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For two years, all you might have seen coming from G.I. Joe: Retaliation is a litany of promo ads and videos, but yet no movie. Some people might have lost patience thinking, “This movie is never coming out.” Yeah, yeah, yeah, the film has had some set backs, but rest assure G.I. Joe fans, the movie hits theaters March 28.
So, if you can bare at least a few more promos, Paramount Pictures has just released a new clip that features Storm Shadow bringing ninja stars to a gunfight. | Full Story
The Rock, starring in his crime thriller Snitch didn’t prove solid to take over the box office this weekend. Well, actually, it was on top at first but succumb to Universal’s comedy Identity Thief as it regained the top spot.
Identity Thief was propelled back to number one with a $14.1 million bump Saturday. That now brings the films total gross to a hefty $93.7 million in only three weeks. So far, Identity Thief is the highest grossing film of 2013, just beating out Django Unchained. | Full Story
GI Joe: Retaliation has released so many trailers and teasers that a comprehensive viewing of the film could in all likelihood be established on promotional material alone. Following suit, both a TV Spot and International trailer have been released via Empire Online.
The TV spot for GI Joe: Retaliation is comprised of everything you could possibly imagine from an action film based on a comic. It has a guy riding a motor cycle that eventually turns into missiles. | Full Story
Summit Entertainment has debut the new movie poster for upcoming movie Snitch, that stars Dwayne Johnson. Johnson will play in the Ric Roman Waugh’s action-thriller based on true events about a father who goes to great lengths to free his son from a 10 year prison sentence for a drug distribution crime.
The Snitch movie trailer was released last month, which showed Johnson playing alongside a phenomenal cast that includes Susan Sarandon, Benjamin Bratt and Barry Pepper. | Full Story
The newest movie made just for men, Pain And Gain, has a hot new trailer out, starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Tony Shaloub, Rebel Wilson, Ed Harris, and Anthony Mackey. This action comedy is jam packed with rock hard abs, perfect pecs, protein powder, steroids, scantily clad women, and plenty of Michael Bay sponsored over-the-top action. As far as I can tell a large chunk of the movie takes place in a gym or during some sort of workout, where Mark Wahlberg gets to show off his bulging biceps or Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson boasts his throbbing back muscles. | Full Story
Paramount Pictures has just released a new poster for the their upcoming, Michael Bay directed, Pain & Gain film.
The film stars a very jacked Dwayne Johnson and a pudgy looking Mark Wahlberg. Based on a true story, Pain & Gain follows a group of bodybuilders in Florida, who engages in a campaign of kidnapping, extortion and murder, which ultimately gets uncovered by a reporter from the Miami New Times.
The film also stars Anthony Mackie, Ed Harris, Rob Corddry, Tony Shalhoub, Bar Paly, Rebel Wilson, Ken Jeong and Yolanthe Cabau. | Full Story
Paramount has just released a new poster for G.I. Joe: Retaliation and this may be the efforts of the studio to keep the film relevant, or on moviegoers minds since Retaliation was suppose to be out months ago.
G.I. Joe: Retaliation suffered some major setbacks that resulted in re-casting, re-shooting and 3D conversion. The film was originally scheduled to release in the spring of 2012, but now will be in theaters March 29, 2013. | Full Story
Do you smell what The Rock is cooking? Well, if not, let me tell you what’s on the menu. The wrestler/actor has recently landed an action-packed reality series on TNT titled, The Hero.
The Hero will attempt to find a “true hero” by pushing ten contestants beyond their personal and physical limits. The players will live together in one house and compete in different missions that will “test their brains, their brawn and even their morality.” The series will also see how far contenders are willing to go for the sake of their fellow contestants. | Full Story
The Rock confirms he is negotiating to play the alien mercenary Lobo in a DC Comics film.
Although most of the Marvel and DC superhero movie news has been coming out of Comic-Con in San Diego, Dwayne ‘The Rock Johnson has some comic book film news of his own. The actor turned wrestler confirmed, via Twitter, he is currently in negotiations to play the DC character Lobo.
“Rumours of me possibly playing LOBO are true,” said The Rock via his official Twitter account. | Full Story
The first photos of Liam Hemsworth and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in the indie drama Empire State have surfaced.
The film centers around two childhood friends and a NYPD officer who stands in the way of them robbing an armored car company of all the money stored on the premise. Empire State is based on a real life heist that took place in 1982.
Empire State is currently being filmed in New York and New Orleans. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
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