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‘The Expendables’ hits theaters August 13th are you going to the testosterone party?

LFCadmin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:23:51 +0000

It’s been nearly two decades since Sylvester Stallone ruled the box office with films like “Rocky” and “First Blood.” With the release next weekend of “The Expendables” — a retro men-on-a-mission film with Stallone out front and center — Lionsgate is betting that there is still gas left in Sly’s tank.

He won’t be doing the heavy lifting by himself. Stallone has cleverly surrounded himself with a cavalcade of current stars like Mickey Rourke and Jason Statham — and ’80s has-beens like Dolph Lundgren — who are past their expiration date, but still command goodwill among filmgoers.

In true gang’s-all-here fashion, even Bruce Willis and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pop up in cameos.

“Ten years ago, they couldn’t have afforded these guys, but now it’s a different story,” Jeff Bock, a box-office analyst with Exhibitor Relations expressed. “This is an action junkie’s dream team, and that’s how they’re selling it — with just a list of names.”

“They’re taking their lemons and making them into lemonade,” a rival marketing executive told us.

“Expendables” does not just represent a second chance for Stallone’s crew, it also offers an opportunity for redemption for Lionsgate’s marketing team. Let’s see if their testosterone filled ads gets people to go check it out. The Expendables hits theaters August 13th

Willem Dafoe and Ethan Hawke do it up with vampires in “Daybreakers”

LFCadmin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:17:04 +0000

We haven’t talked much about Daybreakers, the upcoming vampire film by writer/director siblings Michael and Peter Spierig, but the release of the film’s extended TV trailer seems reason enough to shed some light on it. The film stars Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe in a world where vampires rule, and humans are a minority hunted for blood. In the trailers it’s revealed that the vampires blood supply is dwindling, and that they’re searching for a synthetic blood substitute. There’s also talk of a “cure”—apparently the worldwide vampirism was caused by a plague of some sort.

I like the film’s reversal by making vampires the dominant group, and overall it looks like a perfectly stylish blend of sci-fi and horror. Quite honestly, I was hoping we’d eventually see a film with this premise in the Blade universe, but we can thank David Goyer for running that into the ground with Blade: Trinity.

Industry insiders praise the film for its high concept, some action sequences, and the Spierig brother’s ability to get a lot out of a low budget. Overall, it was better than they both expected. Apparently, Daybreakers was delayed for some time since its completion, which had them both worried about its quality going in.

Check out the Trailer:

“ARMORED” in theaters this Friday Dec. 4th – Amaury Nolasco talks to LFC about the movie.

LFCadmin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:08:52 +0000

Here you have it folks!!!

The interview with Amaury Nolasco (Prison Break, Transformers) promoting his new movie which comes out this Friday, December 4th, 2009.

Armored is an action-drama in which several armed guards decide to steal over 40 million dollars from their own company.

Armored is directed by Nimrod Antal and stars Columbus North, Laurence Fishburne Matt Dillon and Jean Reno.

(l to r) Columbus Short, Laurence Fishburne and Matt Dillon star in Screen Gems' action thriller ARMORED.

Check out the interview with Amaury Nolasco and yours truly.

Enjoy!!!

New Iron Man Poster by way of Director Jon Favreau’s twitter account

LFCadmin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:12:17 +0000

So director Jon Favreau’s Twitter account shows the new poster for Iron-Man 2!

In addition to featuring the new Iron-Man costume, and that fancy Iron-Man 2 title you’ve so been looking forward to, the poster gives us one of our first looks at War Machine.

So the poster only shows Iron Man and War Machine posing like rappers, but we like it anyways cause Robert Downey Jr is bad ass!! Terence Howard has been replaced by Don Cheadle in the sequel. We love Cheadle too so this could be fun!!

Latino Film Chatter: Amaury Nolasco answers Fans questions cause you asked. Only Here Folks!!!

LFCadmin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:10:23 +0000

Ok people when I say something I mean it so here we go! I said Amaury Nolasco was going to answer a few questions from his fans. You wrote the questions, we took them to Amaury and he answered them for you.

Amaury Nolasco’s new feature “ARMORED” hits theaters DEC. 4th, 2009. Here he is with Casper Martinez answering fan questions for Latino FIlm Chatter. “Armored” is an action drama directed by Nimrod Antal and starring: Columbus North, Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne and Jean Reno. A group of armed guards decide to take down their own company. Who will come out of it alive?