Oct 7 2009 Adrien Brody, Venom, Others Facing Multiple Predators

I've always said Adrien Brody and Topher Grace were basically the new Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers. At last, validation!

Adrien Brody is boarding to star in "Robert Rodriguez's Predators," Fox’s reboot of the sci-fi franchise being directed by Nimrod Antal.

Topher Grace is in negotiations to join the action-adventure movie, to which Alice Braga ("I Am Legend"), Mahershalalhashbaz Ali ("The 4400"), Walt Goggins ("The Shield"), Rodriguez mainstay Danny Trejo and UFC fighter Oleg Taktarov have also been cast.

Written by Rodriguez, Alex Litvak and Michael Finch, the script follows a group of elite warrior-types who are being hunted by members of a race of merciless alien trackers called Predators.

Brody is a man who ends up inheriting the mantle of leader and is known as a hunter of men. Grace would play an accountant-type whose unassuming facade masks a dangerous serial killer.

Braga is the tough female killer. Ali is a man not afraid to die, Goggins is the loose canon of the group and Taktarov is a former Russian special ops agent.

Trejo, already cast, is Cuchillo, a hardened warrior with twin uzis strapped to his back.

I guess that's good news from the Predators' point of view. It's got to be a lot easier to hunt Adrien Brody than Schwarzenegger.

May 29 2009 Here's Your Short: Bill Engvall, Gunfighter

The Blue Collar Comedy Tour: it came, it went, it rode again and again until, thankfully, it closed on a third tour-of-duty and its ostensibly lunchpail team dispersed to spread wage-working laughter individually.

Jeff Foxworthy, the patient zero of redneck comedy, famously went on to interrogate adults about their knowledge of elementary school trivia. Larry Cable Guy, meanwhile, has fulfilled his promise to git r done, taking on a movie career that has included providing the voice of Mater in Cars and the voice of bigoted, hilljack ideology in Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, Delta Farce, and most recently Witless Protection, while the lesser known Ron White is apparently busy getting into legal trouble for various smoking-related violations.

Which brings us to Bill Engvall, the comedian whose "here's your sign" routine delivered countless "I'm stupid" signs to anyone who dared ask him a rhetorical question. What's he been up to, aside from his beloved self-titled TBS sitcom? I'm glad you asked! He's in an eight-minute short with Machete's Danny Trejo! And yes, there's a trailer that's nearly a quarter of the length of the film:

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Feb 18 2009 God, They Got Terminator and Machete, Too?

The Expendables has just gained even more aging action hero cred: AICN reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger has a cameo in the film, while Latino Review adds that Danny Trejo will have a part as well. The cast of Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lungdren, and Mickey Rourke is officially only a Van Damme and a Seagal away from having the action ensemble gravity of the sun. If only the Traveling Wilburys were still around to do the soundtrack.

Jan 28 2009 'Machete' Getting Less and Less Fake

Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse collaboration's tragic underperformance at the box office might not have killed the chances of one of the film's fake trailers becoming reality. Bloody Disgusting has posted that the Weinstein Company still has plans to shoot Machete, Rodriguez's Mexsploitation trailer about a knife-toting ex-Federale's revenge on his former boss, as early as this year:

Although we can't confirm the news, it is nice to hear rumblings around town. We're being told that Weinstein Co. has serious plans on shooting Robert Rodriguez's highly anticipated Machete later this year. Starring Danny Trejo, Machete was introduced to us as a faux trailer in Dimension Films' GRINDHOUSE, which bombed at the box office back in April of '07. In the trailer it was revealed that after being betrayed by the organization who hired him, an ex-Federale (Trejo) launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss. No word on if this would go theatrical or direct-to-DVD.

I don't know about this one. I kind of feel like I already saw all the good parts of Machete in the trailer. Personally, I'd rather see Edgar Wright's Don't, which teased with basically some startled reactions and random violence. Instead of seeing the full story of Machete, let's find out why a bespectacled Nick Frost is applauding in a diaper.