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Stallone Found It Difficult to Direct “THE EXPENDABLES” Stars

Collecting all the top action star in a movie is a real hard work for Sylvester Stallone. He confessed a bit of trouble directing them all through his latest movie titled, EXPENDABLES. Actor and director who appeared in the blockbuster movie by side with Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren and Arnold Schwarzenegger said that he needed more effort to convince other players to try new things when filming.

“Was it hard? Yes,” Stallone said of his duties as a director. “You have a lot of powerful people who already have their own customs in their movies, and now you have to ask them to stop doing it,” he continued.

“Like Jason in this film that appear different from every movie ever starred. Dolph Lundgren is also completely different,” said Stallone. In addition to directing the stars, this 64-year-old Hollywood actor also took extra effort to collect the legendary action-film is legendary in this project. “The trouble is I need to find the right personality and to unite them all as in a dream team,” said Stallone. “I want to make a movie like The Magnificent Seven or The Dirty Dozen. Things like that only appear occasionally,” he added quoted by Contact Music.

‘Eclipse’ Cannot Beat ‘New Moon’

The latest sequel of Twilight Saga, Eclipse, cannot beat the record achieved by the New Moon. However, Eclipse is still entrenched in the top box office ladder.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse only managed to sell tickets worth USD162 million in the United States and Canada. In fact, the New Moon movie tickets sold up to USD262 million, or Rp2, 7 trillion over five days in the first weekend in theaters overseas. Figures are quoted from the distributor Summit Entertainment, as reported by Reuters on Sunday (07/04/2010).

A day earlier, the figure is forecast ticket sales going to make USD173 million, or Rp1, 5 trillion over the five-day inaugural telecast. It is not surprising because New Moon was able to get USD165 million, at the same time in November last year.

Summit said last Saturday predictions were just a simple calculation and it does not take into account when Eclipse came out less interesting than New Moon.

While in the second place, The Last Airbender gets $ 40 million. Toy Story was in third place with $ 30 million, followed by the Grown Ups and the Knight & Day.

Spiderman: Peter Parker Starring Candidates

Since Sony Pictures announced plans to reboot the Spiderman movies, the question of who will play a role as Peter Parker was sticking out straight. Previously, many names circulating to replace Peter Parker. However Slash film quoted in the news, the Sony directly brushed it off because they had just issued a replacement candidate Parker.

The Hollywood Reporter has reported that director Marc Webb had secretly met with the actors who become candidates for the last few months. But they do not have a single screen test. The candidates are Jamie Bell, Andrew Garfield, Alden Ehrenreich, Frank Dillane, and Josh Hutcherson. Jamie Bell and actor Andrew Garfield is the oldest among those actors. But both are solid actors.

Garfield opportunity to get that role seems quite large. He is expected to play a role as Peter Parker well as evidenced by his acting in Boy A and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Read the rest of this entry »

"Alice in Wonderland" will be one after another "Avatar"

Film three-dimensional (3D) Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton is expected to surpass film Avatar. On playback his premier, the Disney film that won U.S. $ 75 it is reported by Xinhuanet, on 5 March 2010. While Avatar opens with U.S. $ 77 million or around Rp 743 billion, in mid-December, Blue man’s film also received more than U.S. $ 1.9 billion or about USD 1.74 trillion worldwide, as well as placing it as the most successful movie of all time.

The latest version that combines direct action and animation are known to have a unique concept. Talented director, directing Alice – played by Mia Wasikowska – who was sent to save Wonderland from the tyranny of the Red Queen – played by Helena Bonham Carter. Action Alice could not be separated from support Mad Hatter – played by Johnny Depp.

Extraordinary interpretation of the classic fantasy removed from the child will attend on the big screen in a standard format and IMAX 3D. Alice in Wonderland will be played in March in 41 countries, like Japan, Spain, China, and Indonesia. Several other countries will enjoy in the coming months.

"Up in the Air" Inside Oscar Nomination

Latest movie Up in The Air invites film lover attention, Placement satirical comedy and the right to appeal a movie starring George Clooney. A number of Oscar nominations were stopped. Clooney was named best lead actor, actress Anna Kendrick as best supporting actor, and director Jason Reitman’s best nomine.

Up In the Air provides challenges for Clooney. In the film this comedy-drama genre, actor, born May 6, 1961 served as Ryan Bingham, a man with an unhappy life, with the passage of his life Bingham successful career as a career counselor.

Bingham worked at the company specifically hired to fire the employees other companies around the world. This job requires he must travel at least 240 days a year. As builders fired employees, Bingham had to deal with a variety of reactions, with so Bingham to be smart in the play of words.

Colin Firth, Despite Potential First Bag the Best Actor

Prior was nominated as best actor in Academy Awards 82, actor Colin Firth through the same movie, A SINGLE MAN has successfully won several victories. Role as a professor George Falconer, as a marker for the actor’s birth Grayshott, Hampshire, England, 10 September 1960 it held the most prestigious awards in world cinema. Call it Austin Film Critic Awards have been crowned as the Best Actor Colin, then BAFTA Film Award the same way. SDFCS Award, SFFCC Award, Outstanding Performance Award, VFCC Award and the Venice Film Festival also recognize the greatness of Colin’s role in his story had been left in despair after the men’s pair. While not to be outdone Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Actor given, followed by a sequence Chlotrudis Award, Golden Globe, Independent Spirit Award Best Male Lead, ALFS Award, Satellite Award, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards, which include the nomination .


Although it is fairly new in the Best Actor nomination, compared to seniors like Jeff Bridges (CRAZY HEART), George Clooney (UP IN THE AIR), Morgan Freeman (Invictus) and Jeremy Renner (THE HURT LOCKER), Colin can’t just be considered lightly. Through director Tom Ford’s acting more and more romantic to show the quality of character roles.


The quality of a Firth also evidenced by his career in acting, Preceded by the successful role as Guy Bennett in ANOTHER COUNTRY (1983). Read the rest of this entry »