Starring
Gerard Butler as Sam Childers
Michelle Monaghan as Lynn Childers
Michael Shannon as Donnie
Madeline Carroll Paige
Kathy Baker as Daisy
Misty Mills as Biker Chick
Nicole Michele Sobchack as Jessica
Brett Wagner as Ben Hobbs
Mandalynn Carlson as Paige’s Friend
Souléymane Sy Savané as Deng
Richard Goteri as Gun Shop Owner
Peter Carey as Bill Wallace
Rhema Marvanne as Rik Oskam
Crew
Directed by: Marc Forster
Produced by: Robbie Brenner, Deborah...Read Full Story
It's still early and grey outside when Michelle Monaghan plunks down casually into a soft arm-chair, directing a 1,000-watt smile my way. Even though she is in the midst of the jugger-naut of premieres for Machine Gun Preacher, including this stop at the Toronto International Film Festival, she looks impeccable in a silk blouse, black skinnies and towering pumps. It's easy to be intimidated by her camera-ready good looks (which first lured her into a modelling career while she was...Read Full Story
Yesterday saw the UK release of Machine Gun Preacher starring the gorgeous Michelle Monahan ( of Source Code, Due Date, Made of Honour) and the delectable Gerard Butler. Based on the true story of Sam Childers (Gerard Butler), a violent, drug-dealing biker whose faith leads him on a path to East Africa, where he finds his true calling as a machine gun-wielding protector of hundreds of refugee children. A still from Machine Gun Preacher (Gerard Butler, playing a role as protector of children...Read Full Story
Gerard Butler stars as Sam Childers in Machine Gun Preacher
*The intensely dramatic film Machine Gun Preacher, starring Gerard Butler (300), is the true story of Sam Childers – an ex drug-using/dealing biker – hits theaters nationwide September 23, 2011. The ex-biker went to help rebuilt homes destroyed by the civil war in the Sudan and was spiritually inspired to build an orphanage there, Angels of East Africa.
The orphanage is located in the area of East Africa strongly affected by the...Read Full Story
Merry Christmas to Gerard Butler.
Actor Gerard Butler is doing fine this Christmas (2011), one week ago the actor cheated death when a surf stunt for a movie he is filming went wrong, nearly drowning the actor.
Just last week, Butler was rushed to hospital after cheating death by seconds in a surfing stunt last Sunday (12/18/11).
A report from last week noted that the 'Machine Gun Preacher' star got trapped underwater after he was hit by a series of waves while filming 'Of Men...Read Full Story
Gerard Butler stars in the film, and its tells the true-life tale of Sam Childers, a former criminal who did a complete 180 and helped orphaned and kidnapped children in Sudan. You can buy tickets to the film at uptownpalladium.com starting February 20th ...
We meet him on the eve of his release from prison in Pennsylvania, drinking and drugging with his friend Donnie (the reliable Michael Shannon). After a particularly brutal Saturday night, Sam’s ex-stripper wife Lunn (Michelle Monaghan ...
R for violent content including disturbing images, language, some drug use and a scene of sexuality. Relativity Media. 127 min. Carmike. Gritty, gory and violent, Machine Gun Preacher is better as an action picture than as an uplifting story ...
By Andy LiangASSOCIATE OPINION EDITOR I’m glad to see that none of the critics took the recently released movie, Machine-Gun Preacher, seriously. The premise of the movie is, “You may not fear God, but you best fear Sam Childers.” Sam Childers, played by Gerard Butler, is the ex-con turned missionary turned warrior-of-God, finding himself in war-torn Sudan, saving orphans from warlords by gunning them down with AK-47s, Rambo-style. Had the...
This axiom fuels Machine Gun Preacher, a new film directed by a Hollywood-by-way-of-Basel hack named Marc Forster ... in southern Sudan and Uganda. His ex-stripper wife (played by Michelle Monaghan, who looks more like a middle-period Michael ...
Media UpdateThe missed opportunity that is Machine Gun PreacherMedia UpdateMeanwhile, across the world in Pennsylvania, Sam Childers (Butler) is a drug addict fresh out of jail (and telling the police to go fuck themselves as he leaves). He's the kind of guy who, when he gets back to his trailer (of course he lives in a ...KEEP PRAYING, SANTORUMThe MIT Techall 2 news articles »
Times LIVEClose Up: Machine Gun PreacherTimes LIVESam Childers started taking heroin when he was 11 and grew up to be a drug dealer, a violent man living a criminal life. Nonetheless his wife, Lynn, steered Childers into a serious religious conversion. He could never become a suburban dad, ...
Sam Childers, aka the Machine Gun Preacher is a self-appointed missionary who rescues children in Sudan's Darfur region from warring factions in the region.
A Word from The Rev. Sam. The children of Northern Uganda and South Sudan can be rescued, and the tragedies of this war can be put behind them when we begin to bring hope to a ...
Runs Military Rescue Missions for Child Soldiers in Sudan and Uganda CENTRAL CITY, Pa., March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sam Childers is the son of a Pennsylvania iron worker.
Runs Military Rescue Missions for Child Soldiers in Sudan and Uganda CENTRAL CITY, Pa., March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sam Childers is the son of a Pennsylvania iron worker.
CENTRAL CITY — Leaning on the stainless steel risers that lead to his biker-themed altar, the Rev. Sam Childers relaxed demeanor seems in stark contrast to the horrors he descibes that are facing ch