Posts Tagged ‘The Expendables’

Schwarzenegger and Stallone are back!

Schwarzenegger and Stallone are back!

The action movie veterans Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are set to collaborate again. They have been confirmed to star in Mikael Hafstrom's The Tomb. Back in the 80s they competed for the world's greatest action star crown, Stallone being most famous for the Rocky and Rambo franchises, while Arnie was brutal in The Terminator...

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The Expendables 2 – PG-13 rating and new image including female member

The Expendables 2 – PG-13 rating and new image including female member

From the cloud of testosterone that is The Expendables 2, new stills have emerged showing a female member of the cast, and it doesn't look like she will simply be playing the damsel in distress. Chinese actress Yu Nan will be joining a cast packed with male action heroes and will supposedly be giving as good as she gets. Adding a woman...

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Matthew Vaughn to film Jonathan Ross’s comic

Matthew Vaughn to film Jonathan Ross’s comic

It looks like super comic book fan, Jonathan Ross may be getting his own comic series made into a feature film. Director Matthew Vaughn is apparently keen to work with The Golden Age, which is the follow up to Turf , the comic Ross wrote with Tommy Lee Edward. It is thought he is already in talks with a studio and is close to getting...

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UK Weekend Box Office: 20-22 August

Once again, we take a look at how the weekend cinema masses preferred to spend their cash, and some of the results this week are fairly interesting - more details after the jump. For last weekend, the details are as follows: The Expendables - £3.9m Salt - £2.1m Toy Story 3 - £1.7m Piranha 3D - £1.5m Marmaduke - £1.2m Inception...

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The last action heroes: The Expendables

The last action heroes: The Expendables

It's the ultimate action line-up: Willis, Stallone and Schwarzenegger alone could make it a dream film. But does The Expendables match up to the expectation? The main issue with films like this is that you're dealing with a lot of actors who are very unused to playing in any role that isn't the protagonist. So much so, in fact, that the best...

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Julia Roberts shines at Eat Pray Love première

Julia Roberts attended the premiere of her latest film, Eat Pray Love in New York yesterday. It has been reported that all reviews of the film have been banned before it's release in the US this weekend. This seems slightly a bizarre choice, considering that The Expendables, which stars some huge names, is also released that weekend. Why would...

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Stallone wants to make The Expendables 2

The Expendables comes with a cast of some of the finest male action stars of the last twenty to thirty years. The star, one Sly Stallone, is eager to do it again. The superstar was speaking to the LA Times this week, and discussed his plans for another Expendables film if this one turned out to be a box office hit. It's got him, Arnie, Jet Li,...

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The Expendables UK première

Last night was the UK première of The Expendables, but with a lack of cast in attendance, ex-glamour model Jordan stole the show. Stars of the film Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham and Dolph Lundgren were the only members of the all-star cast to attend. Instead of being joined by Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis,...

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The top ten all-star casts

The top ten all-star casts

Who's in the film? Everyone... Every so often a film comes along full to the brim of well-known actors. Whether it's good or not the big names draw in the crowds. The upcoming film The Expendables which stars some of the most well-known heavyweight stars around (Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis to name a few),  is one of...

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The Expendables: The manliest movie ever?

Sylvester Stallone heads up a cast of some the heftiest movie meatheads ever gathered together on celluloid in The Expendables. Sly's role in the production is not so much expendable as indispensable. Not only is he starring in the film, but he has also produced it and even helped write the script. The plot sees a group of mercenaries who...

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