Sunday, October 18

• Eli Roth Returns to Horror and Tries His Hand at Sci-Fi

  It's been two years since Eli Roth directed a feature, but he's kept busy on the side with writing, producing, and acting. After his recent appearance as Sgt. Donny Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Roth is returning to horror, the genre that made him famous with his Cabin Fever and Hostel movies. He's also readying himself to take on science fiction.

  At the Morelia International Film Festival in Mexico, Roth announced that he is finishing a script for a new sci-fi movie called Endangered Species, which he also plans to direct. He also mentioned that he's writing and directing a feature-length version of his Thanksgiving mock-horror trailer that appeared in Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse double-feature. Roth said that he needed the time away from directing to revive his creativity.

  I haven't been this excited since the first Hostel. I had to divorce myself from the [Hostel] project 100% to free up my brain for other things.

  
  

  Posted 10/18/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Quentin Tarantino | Robert Rodriguez | Eli Roth | Inglourious Basterds

Wednesday, October 7

• The Whole Predators Cast Revealed

  Adrien Brody has been cast in Predators, the sequel to Predator being written and produced by Robert Rodriguez and directed by Nimrod Antal, and THR reports he won't be alone.

  Joining Brody will be Alice Braga (I Am Legend), Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Walton Goggins (The Shield), UFC fighter Oleg Taktarov, and Danny Trejo, who was the first Predators cast member to be revealed. Topher Grace is also in negotiations to join the cast.

  According to a recent script review, Brody will play Royce, a man kidnapped and brought to a Predator planet to join an international gang of ruthless criminals and thugs who must survive being hunted by a group of Predators. Trejo will play Cuchillo, a Mexican enforcer with "twin Uzis strapped to his back." Braga will play the sniper-toting, French-speaking Isabelle, while Taktarov will play former Russian special ops agent Nikolai. Goggins will play Stans, a former San Quintin prisoner who is the "loose cannon" of the group, and Ali will play Mombasa, a member of the African Sierra Leone death squad who is not afraid to die. Should Grace officially join the cast, he will play Edwin, an unassuming accountant-type who is one of the FBI's most wanted serial killers. The only role left to cast is Hanzo, a Japanese yakuza enforcer.

  Predators begins shooting next month in Hawaii, with a scheduled release date of opens July 9, 2010.

  
  

  Posted 10/07/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Adrien Brody | Alice Braga | Walton Goggins | Robert Rodriguez | Topher Grace | Oleg Taktarov | Mahershalalhashbaz Ali | Predators

• Adrien Brody Added to Robert Rodriguez's Predators

  Producer Robert Rodriguez's reboot of the popular Predator franchise has just gotten a big boost from an actor with some serious skills.

  THR announced yesterday that Oscar-winner Adrien Brody would be joining the cast of Predators as the leader of a group of deadly humans on the run from the alien manhunters.

  This development was not met with joy by The New York Post's Jarett Wieselman, who said:

  If I was combing through a crowd of actors for one I could trust to get me to the chopper, I'd blow right past Adrien Brody and keep holding out for a hero.

  What do you think, Predator fans? Are you happy with this turn of events, or does it have you tempted to "write off" the entire production?

  
  
  Next Showing: Predators opens July 9, 2010
  

  Predator - Trailer

  Posted 10/07/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Adrien Brody | Robert Rodriguez | Predators

Friday, October 2

• Predators Script Review: "Awesome"

  LatinoReview managed to get a copy of the script for Predators, the sequel written and produced by Robert Rodriguez and directed by Nimrod Antal. The script, dated July 12, 2009, was described as "awesome" and a "90-page kick-ass sci-fi action movie worthy of the original" that is a "bloody, violent, hard-R script."

  Fanboy enthusiasm aside, the review also outlines the plot of movie. Predators follows Royce, who, after a rooftop gun battle, is kidnapped by a Predator and brought back to the Predator home planet where he is thrown in with 7 tough-as-nails humans, mostly criminals who are "predators in their own right." The group of humans have been assembled as prey for the Predators to hunt and must try to survive in the jungle preserve of the Predator home planet. They are hunted by "Predator dogs, Predator falcons," and a "Black Super Predator," described as a "Predator jacked up on steroids."

  The script also reveals a possible cameo for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Rodriguez has already reached out to the Governator, but there's no word yet on whether he will return.

  While the cast of humans hasn't been set, Danny Trejo, Rodriguez's upcoming lead in Machete, recently said "we'll be doing Predator[s] next," revealing he has been cast in the project. The script review speculates that Trejo will play Cuchillo, a "Mexican enforcer" who has "twin Uzis strapped to his back."

  To watch the video of LatinoReview's Predators script review of, head here.

  
  
  Next Showing: Predators opens July 17, 2010

  Posted 10/02/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Danny Trejo | Robert Rodriguez | Predators

Tuesday, September 29

• Danny Trejo Says Sin City 2 Is Only a "Thought Process"

  Robert Rodriguez's adaptation of Frank Miller's Sin City line of graphic novels was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful film, and fans have been clamoring for a sequel since the first one debuted four years ago.

  Just when it started to appear doubtful that a sequel would ever be made, Clive Owen, who starred in the first one as Dwight, said last week that "a very good souce" told him that production could begin next year. Then a few days later, actor Danny Trejo told Punch Drunk Critics there are no concrete plans for a sequel.

  It's kind of in the works ... we're going to do Predator[s] next. So, Sin City [2] is kind of like a, you know, a thought process. We'll be doing Predator[s] in about a month.

  It's unclear what involvement in the Sin City 2 sequel Trejo will have, if any, but he's appeared in a number of director Robert Rodriguez's films in the past so an acting role in SC2 is not unlikely. Most recently, Trejo wrapped filming on Machete, an "expoitation film" based on the fake trailer that appeared in Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse. According to Trejo, Machete, scheduled to open in 2010, will be "pretty true to the trailer" in theme and tone.

  
  
  

  Sin City - Trailer

  Posted 09/29/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Clive Owen | Danny Trejo | Robert Rodriguez | Machete | Sin City | Sin City 2

Thursday, September 24

• Clive Owen Says Sin City 2 Could Begin Production Next Year

  Director Robert Rodriguez's adaptation of comic creator Frank Miller's Sin City line of graphic novels may have been snubbed by the Academy, but it won 16 other critical awards, including the Technical Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and earned nearly $159 million at the box office, making it a prime candidate for a sequel. However, since its release in 2005, there's been nothing more than talk of that happening.

  Back in 2006, Rosario Dawson, who played Gail in Sin City, said that Rodriguez was considering casting Angelina Jolie in the lead role in Sin City 2, which was rumored to be an adaptation of Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For graphic novel. Subsequent rumors had both Salma Hayek and Rodriguez's then-girlfriend Rose McGowan competing for the role. Then, it appeared Rodriguez was side-lining Sin City 2 in favor of an update of Barbarella. Another rumor had the Weinsteins losing the rights to produce a Sin City sequel, a rumor which was squelched by their attorney in April, when he said their rights "remain intact."

  Just when it was beginning to look like a sequel would never happen, actor Clive Owen gave Sin City fans a little hope. In a recent interview with MTV, Owen said that production on Sin City could begin sooner than anyone thought.

  I'm hearing it might be next year, yes. I'm hearing it might be next year. I heard that from a very good source, recently, yeah.

  While Owen wouldn't say who the "good source" was, he hinted that it could have been either Miller or Rodriguez, and said that he would be interested in reprising the role of Dwight.

  I had a great time on the first one. Great time. Robert Rodriguez was a joy. It was a stunning film. I think it was an absolutely extraordinary achievement, what he did with that film. It's unlike ... it was a genuinely original movie.

  
  
  

  Sin City - Trailer

  Posted 09/24/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Clive Owen | Rosario Dawson | Robert Rodriguez | Frank Miller | Sin City | Sin City 2

Monday, August 31

• Robert Rodriguez's Predators May Shoot in Hawaii

  The jungles of Hawaii could soon be visited by a famous predator. Or rather, several famous Predators. Reel Hawaii recently reported that producer Robert Rodriguez's movie Predators may be partially shot in Hawaii.

  Scouts for 20th Century Fox's $40-million creature feature are back on the Big Island for their third week of scouting Hawaii, most of it where a lot of jungles have been looked at. The production would film for 18 days with an October start if the Hawaii portion is a go.

  Rodriguez has gone on record as saying that Predators is not a relaunch; it's a direct sequel to 1987's Predator. Rodriguez said that the film will not take place on earth and that he hopes that "people will forget all the bad sequels and only think this one and the original exist."

  Nimród Antal (Vacancy) will direct from a script by Rodriguez, Michael Finch and Alex Litvak.

  
  
  

  Predator - Trailer

  Predators is scheduled for release July 7, 2010

  Posted 08/31/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Robert Rodriguez | Nimrod Antal | Predator | Predators

Friday, August 28

• The Blob Next for Rob Zombie, Maybe Werewolf Women of the SS

  Now that Rob Zombie has finished Halloween II and will "never" come back for another, Variety reports he has set his sights on another remake, The Blob. Zombie will write, direct, and produce a reinvention of the 1958 classic sci-fi movie, and he already knows how he will make it different.

  My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing — that's the first thing I want to change. That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now.

  Zombie still intends for to be scary, but wants to stay away from the horror of his Halloween movies.

  I'd been looking to break out of the horror genre, and this really is a science fiction movie about a thing from outer space. I intend to make it scary, and the great thing is I have the freedom once again to take it in any crazy direction I want to.

  But wouldn't Zombie find that same freedom if he tried to make a full-length feature out of his Grindhouse trailer, Werewolf Women of the SS? Considering Robert Rodriguez is making Machete, Zombie agrees that the time is right.

  I feel that the Nazi movie is back. Once the trend comes back, the Nazi trends comes back, now you pervert it like crazy and you add werewolves. So, I don't know if we'll ever see that movie, but now is the time. The time is now to strike with this.

  I actually did sketch out a whole story. It's so insane, it's ridiculous. It involves time travel. I would love to make that movie. Grindhouse was made like a traditional movie, they spent a lot of money. I would like to go make Werewolf in two weeks with no money.

  If Zombie makes both The Blob and Werewolf, that would indeed make him too busy for another Halloween. That is, until he sees what another director wants to do with Halloween III and he gets "protective" again.

  
  

  Posted 08/28/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Robert Rodriguez | Rob Zombie | The Blob | Halloween II

Thursday, August 27

• Rose McGowan Reveals She's Pulled Out of Red Sonja

  Robert Rodriguez's remake of Red Sonja has been delayed multiple times due to actress injuries, financial woes, and word of another Conan the Barbarian movie. Here's another delay ... that we're not quite sure how to categorize ... to add to the list.

  The lead actress, Rose McGowan, took time to Twitter about Red Sonja and "other" films she was supposed to film last year. We're assuming from this tweet that she's dumped them all: Black Oasis, Woman in Chains, Inferno, and Barbarella.

  Just this once I'll address questions about Red Sonja & others I was meant to do in '08. Major personal & private; reasons I pulled out. Starting 2 want to work again. Sometimes real life f***ing sucks. That's all. God bless us survivors.

  Rodriguez was interviewed a few weeks ago and said that "Red Sonja" will film in 2010 or 2011. Although on another note, Robert hinted Rose McGowan's involvement in his latest flick Machete! on twitter.

  
  

  Posted 08/27/2009 by Jim

  Related: Rose McGowan | Robert Rodriguez | Red Sonja

Saturday, August 22

• James Spader Talks About Playing a Villain in Shorts

  

  James Spader has made quite a career out of playing villains, notably in Less Than Zero and Pretty in Pink, but no experience has been quite like playing the nefarious Mr. Carbon Black in Shorts. Spader spoke to MoviesOnline about the shoot, calling it "a whirlwind".

  When they called me up and sent me the script. I thought, "Well, I don't know how the hell I'm going to do this 'cause I'm shooting Boston Legal and we're on hiatus and I need to take a break." They called up and they said, "It's going to take us about 5 days to shoot you" and I was just "Okay." I went down there, I think as much for anything else, just to see how the hell they could possibly do that and they did. I think they shot me out in 5 or maybe 6 days. It was a function of Robert. Robert Rodriguez has such a tremendous confidence in terms of how he puts the film together.

  In order to shoot the movie as quickly as they did, Spader took Rodriguez's advice on how to play his "over-the-top" villain.

  I just sort of gave it up to Robert and whatever he wanted. If he wanted me to say it louder and scream it louder with eyes wider and bigger and flail my arms around even broader, then so be it, because he's got it in his head what this is going to look like. And, it's impossible on the set to tell yourself, to have any idea what the hell it's going to look like because so much of it is created behind the scenes.

  Shorts follows the adventures of an 11-year-old boy who finds a rock that grants wishes. What would Spader wish for in he had the rock?

  Well, I mean, there's the most immediate which is to wish for a few more wishes. That was always the first wish for me [as a kid] and that always seemed rather intuitive. You start out strong by wishing for more wishes, and then, instead of expanding on that, it then immediately distills and gets reduced to walkie-talkies and mini-bikes or something else depending on the day.

  
  
  Next Showing: Shorts is now in theaters
  

  Shorts on the Red Carpet

  We visit the premier of the latest kids flick from Robert Rodriguez.

  Posted 08/22/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Robert Rodriguez | James Spader | Shorts

Tuesday, August 18

• Lindsay Lohan Confirmed in Machete

  

  When the cast for Robert Rodriguez's Machete was announced, the variety of talent involved seemed impossible to believe. Steven Seagal and Jessica Alba? Robert DeNiro and Lindsay Lohan? Together, in the same movie? To take away some of our doubts, Rodriguez confirmed Lohan's appearance:

  [Lindsay]'s one of the people in the movie. Her name is April. She's the daughter of one of the bad guys. I can't say too much. Oh, she's already been there. I've already shot some great stuff with her. Yeah, I shot her on Wednesday. She was fantastic.

  Pictures of a bikini-clad Lohan from the set of Machete have already made it online. But Lohan isn't the only part of the Machete shoot that pleased Rodriguez:

  We've been shooting this week, and it's just elevated from what you think it's gonna be by so much that I think the main note people will have watching it is: it delivered way beyond what it needed to deliver for me to be happy.

  Machete started as a fake trailer for the Grindhouse movie Rodriguez made with Quentin Tarantino. Rodriguez says the footage shot from the trailer will be used and the rest the movie of it will be "bridging around it." Despite the already enormous and eclectic cast, Rodriguez says he still needs to "cast a few more people" in "main character" roles.

  
  

  Posted 08/18/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Lindsay Lohan | Robert Rodriguez | Machete | Planet Terror

• Robert Rodriguez Talks Shorts' Inspiration

  

  Director Robert Rodriguez is well-known for making genre movies like Sin City and the upcoming Machete, but he's also the creator of popular kid movies like the Spy Kids series. His latest venture, Shorts, follows the adventures of a young boy who finds a rock that can grant wishes. Rodriguez explained the genesis of the movie to Moviesonline:

  We have a castle turret [in my house]. Part of the house that I'd built thinking, 10 years ago when I built it, some day I was going to use it as a set for a movie with my kids when I had kids and then it ended up happening with this. I was going to shoot it like El Mariachi in my backyard and come up with a storyline later. When my son came up with the idea of doing a Little Rascals type movie, of course, that was something I had thought of doing years ago and I had totally forgot about it. He would talk about the canyon and a rock. He loves rocks, he collects rocks. He kept saying a rainbow rock. So I thought, what if it’s a wishing rock, and I asked him what he would wish for if he wished for anything because I was going to test the idea on him.

  He said, "I wish for a butt for a head." I said, "Are you sure?" and he said, "Yeah." So, I asked my other son who is older and wiser what he'd wish for and he said, "I wish to be a potato." So I said, "Hmmmmm. Okay. I'd wish for a million more wishes." And then, their faces kind of dropped. You could tell they were thinking, "Oh, I just wasted my wish." ...

  ... I realized this is a great idea for a movie. If you got a rock and could have anything, you really wouldn't know what to wish for at first. Of course, if you're a kid, it's "a never ending supply of chocolate" and now he's got stuff shooting out of his pockets. "Let's wish for telephonesis" and, of course, he says the word wrong. Everything is taken literally and you can just have a lot of fun.

  When it comes to making kids' movies, Rodriguez's plan is simple: just make a good movie that everyone can enjoy:

  ... they weren't expecting something like Spy Kids, where it's like – "Wow, somebody actually looked like they wanted to make a family film, and set something in this age, where it's about what you can get away with, instead of what you can aspire to." You know, "This movie's a gem," or something like that.... We just want people laughing in the theater, and we don't have anything else to do, so let's just entertain. Anything we can do to just get a laugh, just make the kids laugh, and the parents will feel like they took their kids out to have a good time.

  
  
  

  Shorts - Trailer

  Shorts opens August 21, 2009

  Posted 08/18/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Robert Rodriguez | Spy Kids | Machete | Shorts

Thursday, August 6

• Robert Rodriguez's Machete Cast Revealed

  

  Variety reports that production on Robert Rodriguez's Machete began this week and they also confirmed one of the strangest looking casts including Robert DeNiro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, with Don Johnson and Jeff Fahey playing supporting roles and Danny Trejo as the titlular hero.

  The DeNiro casting was announced last month, and the Lohan casting wasn't official, so this is the first time that anything has been confirmed. Jonah Hill was rumored to be cast but was not mentioned in Variety, while all the other names cast are new.

  Cheech Marin is the only actor other than Trejo that appeared in the trailer Rodriguez shot for Grindhouse, while Fahey appeared in Planet Terror. On the poster, only Fahey and Trejo are mentioned, and co-director Ethan Maniquis is left off.

  
  
  Next Showing: Machete is scheduled to open sometime in 2010

  Posted 08/06/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Cheech Marin | Danny Trejo | Jonah Hill | Lindsay Lohan | Michelle Rodriguez | Robert Rodriguez | Don Johnson | Jeff Fahey | Jessica Alba | Steven Seagal | Robert DeNiro | Machete | Planet Terror

Monday, July 27

• Lindsay Lohan May Star in Robert Rodriguez's Machete

  

  

  MTV reports that Robert Rodriguez is trying to sign Lindsay Lohan for Machete, his feature-length extension of the fake trailer he shot for Grindhouse.

  In an interview at Comic-Con, Rodriguez said he already has her in mind.

  Lindsay's cool. There's actually a cool part in the movie for her — if she takes it.

  Danny Trejo, who played the title character in the trailer, is already on board to reprise his role, and Rodriguez added that he's courting several other big stars.

  We've cast nobody but Danny and Michelle Rodriguez, but we've sent the script out to a lot of people. There are a lot of people we're sending it to, big names — but nobody that we've signed yet ... Next week, or maybe the week after, probably while we're actually shooting.

  Other stars rumored for Machete are Robert De Niro and Jonah Hill. The movie goes into production in a few weeks and is slated for release sometime in 2010.

  
  

  Posted 07/27/2009 by Rich Z

  Related: Danny Trejo | Lindsay Lohan | Michelle Rodriguez | Robert Rodriguez | Machete

Friday, July 17

• Robert Rodriguez's Machete Adds Robert DeNiro to Cast

  Machete started out as a "fake" trailer Robert Rodriguez shot for the double-feature Grindhouse — one that looked arguably better than the Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino movies put together. Production on a feature-length Machete starts July 29, and co-directors Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis have put together a star-filled cast. Danny Trejo will return as Machete, alongside Michele Rodriguez, Jonah Hill, and surprisingly Robert DeNiro. Make up artist-actor Tom Savini will also appear in the movie.

  According to a Bloody-Disgusting source, DeNiro will be playing Senator McLaughlin, a corrupt civil servant who double-crosses Machete. DeNiro's casting seems a little unusual, as does Hill's, so this may simply be rumor. But it would help stabilize Trejo's claim that Machete is intended to be a trilogy.

  
  
  

  Grindhouse - Trailer

  The double feature is back!

  Posted 07/17/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Danny Trejo | Jonah Hill | Quentin Tarantino | Tom Savini | Michelle Rodriguez | Robert Rodriguez | Robert DeNiro | Machete

Tuesday, June 30

• Predators May Have Found a Director

  Predators, the sequel conceived and produced by Robert Rodriguez, may have found a director in Nimrod Antal and not Neil Marshall, as was previously rumored. Antal is a young director, whose credits include the ho-hum thriller Vacancy and the upcoming heist drama Armored, starring Laurence Fishburne and Matt Dillon that opens December 4.

  Predators will be based on a Rodriguez treatment written 15 years ago. It's set on a "jungle-like Predator planet" and may include a cameo from Predator star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Alex Litvak is writing the script.

  
  
  Next Showing: Predators opens July 17, 2010

  Posted 06/30/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Neil Marshall | Robert Rodriguez | Predators | Predator

Tuesday, June 9

• Robert Rodriguez Hopes to Start Shooting Jetsons Movie Next Year

  Most of what has leaked about Gamer so far is admittedly not very funny. Where's the humor in be manipulated in combat to the death by some master computer geek? But there is a lighter side to this dystopian tale of future gaming, John Leguizamo tells Sci Fi Wire. Leguizamo, who plays the character Freek in the movie, says he is there primarily to provide some comic relief:

  I'm like a Renfield in the Dracula story, that crazy guy who's locked up in an insane asylum ... I'm in there; I have all this information, and I'm in the prison. I'm in the game.

  In the game, but not involved in the butt-kicking so much. That, he says, he is leaving up to Gerard Butler, who plays Kable, the cyber-gladiator at the center of the action.

  
  

  Posted 06/09/2009 by Rich Z

  Related: Robert Rodriguez | Adam F. Goldberg | Sin City | Sin City 2 | Shorts | Predators | Planet Terror | Fanboys | The Jetsons

Friday, June 5

• Robert Rodriguez Wants Schwarzenegger for Predators

  What would a Predator sequel be without Arnold Schwarzenegger? Why, Predator 2, of course, which is the kind of cinematic blunder Robert Rodriguez wants to avoid on Predators, an official sequel and not a remake or reboot of the 1987 original.

  MovieHole reports that Rodriguez has "reached out to Schwarzenegger" to reprise his role of Dutch from the first Predator. However, Rodriguez and his Troublemaker Studios "haven't had a response yet" from Schwarzenegger. Being Governor of California takes time away from returning phone calls, it seems.

  The Predators script, based on a 15-year-old treatment by Rodriguez and rewritten by Alex Litvak, will not feature Schwarzenegger in a starring role, but rather a smaller, supporting one. The script is apparently "violent -- like the original" and "packed with action." A director for Predators has yet to be named, with Rodriguez serving only as producer for the movie.

  
  

  Posted 06/05/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Robert Rodriguez | Predators | Predator 2 | Predator

Thursday, April 30

• Predators Coming to Theaters in 2010

  What, AVP wasn't enough a reboot? It's true, despite both Alien vs. Predator and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, a second reboot is underway, this time with director Robert Rodriguez serving as producer for the movie.

  AICN reached out to Rodriguez, who explained how Predators came into being:

  Way back before I did Desperado, I had taken a writing assignment for a sequel to Predator. With a nod toward [James] Cameron's Aliens I decided to call it Predators. I set it on a jungle-like Predator planet. Fast forward 15 years to when I got a call from Alex Young over at Fox, who had been digging around and found my original treatment. So the next stage is finding a writer and director to come in and work with us to bring it to life. Whether or not it will ultimately be based on the treatment or not is still unknown at this time.

  So while Rodriguez will not direct or write, he has plenty in mind for the movie:

  What I'd like to do with it is expand on ideas I dreamt up back in the original treatment, that had really expanded on the universe both the Predators and other species live in. We'd create new otherworldly characters while not taking away from the draw our main Predator has.

  
  
  Next Showing: Predators is set for release on July 7, 2010

  Posted 04/30/2009 by Ryan

  Related: James Cameron | Robert Rodriguez | Alien vs. Predator | Desperado | Predators | Aliens | Predator | Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

Friday, April 10

• Weinsteins Retain Sin City 2 Rights

  

  Four years have gone by since audiences were shocked and thrilled by director Robert Rodriguez's stylized adaptation of Frank Miller's collection of Sin City graphic novels. Rodriguez has been busy since then, producing Grindhouse with Quentin Tarantino and directing the Grindhouse segment Planet Terror. So, when will we see Sin City 2?

  According to IMDB, Sin City 2 is in pre-production, but IESB reported on Tuesday that the Weinstein Company had lost the rights to produce the film and the subsequent follow-up, Sin City 3. Apparently, the IESB report was erroneous, as Weinstein Co. lawyer Bert Fields commented to EW:

  TWC's rights to produce sequels to Sin City remain intact as they always have been. Any suggestion to the contrary is complete hogwash.

  Sin City grossed over $150 million worldwide and received critical acclaim for its innovative film techniques, including a Technical Grand Prize award at Cannes.

  
  

  Posted 04/10/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Robert Rodriguez | Sin City | Sin City 2 | Planet Terror

Monday, June 30

• Robert Rodriguez to do Red Sonja Remake

  Comic book heroine Red Sonja is making her way back to the silver screen in a remake by Robert Rodriguez (Grindhouse, Sin City).

  Rodriguez, who is producing, has cast girlfriend Rose McGowan as the sword-bearing warrior. 

  Red Sonja will be directed by Douglas Arniokoski.

  
  

  Posted 06/30/2008 by reelz

  Related: Rose McGowan | Robert Rodriguez | Red Sonja

Friday, May 30

• Robert Rodriguez Casts Latest Shorts
  

  After goring it up in Grindhouse, Robert Rodriguez is heading into family-friendly territory again with his latest comedy for Warner Bros. entitled Shorts.
  
  The cast thus far includes Jon Cryer, William H. Macy, Leslie Mann and James Spader.
  
  Shorts is set in a fictitious suburb where everyone works for the same gadget-producing company Black Box. When an 11-year-old boy is hit on the head with a rainbow rock that grants wishes, craziness ensues.
  
  As usual, Rodriguez will serve as his own one-man crew as writer, director, director of photography and visual effects supervisor. Judging by his latest efforts (Spy Kids: 3-D, Sharkboy and Lava Girl) maybe Rodriguez might want to consider staying focused in just one or two areas?
  
  Source: Variety
  
  
  

  Posted 05/30/2008 by reelz

  Related: Robert Rodriguez | Shorts

Tuesday, May 22

• Rodriguez to mess with perfection

  Variety is reporting that Robert Rodriguez (of the better half of Grindhouse) has signed on to do a remake of Barbarella, the 1968 movie in which Jane Fonda parades around outer space in all manner of bathing suits and gogo boots.

  When asked if he will get Fonda to reprise her role, Rodriguez allegedly said, "Hell yeah. Just think about how much her costumes influenced the fashion of the space program the first time around."

  He also said he wanted to chop off her legs and replace them with cathode ray guns. And he wants to fly over the moon.

   

  
  
  Next Showing: Jane Fonda can currently be seen in Georgia Rule.
  

  Gerrad Hall's uncut interview with Jane Fonda

  The star of Georgia Rule gets candid with ReelzChannel.

  Posted 05/22/2007 by reelz

  Related: Robert Rodriguez | Jane Fonda | Barbarella | Barbarella

Thursday, April 5

• Tom Leupp tells it like it is in his Grindhouse review

  Tom's review of Grindhouse is now live on the site and, as of yet, it's certainly not the popular opinion. The reviews are looking pretty strong so far, but you have to wonder who's doing the praising? Rottentomatoes shows an 87 % so far, but... I have a question. Would anyone give a !%# about this movie if it were directed by anyone other than fanboy figureheads Tarantino and Rodriguez?

  

  I didn't like the movie, as I expressed the other day. Now, before you call me a naysayer, understand that I loved Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Sin City, El Mariachi, etc. I was really looking forward to this movie. Unfortunately, Grindhouse just a BIG FAT LETDOWN.

  
  
  Next Showing: Grindhouse opens nationwide on April 6th
  

  The director discusses Grindhouse

  Tarantino and Rodriguez talk Grindhouse!!!

  Posted 04/05/2007 by reelz

  Related: Quentin Tarantino | Robert Rodriguez | Planet Terror | Sin City | Pulp Fiction

• Will the ADD generation embrace Grindhouse?

  Producers of Grindhouse are rolling the dice big-time, betting that fans of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, demographics not known for their long attention spans, will be able to sit still for the entirety of the three-hour-plus double feature.

  It's interesting to note that the individual films, Planet Terror and Death Proof, will be released separately abroad and will contain additional footage not seen in the U.S. version.

  Check out our review of Grindhouse.

  
  
  

  Long Run Time

  Can Grindhouse keep an audience seated for 3 hours plus?

  Posted 04/05/2007 by reelz

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Saturday, March 31

• I just saw Grindhouse...

  And it sucked. And and I don't mean that it was one of those "good in a bad way" movies that Tarantino and Rodriguez claim to be going for. Nope, this movie is just plain lousy.
  
  Rodriguez's Planet Terror is a passable enough genre flick. It's entirely too long, but it's got some clever moments. Still, stacked against similar recent zombie flicks such as 28 Days Later and Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, it pales in comparison.
  
  Tarantino's Death Proof is a terrible movie. Yes, it's true that there are a few brief cool car chase moments thrown in, but those briefly pleasurable moments in the middle and the end (the last 15 minutes are great)are sandwiched between some of the most painstakingly boring footage you could ever imagine. It's basically girls sitting around talking about cars and relationships. Tarantino's trademark dialogue is wooden and ridiculous. Death Proof is Tarantino's fantasy movie of the girls he wish existed. Well Quentin, they don't and no one actually talks like this. He actually re-uses dialogue from his other movies. Death Proof is the worst thing he's ever done. And yes, I saw Four Rooms.
  
  And finally, Quentin, look, we've been saying it for more than a decade now.... STOP ACTING!!! Tarantino appears in BOTH of the Grindhouse movies, as cheesy and distracting as ever.
  
  Tom used the word "excruciating" to describe Grindhouse when he saw it a week ago. I wanted him to be wrong, but he was dead on.
  
  Check back for a more complete review of this highly anticipated and extremely disappointing flick.
  
  
  
  Next Showing: Grindhouse opens in theaters nationwide on April 6th
  

  Grindhouse Trailer

  The double feature is back!!!
  

  Grindhouse Premiere

  Quentin Tarantino talks about his exploitation movie.

  Posted 03/31/2007 by reelz

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