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Cameron Enjoys Double-whammy Weekend

21 December 2009 12:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

James Cameron enjoyed a weekend to remember - the director's sci-fi epic Avatar shot to the top of the U.S. box office just days after he received a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

On Friday, the Titanic auteur was honoured by fans and industry pals as he revealed his own star - the 2,396th - before his Aliens muse Sigourney Weaver paid tribute to the legendary filmmaker.

Cameron told reporters he was especially pleased with his spot outside the Egyptian Theatre, as his star was next to Sylvester Stallone's - who he teamed up with to write the screenplay for 1985's Rambo: First Blood Part II.

He said, "The placement is especially cool - right in front of the prestigious Egyptian Theatre, right next to Sylvester Stallone, my co-writer on Rambo: First Blood Part II.

"We're together again - apparently for all eternity now."

He paid tribute to his Avatar "family" - thanking his cast and crew for working so tirelessly on the project: "Whatever Avatar becomes, however well it does, whatever accolades it receives, the face of Avatar is these people right here. Most actors work on a film for months at the most. Some of our team worked on the film for almost a year and a half. We actually became a kind of family and we all still love each other."

The ceremony came on the same day his computer-generated saga hit cinemas across the globe - raking in $73 million (£45.6 million) in America alone on its first weekend of release. »

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Top Editors Brought In to Re-Cut The Wolfman

18 November 2009 9:47 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Of all the big films on the docket for next year, the one I’m most concerned about is The Wolfman. The second trailer for the film looked pretty badass, I’ll admit – but this movie has suffered a plagued production from the get-go. A change in directors, callbacks for reshoots and re-designs in the creature effects… It all points to a studio trying to turn lead into gold through the usual movie alchemy.

Well, the guys over at Slash Film must have magnifying glass eyes, because they spotted something deep-six buried in an article over at Variety, which names editors Mark Goldblatt and Walter Murch as the two guys hired to do a recut of The Wolfman!

 

This revelation comes without the usual fanfare from the blogosphere that goes with every little development on a major movie – suggesting that the studio is trying to keep the continuing problems with »

- Kofi Outlaw

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New 'Expendables' Photo Revealed

29 September 2009 9:50 AM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Empire recently spoke to Sylvester Stallone about his forthcoming action ensemble flick The Expendables. The story also revealed a new photo — which you can see directly above — in which Sly seems to be standing amidst several dead soldiers...or mercenaries...or dudes in army fatigues.

Film buffs will pick up that the title of The Expendables is taken directly from Rambo: First Blood Part II. Here's what Stallone had to say:

"The girl I'm falling in love with says, 'Why do you do what you do?' I say, 'I'm expendable.' She says, 'What does that mean?' I say, 'It's like someone invites you to a party and you don't show up. It doesn't really matter.' And these men, they live a life that... They're expendable. If they're gone, the world will go on. No one will miss them, They don't have families, all they have is each other. »

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Rambo vs. the Wolf Man. Today in Film Bloggery 09/08/09

8 September 2009 1:57 PM, PDT | Spout.com | See recent Spout news »

A few days ago, Erik Davis of Cinematical Tweeted that he was watching Rambo: First Blood Part II, and he made a comment about how if Robert Rodriguez's Predators doesn't work out, he'd get behind a Rambo vs. Predator film. I thought the idea was a little silly since that's basically what the original Predator was, only with Arnold Schwarzenegger instead of Sylvester Stallone. Little did either of us know that <a href="http://www.imdb.c »

- Christopher Campbell

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Stallone Says Rambo 5 Will Feature "Your Worst Nightmare"

7 September 2009 6:32 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

It was only announced in August that Sylvester Stallone would be returning to star in and direct the fifth installment in the Rambo franchise, so when Stallone recently revealed the plot had changed from rescuing a girl from human traffickers to preventing the creation of super-soldiers, the Internet buzzed with rumors and speculation about what this means for the future of the franchise.

So many comparisons to the plot of the 1992 action movie starring Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme, Universal Soldier, were made that apparently even Stallone could feel the backlash because he picked up the phone to try to set the record straight. In a recent voice message, Stallone said:

It's not a Universal Soldier, it's not me fighting some super-soldier, it's actually a feral beast. It's a thing, it's this amalgamation of fury and intelligence and pure unadulterated rage. It's before men became human. This is when they were still inhuman. »

- BrentJS Sprecher

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John Rambo Will Return for Fifth Outing

29 August 2009 9:05 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Better surrender moviegoers, 'cause John Rambo is back! That's right, the veteran Green Beret who first sprang onto the scene in 1982's First Blood — creating a movie and cultural icon in the process — is going to bring his own brand of singular, '80s-style justice to the silver screen for a fifth outing.

Critics may have savaged 2008's Rambo for its gratuitous violence and hackneyed storyline, but it didn't matter. The film grossed $42M domestically and $113M overseas on a budget of $50M. A fraction of the $300M adjusted take of 1985's Rambo: First Blood Part II perhaps, but still enough to justify a fifth film.

In the next film, Rambo will once again penetrate deep behind enemy lines to take on the Mexican drug cartels and human traffickers in an attempt to rescue an American girl kidnapped near the border. Most people won't care about the setup, of course, »

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Retro Cafe: Was 'Aliens' the Best Science Fiction Sequel Ever?

19 August 2009 12:05 AM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

"There Are Some Places In The Universe You Don't Go Alone."

So said the tag line advertising the main feature at London's Odeon Leicester Square in August 1986. The film on show was Aliens, the eagerly anticipated sequel to the 1979 sci-fi horror movie Alien. Fans of the first film had waited a long time to see what new horrors would be inflicted on Alien's heroine, Ellen Ripley, and her beloved cat. Some feared the cat might be the unfortunate host of writer and director James Cameron's new generation of stomach-bursting beasts. The young Canadian director was keeping the truth close to his chest, though.

Despite the secrecy, moviegoers and critics were optimistic that they would get something good from the man who had thrilled them with The Terminator. As one of them, I went to the Odeon Leicester Square to see Aliens one week after it went on general »

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Jack Cardiff

22 April 2009 5:55 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

Cinematographer and director Jack Cardiff, one of the early masters of color cinematography, has died. He was 94. Cardiff’s work as a cinematographer was quite eclectic, ranging from his partnership with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in the British-made Black Narcissus (1945) and The Red Shoes (1948) to prestigious international productions such as John Huston’s The African Queen (1951) and King Vidor’s War and Peace (1956), and to low-brow commercial fare such as Conan the Destroyer (1984) and Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985). I’ve never watched Conan or Rambo, but I have watched more than 20 of Cardiff’s 60 or so features, and I can testify that whether working in art-house or commercial fare, Cardiff’s cinematography was invariably one of his films’ chief assets. At times, his work was those films’ only asset. Born on Sept. 18, 1914, in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to music hall entertainers, Cardiff began his film career as a cinematographer in the mid-1930s, »

- Andre Soares

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Stallone To Do Another ‘Rambo’?

30 January 2009 12:51 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Just when we thought the legendary action character John Rambo was put firmly to rest last year with Rambo, it seems that Stallone wants to give the character yet another outing.

He had this to say:

Yeah, we are doing another ‘Rambo,’ but the conflict is whether to do it in America or a foreign country.

 

I had heard speculation about this possibly happening but I never actually believed Stallone would even consider the idea much less actually go ahead with it. Although last year’s Rambo was a half bad/half awesome movie (the first half being dreadful, but the second half kicking copious amounts of ass), it ended pretty much as perfectly as could be, bringing the character’s journey full circle to where we first saw him in the early 80s.

To me doing another film is wholly unnecessary and just seems to be to make money and nothing more. »

- Ross Miller

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