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Hot Trailer: ‘Bullet To The Head’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 20, 2012 @ 4:40pm PDTTags: Bullet To The Head, Jason Momoa, Sylvester Stallone, Walter Hill
Mike Fleming

Fresh from a strong opening on The Expendables 2, Sly Stallone is the headliner in another action film, this one Bullet To The Head. It’s directed by action specialist Walter Hill and pits Stallone against a killer played by Conan the Barbarian’s Jason Momoa. Here’s the trailer:

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Autopsy Report: LG’s ‘Conan The Barbarian’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday August 21, 2011 @ 12:46pm PDTTags: Autopsy Report, Conan The Barbarian reboot, Domestic Box Office, Jason Momoa, Lionsgate, Nu Image/Millennium

Lionsgate execs today are despondent as they try to figure out what went wrong for Conan The Barbarian to only earn a dismal $10.5M from 3,015 theaters. “It’s one of those weekends that gives me a stomach ache,” one Lionsgate exec told me Friday night. “It’s a headscratcher, but it won’t kill us.” But they also know that with Carl Icahn back breathing down Lionsgate’s mane by buying up company shares, and the annual stockholders meeting scheduled for Sept. 13, this is a really lousy time for this secondary studio to have such a box office bomb. Over the last two weeks, Icahn has acquired 756,840 shares in Lionsgate, growing his ownership to 33.2% from 32.6%, presumably in his so-far-unsuccessful effort to gift his son Brent with a Hollywood studio. Last year, Icahn tried but failed to seize control and, after a brief respite, he’s trying yet again, all the while carping about Lionsgate’s profligate management and moviemaking strategy. Here’s more ammunition for him. First off, being in business with Avi Lerner’s Nu Image/Millennium film company is a dicey proposition at best. Especially when this reboot cost nearly $90M, which makes this weekend’s opening disastrous even if Lionsgate’s exposure was mitigated by the co-production and co-release. Not even spreading the buzz that previous Conan the Barbarian Arnold Schwarzenegger was treated to a private screening and “really liked it” helped box office, which didn’t come near to even Lionsgate’s low-ball expectation of $15M from a wide release. Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Conan The Barbarian’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 5, 2011 @ 3:59am PDTTags: Conan the Barbarian, Jason Momoa, Lionsgate, Trailers
Mike Fleming

A new trailer is up for Conan the Barbarian, the reboot of the Robert E. Howard hero that has Jason Momoa replacing Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film franchise that first established Arnie as action-hero material. Momoa has become a formidable and intimidating presence on HBO’s terrific Game of Thrones series, … Read More »

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Hot Teaser: ‘Conan The Barbarian’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday March 14, 2011 @ 3:17pm PDTTags: Conan the Barbarian, Jason Momoa
Mike Fleming

One of the trailers attached to Battle: Los Angeles in theaters over the weekend was the remake of Conan the Barbarian, the film that marks the biggest bet yet made by Avi Lerner’s Millennium Films. There was a whole lot of back and forth on who might play the role that … Read More »

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Will Dr. Strange Be Marvel’s First Superhero To Fly Under the Disney Banner?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 21, 2010 @ 6:41pm PDTTags: Dr. Strange, Jason Momoa, Joshua Oppenheimer, Lionsgate, Marcus Nispel, Marvel Comics, Marvel Studios, Marvel Studios & Disney, Thomas Donnelly
Mike Fleming

dr20strangeEXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios has hired Conan scribes Thomas Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer to write Dr. Strange, marking forward progress on a long-gestating superhero property which will likely be among the first Marvel films generated under the Disney banner.  Aside from Conan–the … Read More »

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