Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed!
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It’s been a rollercoaster ride in the development cycle of the second Sin City film, but it seems that Robert Rodriguez and creator Frank Miller are finally ready to wow the world once again with some doses of stylised ultra-violence and cheesy dialogue.
Jessica Alba looks likely to return, as do several other big names, but what about the real star of the first film, that hulking mountain of pain and bad attitude, Marv, who was portrayed by Mickey Rourke?
Oh yeah, he’s totally returning.
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The actor who always seems to be caught in the midst of a perpetual death cycle and wintery memes is back, this time with a more modern day story wherein he’ll be tackling the might of Hitler and his Captain Aryan project, in the upcoming horror-action flick, The Fourth Reich.
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Ridley Scott’s return to science-fiction with Prometheus may be all the rage currently, but it’s his “other return to science fiction” that may end up eclipsing even that. Up until now we haven’t really known much about the proposed 2nd Blade Runner film, except that we felt like kicking puppies when we first heard that another one was being made, a feeling that luckily (for the puppies) passed when we realized that Scott would still be in the driving seat, and that there would be no dreaded reboots of our beloved dystopian vision of the future.
In all of movie history, no man has been able to master the art of the one-liner, like Arnold Schwarzenegger has. Before he became the Governator, the man was a lean mean, pithy line spewing machine.
Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis combined have nothing on the amount of lines that Arnie delivered to his defeated foes over the years.
So let’s celebrate with a quiz, and see how many quotes that you can recognise, from the former bodybuilding champ.
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Bradley Cooper’s latest film, The Words, has a trailer online. Except it’s apparently not a very good one. The film recently showed at Sundance where most people who got to see it, really enjoyed it. And judging by a quick glance online, most of them agree that this trailer really doesn’t do the film justice by making it come off almost as an overcoming-the-odds love story, when in fact its focus is a dramatic and moralistic struggle between a down-on-his-luck writer (Bradley Cooper) who becomes famous off a found manuscript which he passes off as his own, and …
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This weekend you totally have to watch…. The Avengers. Again.
Yup, it’s a bit of a dud week at South African cinemas with only 3 new films opening locally. And none of them are exactly major drawcards. So, treat the next 7 days as a chance for an older release catch-up, or an opportunity to regain your breath before the seasonal blockbuster storm rages back to hurricane strength from next Friday.
One For the Money:
Love her or hate her, Katherine Heigl stars in this adaptation of the hit franchise-spawning mystery novel by Janet Evanovich. Mixing action and comedy, One For the Money sees Heigl …
With all the massive genre films being released this year, you could easily forget that James Bond’s 25th adventure is just 6 months away. You can forget, I mean, but not me. No, I am a devout 007 fanboy.
So you can imagine my joyful surprise (there may have been a yelp or two. I apologize) to discover this morning that MGM have not only released the first, really great looking poster for Skyfall, but have also given us some exciting news about the trailer.
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While Liam Neeson had certainly done action-type roles before (Darkman, anybody?), it will always be 2009′s Taken that will be seen as the start of his “Badass My Way Around The World” tour, which eventually culminated in him getting into a fistfight with a few Arctic wolves not too long ago.
But now Neeson will be returning to the role that catapulted him into action hero status, despite being old enough to be a grandfather. And judging by these three first-look images from Taken 2, this is still one mean ou toppie.
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Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed!
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Bruce Willis was born to be a police officer. Or at least act as one in several dozen films. From his manly days as the unluckiest cop in the world in Die Hard, through to his current role as the unluckiest cop in the world in Die Hard 5, it’s impossible to imagine the man in any other role.
Not that he didn’t try his hand at any other non-cop film, mind you. Plastic Surgeon, army officer and master assassin are just a few of the roles that he has assumed over the years.
But nothing compares to his one time performance, …
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He may be preoccupied right now with creating Chinese period piece epics, but that doesn’t mean that the number one pigeon and gunfight enthusiast that is John Woo, isn’t interested in returning to grim and gritty projects any time soon.
Between numerous other films that are vying for his attention like a tramp-stamp in front of a neglectful father, Woo is giving a certain gangster flick his next top priority, as he seeks to remake Day of the Beast.
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