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Being in action movies and not using a stunt double may be challenging, but one may assume it's doubly so for 64-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger. He's refused to work with a stunt double on “The Last Stand.” Just a few days ago, after tweeting photos of himself on the set of his first feature fil... |
28 November 2011
10:09 GMT |
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The original Darksiders has been an unexpected success for publisher THQ and with the sequel now in development the team behind the game is interested in making the game more open while at the same time delivering a more visceral experience.
Speaking to VG247, Daniel Isaac, who is the creative director working on Da... |
24 November 2011
02:31 GMT |
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The developers of the long running Final Fantasy series have acknowledged that gamers seem to be moving away from the turn based structure to what is called the action role playing game genre but they are sure that their games still have plenty of appeal for the fan base.Yoshinori Kitase, who is one of the main desig... |
16 November 2011
22:41 GMT |
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Jason Statham has a new movie coming out in March 2012 and fans should be happy to know it's just as packed with action scenes and adrenaline as any other he's ever made. The first trailer is out. Called “Safe,” the film tells the story of a former cop Luke who doesn't like to play by the r... |
14 November 2011
05:32 GMT |
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“Die Hard 5” is happening, as we also informed you a while back. While it's a given that Bruce Willis will return to reprise his role, the movie studio is yet to come up with a young actor to play his son – but, at least, the search has been narrowed down. The plot of the fifth film in the seri... |
8 November 2011
05:10 GMT |
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In what is probably a rather unlikely pairing, Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds will be partners for life and death in “Safe House.” Universal Pictures has just released the first trailer for the film. Denzel plays a CIA agent turned rogue. He is a threat to the agency because, presumably, he's ta... |
4 November 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Now that he's no longer in politics, former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger is keeping busy with his acting comeback. He's just wrapped work on “The Last Stand” and he's showing fans the first official photo from the film.Granted, the photo isn't actually from the film, bu... |
4 November 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Just hours after word got out that Osama Bin Laden had been killed by a Navy SEAL team, Hollywood big honchos were already thinking about movies about the special ops force. Relativity Media managed to get a head started.
“Act of Valor” is a fictional story but was made with real-life Navy SEALs and e... |
14 October 2011
02:54 GMT |
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John McClane will yippee kay-yay another day. As confirmed precisely one year ago, a fifth “Die Hard” movie will be made. Fans should be happy to know that a title, release date and plot line have been made public. Bruce Willis, who’s made McClane a cult character, has long said that he’d do a... |
13 October 2011
08:29 GMT |
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Get ready for one helluva action movie: think female “Bond” and you get Steven Soderbergh’s latest movie, a B-rated effort called “Haywire.” The UK trailer for it has just been released, months after the international one dropped. The film, which comes out in theaters worldwide in Januar... |
11 October 2011
07:42 GMT |
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Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) is not someone you want to mess with, even if he may seem like a typical family guy. The first trailer for the action-packed “Contraband” has finally hit the net.
Fresh off a series of critical hits, Wahlberg returns to that which he does best: action films. In “Co... |
1 October 2011
03:31 GMT |
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The Driver in Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest movie “Drive,” as played by Ryan Gosling, doesn’t say much – but, when he does, he expects you to pay attention, which is probably why he always ends his sentences with “you understand?” The same goes for the film, whose credits mig... |
24 September 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Dishonored, the next first person action game from developers Arkane Studios and publisher Bethesda Software, will allow gamers to get through the entire experience without having to kill anyone, using just stealth and non-lethal weapons.Harvey Smith, who is best known for working on the original Deus Ex, has told IG... |
31 August 2011
03:05 GMT |
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The developers of the upcoming The Darkness II have said that they are aiming to create a game where the player is able to directly control some of the more action packed sequences, especially those who involve the demons arms of the demon itself.
Seth Olshfski, who is a producer working on The Darkness II, has to... |
30 August 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Ken Levine, the leader of development studio Irrational Game, has admitted that initially in the development process BioShock Infinite looked like the original, underwater game in the series only translated to use the sky as the main setting.Speaking to Gamasutra in an interview Ken Levine, who is the leading develop... |
9 August 2011
05:48 GMT |
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The Lord of the Rings movies have been some of the best adaptations of fantasy works ever and one of the most impressive aspects was the sense of scale they delivered, the realistic depiction of massive clashes of powerful armies.
The various Lord of the Rings video game adaptations have not managed to do the same... |
3 August 2011
09:14 GMT |
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Transformer Dark of the Moon is another video game linked to the blockbuster movie series, which this summer got a new installment, and to the old Hasbro toy line up and, despite the efforts of the High Moon Team, the game seems to be destined to languish in the mediocrity space destined for video games linked to mov... |
13 July 2011
17:31 GMT |
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Dishonored is one of the most intriguing video game projects to be announced in the last few months, with Bethesda Softworks working as publisher and Arkane Studios being named as the developer, and those who had their interest piqued by the initial announcement of the game can now learn a little more about it.
In... |
12 July 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Developer Snowblind Studios and publisher Warner Bros. Entertainment have announced that their upcoming action fantasy title The Lord of the Ring: War in the North is getting a Collector's Edition although the two companies are not yet saying exactly when in the fall the title is launched.
Those who are willi... |
6 July 2011
03:28 GMT |
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Without sounding ridiculously enthusiastic about the game, I’ll start off by saying that Sega made a wise choice when they decided to publish the work done by Platinum Games. Bayonetta is one of the few Xbox 360 action games that can keep you glued to the controller because of both its sexy body and the total... |
4 July 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Fans of Angelina Jolie as an action movie hero should be delighted to hear that she’s about to start another project of the type. Even better, she will reprise her role as Russian spy Evelyn Salt in a sequel to last year’s “Salt,” it has emerged. Though shortly after release, there was a lot o... |
7 June 2011
10:47 GMT |
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Hunted: The Demon's Forge is a third person action game from the development studio inXile, the first since they canceled the Hei$t project, and from publisher Bethesda, build around the idea of cooperative play between two pretty different characters.The two are big guy warrior Caddoc, ready to slice his way fo... |
3 June 2011
18:41 GMT |
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Feargus Urquhard, who is the chief executive officer working at developer Obsidian, has said that his team would be interested and happy to create a sequel to their Alpha Protocol, but it is not doing so at the moment because it does not have backing from a publisher for such a project.
Speaking to magazine Play, ... |
23 May 2011
03:37 GMT |
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The First Templar is a pretty intriguing game, arriving from Haemimont Games, a Bulgarian developer previously known for more strategic titles like Imperium Romanum or Tropico 3, and trying to carve out its own space in the extremely busy action adventure genre.
Being set during the first crusade and focusing on t... |
12 May 2011
09:50 GMT |
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If you never thought you could put “Fast and Furious” and Oscar in the same sentence, you thought wrong, the franchise’s star Vin Diesel believes. In a recent interview for the LA Times, the actor admits he resents the misconception that “Fast Five” is just another popcorn movie.
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12 May 2011
02:21 GMT |
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Even though such an announcement was to be expected, it’s still comes surprisingly early: following a strong debut over the weekend, director Justin Lin has confirmed a sixth movie in the “Fast and Furious” franchise.As we also noted earlier today, “Fast Five” managed to top even the mos... |
3 May 2011
11:00 GMT |
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Last week, a replacement for Matt Damon in the upcoming “Jason Bourne” installment was announced: Jeremy Renner of “The Hurt Locker” and “The Town.” A new report is now suggesting that, while everybody’s thrilled with the choice, no one really wanted Renner from the get-go.
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27 April 2011
03:55 GMT |
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The search is finally over: with Universal determined to move on with the Jason Bourne franchise even if Matt Damon doesn’t want the part anymore, a replacement has been found. He is, as speculated, Jeremy Renner. We also noted on a couple of previous occasions that the movie studio is working on a fourth Bourn... |
22 April 2011
10:55 GMT |
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Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D is one of the most widely awaited games for the Nintendo 3DS handheld, but initially it was not supposed to be the first game in the Capcom-made universe to arrive on the new handheld, with Revelations planned to launch as soon as possible for the new device.
But after Resident Ev... |
13 April 2011
05:46 GMT |
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What we know
Mass Effect 3 is the conclusion of the science-fiction-based mix between role-playing and third-person action that is being developed by BioWare and is published by Electronic Arts, confirmed as arriving on the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the PC in the fall.
The official reveal for Mass Effect ... |
14 March 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Critics positively trashed “Battle: Los Angeles,” the story of an army platoon facing an alien invasion in Los Angeles but, for what it’s worth, audiences loved it. The film opened on Friday and took the top spot at the North American box office.
Starring Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez and Br... |
14 March 2011
11:23 GMT |
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Beyond Good & Evil HD is the latest in the array of high definition remakes we've seen appear in the last year or so and Ubisoft's attempted at seeing if there are enough fans to warrant fully investing in Beyond Good & Evil 2, one of the most anticipated sequels in the whole gaming industry.The title was l... |
11 March 2011
08:00 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3 is coming before the end of the year and the two main public voices of developer BioWare are saying that the feedback they are getting from fans is crucial to making the title the best it can be.
They mentioned that two of the elements that will be changed significantly in Mass Effect 3 include the w... |
2 March 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Liam Neeson has often been criticized for choosing “easy” action movies for a quick paycheck, thus sacrificing his acting cred. Still, for a man at 58 years of age, to pull off such roles as that of Dr. Martin Harris in “Unknown” in such a believable fashion is no small feat – and h... |
19 February 2011
09:41 GMT |
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With a new movie opening this past weekend, “The Mechanic,” British actor Jason Statham has some promoting to do. He’s featured in the February 2011 issue of Men’s Journal, where he’s labeled “the toughest guy in Hollywood.”In the accompanying interview, the actor talks about... |
31 January 2011
05:55 GMT |
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Many moviegoers, his fans included, said that Jean Claude Van Damme ruined an excellent comeback by turning down Sylvester Stallone’s offer to be in last year’s box office hit “The Expendables.” Come the sequel, JCVD will make this right. Word online has it that JCVD has been approached again ... |
20 January 2011
05:19 GMT |
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In what isn’t necessarily a very surprising move, Summit Entertainment has announced a sequel for the star-packed “RED” is in the making. As of now, no names are attached to the cast, but work on the script is underway. “RED,” which stands for “Retired, Extremely Dangerous,” ... |
19 January 2011
06:34 GMT |
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The “Fast and the Furious” franchise has been around for about 10 years and, despite the fact that critics thrash every single installment of it, it’s still going at full speed – pun intended. The trailer for the fifth film, “Fast Five,” has just been released.
The film is shot ... |
15 December 2010
05:02 GMT |
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As the blogosphere is buzzing with talk of what odds aliens have to take vampires in terms of movie releases for 2011, the first theatrical trailer for “I Am Number Four” has dropped. Apparently, the answer would be: pretty good.
The film, starring up-and-coming Alex Pettyfer and based on a series of n... |
8 December 2010
09:49 GMT |
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The senior producer working on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings has said that the move to more action in modern role playing game is not something that developers can push back on and that their next title will use the extra combat to support the narrative of the experience.Tomasz Gop, the CD Projekt lead, talked to... |
1 December 2010
13:21 GMT |
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As the billboard for his Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s latest movie reads, “this year, the holidays come faster.” “Faster” is the name of his most recent film, an action-packed production that seems him return to the genre that brought him to the map.In an interview with Screen... |
24 November 2010
10:53 GMT |
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Proving that the success of Sylvester Stallone’s “Expendables” was far greater than we may have thought, a new movie based on the same formula is in the making, this time starring Wesley Snipes and Chuck Norris. Snipes may be having a rather troubled time in his personal life, what with his tax issu... |
28 October 2010
11:45 GMT |
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“I kill people, dear,” Helen Mirren’s Victoria says in the 2010 film “RED,” which stands for, Retired, Extremely Dangerous. In spy-talk, on a need-to-know basis, that’s almost all moviegoers need to know – and remember – before going in the theater to see it. Directed b... |
25 October 2010
14:31 GMT |
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A few days ago, Bruce Willis confirmed that “Live Free or Die Hard,” or “Die Hard 4,” was not the last in the series, since a fifth was in the making. As it turns out, only the sixth installment will be last for the actor.For the time being, Bruce says in a recent interview cited by ShowbizSpy... |
20 October 2010
05:16 GMT |
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Much has been said about Tom Cruise reprising his role as Ethan Hunt in “Mission: Impossible 4” – mostly negative stuff – but he’s proving all skeptics wrong, judging by these new pics from the set. While reports were saying earlier this year that the star was “desperate” at ... |
7 October 2010
10:35 GMT |
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Angelina Jolie is not only a beautiful and talented actress, but she can also hold her own with the likes of Sylvester Stallone or Bruce Willis when it comes to action movies, as a new poll shows. The Mirror informs over 2,000 British men and women took part in a survey meant to establish which was their favorite and... |
23 September 2010
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Dwayne Johnson brings his huge guns on the big screen in the movie that marks his return to the action genre, “Faster.” The new poster for the flick has just been released. As CinemaBlend points out, the poster says everything there is to say about the film: it’s bound to be action-packed – wh... |
17 September 2010
09:57 GMT |
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Liam Neeson has officially become the latest star to be attached to “Battleship,” the silver screen adaptation of the popular Hasbro game. He will be playing Admiral Shane, Deadline has learned. After enjoying success as Colonel Hannibal Smith in this year’s remake of the much loved television serie... |
8 September 2010
05:59 GMT |
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He’s said before that he was done with action movies but the truth is Sylvester Stallone has no intention of retiring, let alone now that his latest flick, the star-packed “The Expendables” has turned out to be such a hit. The film, telling the story of a group of mercenaries, all of which are &ldqu... |
31 August 2010
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August 2010 marks the release of the most hyped B production of recent years: with a cast that any action movie back in the ‘90s would have written history with, “The Expendables” is believed to be the “manliest movie ever” made. Written and directed by Sylvester Stallone, it promises al... |
23 July 2010
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