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First Pictures From The Remake Of ‘Red Dawn’

by Scott AlminianaAugust 1, 2012

Today USA Today showed the pictures from the remake of the 1984 classic Red Dawn. The film was shot in 2009 but was delayed due to MGM’s financial problems. The film is finally set to hit theaters on November 21st but not without some big changes having been made to the final film.

When it was shot four years ago it had a cast of then unknowns, some have since become break-out stars. The cast includes Chris Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki,Isabel Lucas and Josh Peck. The film had an entirely different enemy army when it was shot but it has since been changed digitally for the final version as well as being re-edited.

“Originally it was the Chinese,” Hutcherson says. “And then there was the thought that the Chinese own most of the companies making movies and that maybe it wasn’t the best idea in the world.”

In the end, the attacking forces became the North Koreans (aided by the Chinese and Russians).

Like the original 1984 version communism is the ultimate villain. The first film starred a cast of then up and comers such as Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey (no body puts Baby in the corner), Lea Thompson, C. Thomas Howell, and introduced the world to Charlie Sheen. The film was set in Colorado and saw the cast play a group of teens who band together as “the Wolverines,” a guerilla unit, who fight an invasion of Soviet, Cuban and Nicaraguan forces at the dawn of World War III. If you haven’t seen it I recommend you check it out. It’s currently available on Netflix Instant Streaming.

Vanessa Hudgens Joins The Cast Of ‘Machete Kills’!

by Shawn MaddenAugust 1, 2012

Just when you thought Robert Rodriguez couldn’t add anymore females to his cast. Oh wait, it’s a Robert Rodriguez movie. Hudgens will join Sofia Vergara, Alexa Vega, Amber Heard, Jessica Alba, Lady Gaga and Michelle Rodriguez. There are some male actors in the movie too. I think.

Here’s the official announcement from her blog:

Yes, it is true! We can confirm that Vanessa will be in the new Robert Rodiguez movie

Machete Kills as Cereza! Check out the clip above!

We can’t wait to see Vanessa! Are you excited?

Well, I can’t say that I am excited for her as much as the others. But anyway…here’s a synopsis for the movie!

The second film in the Machete trilogy finds Machete mourning the loss of his beloved Sartana, slain during a run in with the cartels. Machete is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man. Machete must battle his way through Mexico to take down a cartel leader, Mendez the Madman, who threatens to fire a missile on the US. Machete foils Mendez’s plot only to find that the missiles are remote wired to and triggered by the madman’s still beating heart. The only man who can disarm the missile is eccentric billionaire arms dealer, Luther Voz, who has hatched a plan of his own to spread war across the planet with a weapon in space. Machete takes on Voz and his army in order to dismantle his master plan for global anarchy

No release date has been set yet. However expect about ten more announcements of hot females joining the cast. No, I’m just kidding. Well….maybe.

Ex-Spy Kid Alexa Vega Joins ‘Machete Kills’

by Scott AlminianaJuly 26, 2012

Alexa Vega is best known as Carmen Cortez in Robert Rodriguez’s Spy Kids films. Well now she’s all grown up and has just landed herself a role in Rodriguez’s Machete Kills. She’ll be playing the role of KillJoy, a character which I can only assume to be a “sexy” killer. Why do I assume that you ask? That would be because Vega posted a picture of herself in costume on her Instagram page. Check it out below…

In Machete Kills, The U.S. government recruits Machete (Danny Trejo) to battle his way through Mexico in order to take down an arms dealer (Mel Gibson) who looks to launch a weapon into space.

alexa-vega-full — Alexa Vega now as Killjoy!

Machete Kills is being directed by Robert Rodriguez and stars Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Amber Heard, Mel Gibson and Charlie Sheen. Machete Kills his way into theaters in 2013.

Source: Superherohype

Guilty Pleasures: Scary Movie 3

by SaintmortJuly 23, 2012

There are two films that are typically looked at as the perfection of the “Parody Film”. 1974’s Young Frankenstein and 1980’s Airplane. Mel Brooks had always been a satirist in his comedy. The Producers and Blazing Saddles are praised as some of the finest comedies ever made and while they both have elements of parody in them Young Frankenstein is where he made a direct parody to some pre-existing source material (Universal’s Frankenstein films).

The direct parody became what Brooks was known for (with High Anxiety, Spaceballs and various other films). Meanwhile Airplane! presented absurdist over the top and crazy comedy. In ways never before seen. Absurdist comedies continued to be part of the Zuckers and Abraham filmography but rarely did they come close the quality of Airplane!

This brings us to the dark days of Parodies. They started with Scary Movie. From we started getting films like Date Movie, Meet the Spartans and various other pieces of garbage. Trapped in the middle was Scary Movie 3.

I’m not going to say Scary Movie 3 is a perfect film. It’s not, it’s not a great comedy, it’s not even a great parody, I can admit that. What Scary Movie 3 is though is a huge improvement on the previous films. The Wayans brothers are gone and replaced with David Zucker. Unlike the films that would later come out the film does the simple task of focusing on a plot… sorta.

The parody combines plot elements of The Ring and Signs to tell a really alien/ghost story. Sure there’s also elements of Sixth Sense, 8 Mile and The Matrix scattered throughout but they genuinely try to stick with those two main movies. I appreciate that since this was the time that movies like Disaster Movie were coming out basing the script on movie trailers instead of watching the films they were parodying.

The film definitely has things at are terrible. The opening credits sequence with Jenny McCarthy and Pamela Anderson, awful and dated parodies of commercials that I forget existed until I re-watched this movie and plenty of moments that feel like they would be better suited in Scary Movie 1 or 2. This film is more light-hearted and feels like a Zucker film (absurd, sex jokes, Leslie Nelson), those are the elements that keep the film entertaining.

Here’s what works in the film: Simon Rex and Charlie Sheen are casted well. Sheen has proven his comedy chops in Hot Shots and if you’re a fan of those films you’ll find just as much to enjoy in his performance here. Simon Rex meanwhile, has done the Horror Parody genre previously with ‘Shriek if You Know What I did Last Friday the 13th‘. The biggest laughs however come from comedy veteran Leslie Nelson and (at the time) new comers Anthony Anderson and Kevin Hart.

Zucker’s eye for a good sex joke or quality sight gag are still there. The parody of the actual Ring video is packed with humorous sight gags. The film also contained rewrites by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg (the men behind Harold And Kumar). This film could be better obviously… but it could have been much much worse.

Writers Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (Epic Movie) wanted to parody Star Wars, Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings (yet still call it Scary movie 3). What I’m trying to say I guess is Fuck Friedberg/Seltzer.

Scary Movie 3 won’t ever be better than the classic parody and spoof films of the 70’s and 80’s but it’s still a massive improvement on the other parody films that we’ve been exposed too since the Wayans brothers gave us Scary Movie in 2000.

‘Machete Kills’ Gets A President And Set Pics!

by Scott AlminianaJune 22, 2012

Machete Kills is currently in production and news is pouring in. Yesterday, Robert Rodriguez tweeted this:

It’s the POTUS who recruits Machete to battle his way through Mexico to take down an arms dealer, played by Mel Gibson, who wants to launch a weapon into space.

Set pics from Machete Kills have also been showing up on Twitter, courtesy of Jessica Alba:

Geekscape’s Before First Class – What If An Avengers Movie Was Made In The 80s?!?

by Joe StarrMarch 21, 2012

With an announced sequel to X Men: First Class, and the rumors of a rebooted 1960’s Fantastic Four, retro Marvel is officially IN. This has led Geekscape to wonder: what if different Marvel franchises had actually been released in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s?

Or, maybe you think it’s stupid to cast a Marvel movie in a different decade, justify the lineup, and pitch a plot. Well, that’s why we at Geekscape consider ourselves to be heroes, in a way. We waste our time doing the stupid things the world is afraid to do. Last time, we shook the 90’s to their very core with a 1994 X Men film. Time to step back a decade!

THE 80’S: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!

The Pitch: After a battle to take down Ultron results in an absurd amount of collateral damage, the Avengers reluctantly agree to accept government oversight in the form of Henry Gyrich. The Vision attempts to bring stability to the world by taking control of its computer systems, but is being manipulated by Ultron! It’s the Avengers vs. a Vision-Ultron-Skynet! Will the Avengers prevail? Meanwhile, a young Wanda Maximoff is taken in by the team and falls for the android! Can Scarlet Witch use the human power of love to bring Vision to his senses? And when she does, can the song ‘Power of Love’ play? When I think Avengers, I think Huey Lewis. And his news.

CAPTAIN AMERICA

In the 80’s, there was only one man that could sling the shield. The only man that John Connor trusted enough to go back in time and bang his mom: Michael Biehn. He is the unsung action hero badass of the 80’s and also The Rock from the 90’s. I mean the movie The Rock. He wasn’t The Rock, though I can still smell what he was cooking. Come on. Picture him doing that monologue to Ed Harris from The Rock in Cap’s costume and you will get a nerd boner.

Don’t fight it. It’s natural.

IRON MAN

Avengers Assemble? AS YOU WISH. Cary Elwes would have been an awesome Tony Stark back in the day. The wit, the arrogance, and the massive amount of girls wanting to bang him. Plus, most of the Dread Pirate Robert’s lines could probably double as Stark lines, so we save on screenwriters. That way in the spin off we get to see Iron Man challenge the Mandarin to a fight to the pain.

GYRICH

I’m doing my best to justify a Henry Gyrich in every decade I cast a movie in. Charlie Chaplin will end up playing him by the end of this. But before the Dictator gets his shot, the role belongs to John Ritter. Ritter’s been killing it on Three’s Company and it’s time to show his range as a greasy, back stabbing government yes man! This could be his ‘Razor’s Edge!’

THE VISION

I wish there was a guy we could call that does robots good…

SCARLET WITCH

Mia Sara! Too young? No way. It takes a dumb teenage girl to fall deeply in love with a robot, and Mia Sara’s career has been built on poor romantic choices: first Tom Cruise in Legend, and then Ferris Bueller, a husband who no doubt will eventually look into a camera and say ‘who could be faithful on a day like this?’ Mia has a perfect wide eyed spaciness for a young woman struggling with chaos magic. Is it chaos magic? I’m really not sure at this point. THANKS BENDIS.

Besides, no one complained when two teenage boys fell in love took a shower with Lisa in Weird Science. There’s no room for your double standards in THE AVENGERS.

One more for the road.

ULTRON

Next.

BEAST

Like, Jeff Bridges, man! Change him out of the Tron suit and put some blue fur on the guy. The Beast abides, man. The Beast abides.

HAWKEYE

Something something winning something something dismissive wank. Charlie is a bad ass, and if you remember Hot Shots Part Deux (AND YOU SHOULD) you will remember that he is also dry and hilarious. He’ll also be perfect as part of our important subplot I just figured out: That Hawkeye hates young cocky scientist Hank Pym for having Janet, and is going to murder him when the hitting starts. And you know the hitting will start.

YELLOWJACKET

And when I think of hitting women, I think of Rob Lowe. A dashing scientist, inventor of size changing stuff, and a Duke Silver level saxophone player, Lowe has all the tools needed to play a sleazy piece of shit that needs some redemption. Literally, my favorite person for this role.

I CAN’T DEAL WITH INVENTING ULTRON! JUST LET ME ROCK THE PAIN AWAY!

THE WASP

Janet needs to be someone you really, really want to bang and really, really hate Hank Pym for being able to bang. I’m going with Demi Moore to keep the Brat Pack repping in this summer blockbuster. And it’s not so much that Demi would be an awesome person to hit, but she could sell a backhand super good. Just thinking about it makes me want to kill Rob Lowe.

WONDER MAN

My understanding of Wonder Man isn’t the best, but based on the pre Secret Invasion Mighty Avengers, he’s a smug hacky actor turned super hero and I think he should be Kurt Russell. Please refer yourself to Jack Burton. Clean yourself up, and then see him in Sky High. And then clean yourself up. What? That Scott Pilgrim chick was in it.

DIRECTOR

Every movie needs a director (Except for the three Transformers films and anything I shoot of myself crying). The insane amount of androids and evil AI points to Ridley Scott for this thing. He’s the obvious choice for this epic, and while my heart says John Carpenter, my mind is keeping it Ridley.

Next time: It’s Warren Ellis’ Thunderbolts… 70’s grindhouse style!