Sylvester Stallone and his gang of mercenaries are back in Simon West‘s The Expendables 2. This time Jean-Claude Van Damme plays the baddie and from all accounts he makes a worthy nemesis for Barney Ross’s cohorts to contend with – culminating in a beat down with Sly. The sequel is said to be better than the original, and even though the film’s […]
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Talks THE TOMB, THE EXPENDABLES 2 and Working with Sylvester Stallone
Arnold Schwarzenegger was recently at the ESPN portion of the TCA Press Tour, to talk about the 30 for 30 Shorts documentary series which follows his time spent in the Austrian military service and rise to international fame. Towards the end of the panel, talk turned to his acting career, and why Schwarzenegger took so long to team up with Sylvester […]
Go Behind-the-Scenes on THE EXPENDABLES 2
A new behind-the-scenes featurette for The Expendables 2 has been released. The new film sees Sylvester Stallone and his gang of mercenaries out for revenge and going up against the bad guy played by former ‘good guy’ Jean-Claude Van Damme who’s in need of some weapons grade plutonium. This featurette doesn’t serve up any spoilers or reveal too many film tricks like so many do […]
THE EXPENDABLES 2 First Full-Length Trailer
The first full-length trailer for The Expendables 2 is here with plenty of gunfire and explosions, and some unnecessary one-liners. Jean Claude Van Damme plays the villain who’s in need of way too much plutonium, putting him in Sly’s cross hairs and setting up a the need for a surefire beat down. Bruce Willis returns in a larger capacity […]
THE EXPENDABLES 2 First Trailer
The first trailer is here for The Expendables 2, which sees more legendary action stars on screen, some for the first time – in an explosive follow up to Sylvester Stallone‘s 2010 mega-hit which made old school action cool again. Now with Simon West (The Mechanic) in the director’s chair – we can expect some […]
EXPENDABLES 2 Lands CON AIR Director
Since the success of the The Expendables and even before the films release there has been talk of a sequel. When the flick hit paydirt grossing $275 million worldwide, it became clear that this could be the beginning of a new Stallone franchise that doesn’t build on his hallmark characters such as Rocky or Rambo (to some degree). Production is […]