Source:  USA Today Author:  Susan Wloszczyna Gerard Butler has never shied away from real-life warriors, both heroic (Spartan ruler Leonidas in 300) and villainous (the heinous Hun in Attila) But as the God-fearing, firepower-toting Sam Childers in Machine Gun Preacher, opening Sept. 23, the Scottish actor plays a man whose ongoing 13-year quest to end [...]

With over $100 Billion in annual revenues and 70,000 employees in Iraq alone, the private military industry is booming, yet few civilians know anything about it. Shadow Company, a groundbreaking feature-length documentary, takes you deep inside this secret world that is changing the face of modern warfare. What are we really risking by allowing profit-motivated corporations into the business of war?

When director Sturla Gunnarsson and his cast and crew, including Gerard Butler, Stellen Skarsgard, and Sarah Polley, set upon Iceland to film Beowulf & Grendel, they expected the usual complications involved in making a major motion picture.