Given The Expendables’
huge success – theater grosses more than triple its $80 million budget –
there was never a doubt that we’d see a sequel. However, questions
arose about who’d be returning and who wouldn’t. Well, we now know of an
original cast member who won’t be returning.
Continuing their presence as cinematic mainstays, Pixar revealed two of their upcoming features at Disney’s popular D23 convention this weekend.
Sean Hood, who wrote the script for this weekend’s Conan the Barbarian, has given Millennium his screenplay for a fifth “Rambo” film, titled Rambo: Last Blood. According to an interview, Hood got together with Stallone twice and provided materials to help the writing process, including an unnamed book.
For the first time since January, a release jumped from a lower rung to number one. The Help, runner up last week, ascended to the top spot dropping just a shade more than 20 percent for a $20.4 million weekend haul.
It’s been quite some time since we’ve heard anything substantial about the 20th Century Fox remake of Fantastic Voyage. Director Shawn Levy has been attached to the director’s chair for the better part of 2011, but sources indicate that the project’s lack of movement might see Levy leaving the helm.
Dinah, Simon, Steven, and Kieran review 30 Minutes or Less, Final Destination 5 and The Help. They discuss the “too soon” movie phenomenon. Also, they discuss movie news about the now defunct The Lone Ranger, the hideousness that is Anne Hathaway and her Catwoman costume, and Steven King’s The Stand.
Nicolas Winding Refn strongly believes that if his Logan’s Run remake is successful, he could be handed the keys to Wonder Woman.
Say what you will about a sequel to 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, but you can’t knock Paramount for casting Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. The star began filming G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation today and tweeted an image of himself as Roadblock.
There were a few contenders for Recommendation of the Week, but the winner is The Coen brothers’ cult hit The Big Lebowski, a Blu-ray re-release featuring exclusive content in a 28-page book.
Since his breakout in The Hangover, Bradley Cooper has risen to the A-list and he’s consequently had the opportunity for bigger film roles. Among many rumored leading roles, he was attached to head a remake of 1994’s cult classic The Crow.
