The number one movie in America, THE PURGE starring Ethan Hawke, may be just a film, but in real-life, home invasions happen every day. To prepare for our own purge, CineMovie was sent off to learn Krav Maga, a self-defense system taught by the Israeli Defense Forces. Watch and learn some techniques that may save your life one day.
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Who doesn’t love Danny Trejo and on June 8th, the actor was finally recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2013 Annual National Association of Latino Producers (NALIP) Gala. Ray Liotta presented the award to Machete while Michelle Rodriguez surprised Trejo as a special guest.
Thirteen year-old actress Joey King has already worked with the likes of Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Selena Gomez. The actress can be currently be seen and heard alongside James Franco and Zach Braff in the home release of OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL June 11th.
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MAN OF STEEL's Amy Adams reveals 3-year-old daughter grabbed Superman Henry Cavill's firm behind while Russell Crowe admits he never saw any of the Superman movies during the very entertaining MAN OF STEEL press conference. The cast and filmmakers gathered at the Warner Bros. studio lot to discuss their experience bringing back Superman to the big screen and other funny moments from the making of MAN OF STEEL.
THE PURGE is the latest entry in horror movies involving a family in peril. THE PURGE star Ethan Hawke and producer Jason Blum tell CineMovie why families in danger make for good thrillers.
Chilean director Nicolás López teamed up with American producer/writer/director Eli Roth for AFTERSHOCK, a 70s style disaster film shot with practical effects rather than use expensive computer-generated effects. The director reveals his secrets to creating a low budget movie that looks like a $30 million Hollywood film.
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS' Zoe Saldana is one kick-ass movie star appearing in the latest movie in the Star Trek franchise, turning blue once again for the Avatar sequels and going green for her new role in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. Who doesn't envy the beautiful Latina actress?
Tony plays an unlikeable victim in Michael Bay’s PAIN & GAIN, but the actor doesn’t see himself as a ‘bad guy’ since he never judges his characters. The actor also reveals whether a Monk movie is in his near future.
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Director, writer and producer Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel) teams up with Chilean filmmaker Nicolas Lopez on their first collaboration AFTERSHOCK, but Roth has bigger plans that includes making Chile the new Hollywood and renaming it Chile-Wood.
Roth produced and co-wrote the horror disaster flick AFTERSHOCK, an independent film shot in Chile with filmmaking savant Nicolas Lopez who impressed the American-born Roth with his MTV tv pilot when he was sixteen and his follow up comedies. “I’m a huge fan,” the director and producer behind the Hostel movies told CineMovie’s Pili Montilla.
Roth teamed up with Nicolas Lopez on AFTERSHOCK in Chile to produce a mainstream Hollywood film featuring Latin actors that would work for the “whole world.” Roth, along with Lopez, coined the phrase Chile-Wood in hopes of making more films with his new found filmmaking community in Chile. The experience working with top quality talent and crew was so positive he cast many of the actors from AFTERSHOCK in his directorial effort, The Green Inferno, also shot partially in Chile. Roth has since appeared in Lopez’s next film.
By going to Chile and featuring Latino actors, Roth is looking to tap into the Latino movie-going public. “Latins are the strongest movie-going audience right now. And they love horror movies,” he remarks during our sit down with the multi-hyphenate. Roth got a taste of Latino humor with the constant ribbing of the gringo. Roth reveals filmmaking is so lax in Chile that the cast and crew kept making fun of him for thinking there was such as thing as art department and professional stunt men. “Gringo, you’re so worried about everything. You’re so gringo about it,” they teased him.
Roth, who broke out with his own indie film, Cabin Fever in 2002, brought his own knowledge of low-budget, high quality filmmaking with Lopez who had his own cost-saving methods. Roth tells Pili he thought the art department did a great job with the life-like skeletons and hair in a cemetery scene, but then he was told those cemetery location props were real, left behind by the destruction of the previous Chilean earthquake. The incident also led to more ribbing by his new Chilean friends.
Roth had the most fun “smashing” things up in the Spanish and English language film which opens May 10, 2013.
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PAIN & GAIN stars Ken Jeong and Tony Shalhoub consider Michael Bay’s departure for this black comedy the director’s best film yet.
Aside from praising the Transformers director’s adaptation of the true story into a motion picture, the PAIN & GAIN stars also reveal their own harebrained ideas. Mark Wahlberg plays real-life bodybuilder turned extortionist Daniel Lugo in PAIN & GAIN, who masterminded the kidnapping and torture of a self-made millionaire in Miami in the 1990’s. Lugo then recruited other bodybuilders (Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie) to join his knucklehead quick rich scheme, which becomes the basis of Michael Bay’s PAIN & GAIN.
Ken Jeong, Tony Shalhoub, and Bar Paly tell CineMovie’s Zay Zay they are all guilty of knucklehead ideas, of course, they don’t compare to the character’s insane plan in the movie. The Israeli-born actress Bar Paly, who plays Dwayne Johnson’s girlfriend in the film, says she committed a few of them during the press interviews when she said something out loud she shouldn’t have. Tony Shalhoub’s character Victor suffers at the hands of the bodybuilders, but he admits he’s had a few harebrained ideas of his own, although he wouldn’t fess up to what they are.
Ken Jeong’s true rag to riches story certainly makes him guilty of what some would say is a foolish decision. Jeong practiced medicine as a doctor while developing his own stand-up comedy. He left his full-time practice after his breakout role in Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up, playing what else but a physician. He’s gone on to star in some of the biggest movies like The Hangover franchise, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and as a regular on the television show Community. He agrees during out sit down that he too thought “it was a numbskull idea” at the time, but luckily it paid off for him. “To work is a big reward. I’m very lucky.”
When asked if Michael Bay’s reputation for being a tough director is true, Tony and Ken had nothing but praise for the blockbuster filmmaker. “He’s all about energy and bringing your A-game,” Ken said of the PAIN & GAIN director who worked with him previously on the third Transformers movie. He went on to say that he considers PAIN & GAIN one of Michael Bay’s best films.
There’s no doubt PAIN & GAIN is quite the departure for the 48-year-old music video director turned filmmaker. Tony Shalhoub, best known for playing Monk on the long running television series, credits Bay with handling the subject matter of PAIN & GAIN very well. “Michael did a great job of combining both the manic quality, craziness of the story, the comedy that’s inherit in it and the sort of brutality of it, the sort of darker aspects of it…all mixed into one,” he told Zay Zay while visiting Miami for the round of press events.
Many would agree PAIN & GAIN is a welcome relief from Bay’s usual pompous outings.
PAIN & GAIN opens in movie theaters April 26, 2013.
Besides appearing in the American television hit Dallas, Kuno Becker is staying close to his Mexican roots by starring as the famous Mexican general who won the battle over the French in the Spanish war drama, CINCO DE MAYO: LA BATALLA. CineMovie sits down with the actor to talk about his historical-based character.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Mark Wahlberg, and Anthony Mackie pumped iron for their turn as bodybuilders in the new movie PAIN & GAIN. Who benched the most weights? PAIN & GAIN stars Anthony Mackie and Tony Shalhoub weigh in on the debate.
