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"The rebels have hired the most expensive mercenaries out of Europe." Well Go USA has released the new trailer for the release of the epic action movie Wolf Warrior II from China. If you haven't seen the first Wolf Warrior, don't worry, this will be just as fun to watch no matter what. Wolf Warrior II is already the most successful film ever released in China, making over $800 million in that country alone. Wolf Warrior II (or Wolf Warrior 2) brings back Jing Wu, who stars and directs, as the "Wolf Warrior", China's deadliest Special Forces operative who must return to fight off mercenaries terrorizing innocent civilians. The cast includes Celina Jade, Gang Wu, Hans Zhang, Qian Yu, Nan Yu, Shanshan Chunyu, and Haifeng Ding. This looks like one of those action movies they don't make anymore, and I mean that in a good way. Here's the new official Us trailer...

Wolf Warrior 2, the highly-anticipated action-packed sequel to the 2015 Chinese war action film Wolf Warrior opens in theaters July 28. Reprising his role of a Special Forces operative and an expert marksman will be the martial arts star Wu Jing (Shaolin, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor), who has also written and directed the film. Wu Jing is also known to some of his fans as Jacky Wu.

The Mandarin and English language sequel co-stars Frank Grillo (Captain America: Civil War), Celina Jade (The Man with the Iron Fists), Yu Nan (The Taking of Tiger Mountain) and Hans Zhang (TV series Boss & Me). Jade is reuniting with her Legendary Assassin co-star and director Wu Jing after a gap of 11 years.

The Wolf Warrior Leng Feng (Wu Jing) in the new film has settled to a quiet life by the sea, with his career in tatters. But when his path crosses...

No reason has been given for the change in opening film.

Danish director Bille August’s The Chinese Widow will open this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff, June 17-26), replacing Ann Hui’s Our Time Will Come, which was previously announced as the opening film.

However, Our Time Will Come will still play in the Golden Goblet competition at Siff. No reason was given for the change by either the festival or the film’s producer Bona Film Group.

Both films are set in China during the Second World War. Starring Emile Hirsch and Yu Nan, The Chinese Widow tells the story of an American pilot who is shot down and saved by Chinese villagers. It remains unclear if the film has been made under the recently signed Danish-Chinese co-production treaty. August recently served as jury president at the Beijing International Film Festival.

Our Time Will Come, which stars Zhou Xun and Eddie Peng, revolves...

Producer Andy Lau hopes five-part drama will have “international appeal”.

Tencent Penguin Pictures has boarded Chinese-language mini-series The Trading Floor, which is being produced by Fox Networks Group Asia and Andy Lau’s Focus Television.

The five-part series, which starts shooting this week, is written and directed by Kk Wong, whose credits include hit Hong Kong TV series The Election. The story follows a team of financial mercenaries in their attempts to conquer the financial market.

Hong Kong actor Francis Ng, Taiwan’s Joseph Chang and Chinese actress Yu Nan head that cast of the series, which also stars Poon Chang Leung, Jacky Cai, Carlos Chan and Jiang Qilin. Patrick Tam makes a special appearance.

Scheduled for release in autumn 2017, The Trading Floor will be broadcast on Fox channel Scm and also made available to viewers in mainland China on Tencent Video on a day-and-date basis.

Andy Lau said: “With its innovation in storytelling and multi-dimensional characters...

Danish filmmaker to preside over Tiantan competition; festival line-up includes Moonlight, On Body And Soul.

Danish filmmaker Bille August will head the jury for the Tiantan competition at this year’s Beijing International Film Festival (Bjiff, April 16-23).

August is currently in post-production on China-set drama The Chinese Widow, starring Emile Hirsch and Yu Nan in the story of an American pilot saved by Chinese villagers during the Second World War.

He has also opened a studio in the Chinese city of Hangzhou and serves as a “culture consultant” for the city. Bjiff will screen a retrospective of his films.

The Tiantan competition section will screen 15 films in total, which have yet to be announced. The festival will also screen retrospectives of the work of David Lynch, late Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni and Taiwanese actress and filmmaker Sylvia Chang.

Other films to screen at the festival include multiple Oscar winner Moonlight; Berlin Golden Bear winner On Body...

There is a thrilling selection of Chinese-language titles at Filmart this year. Liz Shackleton picks out some of the most promising.

With very few Hong Kong or mainland Chinese sellers making the journey to this year’s European Film Market in Berlin, Filmart offers a chance for buyers to catch up with the Chinese-language titles that will be rolled out in the region for the rest of the year.

After serving up the biggest film of the Chinese New Year holiday — Kung Fu Yoga, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Stanley Tong — China’s Sparkle Roll Media has launched a Hong Kong-based sales arm that is selling Ding Sheng’s reboot of the A Better Tomorrow series.

Other high-profile action titles new to market include Distribution Workshop’s Extraordinary Mission, from the creative teams behind the Infernal Affairs and Overheard series, and Huayi Brothers’ crime drama Explosion, starring Duan Yihong.

Previously announced...

Exclusive: Updated agreement begins with Im Global handling sales on Chang Zheng’s Explosion.

Im Global has extended the output deal between its Anthem foreign sales division and Beijing-based Huayi Brothers, to handle international sales on the studio’s Chinese productions.

The extended deal kicks off with Chang Zheng’s Explosion [pictured], which Im Global is introducing to buyers at Filmart. Starring Duan Yihong, Wang Jingchun and Yu Nan, the film tells the story of an explosives technician who is left as the sole survivor, as well as prime suspect, of a mining accident. The film is in post-production for release in China over the summer.

Im Global is also selling Huayi Brothers’ Beautiful Accident, a romantic drama directed by Malaysian-born filmmaker Ho Wi Ding and starring Gwei Lun-mei, Chen Kung, Wang Jingchun and Ouyang Nana.

“We have enjoyed a very fruitful relationship with Huayi Brothers over the last few years and we’re delighted to be extending...

Exclusive: Company reveals four titles on debut sales slate.

Hong Kong’s One Cool Group has launched an international sales arm, One Cool Pictures, which is arriving at Filmart with a slate headed by $45m sci-fi action title Warriors Of The Future, starring Louis Koo and Sean Lau.

Produced by One Cool Film Production, the film is set in the future when the earth’s atmosphere has been destroyed and a mysterious vine appears to be the only hope for salvation.

The film, which started shooting in February, is directed by visual-effects veteran Ng Yuen-fai (Bodyguards And Assassins), who runs One Cool’s VFX company FatFace Production.

One Cool is also launching sales on $22m action title Taste Of Crime, which marks Hong Kong actor Nick Cheung’s third film as director following Ghost Rituals and Keeper Of Darkness. Starring Cheung, Xu Jinglei and Yu Nan, the film tells the story of an undercover cop who unveils...

Kate Plays ChristineThe lineup for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, taking place between January 21 -31, has been announced.U.S. Dramatic COMPETITIONAs You Are (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, USA): As You Are is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation. Cast: Owen Campbell, Charlie Heaton, Amandla Stenberg, John Scurti, Scott Cohen, Mary Stuart Masterson. World Premiere The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker, USA): Set against the antebellum South, this story follows Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. After witnessing countless atrocities against fellow slaves, Nat devises a plan to lead his people to freedom. Cast: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Jackie Earle Haley, Gabrielle Union, Mark Boone Jr. World PremiereChristine (Antonio Campos,...

The Sundance Film institute has released the line-up of film for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Going to Sundance is one of my favorite events of the year. I love going because you never know what kind of movies you're going to see. Sometimes they are great films that amaze and entertain, other times they completely suck ass, but that's all part of the fun of going to the festival. It's an awesome experience for any hardcore movie geek, and if you ever get a chance to go, you need to.

The event takes place in Park City, Utah next year from January 21st to the 31st. It looks like there's a great line-up of movies at next year's event. My favorite portion of the event is the Midnight section because it deals more with geeky genre type movies, but I also enjoy the various sections of other line-ups.

Some of...

In last year’s section which included Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan and Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick, it was John Maclean’s debut Slow West claimed the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, Alanté Kavaïté’s The Summer of Sangailé landed the Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic, Umrika was the audience’s won the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic. In this year’s dozen offerings we have names we normally associate with Cannes in The Misfortunates‘ Felix van Groeningen (Belgica), The Other Side of Sleep‘s Rebecca Daly (Mammal – see pic above) and A Stray Girlfriend‘s Ana Katz (Mi Amiga del Parque). Here are the selections.

Belgica / Belgium, France, Netherlands (Director: Felix van Groeningen, Screenwriters: Felix van Groeningen, Arne Sierens) — In the midst of Belgium’s nightlife scene, two brothers start a bar and get swept up in its success.Cast: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Hélène De Vos. World Premiere.

Titles include Tallulah starring Ellen Page and Allison Janney, and Chad Hartigan’s Morris From America (pictured); Next strand also announced.Scroll down for full list

Sundance Institute has announced the 65 films selected for the Us Competition, World Competition and out-of-competition Next categories set to screen at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival (Jan 21-31) in Park City.

Us Dramatic Competition selections include Sian Heder’s Tallulah with Ellen Page and Allison Janney; Antonio Campos’ Christine; Clea DuVall’s feature directorial debut The Intervention; and Richard Tanne’s Southside With You, about Barack Obama’s first date with the First Lady.

Among the Us Documentary Competition selections are: Holy Hell by undisclosed; Jeff Feuerzeig’s Author: The Jt LeRoy Story; and Sara Jordenö’s Kiki.

The World Cinema Dramatic Competition entries include: Belgica (Belgium-France-Netherlands), Felix van Groeningen’s follow-up to The Broken Circle Breakdown; Manolo Cruz and Carlos del Castillo’s Between Sea And Land (Colombia); and Nicolette Krebitz’s Wild...

Action icon Scott Adkins is a one-man wrecking machine, taking out numerous enemies in our exclusive clip from Wolf Warrior. There is certainly no shortage of fighting scenes in this action-thriller, as you can see in our clip where Scott Adkins' Tom Cat uses his extensive martial arts skills, even as he's out-numbered. This new film debuts on Blu-ray and DVD September 1 from Well Go USA.

The action-packed war drama Wolf Warrior marks Jacky Wu's second film as a director, following Legendary Assassin. In addition to his directing duties, Jacky Wu (Badges of Fury, Shaolin) also stars as a Chinese Special Forces soldier with extraordinary marksmanship who is expelled from the army and joins a mysterious troupe of insurgents known as the Wolf Warrior. Nan Yu (The Expendables 2, The Taking of Tiger Mountain) plays the formidable female captain of the insurgents, while British martial arts sensation Scott Adkins (Zero Dark Thirty,...

Always a feast for the film lover (especially the lover of African cinema), the lineup for the 2015 edition of the New York African Film Festival (Nyaff), which will run from May 6 - 12, announced a couple of weeks ago, includes a few titles you'll recognize like the opening night film - the South African crime drama "Cold Harbour" by Carey McKenzie. Previously titled "Black South-Easter," "Cold Harbour" is a South African crime thriller starring Tony Kgoroge, Fana Mokoena (maybe the most recognizable to USA audiences), Yu Nan, Deon Lotz, Thomas Gumede and Zolani Mahola. It's directed by Carey McKenzie, and produced by Tendeka Matatu.  ...

Easternlight's Wolf Warriors, directed by and starring martial artist Wu Jing, kicked and punched its way to the top of the Chinese box office over the Tomb Sweeping holiday weekend, taking $32.58 million in its first four days on release. In the film, which is playing in China in 3D and Imax, Wu plays a Chinese Special Forces soldier who is kicked out of the army and then joins a mysterious group of insurgents known as the Wolf Warriors. It also stars Yu Nan and the British martial artist Scott Adkins. According to data from the research group Entgroup,

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Exclusive: Well Go USA has swooped on North American rights to Easternlight Films’ 3D war epic Wolf Warrior, directed by and starring Wu Jing.

Yu Nan and Scott Adkins [pictured] also star in Wolf Warrior, which is in post-production and will be available in IMAX 3D.

Easternlight has also sold it to Noori Pictures for Thailand, Viswaas for India and Myanmar Cineplex for Myanmar.

Wu Jing stars as a Chinese special forces soldier who is expelled from the army and joins a mysterious troupe of insurgents known as the Wolf Warriors.

Yu Nan plays the formidable female captain of the insurgents, while Scott Adkins plays a foreign mercenary out to capture him.

Easternlight, the Asian arm of Arclight Films, previously worked with Wu Jing on Spl and Legendary Assassin.

The film will be released in China on April 2, one day before Easternlight’s Outcast, starring Nicolas Cage, which was mysteriously pulled from release last year.

Continuing with highlights of films set to screen at Paff next month... Previously titled "Black South-Easter," "Cold Harbour" is a South African crime thriller starring Tony Kgoroge, Fana Mokoena (maybe the most recognizable to USA audiences), Yu Nan, Deon Lotz, Thomas Gumede and Zolani Mahola. It's directed by Carey McKenzie, and produced by Tendeka Matatu.  The film opens with the mutilated body of a Chinese man that washes up on a Cape Town beach. For township cop Sizwe Miya (played by Kgoroge), this is an opportunity to prove himself and earn the promotion he desperately needs. His boss and mentor, Venske (Lotz), gives Sizwe the case but assigns a...

I'm really appreciating the wave of black South African *genre* films we've seen in recent years, from "How To Steal 2 Million," to today's feature, "Cold Harbour," and everything we've covered between the two.  Previously titled "Black South-Easter," "Cold Harbour" is a South African crime thriller starring Tony Kgoroge, Fana Mokoena (maybe the most recognizable to USA audiences), Yu Nan, Deon Lotz, Thomas Gumede and Zolani Mahola, directed by Carey McKenzie and produced by Tendeka Matatu.  The film opens with the mutilated body of a Chinese man that washes up on a Cape Town beach. For township cop Sizwe Miya (played...

Joining the titles already announced—including films by Alain Resnais and Dominik Graf—the following films complete the lineup for the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival's Competition section.

Bai Ri Yan Huo (Black Coal, Thin Ice)

People’s Republic of China

By Yinan Diao (Night Train, Uniform)

With Fan Liao, Lun Mei Gwei, Xuebing Wang

World premiere

Boyhood

USA

By Richard Linklater (Before Midnight, Me & Orson Welles)

With Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater

International premiere

Chiisai Ouchi (The Little House)

Japan

By Yoji Yamada (Tokyo Family, About Her Brother)

With Takako Matsu, Haru Kuroki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Chieko Baisho

International premiere

Historia del miedo (History of Fear)

Argentina / Uruguay / Germany / France

By Benjamin Naishtat - feature debut

With Jonathan Da Rosa, Claudia Cantero, Mirella Pascual, Cesar Bordon, Tatiana Gimenez

World premiere

Jack

Germany

By Edward Berger

With Ivo Pietzcker, Georg Arms, Luise Heyer, Vincent Redetzki, Jacob Matschenz,...

Richard Linklater’s Boyhood to compete for the Golden Bear; Beauty and the Beast, starring Vincent Cassel and Léa Seydoux, to play out of competition.

The 64th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 6-16) has added 15 titles to its Competition programme, completing the line-up of 23 films - of which 20 will vye for the Golden Bear and Silver Bears.

The programme includes 18 world premieres and three feature debuts.

The line-up includes the international premiere of Boyhood, from Before Midnight director Richard Linklater. The film, which will premiere at Sundance, was shot over short periods from 2002 to 2013 and covers 12 years in the life of a family, featuring Mason and his sister Samantha. Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater star.

World premieres include In Order of Disappearance, directed by Hans Petter Moland, which stars Stellan Skarsgård as a snow plough driver whose son’s sudden death puts him in the middle of a drug war between theNorwegian mafia and the...

Sylvester Stallone’s Expendables 3 script makes room for even more deadly old-timers to join the cast (like Wesley Snipes and Jackie Chan), in addition to some “young bloods.” The latter’s role in the film look to be more important than those for the whipper-snappers in Expendables 2 - Liam Hemsworth and Nan Yu – judging by newly-released plot details, in addition to an update on the casting for EX3‘s fresher-faced additions.

Sly took to his personal Twitter account to confirm that the Expendables 3 cast will include two younger people who boast very impressive athletic credentials: the Olympic medal-winning Judo fighter and Mixed Martial Artist Ronda Rousey and the welterweight boxing champion Victor Ortiz. ...

Click to continue reading ‘Expendables 3′ Adds Ronda Rousey, Victor Ortiz and Kellan Lutz; Plot Details Revealed...

The Expendables 3 is coming and some possible plot details for the film have leaked out online. Not that the movie really needs a plot, it's just a big action movie franchise about good guys fighting bad guys. I guess there has to be a reason for the fight in the first place, and this time it's all about saving the President of the United States. They also reiterate that Jackie Chan is in the film and Jet Li will be returning.

The news comes from expendablespremiere.com and this is the update they have:

It's no surprise that the kung fu legend Jackie Chan is slated to join the growing cast of action superstars for Expendables 3. Chan is to play a former team member that aids Stallone and his crew in saving the president.Jet Li is also to return; this would be the second time the kung fu movie legends have worked together.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has not only re-confirmed that he'll be playing The Terminator again in Terminator 5, but he's also revealed to TheArnoldFans that he is set to reprise his role as Trench in The Expendables 3. He also revealed to them that he's going to start filming the movie this in August in Los Angeles. 

Lionsgate has set the film's release date for August 15th, 2014. The movie will be directed by Patrick Hughes and will also star Sylvester Stallone. It has yet to be confirmed who else will be in the movie, but some new faces will most likely include Jackie Chan, Wesley Snipes, Nicolas Cage, and Milla Jovovich, who are all in advanced negotiations.

The cast of the previous film included Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Nan Yu, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Liam Hemsworth, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Bruce Willis.

Guests will linclude Helen Mirren, Taylor Hackford, Oliver Stone, Tom Hooper.

The 16th Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff) is set to open tomorrow (June 15) with the Asian premiere of Monsters University. The Pixar 3D comedy prequel marks the first time an animation is opening the mainland China fest.

Siff will host stars such as Oscar-winning British actress Helen Mirren and her husband, Directors Guild of America president Taylor Hackford. Hitchcock (starring Mirren) and Parker (directed by Hackford) will screen during the fest.

Us director Oliver Stone is set to receive an award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement and participate in the SIFForum exchange with Chinese directors. Stone was on the first Siff Golden Goblet Award jury in 1993.

This year, The King’s Speech director Tom Hooper will head the Golden Goblet jury which includes Chinese actress Nan Yu, Czech director Jirí Menzel and Chinese director Ning Hao. Of the 14 finalists, the winners will be announced at the closing...

Damn. Now that’s a list. According to trade news, Jackie Chan, Wesley Snipes, Nic Cage and Milla Jovovich are all in “advanced negotiations” to join the ballooning cast of “The Expendables 3″. (So what does “advanced negotiations” mean? I guess it might mean things have gone beyond the rumor stage and are now in the actively talking contract details stage. Or not.) Chan, Snipes, and Cage I can see, but Jovovich? That’s a surprise. She’s certainly got the ass-kicking pedigree, though it’s curious the people who were trying to get an all-female version of “The Expendables” made couldn’t/didn’t land her for their movie. She would be a natural fit. I guess franchise star/director/producer Sylvester Stallone was dead serious about injecting some new blood into the movie. They tried that with a young actor (Liam Hemsworth) and a girl (Nan Yu) in the last one,...

Here's a new casting update for The Expendables 3: Resident Evil's Milla Jovovich is in negotiations to join the explosive sequel as one of the ultimate badasses. I guess if any woman were to join in on the action in this testosterone filled franchise, it would be Jovovich. She's earned it.

Deadline is also reporting that the studio is also in "advanced negotiations" with Jackie Chan, Wesley Snipes, and Nicolas Cage. There's are all names that have previously been mentioned, but it now looks like they will actually end up being in the movie. 

The movie will be directed by Patrick Hughes (Red Hill), and it's scheduled to start production in August. The cast of the previous film also included Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Nan Yu, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Liam Hemsworth, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. It is yet to...

Its official. We've long known that Nicolas Cage, Jackie Chan and Wesley Snipes were all wanted for the action franchise sequel The Expendables 3. Today, it has been announced that they are all in "advanced negotiations" with production slated to start this August. One new name has been added to the mix, and as expected, it is a female.

That's right, Resident Evil mainstay Milla Jovovich is joining the cast, which has been predominately male, with the exception of Nan Yu and Charisma Carpenter in The Expendables 2.

No further information has been revealed about the new characters included in the script for The Expendables 3. It can be expected that at least one of the four new additions will be playing a villain, long hinted to be Nicolas Cage's role. More casting announcements are also expected in the near future. Might we see Milla Jovovich reunite with her...

The Expendables franchise is all about getting bigger and bigger with each installment. When the first film came out in 2010 he brought together amazing action stars like Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren, Jason Statham and more, but they upped the ante in 2012 with Expendables 2, which also added Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, and Scott Adkins into the mix. So where do you go from there? The answer is to add Jackie Chan, Wesley Snipes, Nicolas Cage and Milla Jovovich. According to Deadline, Lionsgate is now in active negotiations with all four stars to join the cast of The Expendables 3. While Chan, Snipes and Cage have all been rumored for possible roles in the film for months, this is actually the first time that we've heard about Jovovich's possible involvement. She would be the second actress to join the gang of killer mercenaries after Chinese actress Nan Yu...

Sylvester Stallone took to his Twitter account recently and offered a bunch of updates on The Expendables 3. He confirms some casting and reveals where they are looking for inspiration. I think you're going to like what he has to say.

Here are the tweets he sent out:

Scouting eastern Europe and Asia ...we are going all out on this one ... Could be a big surprise!!

What's the plan? Ask Jackie Chan....

Thinking about Raiding, The Raid....think about it...

We believe we can do better than the Raid, which was an excellent film... Raising the bar...

Mighty Mickey is back............

Talked to Wesley today ... He can not Wait to fight to the top again !!!!!!! Over...

So he's confirmed Jackie Chan, Mickey Rourke, and Wesley Snipes will be in the movie. The most interesting part of this to me though is that he thinks they can do a better action film than The Raid.

Just as they did last year, South Africa's National Film and Video Foundation (Nfvf) will once again take a delegation of films and filmmakers to the Cannes International Film Festival, which takes place later this month - from the 15th until the 26th of May.  The goal here is to demonstrate that South African cinema can compete on the international stage, and show that stories by South African filmmakers can resonate in the international cinema market place. One of the films that will be presented this year is a crime thriller titled Black South-Easter, starring Tony Kgoroge, Fana Mokoena, Yu Nan, Deon Lotz, Thomas...

Sylvester Stallone has revealed that they've hired Patrick Hughes to direct The Expendables 3. I'm not familiar with the director at all, but he made a couple of shorts and a movie called Red Hill that I've never seen. Stallone posted the following, 

EX3 Needs freshness, class, and much badass, ....Found it... Blood Sweat and Fears, coming soon... My best Pure Action Film - The last Rambo - I want this one too top it and I believe it will with New Blood.

I guess he feels that Hughes in the man to turn his dreams for The Expendables 3 into a reality. There was a point where Stallone asked what everyone thought about Mel Gibson possibly directing the film, but it looks like that didn't take. 

In addition to Stallone, the last film starred Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Nan Yu, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Liam Hemsworth,...

Sylvester Stallone has just revealed (via his Twitter account) that Australian director Patrick Hughes ( Red Hill ) is set to direct The Expendables 3 . "EX3 Needs freshness, class, and much badass," Stallone writes "....Found it... Blood Sweat and Fears, coming soon... My best Pure Action Film - The last Rambo - I want this one too top it and I believe it will with New Blood." The cast of the last film included, in addition to Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Nan Yu, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Liam Hemsworth, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Exactly who among those might be returning remains to be seen, but Stallone has hinted that Jackie Chan could join the Expendables' ranks and that the...

Theatrical Trailer: the official theatrical piece, usually cut from the first (very long) cut of the picture or sometimes (if there is no first cut yet) from dailies (all the shot footage, including all the different takes and angles), maximum length of a trailer is two and a half minutes.

Teaser Trailer: A first, short theatrical preview piece (usually not longer than a minute and a half), cut from a few selected takes and scenes while the picture is still being shot.

For those of you who think it’s okay to show up to a film after the coming attractions – move along. No self-respecting movie geek would dare miss the previews. And don’t get us started on the individuals who arrive during the trailer you’ve been dying to see only to move through your line of sight during the all-important money shot.

In most cases, trailers are...

It’s Monday, so we all know what that means! Yes, it’s time for another rundown of DVDs and Blu-ray’s hitting stores online and offline this week. It’s a jam-packed week, with plenty of movies waiting to take you money, so let us breakdown the new releases and highlight what you should – and shouldn’t – be buying from today, December 10th 2012.

Pick Of The Week

The Expendables 2 (DVD/Blu-ray)

Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren),Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) — with newest members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and Maggie (Nan Yu) aboard — are reunited when Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) enlists the Expendables to take on a seemingly simple job. The task looks like an easy paycheck for Barney and his band of old-school mercenaries. But when things go wrong and one...

The Expendables 2

Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Liam Hemsworth, Randy Couture, Jean Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Terry Crews, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis | Written by Richard Wenk, Sylvester Stallone | Directed by Simon West

Who’s your favourite Expendable? There’s a few more to choose from in this sequel to Sylvester Stallone’s first film in this throwback franchise, directed by Con Air’s Simon West. The plot is simple. Whilst on a routine mission, Stallone and his band of mercenaries, made up of familiar faces from the action movies of yesteryear, run afoul of Jean Claude Van Damme’s rival group of soldiers of fortune. Thus begins a tale of revenge, plutonium and a whole mess of botox.

The main problem with the fairly average first film was its strange lack of humour. You’d think that getting a bunch of action icons together...

Fans of the original action hero mash-up The Expendables are in for higher stakes, twice the explosions and more grizzled cast members in The Expendables 2, now available on Blu-ray. While the sequel managed to top the experience of the first film, the Blu-ray has plenty of extras to keep fans busy, including a commentary track by director Simon West (Con Air) that provides a lot of behind-the-scenes info. Want to know what weapons the Expendables used? Want to know how much bigger the sequel could have been? Want to see the real life Expendables the movie characters referenced? Well then hit the jump for my review of The Expendables 2 on Blu-ray.  The first Expendables united 80s/90s action stars Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Terry Crews and Randy Couture in an action-packed macho shoot 'em up. The sequel featured the return...

This week: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris and more aging action heroes are back to blow things up in the explosive "The Expendables 2."

Also new this week is a collection of Quentin Tarantino movies handpicked by the filmmaker himself, the Blu-ray debut of 1975's "Zorro" starring Alain Delon and a Criterion Collection edition of the formerly maligned/recently praised 1980 Western "Heaven's Gate."

'The Expendables 2'

Box Office: $85 million

Rotten Tomatoes: 66% Fresh

Storyline: Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) and the rest of the Expendables (Jason Statham, Jet Li, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Liam Hemsworth and Dolph Lundgren) are sent by Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) to Albania to retrieve an item from a downed plane only to lose one of their own in an ambush by an opposing group of mercenaries led by Jean Vilain (Jean-Claude Van Damme). The action then moves to Bulgaria where...

I'm appreciating the wave of black South African genre films we've seen in recent years, from How To Steal 2 Million to today's feature, Black South-Easter, which like the former is also a crime thriller, and everything else between. Black South-Easter is an upcoming South African crime thriller starring Tony Kgoroge, Fana Mokoena, Yu Nan, Deon Lotz, Thomas Gumede and Zolani Mahola, directed by Carey McKenzie and produced by Tendeka Matatu. Here's its synopsis: As the annual “Black South-Easters” blow dark clouds over Table Mountain, bringing storms to Cape Town, the ill winds of corruption blow through the city’s townships. In a...

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Yang Zongbao is the last man standing in the Yang clan, a family of generals who have dedicated their lives to defending the Song Dynasty from foreign invaders. He apparently dies in battle tragically when the treacherous Imperial Tutor Pan refuses...

Like Charlie's Angels, but dangerous!

Even though the The Expendables 2 was a bit redundant and perhaps too self-aware at times, it was still an entertaining action movie with all-star cast appeal. A sequel is already in development, with Wesley Snipes, Nicolas Cage, Harrison Ford and Clint Eastwood all being courted to join the cast. Noticeably absent from that list are the names of any female action movie stars. We say, if the gimmick of the franchise is surprising new cast additions, why not push it further than bringing in Indy by bringing in Ripley or The Bride.

Or, better yet, how about a stand-alone movie with an all-female cast of female action heroes from yesterday and today? Just think of the possibilities!

Imagine a revenge movie written and directed by Quentin Tarantino about an all-female super-spy team run by Sigourney Weaver, with members that include: Uma Thurman as the...

There is some people who didn't like the explosions and over the top action of The Expendables movies, so what will they think of some added estrogen? That's right, Millennium Films, the company behind The Expendables and The Expendables 2 are planning a female-driven spin-off, entitled ExpendaBelles (with a name like that I don't know whether to smile or slap my forehead). Taking it's cue from the previous movies, the cast will seeded by actresses who have logged some serious time in the action genre, and given its spin-off status, I wouldn't be surprised if Nan Yu, who made an appearance in The Expendables 2 as Maggie, is involved. Script writing duties will be handled by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith (Legally Blonde) This isn't the only all female action team to be making its way to the big screen, with a separate take on the concept been developed by 1984 Private Defense Contractors.

I'm so confused. Back in August it was announced that producer Adi Shankar (The Grey) and production company 1984 Private Defense Contractors were in the process of setting up an all-female action movie that would be a riff on Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables. It was never going to be an official Expendables spin-off as Lionsgate and Millennium Entertainment were not involved, but since then Gina Carano (Haywire) and Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica) supposedly signed on to star. Now this week Deadline is reporting that the female Expendables movie has an official title and a pair of writers. Here's the thing: it appears to be a totally different project. Could there really be two competing all-star female action movies in the works? According to Deadline, Millennium has apparently decided to steal their own idea back and have hired screenwriters Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith (Legally Blonde, The House Bunny) to pen the script.

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Nov. 20, 2012

Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.99

Studio: Lionsgate

Even more action stars are packed into sequel The Expendables 2.

The regulars from the first movie are here, Sylvester Stallone (Cop Land) in full Rambo mode, Jason Statham (The Mechanic), Jet Li (Ocean Heaven) in a cameo this time, Dolph Lundren (Universal Soldier), Terry Crews (Gamer), Randy Couture (Set Up) and Bruce Willis (Red), in a bigger role. But added to the cast are Chuck Norris (TV’s Walker, Texas Ranger), Jean-Claude Van Damme (6 Bullets) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator).

In this second film, Stallone’s bad-ass mercenary team, also including relative youngster Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games), joins female bad-ass Yu Nan (In Love We Trust) to track down a stop mad man terrorist Van Damme before he gets hold of five tons of weapons-grade plutonium.

R-rated The Expendables 2 got better reviews from critics than its predecessors,...

The Expendables are back and this time it is personal! The biggest action-adventure superstars from around the world reunite in the next chapter of The Expendables franchise, The Expendables 2, exploding into homes on Blu-ray Disc (plus Digital Copy plus Uv), DVD (plus Digital Copy plus Uv), Digital Download, On Demand and Pay-Per-View November 20 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. A sequel to the huge box office hit, co-screenwriter and star Sylvester Stallone, takes fans on another intense adventure with his rogue team of misfits. Reunited for what they think should be a quick, in-and-out mission, this tight-knit band of old-school mercenaries are about to find themselves at the brink of global disaster and are driven to make this mission personal.

In addition to Sylvester Stallone, The Expendables 2 features an all-star team of the most bad-ass classic action stars of all time including Jason Statham (Safe, The Transporter), Jet Li (Hero,...

The Expendables are back and this time it’s personal…

Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) — with newest members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and Maggie (Yu Nan) aboard — are reunited when Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) enlists the Expendables to take on a seemingly simple job. The task looks like an easy paycheck for Barney and his band of old-school mercenaries. But when things go wrong and one of their own is viciously killed, the Expendables are compelled to seek revenge in hostile territory where the odds are stacked against them. Hell-bent on payback, the crew cuts a swath of destruction through opposing forces, wreaking havoc and shutting down an unexpected threat in the nick of time — six pounds of weapons-grade plutonium; enough to change the balance of power in the world.

Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the rest of the Expendables movie crew are prepping for a third installment of nostalgic, action-packed film series. The Expendables are back and this time it's personal... Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Lee Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren),Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) -- with newest members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and Maggie (Yu Nan) aboard -- are reunited when Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) enlists the Expendables to take on a seemingly simple job. The task looks like an easy paycheck for Barney and his band of old-school mercenaries. But when things go wrong and one of their own is viciously killed, the Expendables are compelled to seek revenge in...

For The Expendables 2, only a lone female was added to the (previously) all-male group of new and returning action stars — Chinese actress Yu Nan. But with The Expendables 2 taking the top slot at last weekend's box office, it seems only a matter of time before The Expendables 3 becomes an inevitability. Hollywood Dailies caught up with the cast to see which actresses they feel could make it as a mercenary in the Expendables crew.

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Watch Stallone and Van Damme's they brawl in this exclusive new clip for The Expendables 2! Sure, The Expendables have already returned at the box office, and turned in a less-than-outstanding box office debut, but that doesn't stop the clips from coming in from the Simon West actioner. We now have an exclusive "Take Your Life" clip with Stallone and Van Damme having it it from The Expendables 2, scripted by Sylvester Stallone, Ken kaufman, David Agosto and Richard Wenk. Also in the cast of the current number one film at the box office are Bruce Willis, Randy Couture, Terry Crewes, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Scott Adkins, Charisma Carpenter and Yu Nan.

Watch Stallone and Van Damme's they brawl in this exclusive new clip for The Expendables 2! Sure, The Expendables have already returned at the box office, and turned in a less-than-outstanding box office debut, but that doesn't stop the clips from coming in from the Simon West actioner. We now have an exclusive "Take Your Life" clip with Stallone and Van Damme having it it from The Expendables 2, scripted by Sylvester Stallone, Ken kaufman, David Agosto and Richard Wenk. Also in the cast of the current number one film at the box office are Bruce Willis, Randy Couture, Terry Crewes, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Scott Adkins, Charisma Carpenter and Yu Nan.

By now I’m guessing you already know that besides featuring action movie Gods Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger killing an obscene amount of bad guys in “The Expendables 2″, the film also features a brutal fight between Stallone and the film’s villain, played with great flourish by Jean-Claude Van Damme. The movie is still in theaters, and you should definitely check it out when you get the chance, but in case you still need some convincing, here’s the beginning of the throwdown between Sly and Van Damme from “The Expendables 2″. Check it out, check it outers. The Expendables are back and this time it’s personal… Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren),Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) — with newest members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and Maggie (Yu Nan...