Tag: Arnold Schwarzenegger (1-10 of 29)

May 14 2013 12:19 AM ET

Casting Net: 'The Terminator' in talks to play the Exterminator in 'Toxic Avenger' reboot; Plus, Olivia Wilde, more

by
Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Arnold-Schwarzenegger.jpg

Image Credit: Joel Ryan/Invision/AP

• Arnold Schwarzenegger is in talks to star in a reboot of The Toxic Avenger to play the Exterminator, who helps the Toxic Avenger (a weak kid who has an unfortunate accident at a toxic chemicals plant) learn to use his newfound powers for good. So, they team up to take on the evil polluters. Writer and director Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine) is leading the adaptation, and Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz (directors of the 1984 cult classic) will serve as executive producers. [Deadline]

• Olivia Wilde (TRON) and Mark Duplass (The League) are set to star in Reawakening, a medical thriller about some students who figure out how to bring people back from the dead. David Gelb, who directed the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, will make his feature narrative debut on the project. Besides her turn in the independent comedy Drinking Buddies, Wilde can be seen next in Ron Howard’s Rush. Duplass also has a number of acting projects on the horizon including the JFK assassination drama Parkland. [Variety]

READ FULL STORY »

Apr 10 2013 12:55 PM ET

The Stallone/Schwarzenegger prison movie has a new name and release date

by
Tags: , ,
Escape-Plan.jpg

Image Credit: Alan Markfield

In the halcyon days of early 2012, when the success of The Expendables seemed to auger a brave new comeback era for the ’80s beefcake action heroes, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone announced that they would co-star in a prison-break film called The Tomb. One year later, Stallone and Schwarzenegger have both starred separately in box office duds — Bullet to the Head and The Last Stand – but The Tomb is still slated to hit theaters in September. In fact, now it’ll hit theaters a little earlier: The film has moved its release date up to Sept. 13, opposite Machete Kills and Insidious Part 2. READ FULL STORY »

Jan 17 2013 07:22 PM ET

Box office preview: 'Mama' may take Jessica Chastain to No. 1 (again) over holiday weekend

by
Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,
Mama-Box-Office-01

Image Credit: Universal Pictures

Jessica Chastain is having a banner week. On Sunday, the statuesque actress won a Golden Globe for her performance in Zero Dark Thirty, which simultaneously topped the box office with $24.4 million. Tomorrow, Chastain will attempt to replace herself at the top of the chart with the Guillermo Del Toro-produced horror flick Mama. And she’s done all this while still performing in Broadway’s The Heiress!

Mama isn’t the only new entry this weekend. The Mark Wahlberg/Russell Crowe thriller Broken City will face the Arnold Schwarznegger vehicle The Last Stand in a quest to win over male action fans. Oscar hopeful Silver Linings Playbook is also moving into wide expansion, giving many audiences their first opportunity to see the award-festooned dramedy.

Here’s how the box office may shake out over the four-day holiday weekend:

1. Mama – $21 million
As Texas Chainsaw 3D proved two weekends ago, horror movies play well in January, and Universal’s latest effort, Mama, which boasts a slim $15 million budget, should have no trouble scoring a solid opening weekend. Jessica Chastain’s increased awards season visibility should lift the film’s prospects, as will the cache of Del Toro’s producing credit. Of course, hordes of horror-loving teens, who don’t care much about awards prestige, will likely make up the most substantial part of the audience, and in 2,647 theaters, Mama could scare up just over $20 million in its first four days. READ FULL STORY »

Jan 15 2013 07:02 PM ET

Arnold Schwarzenegger promises 'Twins' sequel...again

by
Tags: , , ,

SCHWARZENEGGER-TWINS

Image Credit: Everett Collection

Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped by Reddit today for an “Ask Me Anything” session and dropped an interesting piece of information: the Twins sequel is still happening and Danny DeVito and Eddie Murphy are on board, too.

The Ivan Reitman-directed comedy was one of the biggest hits of 1988 and has made over $200 million worldwide on a $15 million budget. Rumors of a sequel have been circulating for a while now and have mostly been propelled by Schwarzenegger himself (notably at Comic-Con last year). The word is that Triplets will add Murphy to the clan of brothers.

READ FULL STORY »

Dec 12 2012 04:19 PM ET

'The Last Stand' new trailer: Forest Whitaker laments 'a psychopath in a Batmobile' -- VIDEO

by
Tags: , , , , , , News

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s craggy-faced action comeback in South Korean director Kim Jee-woon’s English language debut The Last Stand is only a month or so away, out in theaters Jan. 18, and the movie’s new trailer pulls out more one liners from the former California Governator, costar Forest Whitaker and goofy sidekick Johnny Knoxville.

Cars crash into each other in a corn field, big guns are shot, and Whitaker as a serious law enforcement agent laments “a psychopath in a Batmobile” racing towards the U.S.-Mexican border to face off against world-weary Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger plays border town Sheriff Ray Owens, who is backed by a ragtag group. Bug-eyed Knoxville, part of the team, chuckles to Schwarzenegger, handling a mega weapon, “Nice shooting, sheriff.” Check out the trailer, below:
READ FULL STORY »

Nov 14 2012 09:57 PM ET

'Book of Mormon' star Josh Gad and ScriptShark exec to write 'Twins' sequel 'Triplets'

by
Tags: , , , , , , , , News
josh-gad

Image Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images

Josh Gad’s comedic star is on the rise both on and off the stage.

The Book of Mormon actor, funny and slovenly as missionary Elder Arnold Cunningham in the Tony-winning Broadway hit, has closed a deal alongside ScriptShark website exec Ryan Dixon to co-write the script for the Twins sequel Triplets, starring Eddie Murphy, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, Universal Pictures confirmed to EW on Wednesday.

The movie from Universal and Montecito Picture Co. picks up from 1988′s so-campy-it’s-great comedy Twins that cast tall, buff Schwarzenegger and short, stout DeVito as unlikely twin brothers. In the sequel, Murphy will join as a third, previously unknown brother.

As for more hyphened roles, Gad will star in the NBC White House comedy 1600 Penn, which he co-created and is premiering midseason in December.

For more film news

Read more:
No joke: ‘Twins’ sequel in the works, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, and Eddie Murphy
On the scene at ‘Book of Mormon’ Fan Day (and Josh Gad’s last show!)

Nov 8 2012 10:49 AM ET

'The Last Stand' trailer: Quoth Schwarzenegger, 'I'm da sheriff'

by
Tags: , ,

Here is what you will see in the trailer for The Last Stand, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s unretirement action film: Johnny Knoxville proudly addressing his personal chaingun as “my little Nazi killer”; Luis Guzman wielding a sword; a bad guy who drives a Zero One, which is “faster than any chopper”; Schwarzenegger saying the words “Gimme dat damn ting!”; Peter Stormare positively dripping with Stormarity; an action scene in the middle of a cornfield, clearly intended as an homage to North By Northwest; and, finally, Schwarzenegger helpfully explaining his role in the movie with a theater-exploding catchphrase, “I’m da sheriff!” Yes, friends, this is cinema. Watch the trailer: READ FULL STORY »

Oct 29 2012 01:00 PM ET

Coming to America: South Korea's top directors on hitting Hollywood with English language films -- EXCLUSIVE

by
Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , News
jee-woon-kim.jpg

Image Credit: Tony Rivetti Jr.

There’s a scene in South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s 2003 revenge classic Oldboy, currently being remade by Spike Lee, in which the film’s wild-haired, wild-eyed lead Min-sik Choi plops down at a restaurant and slurps on a huge fidgety live octopus, its long tentacles squirming out of his mouth. To American audiences, the moment may seem totally strange. But Park says the scene is less disgusting to Korean audiences. “They would be able to sympathize with the protagonist at that stage, who was incarcerated for 14 years,” he told EW. “He wants to eat something that is alive and moving. By chewing on this living thing, he’s venting his anger to an unknown protagonist.”

What is really gained, or lost, in translation? READ FULL STORY »

Oct 25 2012 09:48 PM ET

Casting Net: Arnold Schwarzenegger reviving Conan the Barbarian in new film. Plus: Adam Sandler, Patrick Wilson, Liv Tyler

by
Tags: , , , , , News
conan-the-barbarian.jpg

Image Credit: Everett Collection

• Arnold Schwarzenegger is attached to revive the character that launched his career from bodybuilder to movie star, playing Conan the Barbarian in The Legend of Conan. Though the basic story is in place — King Conan wants to die after one final chance to crush his enemies, see them driven before him, and hear the lamentations of their women — the film has no director or screenwriter yet in place. Producer Chris Morgan (who penned Wanted and the last three Fast and Furious movies, and will write the next two) may take to the typewriter depending on his schedule, though Universal apparently wants this for the summer of 2014. The failed reboot with Jason Momoa will be ignored, naturally, but its producer, Fredrik Malmberg, is also driving this sequel. [Deadline]

• Adam Sandler is set to star, write, and produce the comedy Western Ridiculous 6, which sounds like the perfect placeholder title for an Adam Sandler movie but is actually a riff on the title of the classic Western The Magnificent Seven (itself a remake of the feudal Japanese film Seven Samurai). Regular Sandler collaborator Tim Herlihy (Bedtime Stories, Happy Gilmore) will co-write with Sandler; no director is attached. [THR, Deadline]

• Patrick Wilson, Matt Bomer, Liv Tyler, and Jerry O’Connell, have wrapped production on Space Station 76, a dramatic comedy set in, yup, a space station that looks at feels like “the future” as seen from the 1970s. Wilson plays the station’s unstable captain, and Tyler the new second-in-command who rocks the boat. The indie film is the feature writing and directing debut of longtime character actor Jack Plotnick (perhaps best known to EW readers as Deputy Mayor Allan Finch on Buffy the Vampire Slayer). [THR]

• Patricia Arquette, Michael Imperioli, and Boardwalk Empire‘s Vincent Piazza will star in crime romance The Wannabe, about a man (Piazza) who yearns to be a mobster, and the struggling woman (Arquette) he loves. Imperioli would play Piazza’s straight-and-narrow brother. Actor Nick Sandow (Resurrecting the Champ) is writing and directing. [Variety]

Read more:
Casting Net: Johnny Depp embracing ‘Transcendence.’ Plus: Bradley Cooper, Rhys Ifans, Katt Williams
Casting Net: Angelina Jolie’s kids Pax and Zahara join her in ‘Maleficent.’ Plus: Al Pacino, Jeremy Renner, Julianne Moore
Casting Net: Anna Kendrick to sing about ‘The Last 5 Years.’ Plus: Hugh Grant, Emmy Rossum, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Aug 24 2012 03:59 PM ET

Movie Talk with Owen and Lisa: If 'The Expendables 2' were better, 'It wouldn't be as good'

by
Tags: , , , , ,

The Expendables 2 isn’t exactly the sort of movie that gets critics rallying to its defense. It’s neo-’80s schlock featuring a team of action stars who, at this point, can barely even move. Yet the film has a couple of defenders this week: Lisa and I both enjoyed the honest cheesiness with which it returns you to the era before action films — even bad ones — came layered with a certain post-9/11 gravitas. The Expendables 2 may be trash, but it has the courage of its own irresponsibility, along with a cast we still like a lot (in part because they are so old). You can see us chat about it below in the latest installment of “Movie Talk with Owen and Lisa.”

READ FULL STORY »

Advertisement

Find Movies and Showtimes

Choose Your Movie

All movies

TV Recaps

Powered by WordPress.com VIP
'Star Trek': I'd rather be...