Gerard Butler in 'Law Abiding Citizen'

Star of 300 and Law Abiding Citizen, Gerard Butler, recently told Britain's Men's Health Mag that he was out of control when he decided to pursue acting. At the time of making his decision he was apparently just weeks away from qualifying as a solicitor.

"You have to understand that I was completely out of control. If I hadn't been so lost and insane, I'd still be a lawyer. I said to myself, I'm aiming for the stars. I'll worry about the details later."

Fortunately for him those details fell into place just nicely, although he admits two things helped him. One is hard work, and in what sounds like a 'Law of Attraction' line straight out of Rhonda Byrne's The Secret, the second thing that helped him was the universe.

"The universe conspires. Once you decide to do something, the universe starts to help you," he said. "There are a lot of people who are really talented, and I can see they're not going to make it because they don't work hard enough."

Fair enough.

Below (after the jump) is a clip with Gerard Butler in Law Abiding Citizen - let's hope the universe knows the difference between fact and fiction.

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Gerard Butler in 'Law Abiding Citizen'

There's a new website in town called TwitCritics, which aims to "bring you real-time movie reviews and ratings directly from the Twitterverse."  The site is in beta stage but I'm really quite interested in it.

What Twitcritics attempts to do is evaluate a rating for movies based on keywords in tweets. Whilst not foolproof, the ratings are also somewhat user driven in that anyone can check out to see that the tweets it has based its ratings on are accurately positive or negative and, if they are wrong, can be reported as such.

I love the idea. At the moment the number one movie is Amreeka with a 93% rating.  Amreeka is a drama centered on an immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Illinois.  Doesn't sound like my cup of tea.  Second on the list is Law Abiding Citizen, which to my mind is really the number one choice in the Twitterverse at this time.  Why?  Because Law Abiding Citizen is rated at 90% based on almost 2000 tweets, whereas Amreeka's 93% is based on only 50 odd tweets.

Watch a clip from Law Abiding Citizen after the jump.

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Where the Wild Things Are, Law Abiding Citizen and Paranormal Activity combined to set October Box Office Records

Business at the box office over the weekend was booming thanks to Where the Wild Things Are, Law Abiding Citizen and Paranormal Activity. Between the box office performance of all three films takings for the weekend  jumped 39% higher than the same time last year and set a new record gross for the time frame.

Where the Wild Things Are also set a record for Warner Bros, pulling in its biggest ever opening weekend haul in October (estimated to be $32.5M).

Law Abiding Citizen pulled $21M, edging just ahead of Paranormal Activity with $20.2M.

Source: Box Office Mojo / Reuters

When King Leonidas threatens to kill everyone, you listen.  I've been a fan of Gerard Butler since 300 and judging by the trailer for his next film, I think my Butler fanboy side is going to continue.  Well, providing he doesn't waste himself on any more puke-fests like P.S. I Love You.

Law Abiding Citizen follows Clyde Shelton (Butler), a brilliant sociopath who embarks upon a path of vengeance after a plea bargain sets his wife a child's killers free - all from inside a jail cell.

Watch the trailer below:

Law Abiding Citizen hits theaters this week on October 16.