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MACHETE

Director: Ethan Maniquis Robert Rodriguez
Stars: Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Robert De Niro
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
The Plot: After being betrayed by the organization who hired him, an ex-Federale (Trejo) launches a brutal rampage of revenge against the people who double-crossed him.
THE AMERICAN

Director: Anton Corbijn
Stars: George Clooney, Paolo Bonacelli, Violante Placido
Studio: Focus Entertainment

The Plot: An assassin hiding out in an [...]

Actor Danny Trejo - ‘Machete’ star in the limelight of his career »

Actor Danny Trejo - star of the new movie ‘Machete’ - has played many a bad guy and you’ve seen him in many, many movies but never really know his name. Trejo obviously got many acting gigs because of his charming face - a face any casting director would kill to cast.
For a man who’s [...]

Martin Scorsese directs Chanel commercial with actor Gaspard Ulliel »


Bruce Campbell has ‘Evil Dead’ in his blood »

Actor Bruce Campbell has been in many movies but none as popular as Evil Dead. The cult movie makes a return on the Blu-Ray format and Campbell is back in the limelight.
Bruce Campbell is currently starring in USA’s top-rated spy romp “Burn Notice” as the wisecracking Sam Axe, but for some fans, he’ll always be Ash, the beloved [...]

Amazon to compete with Netflix on web TV service »

Amazon.com Inc has approached media companies with a proposal for a subscription service that gives users unlimited access to some television shows and movies over the Internet in a bid to rival Netflix Inc, two people familiar with the talks said on Tuesday.
The Seattle-based online retailer has approached media companies including Time Warner Inc, CBS [...]

Hollywood’s 3-D Movies Drive Sales as Fans Resist Prices »

Hollywood’s focus on big-budget films and 3-D effects that command higher ticket prices will likely drive box-office sales to a record $11 billion this year even as some fans shun the rising cost of a night at the movies.
A surcharge for 3-D movies may push revenue past last year’s $10.6 billion, Paul Dergarabedian, president of Hollywood.com [...]

Director Robert Rodriguez unleashes edgy ‘Machete’ »

One of the deciding moments in the making of the neo-exploitation, ultra-violent-comedy thriller “Machete” came when star-to-be Danny Trejo was doing an autograph signing in England. “These guys came up and they had pictures of ’Machete’ tattooed on their backs,” Trejo said. “Talk about responsibility.”
“He took pictures and e-mailed them to me,” laughed director Robert [...]

‘Modern Family’ and HBO’s ‘Temple Grandin’ sweeps list of Emmy winners of 2010 »

The 2010 Emmy winners list is complete. Among the 2010 Emmy winners list is Modern Family, the 2010 Emmy winners for Outstanding Comedy Series, and the show that took home the most Emmy Award this year. Combining the Creative Arts Emmy’s with the Primetime Emmy’s that they won, Modern Family won a total of six 2010 Emmy’s. That [...]

Movie Producer Joel Silver Faces Money Crunch In Hollywood »

Movie Prodoucer Joel Silver has produced some of the biggest action hits of the last 20 years, including the ‘Lethal Weapon’ and ‘Matrix’ movies. Accustomed to big budgets and huge egos, Silver now faces the music along with the rest of Hollywood as movie budgets get cut and producing deals are scarce.
JOEL SILVER stands on the Warner [...]

Google to launch pay-per-view movies on YouTube »

The Financial Times reports that Google will launch the service first in the United States, but in its talks with studios has emphasized the “international appeal of a streaming, on-demand movie service pegged to the world’s most popular search engine and YouTube, according to several people with knowledge of the situation,” the FT said.
“Google and YouTube [...]