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Conic has acquired UK-Ireland distribution rights to Laura Carreira’s On Falling, ahead of the film’s UK premiere at BFI London Film Festival this evening.

Conic will release the film in the UK and Ireland in early 2025, having acquired the title from the film’s producer Jack Thomas-o’Brien of Sixteen Films.

The film has also sold to Benelux (Vedette), former Yugoslavia (McF), Greece (Cinobo), Middle East (Teleview), Spain (Vertigo) and Switzerland (Frenetic). Advanced negotiations are underway for France and the US.

The debut feature of 2022 Screen Rising Star Scotland Carreira, On Falling tells the story of a Portuguese migrant...

Production is under way in Australia’s Victoria state on War Machine, a new sci-fi action thriller film from Lionsgate and Netflix.

Produced, directed, and co-written by Patrick Hughes, “War Machine” follows the final 24-hours of the world’s toughest selection program, as a team of Army Rangers encounter a threat beyond their imagination.

“Reacher” star Alan Ritchson heads a cast that also includes Dennis Quaid, Stephan James (“The Piano Lesson”), Jai Courtney (“The Suicide Squad”) and Esai Morales (“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One”) as well as Australian actors Blake Richardson (“Mystery Road: Origin”), Keiynan Lonsdale (“The Flash”) and Daniel Webber (“The Dirt”) also have credits.

Ritchson plays the lead Ranger candidate with James, Courtney, Richardson, Lonsdale and Webber playing other aspirants who themselves in way over their heads. Quaid and Morales will play commanding officers.

Filming will take place around Bright and Myrtleford as well as Melbourne and Docklands Studios,...

The Toronto Film Festival is awash with international titles. Led by Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed Of The Sacred Fig” and Gints Zilbalodis’ “Flow,” the festival’s huge Centrepiece spread alone has 38 titles from outside Canada and the U.S. The Discovery section has another 18.

Not all Toronto international titles are world premieres, however. Here are 16 which are sparking good word of mouth. Variety isn’t claiming they are the best. The buzz might not be justified. But they are certainly worth tracking.

“Sunshine,” (Antoinette Jadaone, Philippines)

Anima, the Filipino studio behind Erik Matti’s Venice winner “On The Job 2: The Missing 8” and Sundance winner “Leonor Will Never” Die, joined Project 8 Projects to co-produce Antoinette Jadaone’s teenage pregnancy drama “Sunshine.” It turns on a young gymnast who discovers she is pregnant on the week of the national team tryouts. On her way to a seller of illegal abortion drugs,...

Maybe you remember The Hitman’s Bodyguard. Maybe you don’t. We wouldn’t blame you if the details regarding this pulpy 2017 buddy comedy had faded from your memory banks like so much post-headshot pink mist. Ryan Reynolds is a disgraced bodyguard. Samuel L. Jackson is a hitman who’s supposed to testify at the Hague in a war-crimes trial. The two end up bickering a lot and saving each other’s lives, things get blowed up real good, Jackson says “motherfucker” a lot, yadda yadda yadda. As a bonus,...

While Aacta’s Byron Kennedy Award is typically given to an individual or organisation who demonstrates “outstanding creative enterprise”, this year the award will go to a film.

The nominees for the honour, which celebrates the legacy of Dr George Miller’s original producing partner and Mad Max co-creator Byron Kennedy, are a short-list of the last decade’s best indie genre features.

The films are diverse, spanning comedies, Westerns, thrillers, horrors and sci-fis, but Aacta has determined each are in line with Kennedy’s “ethos of excellence”, resourcefulness and “the can-do spirit of independent, low-budget local filmmaking.”

They include: The Babadook, Beast, Cargo, Girl Asleep, I Am Mother, The Infinite Man, Mad Bastards, Mystery Road, Red Hill, That’s Not Me, These Final Hours and Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.

‘Girl Asleep’.

Many nominated are debut features, such as Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and Zak Hilditch’s These Final Hours,...

Craig McMahon.

While insurance companies and other financiers worldwide have excluded Covid-19 from their policies, Melbourne-based Elevate Production Finance (Epf) is stepping into the breach.

Backed by Australian and international institutions and private equity, Epf is prepared to immediately provide debt funding to film and television productions in Australia and New Zealand despite the pandemic.

Managing director Craig McMahon, who founded Epf in 2018, tells If: “We have the ability to take on a significant amount of work. We are excited to re-open our doors to producers seeking debt finance for their productions.

“The landscape has significantly changed, producers have had to adjust to new working environments and as a lender, we have responded swiftly by reviewing our lending protocols.

“These new protocols will enable us to consider projects impacted by the lack of Covid-19 coverage within insurance policies and completion guarantees, which is a crucial first step in redefining our lending conditions.

Over the years, Ryan Kwanten has endeared himself to genre fans with his work on True Blood, or on films like Dead Silence, Knights of Badassdom, and Red Hill (which is a highly underappreciated revenge-fueled thriller that this writer dug). And for his latest project, the anthological Facebook Watch series Sacred Lies: The Singing Bones, Kwanten portrays Peter Wolfe, a man who abandoned his young daughter some 13 years prior, and struggles to come to terms with who he is and the things that he’s done.

Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Kwanten, and he discussed the True Blood connection to Sacred Lies by way of Raelle Tucker, the showrunner for the Blumhouse Television series, and how her involvement was one of the biggest reasons he wanted to get involved with the 10-episode second season of Sacred Lies. Kwanten also chatted about his approach to his character,...

Musical drama secures hat-track of nominations including a best actress nod for Jessie Buckley.

Musical drama Wild Rose, featuring a breakout performance from Jessie Buckley, leads the pack at this year’s Bafta Scotland awards with three nominations.

Tom Harper’s film about a troubled young mother from Glasgow who dreams of being a country singer picked up a best actress nod for Screen Star of Tomorrow Buckley, best writer for Nicole Taylor and a nomination for best feature film.

The film took £2.89m at the UK box office when it was released in April, following a strong reaction at its Toronto world premiere.

Grimmfest, Manchester’s festival of fantastic films, will take place at the Odeon Great Northern warehouse from the 3rd – 6th October 2019. Now in its eleventh year, the festival prides itself on bringing the best new genre movies to Manchester, focusing on horror and premiering films that contain shocks, suspense, terror, mystery… and a fair bit of black comedy.

From the evening of Thursday 3rd October, fans will gather to catch the latest independent genre movies from around the world, on the biggest screen at the Odeon Great Northern. Throughout the 4-day festival Grimmfest will premiere six European premieres, 17 UK premieres 2 English premieres and 15 Northern premieres. Every movie will be new to Manchester. And that’s not all. Many of the film makers and stars will be attending the festival to present their films, answer audience questions and sign autographs.

Guest highlights this year include:

British comedian Johnny Vegas will be...

John Brumpton in ‘Measure for Measure.’

One of Australia’s hardest working actors, John Brumpton rarely turns down offers – except when he is asked to work for free.

In the past year he has played a rapist in Stephen Johnson’s Western High Ground, a gunslinger in the second season of Mystery Road, Hugo Weaving’s protector in Paul Ireland’s Measure for Measure and a worried dad in Jamie Helmer and Michael Leonard’s short The Diver, which premieres in competition in Venice.

IMDb lists 95 credits for the actor who made his screen debut in The Flying Doctors in 1989 and took up the profession after working as a surveyor and professional boxer.

“It’s a tough industry and surviving this long is an achievement,” he tells If. “My approach is: ‘Just be yourself.’”

He was inspired to become an actor by watching Bryan Brown in Stir, Breaker Morant and...

WestEnd Films has closed North American and European deals on “Swinging Safari,” Stephan Elliott’s Australian comedy. Blue Fox has taken U.S. and Canada rights and will release the film theatrically early this summer.

Elliott wrote and directed the film, which is set in mid-1970s Australia and stars Guy Pearce (“Iron Man 3”) and Kylie Minogue (“Moulin Rouge!”).

It is set in the beach suburb of Dee Why. When the town suddenly hits the spotlight after the body of a 200-ton whale is washed ashore, teenagers Jeff and Melly think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in their lives. Meanwhile, their eccentric parents are catching up with the sexual revolution that has also washed up on Australia’s beaches.

The U.S. deal was negotiated by Blue Fox Entertainment’s Todd Slater with WestEnd Films’ Maya Amsellem negotiating on behalf of the filmmakers.

WestEnd has...

Exclusive: WestEnd Films has closed a raft of deals on Flammable Children (aka Swinging Safari) ahead of its international premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival next month.

The Australian comedy, written and directed by Stephan Elliott, sold in Cannes to UK (Thunderbird), France (Swift), Italy (Lucky Red), Spain (Twelve Oaks), Switzerland (Frenetic), Scandinavia (Sandrew), the Middle East (Ecs) and Russia (Luxor). Becker Film Group released in the film in Australia in January of this year.

Guy Pearce (Iron Man 3), former pop star Kylie Minogue (Holy Motors), Radha Mitchell (The Shack), Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck), Asher Keddie (Wolverine) and Jeremy Sims (Idiot Box) star in the comedy about teenager Jeff and his crush Melly who are coming of age in a small Australian town during the 1970s when a 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach. Meanwhile, their eccentric parents...

Leading an all-star cast, Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool, The Proposal) and Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Marvel’s Cinematic Universe) take viewers on an outrageous action-packed, comedic adventure in The Hitman’s Bodyguard, arriving on Digital HD November 7 and 4K Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital HD), Blu-ray™ Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD and On Demand November 21 from Lionsgate. When Michael Bryce, an elite bodyguard, and Darius Kincaid, a renowned hit man, are forced to work together, they don’t just have to avoid getting killed…they also have to avoid killing each other. The film, which was #1 at the summer box office three weeks in a row, also stars Oscar nominees Gary Oldman (2011, Best Actor, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Salma Hayek (2002, Best Actress, Frida).

Now you can own The Hitman’S Bodyguard on Blu-ray. We Are Movie Geeks has 4 copies to give away.

Leading an all-star cast, Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool, The Proposal) and Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Marvel’s Cinematic Universe) take viewers on an outrageous action-packed, comedic adventure in The Hitman’s Bodyguard, arriving on Digital HD November 7 and 4K Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital HD), Blu-ray™ Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD and On Demand November 21 from Lionsgate. When Michael Bryce, an elite bodyguard, and Darius Kincaid, a renowned hit man, are forced to work together, they don’t just have to avoid getting killed…they also have to avoid killing each other. The film, which was #1 at the summer box office three weeks in a row, also stars Oscar nominees Gary Oldman (2011, Best Actor, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Salma Hayek (2002, Best Actress, Frida).

The world’s top protection agent (Reynolds) is called upon to guard the life of his mortal enemy,...

The Hilarious Action-Comedy Starring Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson Arrives on Digital HD November 7 and 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray Combo Pack, and DVD November 21 from Lionsgate

Leading an all-star cast, Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool, The Proposal) and Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Marvel’s Cinematic Universe) take viewers on an outrageous action-packed, comedic adventure in The Hitman’s Bodyguard, arriving on Digital HD November 7 and 4K Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital HD), Blu-ray™ Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD and On Demand November 21 from Lionsgate. When Michael Bryce, an elite bodyguard, and Darius Kincaid, a renowned hit man, are forced to work together, they don’t just have to avoid getting killed…they also have to avoid killing each other. The film, which was #1 at the summer box office three weeks in a row, also stars Oscar® nominees Gary Oldman (2011, Best Actor,...

Though it’s clear The Hitman’s Bodyguard, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds, is built to be action-comedy comfort food, it’s a bit too comfortable for its own good. Directed by Patrick Hughes (responsible for the underseen gem Red Hill), there are more than a few bright spots here unfortunately undermined by a laborious third act finale and a lingering cynicism that leaves a bad taste by the time the credits roll.

A couple of years after top-rated bodyguard Michael Bryce (Reynolds) lost a high-profile client on his watch, he finds himself slumming it with sleazy corporate gigs while pining for both his once-promising career and romance with Interpol agent Amelia Roussel (Elodie Yung). After Roussel’s team is ambushed while transporting infamous hitman Darius Kincaid (Jackson) to testify against the evil leader of Belarus (Gary Oldman), she turns to her ex-flame to help get the job done.

This is the tour that would mark an historic occasion. Not only is it the 30th anniversary of U2’s phenomenally successful The Joshua Tree album, but the third time I was to see the band live. Yep, the hat-trick was in sight in London on Sunday, July 9, and as Twickenham Stadium, the home of English rugby, loomed large, it still wasn’t quite sinking in.

To be honest, I’d only decided late on in April to try and purchase tickets for this landmark tour. On the subject of punctuality, my apologies for only just getting around to writing this review – the traditional U2 withdrawal symptoms have only just left me. The Irish rockers’ previous two albums, 2014’s Songs of Innocence and 2009’s No Line on the Horizon, had left me somewhat underwhelmed. That’s not to say that they weren’t both decent efforts, but when you talk...

Author: Scott Davis

Summit Entertainment and Millenium Films has today unveiled a brand new trailer for their anticipated action-comedy The Hitman’s Bodyguard, which you can view in the player below!

The new film stars Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool, Life) and Samuel L. Jackson (Kong: Skull Island, Avengers: Infinity War) and thus far the marketing has been making a few loving pokes at the classic 1992 film The Bodyguard including utilising the poster and Whitney Houston’s famous song “I Will Always Love You” to add to the “fun” aspect of the film.

The second trailer, however, goes all out on the action front as well as a whole host of R-rated humour for which Reynolds and Jackson are dab hands at. In the film, Reynolds plays the world’s leading bodyguard and is offered a new job: guarding one of the world’s leading hitmen (Jackson) – but, as you would have expected,...

Author: Zehra Phelan

Warning: This news bulletin contains a trailer with a suggested parental guidance notice, should be the words uttered when witnessing the brand new red band trailer for Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson’s hilarious profanity-laden The Hitman’s Bodyguard.

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Reynolds and Jackson team us as a formidable pair in the trailer for The Hitman’s Bodyguard, which is set to Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You (a tongue in cheek nod to her film The Bodyguard), see’s Reynolds as the world’s top protection agent, looking slick in his grey suit, good looks and vanity-fuelled personality getting more than he bargains for when he is called upon to guard the life of notorious hitman played by an angry potty-mouthed Jackson. It’s an all out gun totting action comedy that from the trailer alone will have you doubled up...

Red Hill Movies LLC has released the first official images from Gregory Lamberson’s long awaited horror thriller Johnny Gruesome, currently shooting in Western New York. Lamberson created the screenplay in 1984, and an award-winning novelization was published in 2007. The story concerns a murdered teenager, Johnny Grissom, who returns from the grave as supernatural creature …

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Author and filmmaker Gregory Lamberson (Black Creek, Killer Rack) has cast Anthony De La Torre and Michael DeLorenzo in Red Hill Movies LLC’s horror thriller Johnny Gruesome, which shoots in Western New York this month. De La Torre (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), front man for the Nashville based rock band …

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Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce and.Neighbours co-star.Craig McLachlan.

Kylie Minogue will join Guy Pearce and Radha Mitchell in Stephan Elliott's Flammable Children, produced by Al Clark (Priscilla, Chopper, Red Hill) and Jamie Hilton (Breath, The Waiting City, Backtrack).

The 1975-set comedy-drama marks the first time Pearce and Minogue have worked together since Neighbours.

Since leaving that show and becoming a pop star, Minogue has appeared onscreen only intermittently, though she seems to be ramping up her acting slate, with recent roles in Cannes-darling Holy Motors, the Dwayne Johnson action film San Andreas and upcoming series Galavant, created by Dan Fogelman (Tangled, Crazy, Stupid, Love).

.We are so excited to be able to support Flammable Children", Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason said..

"In Kylie, Guy and Radha, the team has been able to secure some of Australia.s most established and iconic talents. The powerhouses in front of the...

The month of May’s home entertainment releases kick off in high gear with several fantastic classic genre titles making their way to high-def this week. Scream Factory is debuting a brand new Collector’s Edition Blu-ray for Mad Max and both Ladyhawke and Steven Spielberg’s Duel are both getting an upgraded release too. The recent horror flick, The Pyramid, is also making its way onto DVD and Blu, and Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut Lost River arrives on Tuesday as well.

Mad Max: Collector’s Edition (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)

Setting Mel Gibson on a sure path to superstardom, this highly acclaimed "crazy collide-o-scope", (Newsweek) of highway mayhem "cinematically defined the postapocalyptic landscape", (TV Guide). Featuring eye-popping stunts that are "electrifying and very convincing", (Variety) and "an authentically nihilistic spirit", (The Village Voice), this unforgettable actioner from director George Miller (The Road Warrior, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and...

A host of Australian talent has descended on Winton, Queensland, as production for the contemporary Western thriller Goldstone commences.

Starring Aaron Pedersen (The Fear of Darkness, Mystery Road), Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook, Animal Kingdom), Alex Russell (Unbroken, Carrie), David Gulpilil (Charlies Country, The Proposition), David Wenham (Paper Planes, Oranges and Sunshine) and Tom E. Lewis (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Red Hill), Goldstone is the latest film from acclaimed writer/director Ivan Sen (Mystery Road, Beneath Clouds) and long-term producing partner David Jowsey (Mystery Road, Satellite Boy).

.We are proud to be supporting and investing in Queensland.s award-winning writer and director Ivan Sen and his producing partner David Jowsey of Bunya Productions,. said Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira, in a statement issued to the media.

Queensland Premier and Arts Minister Annastacia Palaszczuk said Screen Queensland was investing $530,000 in Goldstone, which is expected to reap direct returns of $2.15 million...

Northmen is an action-packed and brutal Viking Saga that brings together a top-class cast and some truly bone-crushing fight sequences. Shot against the breathtaking backdrop of South Africa’s Cape Province, the film stars True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten, Tom Hopper (Black Sails), Ed Skrein (Game of Thrones), James Norton (Rush), Charlie Murphy (Philomena) and Johan Hegg – legendary frontman for Swedish heavy metal band, Amon Amarth.

Available for download 20th April and on DVD 27th April, Northmen is thrilling, violent, bloody and boasts some of the best and most realistic fight scenes in years.

To win a copy of Northmen on DVD, just answer the following question:

Which of the following films also starred Northmen’s Ryan Kwanten? Is it:

a) Avengers Assemble

b) Red Hill

c) The Wolfman

Email your answer to NerdlyComps@gmail.com, making sure to include your name and address. You can also leave your answer on our Facebook page,...

The winner of this year’s Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Dramatic films at Sundance, the first trailer has been released for Slow West, the revisionist Western from first time filmmaker John Maclean, and it’s anything but slow.

The young Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road, Let Me In) plays a traveler from Scotland on a quest across the West to save his love from a “Dead or Alive” bounty placed on her life. Michael Fassbender is Silas Selleck, a mysterious drifter who accompanies him and teaches him about survival in this region. Slow West also stars Ben Mendelsohn and Rory McCann. Here’s the full plot description via IMDb:

‘Slow West’ follows a 16-year-old boy on a journey across 19th Century frontier America in search of the woman he loves, while accompanied by mysterious traveler Silas.

Two of our initial reviews out of Sundance, one from Dylan Griffin and another from Lane Scarberry,...

"In the not too distant future... there will be no civilization... there will be no heroes... there will only be madmen... and the main force patrol"... and the ultimate home media release of George Miller's classic dystopian action-thriller, Mad Max. Like Fifi, Scream Factory is looking to bring back our heroes with their Mad Max Collector’s Edition Blu-ray that hits shelves on May 5th (ten days before Mad Max: Fury Road roars into theaters). The final bonus features for the anticipated release have been revealed and they include a batch of new interviews, including one with Max himself, Mel Gibson.

From Scream Factory: "**Final List of Extras revealed for Mad Max (Collector’S Edition) Blu-ray release!**

• New Interviews With Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel And Director Of Photography David Eggby

• Audio Commentary By Art Director Jon Dowding, Director Of Photography David Eggby, Special Effects Artist Chris Murray And Tim Ridge...

Getting to go to Sundance this year was an incredible experience, the weather was surprisingly not terrible, I had great conversations in line with people, and almost every film of the 20 that I saw was good to great. Some of them will likely stick with me all year and end up on my top 10 of 2015 list. Before we get to my top 5 of Sundance though, I do want to take a moment and give a shout out to some of the films that I hate myself for not seeing.

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Films I hate myself for not seeing:

The Witch

Written and Directed by Robert Eggers

This was the only film at the festival that I wasn’t able to get in through the waitlist. That’s great for the film, but it broke my perfect record and I couldn’t see this film that had the festival going crazy for it.

Slow West

Written and Directed by John Maclean

United Kingdom/New Zealand, 2015

After the film finished, writer and director John Maclean acknowledged how surreal it felt to be premiering a western at Sundance of all places. After all, John Ford filmed many of his classics in the state of Utah, making it a sort of mecca of westerns. This however is very different from the traditional western as it is seen through a foreign lens and with a postmodern knowledge. It calls to mind other revisionist westerns from this century such as The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Proposition and Red Hill. The plot takes place in 1870 and follows 16-year-old Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit-McPhee), who has traveled from Scotland to the American west to find his love, Rose (Caren Pistorius). Accompanying him is a mysterious and formidable drifter, Silas Selleck (Michael Fassbender).

Kodi Smit-McPhee already...

Though some might argue that The Expendables 3 was one big movie flub in itself (sure it has its moments, but the sequel fell flat), there were some real bloopers on the set of the action flick. We're used to seeing gag reels for comedies, especially with all the alternate takes many directors try out, but there's something even more endearing and fun about seeing stars like Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson, Kelsey Grammer and Harrison Ford laughing after messing up a take during production. There's a lot of downtime on action films, so it's good to see not everyone is dead serious all the time while filming. Watch! Here's the gag reel for Patrick Hughes' The Expendables 3 from Collider: The Expendables 3 is directed by Patrick Hughes (Red Hill) and written by Sylvester Stallone and Olympus Has Fallen scribes Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt. Barney (Stallone), Christmas (Jason Statham...

The pop star was performing as a Christian artist back in 2001.

So this is Katy Perry's teenage dream!

New video has surfaced online of the pop superstar on her very first tour back in 2001. Performing as a Christian artist under her real name (Katy Hudson) at the time, Perry talks songwriting, humble beginnings and her already strained relationship with her parents in the clip.

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Katy Perry Uncensored Raw Talent from Jim Standridge on Vimeo.

Cinematographer Jim Standridge posted the 13-minute video on Vimeo after apparently unearthing 90 minutes of footage while cleaning his office recently. “I was very fortunate to meet and hangout with this genuine talent in the beginning of her career,” he writes in the video caption.

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Though it's a far cry from her current music, Perry's 2001 performances show that there's more to the artist than candy colored costumes and catchy hooks. In fact, she...

Katy Perry wasn't always a walking neon dreamsicle, giving serious side eye with her new bestie Sam Smith and wearing all-denim homages to 2001-era Britney Spears at the VMAs. In 2001, she was a 16-year-old Christian singer-songwriter who was repeating the ninth grade for the second time, and she wore un-ironic denim jackets. Videographer Jim Standridge discovered footage he shot of Perry during her first tour in 2001, when she was doing a show in Portland, Oregon, to celebrate signing with Red Hill Records, with whom she would release her first album, Katy Hudson.Standridge put together a 13-minute clip (from 90 minutes of footage), in which we see Perry practicing guitar riffs, putting her hair in pigtails, and calling herself a "pizza face." Back then, she was into Patty Griffin and Nichole Nordeman (a Christian singer-songwriter), but like the Perry we know and love, she was still into makeup. "Everyone...

Ah, "The Expendables" franchise. Much like the actors who star in the movie -- it just won't die. Every couple of years we're #blessed with one of these movies, which feature a bunch of past-their-prime action stars, many of whom were vastly more popular 30 years ago, embroiled in some kind of scenario where they have to fire round after round of high powered weapon while cracking wise and acknowledging, at least to a certain degree, that they've all gotten very old.

If the trailers are any indication, "The Expendables 3" is the last film in the franchise (the words "One Last Ride" keep being thrown around). So they've rounded up all the old folks (among them: Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Robert Davi, Wesley Snipes and Kelsey Grammer) and placed all kinds of guns in their hands and sent them about their business.

Is this...

★★☆☆☆Sylvester Stallone and his ragtag team of aging action heroes return in the much-pirated The Expendables 3 (2014), the third and potentially final entry in the preposterous, testosterone-fuelled franchise. However, as persistent and mildly diverting as it proves on a surface level, this latest outing is pretty vacant underneath, with only the bare outlines of a script to sustain it over an exasperating two-hour-plus runtime. Under the helm of Red Hill (2010) director Patrick Hughes, The Expendables 3 finds Barney (Stallone) and his cronies back out on the field, only to come face-to-face with the evil Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson, back from the wilderness), a formidable foe whom they believed to be Kia.

This Summer… Get ready for one last ride! The Expendables 3 is opening in theaters on August 15th and Wamg has your tickets to see the film early! Are we cool or what??!!

The Expendables 3 team includes your favorite action heroes – Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, and Terry Crews …and a new generation of badasses – Wesley Snipes, Mel Gibson, Antonio Banderas, Kelsey Grammar, Harrison Ford, Kellan Lutz, Ronda Rousey, Victor Ortiz, and Glen Powell.

In The Expendables 3, Barney (Stallone), Christmas (Statham) and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks (Gibson), who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables — but Barney has other plans.

To feed your action-packed appetite this Friday, we have the final trailer for Lionsgate’s The Expendables 3 for you right here.

In The Expendables 3, Barney (Sylvester Stallone), Christmas (Jason Statham) and the rest of the team come face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson), who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney.

Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables — but Barney has other plans.

Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.

Lee Christmas (Jason Statham, left) and Doc (Wesley Snipes,...

"It's all under control...!" Amidst the controversy and chaos of an early pirated leak, Lionsgate has debuted one last trailer for Patrick Hughes' The Expendables 3, the action movie extravaganza that has a PG-13 rating to top off all your questions and confusion. In addition to Stallone, pretty much all your favorite action stars are in this even if just for a minute, from Jason Statham to Jet Li to Antonio Banderas to Wesley Snipes to Dolph Lundgren to Harrison Ford and Arnold. But is it worth seeing? That's up to you. I've pretty much had enough across all three trailers so far, now I'm just wondering when we'll get the R-rated cuts of these movies. Or is that asking for too much? Anyway - enjoy this 66-second trailer below. Here's the third and final trailer for Patrick Hughes' The Expendables 3, in high def from Apple: The Expendables 3...

Mark Lazarus is departing as a drama investment manager at Screen Australia to join Arclight Films as head of creative and acquisitions in Australia.

He succeeds Michael Wrenn, who joined Arclight in 2012 as a consultant and is pursuing his own projects including Ben Elton.s The Wiggles- Pandamonium!, Eron Sheean.s End of Animal and Stephan Elliott's Madams, co-produced with Julie Ryan, based on the true story of two Australian con-women who took on the British "horsey". set and nearly got away with it. Arclight. reps The Wiggles movie and Madams internationally. .

Wrenn is also Ep on Gillian Armstrong's recently completed documentary Women He's Undressed, a behind-the-scenes look at the Australian Oscar-winning costume designer Orry-Kelly.

In five years at Screen Australia Lazarus has been involved in numerous films handled by Arclight internationally including Kimble Rendall.s Bait 3D, the Spierig brothers. Predestination and Patrick Hughes. Red Hill.

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Following the colorful pop art posters featuring the whole cast of The Expendables 3, we get to see them in action and on the set of the action sequel. There's some cool new footage, including a great joke from Wesley Snipes, and also some brief talking heads from the likes of Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone and more. Some of these bits should actually be in the trailers, showing that the film is very self-aware, especially with jokes about how kicking down the door with guns blazing would be cool if it was 1995 (which is what you could say about this whole series). If this is the end for Expendables, hopefully it's a big blast. Here's the featurette for Patrick Hughes' The Expendables 3 from Lionsgate: The Expendables 3 is directed by Patrick Hughes (Red Hill) and written by Sylvester Stallone and Olympus Has Fallen scribes Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt.

The roll call teaser trailer for The Expendables 3 is an exercise in patience as every cast member of the huge action ensemble is mentioned by name. And with such a huge cast that includes veterans like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger to younger faces like Ronda Rousey and Kellan Lutz, the film is ripe for a whole slew of character poster. The first batch of character posters looked like cheesy yearbook portraits that were done at Sears on a Sunday after family brunch. This new batch is kinda fun as all the characters get a colorful pop art treatment, though Andy Warhol probably wouldn't approve. Here's the pop art poster for Patrick Hughes' The Expendables 3 from Imp Awards: If you want to see all the individual posters, check out the gallery with all of them right here: The Expendables 3 is directed by Patrick Hughes (Red Hill...

Following last week's extended TV spot for The Expendables 3, two more have popped up showing off some of the new team members, and the new mission that Sylvester Stallone has to embark on to save them with even more geriatric action heroes. Basically, some of the new young bucks like Ronda Rousey and Kellan Lutz get captured by a former ally and co-founder of The Expendables (Mel Gibson), and it's up to the old crew, with some new faces like Wesley Snipes and Harrison Ford, to get them back. It's been teased as one final ride for this team, so let's hope this one goes out with a big bang, even if it's PG-13. Here's the two new TV spots for Patrick Hughes' The Expendables 3 from Lionsgate & YouTube: The Expendables 3 is directed by Patrick Hughes (Red Hill) and written by Sylvester Stallone and Olympus Has Fallen scribes Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt.

The Expendables 3 explodes into theaters on August 15th!

In The Expendables 3, Barney (Sylvester Stallone), Christmas (Jason Statham) and the rest of the team come face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson), who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney.

Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables — but Barney has other plans.

Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.

The world premiere of The Expendables 3 will take place in London on August 4 ahead of its theatrical release...

The full theatrical trailer for The Expendables 3 showed off what's in store later this summer for some blockbuster fun, but now a new extended TV spot has some new footage from the ensemble action extravaganza. This time we get to see recent Ufc champion Ronda Rousey kicking some ass and looking sexy, plus some new stuff with Wesley Snipes, Kelsey Grammer and Mel Gibson, all new faces joining Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham and more. Remember, the film is rated PG-13, so it won't quite be as crazy as we hoped, but we're sure there's going to be some good stuff. Watch! Here's the extended TV spot for Patrick Hughes' The Expendables 3 from YouTube: The Expendables 3 is directed by Patrick Hughes (Red Hill) and written by Sylvester Stallone and Olympus Has Fallen scribes Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt. Barney (Sylvester Stallone), Christmas (Jason Statham) and the...

Lionsgate top brass announced on Tuesday (8) that the latest episode in the action series will premiere in the UK on August 4.

Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dolph Lundgren return to the fray with cast regulars Jet Li, Randy Couture and Terry Crews.

The action includes Wesley Snipes, Antonio Banderas, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Kellan Lutz, Kelsey Grammer, Mma star Ronda Rousey, welterweight boxing champion Victor Ortiz and Glen Powell.

The Expendables 3 will open in the UK through Lionsgate UK on August 14. It arrives in the Us on August 15 and opens across most of the world on the same weekend.

Patrick Hughes of Red Hill fame directs the story of the mercenary do-gooders who encounter the group’s co-founder and arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks – played by Gibson – who returns from the dead with a score to settle.

Creighton Rothenberger co-wrote the screenplay with Katrin Benedikt and Stallone. Producers are Avi Lerner, Kevin King-Templeton, [link...

There are a ton of new/old faces in this full trailer for The Expendables 3: Wesley Snipes, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson and... Kelsey Grammer? Awesome.

This new (and perhaps final) installment was directed by Red Hill director Patrick Hughes. It's a big leap forward for the Australian newcomer, but from the looks of it he was able to go as big as the cast he was working with.

In terms of the quality of The Expendables films, listen: You know if you're down with this sh*t.

Expendables 3 punches theatres in the face August 3, 2014.

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"How hard can it be to kill 10 men?" Time for more. More guns, more action, more explosions, more actors, more of everything. Even more women! Another trailer for Patrick Hughes' sequel The Expendables 3, a full-length trailer featuring the entire cast, has debuted. From Stallone to Statham to Li, they've got the original crew of Expendables back, but of course there's also Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Antonio Banderas, Wesley Snipes, Dolph Lundgren, Kelsey Grammer and Randy Couture stuffed in here, too. While I will say this doesn't look as bad as the last one, it doesn't really look that good either, but I'm already disinterested in this franchise despite a cast of everyone awesome. Enjoy. Here's the full theatrical trailer for Patrick Hughes' The Expendables 3, on YouTube via HeyUGuys: The Expendables 3 is directed by Patrick Hughes (Red Hill) and written by Sylvester Stallone and...

The idea of a remake of Indonesian action sensation "The Raid" without the bonkers, surely-someone-must-have-died action genius of director Gareth Evans, or with the presumably lax approach to health and safety that's the only way some of the insanity of the film (and its even crazier sequel) could have been pulled off, seems somewhat pointless. But nevertheless, Screen Gems have been pressing on, with "Red Hill" and "The Expendables 3" helmer Patrick Hughes attached to direct, and they just made a hire that means we might have a sliver of interest in the prospect. The excellent Frank Grillo, who broke out in the last few years thanks to "Warrior," "The Grey" and, most recently, "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," in which he played a villainous Hydra agent, has told We Got This Covered that he's signed on to star in the remake of "The Raid." The actor was said to...

In the latest news story to remind me why I sometimes detest Hollywood with a burning passion, Screen Gems’ remake of Gareth Evans’ Indonesian action classic, The Raid: Redemption is moving forward with plans to roll cameras in September, according to helmer Patrick Hughes.

Hughes just came off The Expendables 3, which is set to open this summer. He also directed the little-seen Ryan Kwanten vehicle Red Hill, so there’s not much to his resume yet. Still, Screen Gems seems as confident in their choice of director as they are confident in the wisdom of moving forward with an American remake of an absolutely flawless (not to mention very recent) foreign film.

Chris and Liam Hemsworth are reportedly being eyed for roles in the film, which just makes me angrier about this remake. For the life of me, I can’t understand why American movie studios feel the need...

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The director of the English language take on The Raid, Patrick Hughes, has been chatting about the film...

With The Raid 2 currently out in cinemas, offering a distinctly different approach to its predecessor, news has started to filter through about further Raid movies. And one of those is the Us remake, which is being helmed by The Expendables 3 and Red Hill director Patrick Hughes.

Hughes has provided an update on The Raid remake from the set of The Expendables 3, telling Coming Soon that "we have a really, really interesting take on that film, One thing, obviously the original just blew my mind and I was fortunate enough to catch up with Gareth Evans in La at the premiere of The Raid 2. The thing that blew my mind with that film was the aesthetics and the fight sequences but also the simplicity of the premise,...

It was announced last month that Red Hill and The Expendables 3 director Patrick Hughes would be bringing an American remake of Gareth Evans' The Raid to the big screen in the near future. ComingSoon.net got the chance to speak with Hughes recently (you can read our full report from the set of The Expendables 3 by clicking here ), and he had some interesting comments about his version of the popular Indonesian film. "We have a really, really interesting take on that film," Hughes told us. "One thing, obviously the original just blew my mind and I was fortunate enough to catch up with Gareth Evans in La at the premiere of 'The Raid 2.' The thing that blew my mind with that film was the aesthetics and the fight sequences but also the simplicity of the premise,...