It’s official people, Joseph Gordon-Levitt has officially signed on to star in the sequel from Robert Rodriguez called SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is set to play the role of Johnny (which was a role that was originally offered to Johnny Depp) which is apparently a character that has overlapping story [...]
In Hany Abu-Assad’s (PARADISE NOW) THE COURIER, Morgan is, well, The Courier, a messenger man known by only that moniker. That’s supposed to make him mysterious. So, too, is his self-description of his profession, “I deliver things.” So does Skip, the 17-year-old driver at Pizza Hut, but that doesn’t make him any more cryptic or [...]
The first time I saw a preview for IMMORTALS, I remember thinking “There is another 300 rip-off.” Now, I’m someone who enjoys stylized action just as much as the next guy, so even though I was leery I was still pretty excited to see what could come from Tarsem Singh, the Director who brought THE [...]
Flix66.com and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment are proud to offer you a chance to win a DVD of IMMORTALS One brave warrior, touched by the gods, must overcome all odds to save mankind from a merciless and powerful tyrant when IMMORTALS comes to Blu-ray and DVD on March 6th from Twentieth Century Fox Home [...]
Long ago a war raged between the gods. The victors claimed the heavens, the losers became known as Titans and were imprisoned deep in the mountains. Now, the bloodthirsty King Hyperion seeks the legendary Epirus Bow so that he may free the Titans from their prison and enslave mankind. Ever watchful, Zeus sets his eye [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant Mickey Rourke and Kellan Lutz have signed on to star in the Indonesian action-thriller JAVA HEAT. The film is about a barista that moonlights as an assassin, but the twist is that he kills people by making their coffee extremely hot. Okay, not really, but as ridiculous as this film is, [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant There have been many rumors surrounding the upcoming sequel THE EXPENDABLES 2, and this could just be another one to add to the mix, but I’ll let you decide for yourself. According to David Varod (who is the CEO of NU Boyana studios which is where the project will be filmed) [...]
Posted by: Zack Bruce When it comes to directing action flicks, I’d say Simon West has a decent background. His very first job was helming CON AIR which included an all-star cast, now it looks like he will be taking on another. West has been chosen to direct THE EXPENDABLES 2. The sequel is expected [...]
PASSION PLAY is the Hollywood equivalent of watching a car wreck. You know it’s about to happen and maybe you honk your horn or something, but you’re powerless to do anything about it. So you’re forced to watch the cars speed towards each other, headed to their eventual destruction and then when the wreck is [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant Mickey Rourke, Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell (who can be seen next in FRIGHT NIGHT) and Sam Rockwell are all teaming up with director Martin McDonagh for a story about dog-napping. With this kind of cast, is there really any need to elaborate on the plot? The film is called SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant A film that may or may not be on your radar for this coming fall is the Tarsem Singh film IMMORTALS which looks a little similar to 300. It comes to theaters November 11th and stars Henry Cavill (your new MAN OF STEEL), Mickey Rourke, Kellan Lutz and Freida Pinto. The [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) is mad with power and wants to eliminate the gods of Greek lore by releasing the Titans. Since the gods can’t interfere with human problems their only hope is a peasant named Theseus (Henry Cavill) who they choose to be their champion and save humanity from the [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant Not surprisingly there’s a little backpedaling and damage control from the Mickey Rourke camp today as he apologizes to co-star Megan Fox and his buddy Mitch Glazer who directed the upcoming film PASSION PLAY. Rourke stated, “I was at a party. It was loud and crowded, I was in a sh$tty [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant You may remember PASSION PLAY as being that movie starring Megan Fox and Mickey Rourke that was going to go straight to DVD, and then the studio back pedaled and decided to release it in the theaters. Well, the trailer her been released and it’s pretty low quality and quite frankly [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant Ouch. The Megan Fox, Mickey Rourke, Bill Murray film PASSION PLAY is going straight to DVD. I think we should all pause to take in what this really means because Rourke is still a hot commodity in Hollywood, Fox is still regarded as insanely beautiful and Bill Murray (after more than [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant Mickey Rourke, Rosario Dawson, Lenny Kravitz, Rodrigo Santoro and Riccardo Scamarcio are set to star in the film THE BLIND BASTARD CLUB. The film follows a group of blind friends led by Jake, who’s the leader and his rollerblading girlfriend Angel, who do daring things like go to shooting ranges and [...]
Posted by: Nathan Swank Mickey Rourke will add yet another film for an upcoming project as he has been cast in the action thriller THE COURIER. Also cast in the film is Til Schweiger, better known as Sgt Hugo Stiglitz in INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS. I found him to be quite charismatic as the brutal German-killer, so [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced that THE EXPENDABLES, starring Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren and Mickey Rourke, will be available on November 23, 2010 in a BD/DVD/Digital Copy combo pack. The film follows a team of ex-military members turned mercenaries who, in this instance, go to South America [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant I have a friend that loaned me Philip Carlo’s true account of Richard “The Ice Man” Kuklinski, titled ‘The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer’. I had it for a while, but only read about three chapters. It’s a well written book and it’s fascinating, but what makes it [...]
John Sedley has a face only a mother could love—until a robbery gone wrong changes everything. In 1989, a film helmed by Walter Hill called JOHNNY HANDSOME was released in theaters. I was only 5 when it came out, but I get the sense that it might have slipped through the cracks. Other films that [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant Rogue Pictures is putting a lot of hope into Tarsem Singh’s upcoming film IMMORTALS (previously titles WAR OF GODS). To get the hype started for the film, they’ve started doing video blogs with the director and in those videos, you can see the first images from the film. Below you can [...]
Posted by: Nathan Swank Jessica Biel and Luke Evans are finalizing negotiations to star in the period romance VIVALDI. The film centers on a forbidden romance that develops between composer, priest and violin virtuoso Antonio Vivaldi and his protégé, singer Anna Tessieri Giro, leading him to write his enduring masterpiece “The Four Seasons.” The project [...]
The excitement and anticipation surrounding IRON MAN 2 is extreme enough to smother most summer movies. Before it was even released, it was being compared to THE DARK KNIGHT and dubbed the greatest comic book movie ever made. Well, it shouldn’t be compared to any Batman film and this is not the greatest comic book [...]
Posted by: Nathan Swank Director Tony Scott is looking to cast Mickey Rourke in his next two films- POTZDAMER PLATZ and HELL’S ANGELS. In the later, Rourke would be playing Sonny Barger, who formed the Oakland chapter of the rough and tough motorcycle gang and helped transform the Angels into a national organization. Scott and [...]
Posted by: Nathan Swank Mickey Rourke may not have won the Academy Award for his role in THE WRESTLER but he got something arguably much better and that is steady work. It seems like Rourke has been signing up for just about everything that comes his way. He’s got IMMORTALS with Kellan Lutz in 2011 [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant I really thought the announcement of Stephen Dorff joining the film that used to be called WAR OF THE GODS and is now called IMMORTALS was going to be the last casting news, especially since the film has already started shooting. But today we learn that John Hurt and Isabel Lucas [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, Danny Trejo, Charisma Carpenter with cameos by Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. I don’t even think I have to say anything else about this film with that kind of star power. If you’re not stoked [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant I should have gone on record as predicting this, but as the casting and story for WAR OF GODS became more apparent, I actually said that this is shaping up to be something Stephen Dorff would star in. And by that I mean that it might be good, but it will [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant I’m sure it’s just sheer coincidence that the announcement of Kellan Lutz (TWILIGHT) joining WAR OF THE GODS is two days after the release of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON on Blu-ray…right? Maybe not. But the actor has joined the cast that includes Freida Pinto, Henry Cavill and Mickey Rourke. The [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant It was odd that Mickey Rourke was taking on two somewhat similar roles with CONAN and WAR OF THE GODS. Both were period, fantasy pieces and apparently, Rourke and his agent felt the same way and now they’ve dropped out of CONAN. There was talk that Rourke was actually dropping out [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant The second trailer for IRON MAN 2 was released today and it’s odd that they would release this the day after the Oscars, but apparently no time is a bad time to plug a summer blockbuster. The second (and presumably final) trailer features a little more of the storyline, which sees [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant When I read this news, I was shocked to learn that ESPN analyst Rachel Nichols was now getting into movies, and in a CONAN film of all places. Sadly, I was disappointed when I found out that my favorite sideline reporter was not actually going to be starring in the film, [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant Between this and starring as Conan’s father in the upcoming Conan film, I’m afraid Mickey Rourke might be doing his best John Travolta impersonation. He was big, then he fell off, then he had a huge comeback, now he’s doing (seemingly) bad movies again. To be fair, this and the new [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant The incomparable Bill Murray is going to be starring alongside Mickey Rourke and Megan Fox in PASSION PLAY, Mitch Glazer’s upcoming film about a struggling musician that saves a woman from a mobster’s wrath. Bill Murray will play the mobster. Toby Kebell (ROCK ‘N ROLLA) was originally slated, but had to [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant A new trailer for IRON MAN 2 starring Robert Downey, Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Mickey Rourke, Gwyneth Paltrow and Don Cheadle. This film follows more adventures with Tony Stark (Downey, Jr.) as Iron Man. The film is set for release May 7, 2010. This trailer is great and makes me more excited [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant Here are two new pictures of IRON MAN 2 along with two we’ve seen before. These shots are of Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.), Whiplash (Mickey Rourke) and the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson). From these shots it looks like the next installment of Iron Man will be a fun ride. IRON [...]
Despite what the title would have you believe, this is not a film about wrestling. This is a film about a broken down man that has made a lifetime out of making bad decisions and realized his mistakes just a little too late in life. Darren Arofnosky has crafted another sorrowful tale whose lead character [...]
Posted by: Sturdy This is perhaps the coolest thing I’ve ever posted or even read about. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone filmed a secret scene for the upcoming film THE EXPENDABLES (watch the trailer). Publicist Maria Lascala wrote as much in her blog and apparently witnessed the whole thing. The blog is loooooonnnnnngggggg, [...]
