It makes a difference.

Hi Sirius,

I think Gerry only feels vindicated by his big movies which is sad, it's all the reaction and criticism that drives him in making choices. He must be scared.

He got flogged for Machine Gun Preacher - in racial terms he didn't expect because it was a bio on a real man who felt called by God to protect African children. But it was "white man saves Africa" stereotype that boomeranged hard. Odd he got it again by association with Gods of Egypt - fortunately he wasn't producing and didn't control casting and had secondary role to the YA hero/heroine vehicle. But still bizarre.

Coriolanus didn't get hacked, I mean it is Shakespeare, but there was no crowd of people or critics or fans going we want "more more more" arty films from you Gerry. He got injured on that and must have felt it wasn't worth it. I remember after his 2 artier outings in his next mag interview he said something like I went artistic but "nobody saw them" (he's correct, but you have to expect that when you're trying small alternative films and live with it) so next up, he reverted to his action/thriller genes (Olympus) hoping to re-hook the audience ignoring him.

Guess it's how you look at it - either he's too thin-skinned and cares too much about attention, viewers appreciating him, and box office. Or is he smart to be worried that if he doesn't keep his box office cred, nobody will want him for anything once he can no longer headline a movie. Once you break in, all your "people" worry about is your "career longevity"

Gerry must be testing the waters with Headhunter Calling, seeing if he can get applause outside the sweet spot, but that still hasn't happened yet. Unlike Matt McCon, who I never would have believed could reverse his career from shirtless "Surfer Dude" or man-child RomComs - Gerry is still trying to get that gritty role that expands him to art.

Hardy is so tough, he doesn't care. Seems to be having kids create that for him even more. His interviews are all 'just how to be a man, work, support your children, do your job, no applause, a good man is the one you never hear about, he's just does it.'

I could not believe The Drop got so dropped by critics to be called "the puppy in the garbage can movie," (yikes) and his Child 44 was MIA, but Tom was so good in it. He's had big fails. Now Gerry in that position, he would be cut down by it. Tom not.

I wonder when Tom is ever home? because he works so much. He is younger. Gerry might have been doing that rapidity of movies when he was his age. I seem to remember a time when he had a lot of movies going.

Annie tells us about his bad luck with his prodcos - EmmetFurla and now Relativity. I don't think any of Tom's movies have been held up at all? That's the way it USED to be for Gerry too -- no more! Maybe his name is not as marquee as Tom's, there are only secondary financing options, less solid companies, etc. for Gerry's movies.

Tom is still in the "hot young thing who can do anything" phase like Gerry was, after hits 300/action,war and Ugly Truth/comedy,romance. Gerry has matured past it.

Or is it Bad Luck? Gerry says so. He said he had a director who went crazy and had to be replaced a while back. A drama on every movie, beyond the movie itself, it sounds.

KEEPERS looks good, but he shoots Den of Thieves first - reading the logline, DEN sounds generic to me. Heist movie. Must be a great twist? He's already done a lot of underground moving around of things in unbelievable ways in a movie -- LawAbidingCitizen. This one is more fact based, like the heist of gov. money actually happened? True Story tie-in. Hopefully not MGP fated.

I wish he'd shoot Keepers first, clearly. An unusual dynamic in that. And true story.

Best,
KeepersBurns

Interesting post, KB.
I can't speak to Butler's career much past...mmm..I think Law Abiding Citizen was the last film of his I watched in its entirety. I wasn't impressed. And nothing he's done since has interested me. It's not necessarily HIM, he's just not making movies that grab me.

And he's not a good enough actor to compel me to see movies I otherwise wouldn't care about. No actor is, actually. I mentioned Tarzan in another thread. I guess I watched that for Skarsgard, but only because the trailer looked interesting (Christoph Waltz helped persuade me) and I am already a fan of the Tarzan movies and stories. I'm not going to go out and watch...whatever else Skarsgard has been in (I have no idea, LOL) just because I lusted him in True Blood and liked him fine in Tarzan. He's a lovely man in real life too, it seems, but that's not enough to get my money or for me to spend hours of my time watching things I don't care about.

Same goes for Tom Hardy, Leo DiCaprio, and all the other actors I have a soft spot for. I don't actually care if I never see Taboo. It looks interesting, and if it shows up on Netflix or Amazon Prime, I'll check it out, but meh. However, I'll be at the theater opening weekend of the next Mad Max.

I don't even know what my point is. LOL.

I see that Tom is sitting at #1 on the IMDb STARmeter once again. He's been either at that top spot or close to it many, many times over the five years since Dark Knight Rises. Naturally, Mad Max and The Revenant would boost him up there during their day, but it's nice to see that Taboo is obviously piquing people's interest in him just as much.

There's just something about Tom that audiences love. I imagine he's the envy of a lot of his peers. He gets the big box office smashes (Rises, Inception, Mad Max) and the quirky, artsy stuff, AND television. He's something else.

I don't know if Gerry is unlucky in his career, but I do think Tom Hardy is lucky. Lucky, hard-working, driven, and very, very talented.