Posted on Sunday, March 7th, 2010 by Peter Sciretta
Earlier Tonight, Marvel released a new movie trailer for Jon Favreau’s Iron Man. The trailer flys by pretty fast, so we’ve gone through and captured over 100 high resolution (almost-2000 pixels wide) screencaptures which allow you to take an extended look at all the action.
Posted on Friday, December 4th, 2009 by Russ Fischer
Antoine Fuqua reunites with his Training Day star Ethan Hawke for another cop tale, this time set in Brooklyn, NY. (Did the title give it away?) Hawke is joined by Richard Gere, Don Cheadle and Wesley Snipes in this three-part story that premiered at Sundance this year. Now there’s a trailer, after the break. Read More »
Posted on Saturday, November 28th, 2009 by Brendon Connelly
Typically, the likeness of a movie star face when sculpted into the dinky wee visage of an action figure is pretty darn poor. For one thing, the figure manufacturers might not have been granted the rights to use the actor’s face and for another, most of these things seem to be badly designed and very badly built.
Surprisingly, this toy version of Don Cheadle in Iron Man 2’s War Machine get up pretty much knocked me over backwards and right into the uncanny valley with its vivid likeness. To be fair, it is an overpriced figure in a “Don’t touch that!” line for kids who never grew up, not an actual, honest to goodness, down in the dirt candidate for Andy’s Room so perhaps standards have to be higher. I don’t really know - I don’t really know anything much about action figures.
After the break, the full scan which includes his “Armor Assembly Station” and cute little blurb.
Posted on Friday, October 30th, 2009 by Russ Fischer
Here’s your blast of casting bites for the end of the week. First up, Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson will team as unlikely cop partners in The Guard. Film follows the confrontational small-town Sgt. Gerry Boyle (Gleeson), who likes hookers and isn’t interested in drug runners, and FBI Agent Everett (Cheadle) in a tale of international coke smuggling. Sounds on the surface like an Irish reversal of Beverly Hills Cop, where the small-town local guy is the irreverent jokester while the outsider is terribly straightlaced. John Michael McDonagh writes and directs. If it weren’t for the cast, and the fact that it takes place in Ireland (not even sure why that’s a draw) I’d be brushing this one off already. [ComingSoon]
After the break, Reese Witherspoon demonstrates the first rule and Djimon Hounsou kicks some ass. Read More »
Posted on Thursday, October 1st, 2009 by Russ Fischer
Entertainment Tonight has been posting a series of little set visit video clips from Iron Man 2. There was the first one showing Robert Downey, Jr. and some on-set action, a second following the enthusiasm around Mickey Rourke (embedded below) and now Don Cheadle gets the spotlight as ET focuses on the War Machine, his armored alter-ego that we first saw in footage displayed at Comic Con this year. Read More »
USA Today has published a bunch of preview photos from Iron Man 2. The photo above features Robert Downey Jr. as a very pissed Tony Stark, standing in wreckage on a race track. You might recognize the set-up because a similar photo was published in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly. This is no doubt the aftermath of Whiplash’s destruction. Downey says that the sequel “is to be bigger than the first, but just as relatable.” More photos after the jump.
Posted on Friday, July 17th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
/Film reader Erin L sent over some new photos from Iron Man 2, which appear in Entertainment Weekly’s Comic-Con preview issue. The photos include our first official photos of some of the main characters.
Posted on Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
SpoilerTV has the first photo of Don Cheadle as Col. James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes in Iron Man 2. The actor was photographed talking on his phone, in costume on set, during the first day of shooting. Meanwhile, Terrance Howard, who played Rhodey in the first film, has been talking about how Marvel betrayed him during contract negotiations. Quote after the jump.
This morning I screened Training Day director Antoine Fuqua’s new film Brooklyn’s Finest. The film tells the story of three unconnected Brooklyn cops who struggle with the rules that define how they conduct themselves in and off the job. After a vastly different series of events, the three cops collide in one location in the film’s tragic climax.
Richard Gere plays Eddie Dugan, a cop with seven days left before his pension is released and he retires from duty. Dugan, who just wants to get through his final days and refuses to go beyond the call of duty, finds himself assigned to a new recruit. Ethan Hawke plays Sal, a married father with a handful of kids and twins on the way. His NYPD salary isn’t enough to get them into a bigger house, which his family so desperately needs. Sal finds himself rationalizing the idea of stealing drug money in an on the job drug bust. Don Cheadle is Tango, an undercover cop who longs for a desk job and is assigned to set up a thug named Caz (played by Wesley Snipes) who saved his life in prison.
Nearly two weeks have passed since it was reported that Don Cheadle would replace Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2, fans are still angry. Petitions have been launched, and even the website HowardNOTCheadle.com.
Of course, Paramount and Marvel aren’t going to to care even if the petition gets hundreds of thousands of signatures (Stop Uwe Boll petition stalled just over 300k). Sadly, the contracts have already been signed, and its a done deal. They released a press release today. I’m all for joining a cause, fighting the establishment, and I even believe that replacing Howard with Cheadle was a horrible idea.
But sometimes you just need to be realistic. Marvel isn’t going to bring Howard back, and Warner Bros isn’t going to move Half-Blood Prince back to 2008. It’s just not gonna happen.
via: LatinoReview
