Sadly, this one is for US residents only, because it uses a Hulu embed. Eventually I imagine this will end up on YouTube, but for now everyone outside the States will have to be patient.
One of Steven Soderbergh‘s last films (he’s planning to retire after shooting two more, The Side Effects and Behind the Candelabra), Haywire features MMA star Gina Carano and opens on January 20. You can see the first five minutes of the movie below.
The scene is one that you’ll see in much shorter form in various trailers for the film, but this full presentation of a confrontation between Gina Carano and Channing Tatum should really give you a good idea of what sort of fight scenes Haywire has to offer. This fight is serious. Read More »
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Posted on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 by Angie Han
This month’s Haywire marks the first of two collaborations between Steven Soderbergh and Channing Tatum we’ll be seeing this year, the other one being this summer’s Magic Mike, and it seems we’ll have another to look forward to next year as well. After toying with the idea of teaming up for Warner Bros.’ The Man From U.N.C.L.E. before Soderbergh pulled out, the pair may now be gearing up to reunite on The Side Effects, previously titled Bitter Pill.
Also joining Tatum in the cast will be Blake Lively and Jude Law, the latter of whom recently worked with Soderbergh on Contagion. More details after the jump.
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The release of Steven Soderbergh‘s Haywire, the action film he and writer Lem Dobbs (Kafka, The Limey) built around MMA star Gina Carano, is almost upon us. The film has played the AFI festival and will open on January 20. To make one final promo push before that opening date, Relativity has released a final, slightly extended trailer for the film, which you can see below. Read More »
Posted on Monday, December 26th, 2011 by Angie Han
Love him or hate him, you’ll be seeing a lot of Channing Tatum in 2012: Shooting at things in Steven Soderbergh‘s Haywire, romancing Rachel McAdams in The Vow, going to the prom with Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street, fighting Cobra in G.I. Joe Retaliation, and possibly getting killed by Steve Carell in Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher. But if I’m being honest, the one I’m really curious about is Soderbergh’s Magic Mike, which stars Tatum as an experienced stripper who takes a newbie (Alex Pettyfer) under his wing.
It’s not just the idea of near-naked men parading around, I promise — I’m intrigued by the unusual premise and the interesting cast, and am hoping to see a bit of Soderbergh’s sly sense of humor. But yeah, the promise of buff, shirtless dudes helps too.
After the jump, check out the first image, featuring Tatum, Pettyfer, and Joe Manganiello in military-themed costumes, while Matthew McConaughey, who plays the owner of the club, takes charge as a shirtless Uncle Sam. More details after the jump.
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For a guy who is about to retire, Steven Soderbergh keeps finding new projects. The latest, and very likely the last new one to be announced, is Bitter Pill, a script by Soderbergh’s Contagion and The Informant! screenwriter Scott Z. Burns. That’s the same screenwriter with whom Soderbergh was working on The Man from U.N.C.L.E., but when various conditions at Warner Bros. led to the director walking away from that project, he decided to use the time allocated for U.N.C.L.E. to make Burns’ script Bitter Pill instead.
When first announced a couple days ago there was no studio financing for the thriller, but now it looks like Summit is the likely home, with a few other companies (Paramount, Lava Bear and some other financiers) as possible options. Read More »
When Steven Soderbergh decided that he wouldn’t do The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in the wake of casting dithering and Warner Bros. wanting to make the film for less money than he was willing to spend, we assumed the director would fill that slot with another film. After all, Soderbergh plans to make only a couple more movies before going into some form of retirement. We know the last movie will be the Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.
And now we know that the other film — the new picture that Soderbergh will make instead of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. — is a thriller by U.N.C.L.E. screenwriter Scott Z. Burns, called Bitter Pill. Read More »
You may have followed the breadcrumb trail of casting reports for Steven Soderbergh‘s The Man From U.N.C.L.E. up to this point, but here’s the thing: it is no longer Steven Soderbergh’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Warner Bros. has worked for years to make a new film version of the old cold war TV spy series, and the director who created three fun films based on a Rat Pack heist movie seemed like the go-to guy to make it happen. But George Clooney had to drop out of the lead role for physical reasons and in his absence no other casting solution could be agreed upon.
So, after months of back and forth, with Warner Bros. wanting the movie to be cheaper than Soderbergh thought appropriate, and no locked leading men, Steven Soderbergh has moved on. Read More »
Posted on Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 by Angie Han
Apparently, Channing Tatum is the guy you call when Bradley Cooper drops out of a project. Over the summer, Tatum’s name came up for Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s (now grounded) The Crow remake when Cooper left the project, and now that Cooper’s turned down Steven Soderbergh‘s The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Tatum’s reportedly being “eyed” for the lead.
Were Tatum to get the part, it would mark his third collaboration with the director — the two have already completed Haywire together, and are currently working on the male stripper pic Magic Mike. More details after the jump.
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