Tag: Robert Rodriguez
MACHETE KILLS Promo Poster
Here’s the first poster for Robert Rodriguez‘s latest movie, Machete Kills, which will be on display at the European Film Market during the Berlin Film Festival.
The upcoming film is the second movie in a planned trilogy. Danny Trejo will return to reprise his role as the deadly blade-wielding Mexican ex-Federale.
Robert Rodriguez’ MACHETE KILLS Starts Filming This April?
All Machete fans out there are going to love this news: the sequel is definitely coming, and it looks that director Robert Rodriguez wants to begin filming this April!
At this moment we know that the title of the second film in a planned trilogy is Machete Kills, and of course we all expect to see the leading star, Danny Trejo back in the business!
New Spy Kids 4 Trailer
From Weinstein Company comes a brand new trailer for the upcoming Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World.
On the surface, Marissa Cortez Wilson (Jessica Alba) has it all…married to a famous spy hunting television reporter, a new baby and intelligent twin step kids. But in reality, trying to mother Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook), who clearly don’t want her around, is her toughest challenge yet. Also, her husband, Wilbur (Joel McHale), wouldn’t know a spy if he lived with one which is exactly the case – Marissa’s a retired secret agent.
Brand New Spy Kids 4 Posters
The Weinstein Company has released payoff one-sheet & four character posters for Robert Rodriguez‘s upcoming Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World.
You can view the posters after the jump.
Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World Trailer
The trailer video for Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World movie starring Jessica Alba, Jeremy Piven, Joel McHale, Rowan Blanchard, Mason Cook, Antonio Banderas , Danny Trejo, Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara has dropped to the web. Read the synopsis, then check out the teaser trailer after the jump.
Directors and Producers Write Open Letter Protesting Premium VOD
From time to time directors and producers from all over the world sit down and write an open letter. When was the last time that actually happened? I have no idea, but I do know that right now there’s an open letter all over the internet that comes straight from 23 leading directors and producers, and that list includes James Cameron, Kathryn Bigelow, Michael Bay, Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Michael Mann, Gore Verbinski and for the full list check out the rest of this report.
First of all let me tell you that all of them have signed an open letter opposing a pricy new premium VOD service that puts movies from Warner Bros., Sony, Universal and 20th Century Fox in homes only 60 days after a film’s theatrical release.
Here’s what they all had to say in a letter:
“We are the artists and business professionals who help make the movie business great. We produce and direct movies. We work on the business deals that help get movies made. At the end of the day, we are also simply big movie fans.
Lately, there’s been a lot of talk by leaders at some major studios and cable companies about early-to-the-home “premium video-on-demand.” In this proposed distribution model, new movies can be shown in homes while these same films are still in their theatrical run. In this scenario, those who own televisions with an HDMI input would be able to order a film through their cable system or an Internet provider as a digital rental. Terms and timing have yet to be made concrete, but there has been talk of windows of 60 days after theatrical release at a price of $30.
Joel McHale Joins Spy Kids 4
We already had a little chat about the upcoming Robert Rodriguez’ Spy Kids 4.
That’s why you probably know that Jessica Alba will be in the movie, now titled Spy Kids: All the Time in the World.
Today, we’re here to add another name to this project, because “Community” star, Joel McHale, is in final negotiations to join the cast as well!
So, we already know that Alba is lined up to play a retired spy in the reboot of the franchise, which originally starred Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino, and that she will play “the mother of a baby and two older stepchildren who reactivates her spy career.”
McHale’s character was previously described as “nerdy”, and he will play “a spy-hunting reporter married to Alba’s character, the stepmother to his kids.”
As we previously reported, the films also starred Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara as the children of superspy parents (Banderas and Gugino), and it’s expected that all of them will return in supporting roles.
Jessica Alba in Spy Kids 4
The fourth installment of the Spy Kids is coming, and lovely Jessica Alba is in talks to star in it!
Robert Rodriguez, who wrote and directed each of the previous three films in the series, is in charge for the 3D film titled Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World, which will be a reboot of the franchise.
Alba is lined up to play a retired spy in the reboot of the franchise, which originally starred Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino, and she is in negotiations to play “the mother of a baby and two older stepchildren who reactivates her spy career.”
Machete Review
“Machete’’ began life as one of the fake trailers in “Grindhouse,’’ the 2007 Rodriguez-Quentin Tarantino collaboration that allowed both directors to pay homage to their splattery ’70s drive-in roots. Part of the gag was seeing Trejo, an ex-con and boxer who since the mid-’80s has been a visual signifier of extreme threat in the corner of over 140 movies, pretend to have a shot at a lead role. The far better gag is that Trejo holds the center of the expanded “Machete’’ beautifully, his death-whisper voice and that unforgettable slab of a face, etched with creases and sin, providing an anchor for the supporting stars to wheel around.
It’s fitting that Machete originated as a trailer, albeit a fake one, attached to Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s ’70s-exploitation-movie homage Grindhouse. Trailers routinely assemble the most exciting parts of a movie into a two-minute punch, and in trailer form, the spectacularly violent adventures of a Mexican vigilante, driven home by subterranean-deep narration, certainly looked like one hell of an awesome movie. But a trailer isn’t a film, and in producing the feature-length version of Machete, Rodriguez and co-director Ethan Maniquis haven’t made the necessary adjustments. They try to make Machete into an extended trailer that’s all best parts, stitched together by a sloppy, needlessly convoluted plot and a lot of bluntly explicit messaging on the immigration issue. It’s often stylish and exciting, but the pile-up of cool kills, hot bodies, and other unprocessed bits of juvenilia doesn’t add up to a good time…read more [A.V.Club]
