They may be biased in wanting him to win everything, but that’s what being a fan is about. Film stars love their fans, even if that’s not what they say. They need their fan base to stay box office stars.

Gerard Butler (Gerry to his fans) was born in 1969, and is a Scottish actor, even though he now spends his time between London and LA. Some of his family hails from Ireland. He’s also spent time living in Canada.

He appeared way back in the 1997 movie Mrs Brown and followed that up with a small part in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies. During the years he’s been in around 35 movies, including 300, The Phantom of The Opera, PS I Love You, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Beowulf and the wonderful Nims Island and the great Rocknrolla.

We should see him soon in Law Abiding Citizen and then during 2010 in How to Train Your Dragon.

I’m hopeful that some GB fans will let us know which are GB’s best movies and why.

• Nim’s friends: featurette
• Abigail’s journey: featurette
• Working on water: featurette
• Deleted scenes
• Adventure commentary with Jodie Foster and Abigail Breslin
• Commentary with Directors Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett

The Blue Ray version will help you feel as though you’re on the island with enhanced sound and vision.

The movie is reviewed here and the trailer is here

So what’s been happening since you saw the movie in the theatre?

Fluent French speaking Jodie Foster hasn’t any films listed for future release at the moment, but then that’s become the norm for Ms Foster recently where her movies have been separated by large time scales, but each one well worth waiting for as she brings up her young children. It appears the press just want to dig deep in dirt about who her relationships are with these days. We don’t care; just keep making those great movies.

Abigail Breslin has been busier. She has one 2008 movie called ‘Kit Kittredge: An American Girl’ and one further movie lined up for 2009, ‘My Sister’s Keeper’. However, as she’s only twelve years old, she has plenty of time to grow into movies the way Jodie Foster did, herself.

Garard Butler has been very busy with the recent release ‘RocknRolla’ from the Guy Ritchie stable with ‘Game’ and ‘The Ugly Truth’ in post production for 2009. He’s also filming ‘Tales of the Black Freighter’ and ‘How To Train Your Dragon.’. If that’s not enough he’s also involved with ‘Law Abiding Citizen.’ We’ll be seeing a lot more of this guy over the next two years.

Joseph Kwong and Paula Mazur did an excellent job writing the screenplay of Nim’s Island. I hope to see more work from them soon, but can’t find anything listed just now.

The budget of $37 million wasn’t the highest, but I guess they thought the response would be limited to people wanting to watch children’s films. Money moving through the cinemas has been around $85 million. Once you allow for the cinema’s 50% share, the movie appears to have just broken well into profit. DVD sales have been pushing the profits through the roof. It’s in the top five of sales charts all around the world, and that’s not counting CD sales of the soundtrack.

I’m surprised we don’t have Alex Rover novels out yet; that should keep the ghost writers busy.