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Check out this awesome extended scene from Machete Kills coming to Blu-ray and DVD January 21st. MACHETE KILLS - directed by Robert Rodriguez (Machete, Sin City, Spy Kids franchise) and starring Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Amber Heard, Charlie Sheen, Lady Gaga, Antonio Banderas, Jessica Alba, Demián Bichir, Alexa Vega, Vanessa Hudgens, Cuba Gooding, Jr., William Sadler, Marko Zaror and Mel Gibson. In MACHETE KILLS , Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federale agent MACHETE, who is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man - he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet. Please Leave A Comment-

EL REY NETWORK BEGINS PRODUCTION IN AUSTIN ON ADAPTATION OF ROBERT RODRIGUEZ CULT-CLASSIC FILM 'FROM DUSK TILL DAWN ' Maverick Filmmaker, Whose New Network Launches December 2013, to Direct First Two Installments of Scripted Series Don Johnson to Recreate Memorable Role of Earl McGraw; Miramax Signs on as International Distributor of Highly-Anticipated Original El Rey Network in association with FactoryMade Ventures, today announced the production start of " From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series ," the first scripted original to air on Robert Rodriguez's new genre-busting cable network set to debut this December. Based on his cult classic film of the same name, the supernatural crime saga, hour-long series (which will premiere on El Rey Network in Q1 2014) began filming in Austin this week with Rodriguez set to direct the first two installments. The 10-episode serialized drama, created, directed and executive produced by Rodriguez (Sin City, Machete, Desperado

MACHETE KILLS Review By: Rama Rama is back with another great review. Make sure to follow him on Twitter and LIKE is page of Facebook . MACHETE strikes again with MACHETE KILLS ! Director Robert Rodriguez truly knows how to entertain those of us who just want to come to theaters to see a no brainer R-rated over the top outrageous actioner and that is what MACHETE KILLS is, a movie that’s as crazy fun as its predecessor. Danny Trejo is back as the title character, chopping villains’ heads left and right, uncompromising, no mercy and legendary. Robert Rodriguez has established himself as the king of Mexploitation and we don’t mind, in fact, we wouldn’t mind more of what Rodriguez can offer the world. This weekend, you can either spend your money on some boring movie, or let MACHETE rock your world! “Machete Kills” is an action-packed thrill ride about the adventures of legendary secret agent Machete Cortez ( Danny Trejo ). In his latest mission, Machete is recruite

Here is the teaser trailer for Machete Kills . The film was, written and directed by Robert Rodriguez . It is the second in a series that started with the 2010 film Machete (presaged by a fake trailer in Grindhouse). Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba and Michelle Rodriguez will be reprising their roles from the first film, and are joined by series newcomers Sofía Vergara, Demián Bichir, Amber Heard, Antonio Banderas, Zoe Saldana, Edward James Olmos, Vanessa Hudgens, Cuba Gooding Jr., Alexa Vega, William Sadler, Lady Gaga, Marko Zaror, Tom Savini with Charlie Sheen and Mel Gibson . The film will follow the titular ex-federale ( Trejo ) as he is recruited by the US President ( Sheen ) to stop an arms dealer ( Gibson ) from launching a deadly missile. Watch the trailer after the Jump... Please Leave A Comment-

Julia Garner has joined the cast of Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For , which is now filming in Austin at Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios. Garner, an up-and-comer whose credits include Martha Marcy May Marlene and The Perks Of Being A Wallflower , will play a young stripper opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Johnny in the follow-up to 2005′s Sin City, adapted from Miller’s own graphic novel series.1 Also onboard for Dimension Films’ October 4, 2013 release are Josh Brolin, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven, Dennis Haysbert, and Juno Temple, while Sin City vets Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Michael Madsen, Rosario Dawson, Jamie King, and Clive Owen are returning. Garner made her feature debut in Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene and nabbed roles last year in Wallflower and Not Fade Away. She recently hit Park City with Jim Mickle's cannibal pic We Are What We Are, bought by eOne out of Sundance last week. Garner also stars as a young Mormon teenager in

With the cameras cranking and the blue/green screens up, casting announcements for Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For are coming thick and fast. Yesterday brought word that Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been cast in a new character role. Now that has been followed with the news that Josh Brolin and Christopher Meloni are aboard. Brolin , it seems, will be bringing his recent, MIB III-showcased expertise at playing characters in their younger days for the film, as he’s signed on to take over Dwight from Clive Owen . Dwight’s story in Dame is a prequel tale that sees him hunted down by Ava Lord, the only woman he ever loved. His life goes into the gutter and he ends up with a completely different face later in life (hence the actor swap). “Dwight is a constant character throughout the Sin City world and A Dame To Kill For is a defining episode in his life,” Rodriguez and Miller said in a statement picked up by Collider . “We’re looking forward to Josh’s

Jaime King and Jamie Chung have boarded Sin City 2 , which began shooting on Monday in Austin. Robert Rodriguez is directing the movie with Frank Miller , the comic book icon who created the Sin City comics that were published by Dark Horse in the 1990s. Rodriguez and Miller teamed up for the stylish 2005 hit adaptation. Rodriguez and Miller wrote the script for the new movie, which is a combination of comics storylines and a new one written specifically by Miller for the movie. One of the storylines being adapted is A Dame to Kill For, originally published in 1993 and featuring a man named Dwight entangled in a complicated and deadly relationship with a femme fatale named Ava. Many of the original castmembers are returning for the sequel, including Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba and Rosario Dawson . (Rourke’s character Marv was killed by electrocution in the first movie but the Dame’s story takes place before and after that film’s events.) King played the golden-haired pros

Director Robert Rodriguez tweeted the image, and the pop provocateur confirmed she will be making her big screen debut in the film. Lady Gaga will soon be making her silver screen debut, as the pop star joins the cast of Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills , playing a character called La Chameleón. The writer/director tweeted the announcement Thursday. I just finished working with @LadyGaga on @MacheteKills , she kicked SO MUCH ASS! Holy Smokes. Blown away! yfrog.com/kezw3dnj Mother Monster retweeted Rodriguez and added: Yes its true, I will be making my debut as an actress ln the amazing MACHETE KILLS BY @RODRIGUEZ IM SO EXCITED!!! AH! Filming was insane. The upcoming sequel to 2010's Spy Kids spin-off, Machete, stars Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Alexa Vega, Zoe Saldana, Mel Gibson, Vanessa Hudgens, Charlie Sheen and more. Machete Kills, the second film in the trilogy, will pick up with the title character mourning his lost love, the movie'

His father is still considered among the best – if not the best – fictional US Presidents ever seen, which we guess in a weird, meta sense is why Charlie Sheen has been cast as the leader of the free world. The person responsible for this irresponsible act? Robert Rodriguez, who has added Sheen to Machete Kills . Hitting Twitter to break the news (which was then picked up by Collider ), Rodriguez wrote,  “I just cast Charlie Sheen in Machete Kills as the President of the United States! Who better? More soon…” along with a picture of himself with Sheen. Which just goes to show that there's no such thing as unemployable in Hollywood if you're sufficiently high-profile (see also: Mel Gibson , who is among the Machete sequel’s cast). We don’t yet know what Sheen will be getting up to as El Prez, but you’ve got to figure Rodriguez has something batshit insane in mind, especially given what tends to happen to people who come into contact with Machete. With Danny Trejo lead

" Modern Family " star Sofia Vergara is in talks to add yet more sizzle to the cast of Robert Rodriguez's " Machete Kills ," which already features her fellow femme fatales Jessica Alba, Amber Heard and Michelle Rodriguez . Danny Trejo returns to star in the Kyle Ward-scripted sequel alongside series newcomers Mel Gibson and Demian Bichir. Pic, which starts production this month, finds the titular ex-federale (Trejo) recruited by the U.S. government to take down a cartel leader and stop an arms dealer (Gibson) from launching a deadly missile. Vergara is in talks to play the leather-clad Madame Desdemona, whose Mexican harlots have information that Machete needs. A Quick Draw production, "Machete Kills" is being financed by Alexander Rodnyansky, who is producing with Rodriguez. Other producers include Quick Draw's Aaron Kaufman and Iliana Nikolic, as well as Sergei Bespalov and Rick Schwartz. Vergara has been nominated for a pair of E

Mel Gibson is now in serious discussions to play a supporting role in Machete Kills , the Robert Rodriguez-directed sequel that will bring Danny Trejo back as the blade-wielding former Federale title character. The film will be released by Fox. In the sequel, Machete is drafted by the U.S. government to track an arms dealer through Mexico before he can launch a rocket. Deadline revealed earlier this month that Gibson was among the talent that Rodriguez was discussing for roles in the film, with others including Michelle Williams. I’m not sure about her, but Gibson is in, I’m told. He takes the role as he prepares to bow Get The Gringo , the film he co-wrote, produced, financed and stars in as the title character. The action drama is bypassing theaters and bowing on DirecTV before coming out on VOD and DVD. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Deadline

While Robert Rodriguez’ Grindhouse -spawned, blood-splattered exploit-o-thon Machete didn’t quite deliver as we hoped, it did well enough given its low budget to activate the promised sequel, Machete Kills . Now Rodriguez has announced that it’ll start shooting in April. “The fan response to the Machete character has been fanatical since his first appearance,” Rodriguez said in a statement . “Machete is truly a super hero and Machete Kills will be bigger and more ambitious than the first time.” This time around, the script is by Kyle Ward, with some development polishing by Rodriguez and brother Marcel Rodriguez. The plot will find Machete ( Danny Trejo , hopefully) recruited by the US government to track down a crazed cartel leader in Mexico who is hatching plans with an eccentric billionaire arms dealer to create global anarchy via a space-based weapon. So, just an ordinary day at the office for the knife-wielding former Federale, then… Trejo is in talks to return, though give

Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller are bringing in some Oscar-winning firepower to help shape the script for Sin City 2 , the sequel to their 2005 hit graphic novel adaptation. William Monahan , who won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for 2006’s The Departed , has been hired to work on the script, according to sources, supplementing a draft completed recently by Miller. Momentum has been building lately behind the long-in-development sequel to Sin City , which grossed a healthy $100 million worldwide in 2005. Rodriguez, who co-directed the original with Miller (who scripted and authored the source material), said at Comic-Con in July that financing for the sequel had been arranged and shooting would begin as soon as a script could be locked, possibly by the end of this year. It’s not clear which actors would return from the original, though rumors on fan websites have suggested a storyline featuring the characters played by Mickey Rourke and Jessica Alba . Rodriguez indic

Yes there is another Spy Kids movie on the way and this time it is called Spy Kids: All the Time in the World . The film stars  Jessica Alba,  Jeremy Piven,  Rowan Blanchard and  Mason Cook. Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. A retired spy Marissa ( Jessica Alba ) is thrown back into the action along with her stepchildren when a maniacal Timekeeper ( Jeremy Piven ) attempts to take over the world. Watch the trailer after the Jump... Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. A retired spy Marissa (Jessica Alba) is thrown back into the action along with her stepchildren when a maniacal Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven) attempts to take over the world. In order to save the world, Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook) must team up with their hated stepmother. Carmen and Juni

Director Robert Rodriguez and Kobe Bryant joined forces to make this action packed commercial/movie for Kobe's shoe and clothing line called The Black Mamba for Nike. The commercial stars Hollywood A-listers Bruce Willis , Kanye West and Danny Trejo . Watch the trailer after the Jump... Please Leave A Comment-

We are working on the Blu-Ray release of EL MARIACHI TRILOGY , which is now available! These are the films that started it all for Robert Rodriguez . EL MARIACHI was his critically-acclaimed film debut. DESPERADO was his follow up and introduced us to Antonio Banderas , and to end the Trilogy we got ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO . Watch the trailer and 2 Tribute Video's for the films after the Jump.. Red Band Trailer Green Band Trailer Synopsis: EL MARIACHI : All he wants is to be is a mariachi, like his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse of deadly mistaken identity.Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is playing for his life in this critically-acclaimed film debut from director Robert Rodriguez. Financed with earnings from a month-long stay in a research hospital, this astonishing action adventure was shot with no second takes, using borrowed equipment and a tale

Superman Lives What could Have Been VFX artist Steve Johnson open up a can and shocked the world today. He revealed images of what Superman Lives could have been on his facebook page . Thank God this never happened. A little history of the film and what could have been. Kevin Smith pitched to Jon Peters his story outline in August 1996, in which Peters gave him permission to write a screenplay. However, Peters presented Smith with three rules, such as wanting Superman to wear an all-black suit , feeling the more traditional suit was "too faggy"; not wanting to see Superman fly , saying that Superman would "look like an overgrown Boy Scout."(In order to deal with this, Smith wrote Superman flying as "a red-and-blue blur in flight, creating a sonic boom every time he flew."); See more Pictures and read the entire story after the Jump.. and have Superman fight a giant spider in the third act . Smith accepted the terms, realizing that he was being

Robert Rodriguez Pinky Promises A "Machete" Sequel At the world premier of his new film Machete at the Venice Film Festival, director Robert Rodriguez has revealed that he has already got plans to make not one, but two sequels to his latest Grindhouse-inspired action flick. Just as viewers got their first glimpse of Machete, when it played as a trailer in the middle of Grindhouse, Rodriguez ends his latest action extravaganza by telling audiences to watch out for Machete Kills and Machete Kills Again . Although this seems like a joke announcement in the tradition of the exploitation films Machete honours, the Spy Kids director admits that Danny Trejo is likely to reprise the role in the not too distant future. "Machete don't joke", states Rodriguez. "It felt like it needed something when the music kicked in so I wrote those written trails into the ending just a few days before I finished editing the movie. We made the trailer to Machete not knowin

"The American" Tops The Holiday Weekend Box Office Exit popcorn-pic season, hello movies for grown-ups: Focus Features' George Clooney starrer " The American " topped the domestic box office with an estimated $16.4 million during the summer-ending Labor Day weekend. The assassin-themed thriller rang up $19.5 million in its first six days, after unspooling midweek to get a jump on the four-day frame. Two other wide openers bore the same R rating as "American" but seemed more restricted in audience appeal. Fox's crime actioner " Machete " topped daily rankings with $3.9 million in its first day of release on Friday, but the Robert Rodriguez-shepherded splatterfest quickly ceded its lead to the more broadly appealing Clooney pic and fetched $14 million in second place through Monday. Warners' romantic comedy " Going the Distance " -- starring Drew Barrymore and Justin Long -- proved the weakest of the weekend debutantes,

Jessica Alba To Star In Spy Kids 4 I am sure your thinking what I am thinking another Spy Kids movie? Looks like Dimension Films is moving forward with a fourth installment of the Spy Kids franchise and Jessica Alba is in negotiations to star in Robert Rodriguez’ s “ Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World .” The Dimension movie is a reboot of sorts for the moneymaking franchise, which initially starred Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara as the kids of superspy parents ( Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino ). Rodriguez wrote and directed each installment. Vega and Sabara are no longer kids -- Vega is nearly 23 and recently engaged -- but Rodriguez wanted to continue the series. The new movie centers on Alba as a retired spy who has been reactivated. The actress, mother of a toddler in real life, will be playing the mother of a baby and two preteen stepchildren. The actors cast in the preteen roles will be the new Spy Kids. Other roles seeking to be filled include Alba’s husband, a