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		<title>Willis, Stallone, Arnie&#8230; the day we thought would never come</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For action film geeks the world over Saturday 24th October will be remembered as a holy day indeed.

The setting quite fittingly was a church. God had brought together the icons that are Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone to shoot what will no doubt become a legendary scene of pop culture cinema for The Expendables, a movie described as "a home coming of tough guys".

Even if it seems no action actually took place and in the end it was just a dialogue scene, but oh well. It's still just about the coolest thing that has happened this year.



AICN called it the day hell froze over. Here's a full description of what went down thanks to the film's official blog, which for some reason I have it in my head is run by supporting actor Eric Roberts. Lionsgate tease that some photo's of the day will be online for us to view soon but with the movie not due out until August 2010, maybe they would be wise to hold back for a little while...
I arrived at the location around 6:15am and Bruce and Sly were inside the church running lines.  Arnold pulled up about 20 minutes later – I ...]]></description>
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		<title>KICK-ASS coming as early as April, THE EXPENDABLES will open in August!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kick-Ass]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Lionsgate have announced an April 16th 2010 release date for Matthew Vaughn's comic book movie Kick-Ass, and have set Slyvester Stallone's men on a mission war picture The Expendables to an August date.

Looking to repeat the modest success of Watchmen this year, Lionsgate are bringing Kick-Ass to the masses early, in a non competitive month where anticipation for Iron Man 2 opening a month later will be extremely high. They are hoping fans will look to Kick-Ass to tide them over, and from the exciting footage we've seen, hell maybe Kick-Ass will be the comic book movie of next year.

I mean it's not total faith from Lionsgate but this late in the day, they weren't going to give it a May/June/July slot up against mega touch competition - the April date is confidence enough that they have something special on their hands. And personally as much as I loved Tony Stark's first outing, Kick-Ass is the one I'm more looking forward to next year.

Kick-Ass competition on that day will be the MacGruber big screen adaptation and Piranha 3-D! Well I know what I'm seeing that weekend guys.



For The Expendables, they have clearly looked at Inglourious Basterds, an unusual kind of ...]]></description>
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		<title>THE EXPENDABLES artwork!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 09:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dolph Lundgren]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a movie only announced last November, we sure have gotten ourselves into a frantic frenzy for Sly Stallone's The Expendables, coming from a writer/director and actor who we heard previously might have been contemplating action movie retirement after the two nostaglia fests Rocky Balboa and Rambo.

Looking at the photo's of him on the set of this movie recently, you think he continue doing this for a good while yet.



The above poster is the official artwork sent over from Lionsgate and which is apparentaly making the rounds at Cannes. Below is a look at a big teaser one sheet.



Meanwhile whilst we are talking The Expendables, AICN have been sent some spy photo's from filming and the one below caught my attention. Two icons of action, Ivan Drago and Rocky Balboa! Back together!

 

The Expendables is set for release in April 2010. ]]></description>
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		<title>Sly delivers the first official photo from THE EXPENDABLES!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eric Roberts and Stone Cold Steve Austin holdings hands, as they jump into the air (the sea?) to avoid being fried in a massive explosion Ah, the bliss of Sly Stallone's The Expendables and the first officially released photo from filming down in Brazil...



Thanks to AICN for the heads-up!

Who thinks it was a pre-requisite for this "home coming of tough guys" that all actors who came on board had to do their own stunts? 

Roberts is north of 50. Good on ya man!

First Showing also carried a link to this photo of Stallone and Jason Statham on set, which originally came from here.

 ]]></description>
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		<title>EXPENDABLES new photo&#8217;s, and full cast now includes Brittany Murphy!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Expendables keeps getting Expandable. The Hollywood Reporter say Brittany Murphy has joined the film as girlfriend/singer to Mickey Rourke's character. She will get a musical number to perform in the film. 

Sly Stallone's film which he also leads, is now filming in Rio and Spoiler TV recently featured the first images from the set, which actually made some of the British newspapers yesterday...



He's having fun doing this ain't he?





You can see a full image gallery, HERE.

The same site have a video of the filming above, which is quite funny. 

Insane cast looks like this...

Syvlester Stallone (Barney Ross)

Jason Statham (Lee Christmas)

Mickey Rourke (Emanuel) 

Jet Li (Bao)

Dolph Lundgren (Gunnar Jensen)

Eric Roberts (Monroe)

Arnold Schwarzenegger (small cameo as someone who goes "way back" with Stallone's Barney Ross)

Charisma Carpenter (probably the role Sandra Bullock turned down) 

Brittany Murphy (as Rourke's girlfriend and a singer)
Danny Trejo, Randy Corture, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Terry Crews, David Zayas, Liam Hemsworth and mixed martial art twins Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira.

Lionsgate release The Expendables on April 23, 2010. I used to know a guy who loved 80's Stallone/Arnie... I would love to see his face if I could tell him about this movie. It would be like a child opening presents at ...]]></description>
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		<title>Terry Crews replaces 50 Cent who replaced Forest Whitaker in THE EXPEDNABLES!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few days, the role of Hale Caesar in Sly Stallone's The Expendables was the subject of something of a merry-go-round last minute casting after the long time attached Forest Whitaker had to pull out due to scheduling difficulties. 

On Wednesday, AICN ran a story which originated from Stallone himself proclaiming, rather shockingly that rapper 50 Cent would be replacing Whitaker in the movie. The annoucmenet disgusted and worried many, that such a great actor, a recent Oscar winning leading man would be replaced by Cent. 

But those worries were quashed on Saturday when AICN once again ran a story for The Expendables, now claiming that former San Diego Charger Terry Crews would play the part. 



And the world was happy once again. ]]></description>
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		<title>EXPENDABLES 3:16</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BUFFY's Charisma Carpenter and WWE's Stone Cold Steve Austin have joined the "home coming of tough guys"...



Sylvester Stallone (writing, producing, directing and starring), Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Randy Corture, Forest Whitaker, Mickey Rourke (although how he shuffles IRON MAN 2 and this, I don't know) and for one brief scene, Arnie also star. 

Now, which one gets to bang Charisma? ]]></description>
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		<title>Arnie speaks on TERMINATOR SALVATION and THE EXPENDABLES cameo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding Arnie's cameo in TERMINATOR SALVATION, what I and indeed the Governator himself suggest is for fans NOT to expect him to turn up in the May blockbuster.

That way, if he does appear in it, it will be a nice and genuine surprise for everyone. And if he doesn't, well then you weren't expecting it anyway. 



Arnie spoke to fansite The Arnold Fans...
“I have seen the movie, but I have not seen it as a finished product yet. I have not seen it yet with the Terminator special effects and some of the sound and the music is not in there yet and so on. So I really cannot comment on it, what the movie will be like as a finished product. There’s a rule that you never talk about a movie unless you have seen the finished product. But you know as I said to the director when they began that I wish them the best of luck, that I’m happy that they move forward with the franchise, I am very happy with where I am with my profession as the governor and they should try to find a way of doing a story that does not include me at all, not even one single ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rourke not in IRON MAN 2, Arnie probably not in THE EXPENDABLES!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two bits of sad news to broadcast here my fellow geeks. 

First up, the lowball $250,000 offer from the recession hit Marvel to Mickey Rourke to play the main villain Crymson Dynamo in IRON MAN 2, proved to be too low for the actor. 

He tells New York Magazine...
"Right now, we're not doing Iron Man 2," Rourke told us grimly.
Instead as we heard yesterday, he has now officially signed on to appear in THE EXPENDABLES which will shoot at the same time as Marvel's Tony Stark sequel. 

Rourke owes Stallone a lot. If you watched that really inspiring interview last week between Rourke and Charlie Rose you will have heard the story that Stallone paid the majority fee to get Rourke to appear in GET CARTER at the turn of the century when the studio wasn't keen on his casting choice.

His role in GET CARTER was the beginning of Rourke's come back in the industry. 

Simply put, Rourke owes Stallone a lot and he has turned down a high profile role as a thank you to Stallone and most likely for the better paycheck.

In other, kind of related news. AICN are now firmly back tracking on the Arnie in THE EXPENDABLES story we ran ...]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATED: Arnie joins Stallone&#8217;s THE EXPENDABLES!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED: Latino Review have the scoop that Danny Trejo (ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO, MACHETE) has a role in the movie. For a "home coming of tough guys", how can you go wrong with a guy whose face carries the same hard man world weariness as Charles Bronson?


I have a feeling Sly Stallone got on his knees and begged Arnold Schwarzenegger, his much compared action hero peer of the 80's and 90's, to star in THE EXPENDABLES. 

But in the end, he could only get Arnie for one day of shooting. Which is still mega cool.

AICN have heard that Arnie will play Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie, a small cameo that revolves around a confrontation between Stallone's fictional character Barney Ross and Arnie playing himself. Somehow, don't ask me the details, but in this move universe it seems both have a history dating back to when Arnie was shooting CONAN THE BARBARIAN. 

It's a meta-film connection I guess, can't wait to see it. And it isn't actually the first time they have appeared together as Arnie recently filmed a small role in the Indian movie INCREDIBLE LOVE which Stallone has a considerable part in. That movie premieres in India in ...]]></description>
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		<title>Stallone nears ROCKY IV shape for THE EXPENDABLES</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fuck me!



Stallone, who remember is 62!, will begin shooting his ensemble war picture next month.

Meanwhile Brazilian site Omelete claim claim Brit actor Scot Adkins (he played Agent Kiley in THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM and will play Weapon XI in X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE) has been cast for the role of Paine described earlier as...
the head of General Garza’s security detail. His orders are to take the Expendables out. He eventually snags one of the mercenaries and tries to siphon details out of him.
The site also mention PRISON BREAK actor Robert Knepper for the cast, a name I have not heard previously for the film.

Also it's claimed Mickey Rourke's role has been heavily reduced to coincide with his IRON MAN 2 shooting schedule, where he play one of the main villains, the Russian Crymson Dynamo.

via - aicn, moviehole ]]></description>
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		<title>Mickey Rourke joins THE EXPENDABLES!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mickey Rourke played a "broken down piece of meat" in THE WRESTLER and proved he was far from expendable in a role he might well win an Academy Award for if sentimentality plays it's part with the voters.

His first cast role since the buzz from THE WRESTLER? Well it's going to be THE EXPENDABLES. Sly Stallone has once again kept to his promise of hiring larger than life personalities for his ensemble war picture and has cast Rourke to play an unscrupulous arms dealer who becomes the go-to guy for a group of mercenaries planning to topple a South American dictator.

Variety claim Rourke is repaying a favour to Stallone for bringing him back from the depths of cinematic obscurity when he cast him for GET CARTER in 2000.

Rourke was one of the names I kept hoping Tarantino would cast in INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, hoping he would resurrect his career, but this way back in the days before KILL BILL. Instead it was Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez who gave him the role of Marv which brought Rourke back in a big way.

Now Stallone isn't reviving his career. He's just simply utilising it. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A home coming of tough guys&#8221;&#8230; and women?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sylvester Stallone is chasing his DEMOLITION MAN co-star Sandra Bullock for his upcoming ensemble war picture THE EXPENDABLES according to JoBlo. They don't cite their sources but it's a rumor that isn't hard to believe given the talent Stallone has attempted to put together here.

Bullock is being lined up to play a government agent who is paired up with Forest Whitaker (who presumably isn't playing the South American dictator as I previously speculated) on the hunt for Stallone's crew of hired guns.



Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, Jason Statham and Randy Corture also star in what is described as "a home coming of tough guys" and is seen as Stallone's answer to Quentin Tarantino's snub for INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, of which Stallone was frequently inviting a firm acting offer.

Bullock who for years I've criticised for playing it "safe" with rom-com after rom-com, who be making a bold and welcomed move forward if she agrees to star in this one. Her upcoming movies THE PROPOSAL and ALL ABOUT STEVE, are movies she should have moved away from a long time ago.

One of the exciting things about this project is seeing what actors Stallone has been chasing. And making this even more enticing this ...]]></description>
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		<title>Forest Whitaker joins Stallone&#8217;s THE EXPENDABLES</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forest Whitaker and Randy Corture have joined THE EXPENDABLES, the self-proclaimed  “home coming of tough guys” war movie which Sylvester Stallone writes, stars and directs.

Presumably Whitaker plays the South American dictator who Stallone's team of mercenaries are attempting to overthrow. Whitaker's most famous role was as Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator for whom he won an Academy Award two years ago for portraying in THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND.



Dolph Lundgren, Jason Statham, Jet Li make up the rest of the cast so far.

AICN heard the news from their good friend Stallone, who also told them that Jet Li and Dolph Lundgren will be fighting one on one in movie, which is enough to get B-movie action geeks very excited indeed.

If ever there was a man's movie, this was it! The movie films in Brazil next March. ]]></description>
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		<title>Ivan Drago joins forces with Rocky Balboa!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They fought each other in ROCKY IV but now Rocky Balboa and Ivan Drago are teaming up to take down a South American dictator, as a team of mercenaries that also includes Jason Statham and Jet Li.

Sylvester Stallone revealed during an interview at the premiere of TRANSPORTER 3, that Dolph Lundgren had been cast in his upcoming writing/directing action ensemble THE EXPENDABLES.



Stallone calls it a "home coming of tough guys" and is clearly his answer to being snubbed by Quentin Tarantino for his World War II epic INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS.

He's doing the kind of kick-ass movie with the kind of action orientated stars that Tarantino originally said he was looking for when he mentioned BASTERDS would star the likes of Arnie, Bruce Willis and Jean Claude Van Damme.

Great cast so far for Stallone and isn't this so much more exciting than seeing him wheel out ROCKY or RAMBO again? ]]></description>
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		<title>Stallone to write, direct &amp; star in original action thriller!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sylvester Stallone is making his first original, non-franchised movie since the little seen thriller AVENGING ANGELO in 2002.

Variety say the actor will star and direct THE EXPENDABLES, a action thriller that follows a team of mercenaries on a mission to overthrow a South American dictator.



Stallone also wrote the screenplay which has THE ONE &#38; WAR duo Jason Statham attached and Jet Li in final talks. The movie is being made at Nu Image, the studio behind his last film RAMBO.

Could this be his answer to Quentin's snub for INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS? Is Stallone going to find more action A-listers to fill his cast and go balls-to-the-wall with a no holds barred RAMBO-esque violent frenzy!

Filming will begin in February in Costa Rica and Louisiana. ]]></description>
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