Tag: Arnold Schwarzenegger
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‘Prey’ Director Dan Trachtenberg Was So Excited To Show His Mom the Movie
It’s really difficult to make a prequel or sequel in a franchise stand out from other installments. Way more often than not, they feel like CGI-heavy derivatives of the many movies that preceded it. One of the most impressive exceptions to this Hollywood pattern is director Dan Trachtenberg’s 2022 movie Prey, a daring prequel to…
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Expendables 4 Ending Explained: The Dead Don’t Die
Major spoilers for “Expend4bles” follow.Ever since “The Expendables” was released in 2010, the identity and tone of the franchise has been heavily in question. That first film seemed to want to have things both ways, presenting the trials and tribulations of the (very fictional) titular team of mercenaries while metatextually commenting on (and piggybacking off…
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‘Expend4bles’ Review: A Few of the Old Boys Are Back, Now Joined by Megan Fox, but the Series’ Appeal Feels Increasingly Expendable
In “Expend4bles,” the action is more digitally propulsive than it was in “The Expendables” (2010), “The Expendables 2” (2012), or “The Expendables 3” (2014). Yet the preferred mode of killing is reassuringly primitive. In scene after scene, characters use knives to slit people’s throats, or they’ll sometimes jam a knife directly into the throat. “Expend4bles”…
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An Oscar Winner Was Hiding in ‘The Toxic Avenger’s Deleted Scenes
The Toxic Avenger is currently being rebooted, starring Game of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage in the lead role. This comes after a decade of reboot rumors, including Arnold Schwarzenegger and John Travolta being attached to star at one point or another. Having now finally happened, Dinklage told Collider that the film is a “violent, road picture…
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‘Terminator 3’ Is the Best Non-James Cameron Movie in the Franchise
It’s clear by now that The Terminator franchise simply does not work without James Cameron. That’s not to say that Arnold Schwarzenegger, co-writer and producer Gale Anne Hurd, or any other filmmaker who worked on those first two entries didn’t contribute to the franchises’ success. It’s just that the next four entries (none of which…
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Why Michael Bay’s Immediate Response To Transformers Was A Big Fat No
Michael Bay was a decade into his film directing career when Steven Spielberg and “Transformers” beckoned. He’d established himself as a maestro of mayhem — or, as we call it now, “Bayhem.” He made the $19 million budgeted “Bad Boys” look like a $75 million action extravaganza, and the $75 million budgeted “The Rock” look…
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This Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie Is the First Film to Ever Cost $100M
With budget numbers in the nine-digit range far from uncommon in today’s blockbuster-oriented theatrical landscape, it’s time to look back on the first film to reach that colossal milestone, with visionary director and money-maker James Cameron’s Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis-starring True Lies holding the Guinness World Record for being the first film to…
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Kate Winslet’s ‘Titanic’ Role Almost Went to This Oscar-Winning Actress
There are some movie roles that become so memorable for an actor’s portrayal that it is hard to imagine any other performer in that part. The idea of a remake alone seems absurd, let alone a recast for a sequel. Sometimes, it can be even hard to accept the notion that the performer we so…
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Locarno Action Spectacle ‘Topakk’ Introduces ‘Flawed’ Hero, Debuts Trailer, Racks Up Sales: ‘We Are Doing It the Old-School Way’ (Exclusive)
Raven Banner Entertainment continues to rack up sales for Richard V. Somes’ action spectacle “Topakk.”“Topakk”(“Trigger”) has been sold to Aud (South Korea), Superfine Films (India), Kinologistika (Cis and the Baltics) and Lighthouse (German-speaking Europe).It’s not the end of good news, as the film – debuting its trailer and produced by Fusee, with Strawdogs Studio Production…