With a whole slate of interconnected films in his past, director Robert Rodriguez is working on some kind of project that will bring them all together. But what will this Robert Rodriguez cinematic universe project be?
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In July 2014, one of our favorite artists Scott Campbell (aka Scott C) held a scavenger hunt to find his original watercolor Great Showdown paintings in the original filming locations across Los Angeles. This year he returns with The Great Great Showdown Hunt, a bigger and more epic hunt which will take the concept worldwide. You’re going to…
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Robert Rodriguez's Machete has gotten himself into some hairy situations and lived to tell the tale, but now a lawsuit could shut him down for good. Also after the jump: No, Mike Myers has not written Wayne's World 3 Paranormal Activity 5 gets a fall 2013 release date Josh Hutcherson confirms his return for Journey…
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The end credits on the Robert Rodriguez film Machete made a big promise: "Machete Will Return in Machete Kills and Machete Kills Again!" The first sequel has been the subject of speculation ever since the 2010 release of Machete, and now it is financed and getting ready to shoot. Producer Alexander Rodnyansky is behind the…
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As part of the screening put together in relation to the SXSW Title Design Competition, Ian Albinson from the website The Art of the Title Sequence put together a nice two and a half minute compendium of excellent film titles. (That features an occasional piece of television, too.) For any long-time film lover, this little…
Read MoreThis Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. CATFISH Good narrative-driven documentaries are hard to come by, for reasons that should be fairly obvious. It's one thing to be a…
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Machete may not text, but he sure can sell some iced tea. A commercial for Lipton Brisk Iced Tea hit YouTube between Christmas and New Years, and it's like a little last-minute gift for Danny Trejo fans. In one minute, the actor recaps the plot of Machete, complete with slicing guys in half, some lovemaking,…
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We're sorry to report that side boob you found so titillating was nothing more than a bunch of zeros and ones. Jessica Alba was not, in fact, naked in the shower in Robert Rodriguez's Machete. According to a recent report, Alba was actually wearing tight white underwear on the set, which was then digitally altered…
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This week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley discuss whether or not 3D really is the future, praise the quiet certitude of The American, reflect on the sprawling nature of the Red Riding trilogy, and try to figure out why people in theaters are boo-ing at the mention of M. Night Shyamalan. Special guest…
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Cinema has entered a new dawn. It arrived a while ago, actually, and you may not have even noticed. I'm not referring to the recent surfeit of remakes, sequels and adaptations, or the rebirth and subsequent profusion of superhero movies, or even the resurgence of 3D. No, I'm talking about the evolution of a burgeoning…
Read MoreEarlier this month a suspicious tweet filed by filmmaker Edgar Wright led us to speculate that a Blu-ray release of Grindhouse was in the works. As you probably know, when Grindhouse was released in theaters, it was a double feature featuring Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, and a few faux trailers at…
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A couple months back, we got a sneak preview of Robert Rodriguez's Machete thanks to an a special "illegal" movie trailer released online for Cinco De Mayo. The real movie trailer was attached to the Rober Rodriguez-produced Predators (watch it now). At Comic-Con, Rodriguez released a new Red Band movie trailer. Watch the trailer now…
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We've seen no shortage of images from Machete, but the one member of the sprawling cast that has been noticably absent is Lindsay Lohan. The actress was one of the surprises in the cast list when initially revealed, and the her absence from the trailer was a talking point thanks to Lohan's legal adventures, which…
Read MoreIt's been a while since our last movie poster round-up, so let's get to it! In today's edition we have new theatrical one-sheets for James Franco's Howl, an unrated NSFW poster for I Spit On Your Grave, the final poster for the 3D computer animated film Alpha and Omega, Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut Jack…
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A couple months back, we got a sneak preview of Robert Rodriguez's Machete thanks to an a special "illegal" movie trailer released online for Cinco De Mayo. The real movie trailer is attached to the Rober Rodriguez-produced Predators, which hits theaters this weekend. But you don't have to head to your local multiplex to see…
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With the Robert Rodriguez-produced Predators about to hit theaters with a new trailer for his upcoming Machete attached, Fox is going all out with a batch of new images from the film. Check out our two exclusive images after the break. Machete, co-directed by Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis, expands upon the fake trailer created for…
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Robert Rodriguez has released a special "illegal" movie trailer for Machete. Yes, that's right -- the feature length adaptation of the fake trailer created for Grindhouse, now has a real movie trailer. The trailer features a special "Cinco De Mayo message for ARIZONA", a political story which has been making headlines recently, but is actually…
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Back in January, 20th Century Fox bought distribution rights to Machete, the film from Robert Rodriguez that expands his jokey Grindhouse trailer into a feature. Now the picture has a release date: September 3, aka Labor Day Weekend. I'm not sure if that's a good date or not for the film -- traditionally the last…
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Lionsgate has made the first major purchase of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, winning a bidding war to acquire domestic distribution rights to Ryan Reynolds one-man thriller Buried. For those of you who haven't been following the project, the film tells the story of a private contractor who is kidnapped in Iraq and buried alive.…
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This story will eventually get along to news of a potential original film from Robert Rodriguez but first of all, we need to tidy up a lot of loose ends regarding his ever mounting pile of in-the-works sequels. He's a franchisomaniac. All of this info comes from the fact that a number of online press…
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The network that gifted America The Two Coreys and Biography: Megan Fox is ready to release its new reality spin on COPS entitled Steven Seagal: Lawman. /Film was unable to confirm with A&E at press time that Seagal was shot and killed while akido-chopping a bum huffing duster in midst of crashing a glory hole…
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In fitness, sometimes the simplest moves require (and develop) the most muscle strength and control.
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Not too long ago there were rumors that Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis were looking at some outrageous names for Machete, the full-length version of the great Grindhouse trailer starring Danny Trejo. We basically knew that Lindsay Lohan was confirmed after she said as much the other day via Twitter. But now a Variety report…
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Robert Rodriguez just does whatever the hell he wants to do, it seems, and what he wants to do now is Machete. (Or, more properly, that's what he has money for right now.) That's the feature film version of the trailer that ran as part of Grindhouse, featuring Danny Trejo as a bad-ass Mexi-can who…
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Earlier today it was confirmed that Robert Rodriguez would be developing/directing a reboot of Predator titled Predators. We speculated that Rodriguez's next film would be the futuristic action thriller Nerveracker which has an announced 2010 release date, but Variety reports that Rodriguez will be returning to the Grindhouse before he goes to the future. That's…
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In January, it was rumored that 20th Century Fox was developing a Predator reboot titled Predators with Robert Rodriguez and Troublemaker Studios in the producers chair. Rodriguez confirmed the rumors at a news conference today at Troublemarker Studios for the long-awaited reform of the Texas film incentive program. IESB reports that Rodriguez gave a list…
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Robert Rodriguez has been chatting it up at SXSW and CinemaBlend has a few details direct from the filmmaker's mouth. First off, Robert says that he always tells people that Sin City 2 is "right around the corner, because that’s what everybody wants to hear" but admits that "It might be a long corner." I'm…
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