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Aug 14, 2012 - 7:10 AM
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dragon53
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 14
THE EXPENDABLES 3---the third movie in the franchise is underway possibly starring Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, Nicolas Cage, Wesley Snipes and Mickey Rourke in addition to the original cast. Producer Avi Lerner said, “We’ve approached Clint Eastwood to be one of the guys. We’ve got a character in mind for him. We’re talking to Harrison Ford. Wesley Snipes when he comes back from prison... [W]e’ve got Nicolas Cage to play [one of the characters]...And we’re going to bring Mickey Rourke back, if he won’t be too crazy. I like Mickey. And of course, all the existing stars [will return]”
THE TOMB---first official photo of the movie about a prison architect who must escape from the escape-proof prison he designed after he was framed for a crime he didn't commit. Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger star.
LETHAL WEAPON 5---Mel Gibson said he won't be in the latest movie, "No, I think the way things are going, they'll just remake those somehow. Though it's really tough to replace Danny [Glover]. He was so amazing in those things. It was a good gig for us."
He updated his Viking movie, BERSERKER, "I believe it's going forward. I've talked to actors and stuff, and there are some good names attached who want to do it. I've got a great script, and the idea's been batting around my head for years. And I couldn't find a way to make it work, because if you look at what Vikings did, they're pretty unsympathetic. And there's no point in doing Viking light. So I had to find a way to find devices and ways to make that work dramatically, intelligently and make it seem realistic."
LONE SURVIVOR---Eric Bana (BLACK HAWK DOWN) is in negotiations to co-star in the movie based on the Marcus Luttrell book about the ill-fated Navy SEAL mission to kill an al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan.
STARS EARN STRIPES---nine Nobel Peace Prize winners, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, protested the NBC military reality competition series because they claim it glorifies war and violence.
TWO AND A HALF MEN---Miley Cyrus will guest star on several episodes as the new love interest for Jake.
HELL ON WHEELS---the premier drew only 2.5 million viewers, mainly because of the Olympics competition. It drew 4.3 million for the pilot and 2.9 million for the Season 1 finale.
EV AND OCHO---Chad Ochocinco's reality series with his wife Evelyn was canceled by VH1 after he was arrested for domestic battery against her. It was to have premiered on September 3.
THE EXES---Zach Braff will reunite with his SCRUBS co-star Donald Faison on the August 29 episode.
THE ZERO THEOREM---Terry Gilliam movie underway starring Christoph Waltz as a computer genius working for an Orwellian corporation who is assigned to find the reason for existence.
SINATRA---Billy Ray (THE HUNGER GAMES) is rewriting the Frank Sinatra biomovie script for Martin Scorsese.
BILL AND TED 3---Keanu Reeves commented on the sequel plot, "One of the plot points is that these two people have been crushed by the responsibility of having to write the greatest song ever written and to change the world. And they haven't done it. So everybody is kind of like: 'Where is the song?; The guys have just drifted off into esoterica and lost their rock. And we go on this expedition, go into the future to find out if we wrote the song, and one future 'us' refuses to tell us, and another future 'us' blames us for their lives because we didn't write the song, so they're living this terrible life. In one version we're in jail; in another we're at some kind of highway motel and they hate us."
THE WOLVERINE---Hugh Jackman said the movie will be a standalone not connected to X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, “We’ve deliberately not called it WOLVERINE 2 because we want it to be placed and feel like a standalone picture… With an all-new cast and setting it in Japan, it’s going to give us a whole new visual aesthetic.”
A LONG WAY DOWN---Pierce Brosnan, Aaron Paul and Toni Colette star in this movie about people who plan to commit suicide until they meet each other on the top of the building they planned to jump off.
FOURTH HORSEMAN---movie underway about a medical intern whose destiny is to prevent the rise of the Fourth Horseman, Death, and prevent the apocalypse.
MURDER OF A CAT---Fran Kranz (CABIN IN THE WOODS) stars in this comedy movie about a man who tries to solve the murder of his cat.
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No Carl Weathers? Good god, how many Expendables flicks will they make before they let the poor guy get a stew goin' again?
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Aug 18, 2012 - 6:47 PM
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Storyteller
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I'd say Gibson career is going rather well at the moment, all things considered. A friend and I just watched Get The Gringo two weeks ago and it was very good. If Mel keeps knocking them out liek that for awhile he is sure to make a decent come back
It may have been a good movie (I've not seen it) but it had an extremely limited theatrical release and is essentially a straight-to-dvd flick. Next up for Gibson is the Machette sequel. Not really sure either of these are reflective of the mega-star he once was so I'm not sure I agree that things are going well for him.
As for Lethal Weapon, I hope they bury that series. It's dead. 3 & 4 were simply not good
In what way were they not good? By any standards, 3 & 4 had some of the best action sequences ever filmed and were also both very funny. To me LW2 is the best of the bunch, But 3 & 4 are both cracking good movies and whilst they may not be to your personal taste, or not up to the standards of the first two flicks, I cannot see how youmcan seriously think were not good movies.
Well, the stories were very weak, and I simply do not agree with your assessment that they had the best sequences ever filmed. I will admit that 3 was at least fun in a dumb sort of way, but 4 left me cold completely. I worked at a theater when 4 came out, and customers were actually walking out of that one.
But obviously, if there is still love for this franchise then why the heck not another film. Heaven knows it doesn't stop them from making others. But I don't see the demand for this series to return.
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The best way to do a reboot if you had Mel Gibson.
Have him now doing the Danny Glover part.
Riggs is about to retire and gets saddled with a young Detective, someone who was a cop, but got sent to IRAQ or Afghanistan and has come back pretty much as screwed up their War Experiences as Riggs was by his.
Perhaps even make the character a woman.
That would be my jumping off point.
However, Given Mr. Gibson's recent history, I doubt WB would want him back.
Ford A. Thaxton
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Aug 19, 2012 - 2:13 AM
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Well, the stories were very weak, and I simply do not agree with your assessment that they had the best sequences ever filmed
I didnt say that, I said that they had SOME of the best action sequences ever filmed. The car chases in 3 and 4 are spectacular, for example, and done for real - not one single CGI or blue screen shot (although I will admit that Gibson's stunt double is pretty obvious in some shots on the blu ray) and insofar as great shoot outs are concerned both films offer thise in droves
I worked at a theater when 4 came out, and customers were actually walking out of that one.
Your theatre notwithstanding, I can't believe there were THAT many people who walked out of the movie as it still did well at the box office, albeit not as well as previous entries in the series. I saw it in the cinema 4 times in the UK, each showing was packed and each time the audiences seemed to be having a great time.
But obviously, if there is still love for this franchise then why the heck not another film. Heaven knows it doesn't stop them from making others. But I don't see the demand for this series to return.
Just because you don't see the demand doesn't mean it isn't there. The series as a whole was a huge-grossing franchise and those tend to remain popular with the general public particulalrly with the passage of time, notwithstanding the odd lacklustre entry in the series (Batman & Robin - one of the worst movies of all time - was hardly terminal for the caped crusader's cinematic outing for example). And presumably WB must have done some research into rather than just start looking at either 5 or a reboot just because they had some spare soundstage space after the Harry Potter movies had ended. After all, you don't see Fox talking about Speed 3, do you?
As I say, the argument is academic because there won't be a 5. There will inevitably be a re-boot and that is something I have frankly no interest in. Unless the old gang are back, I'll pass.
Just out of interest, what action films of the 80s and 90s do you like?
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