The Movies That Moved Me: Richard Donner’s LETHAL WEAPON 2
The 1989 sequel to the hit that started it all!
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LETHAL WEAPON 5 Is In The Works; Gibson, Glover And Donner Committed
Last week saw news of the long popular Lethal Weapon franchise central to the talk of a fifth film according to a new report at The Hollywood Reporter as of last week. The word now is that nothing is official although the films’ original stars – Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, and director Richard Donner are on board as things currently stand, along with Channing Gibson following through with a script. The first of the four-film buddy cop action movie franchise launched in 1987 from Warner Bros., telling of a reluctant and challenged, albeit beneficial partnership and bond between aging L.A. detective Roger Murtaugh (Glover) and an ex-Green Beret and newly transfered narcotics cop, Martin Riggs (Gibson), forged through the kind of life-or-death ride-or-die car chases, explosive action sequences that made Hollywood blockbusters a household name. Previous talk of returning Lethal Weapon to the big screen began a little over […]
Scott Eastwood Raises Hell In The New Trailer For Western Thriller, DIABLO
If you’re keeping up count with upcoming Westerns as we head into the new year, feel free to count in director Lawrence Roeck’s latest, Diablo. Actor Scott Eastwood propels the new Western thriller alongside Danny Glover, which earned its praise at this year’s San Diego Film Festival before being acquired by Momentum Pictures and Orion Pictures last month. As such, we now get a trailer now shows plenty of what made the film so worthy. Bearing father Clint Eastwood’s own film legacy in mind, clearly Diablo serves as a suitable successor for genre upon its January 8 theatrical and digital release. SYNOPSIS: A young Civil War veteran named Jackson wakes up to find his beautiful wife kidnapped by a band of ruthless bandits. With killers around every corner, the lines begin to blur between who the good and the bad are, including Jackson. As a final gunfight looms for our hero […]
Nicholas Cage Fights To Save His Daughter In TOKAREV
The first official market promo for director Paco Cabezas’s upcoming revenge crime thriller, Tokarev, has already gone viral in the past few months. With Mobile, Alabama as the backdrop, the new film is written by Jim Agnew and Sean Keller with actor Nicholas Cage starring as a father who is forced to return to his criminal roots to exact his revenge against the Russian mafia while in search of his missing daughter. Primed for a yet-to-be-dated Spring 2014 release courtesy of Image Entertainment, Tokarev also stars Danny Glover, Rachel Nichols, Max Ryan, Michael McGrady, Peter Stormare, Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Aubrey Peeples, Max Fowler, Jack Falahee, Patrice Cols and Ron Goleman. SYNOPSIS: Paul Maguire (Nicolas Cage) is by all accounts, a decent man. A contractor by trade, he is a pillar of his community, and a family man. His wife Vanessa (Rachel Nichols) and his daughter Caitlin (Aubrey Peeples) adore him. […]
The BADASSES Are Coming Home In 2014
Danny Trejo, best known for his blade-wielding badass lead role in Machete and the upcoming film, Machete Kills, made headlines back in 2012 having starred in the internet viral video-inspired film, Badass. On Thursday, ComingSoon.net reported that the sequel, Badasses, wrapped up filming and is currently in post-production, also starring Danny Glover and Andrew Divoff. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is handling distribution. Both movies, written and directed by Craig Moss, are inspired by a character based on an internet camera phone recording of a fight that occured on bus mid-transit in Oakland, California back in 2010. The “winner” of that fight, Thomas A. Bruso, who was 67 at the time, became an internet sensation known as “Epic Beard Man”. The sequel will follow Trejo’s character, Vietnam War veteran Frank Vega, now owning his own community center in Los Angeles where he mentors young boxers. When his prized student gets […]