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Are the Old School Action Veterans Headed Into Forced Retirement?

November 23, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

With diminishing returns and a lack of interest from big-screen audiences, are old-school action heroes heading to the retirement home…? In the 1980s and 1990s, you couldn’t move for action heroes. Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger led a musclebound movement that led to younger, more grounded heroes like Will Smith, Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruise […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Denzel Washington, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Expend4bles, Expendables, Harrison Ford, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Keanu Reeves, Liam Neeson, Mel Gibson, Mission: Impossible, Sylvester Stallone, taken, The Equalizer, The Matrix Resurrections, Tom Cruise

Expend4bles bombs during miserable box-office weekend

September 25, 2023 by Matt Rodgers

Expectations were pretty low for the fourth outing of Sylvester Stallone’s Expendables franchise, but Millennium Media’s Expend4bles tanked hard over what was the lowest grossing weekend at the North American box-office in 2023.  The original Expendables opened in 2010 to a franchise high $34 million at the U.S. box-office, a tally that the fourth entry will […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: box office, Expend4bles, The Nun II

Movie Review – Expend4bles (2023)

September 22, 2023 by Robert Kojder

Expend4bles, 2023. Directed by Scott Waugh. Starring Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, 50 Cent, Megan Fox, Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Randy Couture, Andy García, Jacob Scipio, Levy Tran, Lucy Newman-Williams, Sheila Shah, Daren Nop, Cody Mackie, Dan Chupong, Nicole Andrews, Adam Masto, Kenny ‘Cowboy’ Bartram, Karim Saidi, Samuel Black, Mike Möller, Lee Charles, and […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Reviews, Robert Kojder, Top Stories Tagged With: 50 Cent, Adam Masto, Andy Garcia, Cody Mackie, Dan Chupong, Daren Nop, Dolph Lundgren, Expend4bles, Iko Uwais, Jacob Scipio, Jason Statham, Karim Saidi, Kenny 'Cowboy' Bartram, Lee Charles, Levy Tran, Lucy Newman-Williams, Megan Fox, Mike Möller, Nicole Andrews, Randy Couture, Samuel Black, Scott Waugh, Sheila Shah, Sylvester Stallone, Tjaša Perko, Tony Jaa

The Expend4bles comes to mobile wargame War Machine

September 21, 2023 by Andrew Newton

Wildlife Studios, alongside Lionsgate and Millennium Media, have announced that elements of the upcoming film Expend4ables are storming onto the battlefield of their online multiplayer mobile game War Machines.   In this new collaboration event, players can bolster their ranks with hit characters from the film, including Barney Ross, Lee Christmas and Gina.  Once these characters […]

Filed Under: Andrew Newton, News, Trailers, Video Games Tagged With: Expend4bles, Expendables 4, The Expendables, War Machines, Wildlife Studios

Jason Statham starts a bar brawl in latest Expend4bles clip

September 14, 2023 by Matt Rodgers

With just over a week to go before Sylvester Stallone’s action-ensemble franchise explodes back onto the big screen with Expend4bles, Lionsgate has released a clip for the star-studded sequel which finds topped-billed Jason Statham attempting some wordplay before letting his fists do the talking.  Starring alongside Statham and Stallone, are Megan Fox, Curtis “50 Cent” […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: Expend4bles, Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, The Expendables, The Expendables 4

Essential Films from The Expendables 4 Cast

September 9, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

With Expend4bles on the way, we look at ten essential films from its stars… It seems like a long old time since we last saw the Expendables crew in action. After a period of false starts and the small matter of a pandemic, (as well as a release that got pushed back) we’re finally going […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Andy Garcia, black rain, Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, Den of Thieves, Dolph Lundgren, Expend4bles, Iko Uwais, Jason Statham, lock up, Megan Fox, Ong-Bak, Randy Couture, Sylvester Stallone, The Expendables, The Expendables 2, The Expendables 4, The Mechanik, The Raid, The Transporter, Till Death, Tony Jaa, Triple Threat

Jason Statham & Megan Fox are ‘in the mood’ for a fight in Expend4bles clip

September 2, 2023 by Matt Rodgers

With Expend4bles blasting onto cinema screens later this month, Lionsgate has released a clip for the star-studded action sequel which features franchise mainstay Jason Statham indulging in some flirtatious-fighting with new addition to the cast Megan Fox (Jennifer’s Body).  Starring alongside Statham and Fox are Sylvester Stallone, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: Expend4bles, Jason Statham, Megan Fox, The Expendables, The Expendables 2, The Expendables 4

Expend4bles shows off R-rating with bloody red band trailer

August 24, 2023 by Amie Cranswick

With just a month to go until Expend4bles arrives in cinemas, Lionsgate has unveiled a new red band trailer for the star-studded action sequel, highlighting the franchise’s return to R-rated territory following the fan-disappointing decision to tone things down to PG-13 for 2014’s Expendables 3. You can find the new red band trailer below, along […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Andy Garcia, Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, Dolph Lundgren, Expend4bles, Jacob Scipio Iko Uwais, Jason Statham, Levy Tran, Megan Fox, Randy Couture, Sylvester Stallone, Tony Jaa

Expend4bles poster assembles its roster of stars

July 21, 2023 by Amie Cranswick

Lionsgate has released a new poster for the upcoming action sequel Expend4bles which sees series veterans Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren and Randy Couture joined by new recruits Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais and Andy Garcia; check it out here… A new generation of stars join the world’s top action stars […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News Tagged With: Andy Garcia, Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, Dolph Lundgren, Expend4bles, Iko Uwais, Jason Statham, Megan Fox, Randy Couture, Sylvester Stallone, The Expendables, Tony Jaa

The Expendables 4 gets a teaser poster ahead of Wednesday’s first trailer

June 6, 2023 by Gary Collinson

It’s almost time for Barney Ross to assemble his crew one last time as Sylvester Stallone bids farewell to the Expendables franchise with the upcoming The Expendables 4, and Lionsgate has just announced that the first trailer for the action sequel will be with us tomorrow; check out the newly-released Expendables 4 – or Expend4bles […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Expend4bles, The Expendables, The Expendables 4

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