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Sylvester Stallone & Jason Statham’s New Movie Already Sounds Better Than The Expendables 4


The Expendables 4 may have been a big disappointment in many ways, but Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham’s next action film could make up for it.
Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham have a new action movie in development, which already sounds like an improvement on The Expendables 4. Part of the excitement surrounding the original Expendables was that icons like Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jet Li, Bruce Wills and many more were teaming together. In reality, the bulk of the films were shouldered by Stallone – who also created the series – and Jason Statham. Leading up to the first film, Statham had become the heir apparent to the action stars of the past, thanks to movies like The Transporter or Crank.

The good-natured bromance between Statham and Stallone’s characters grounded all The Expendables movies, and the two have formed a close friendship offscreen too. In 2013, Stallone co-produced and wrote Homefront for Statham, an action thriller about a retired DEA agent facing off against a vicious drug dealer. Stallone originally penned the project as a potential Rambo sequel, but the fact he handed the screenplay over to his co-star was a sign he considered Statham a successor to his throne.
Jason Statham & Sylvester Stallone Are Reuniting For Levon’s Trade

The duo reunited once again for 2023’s The Expendables 4, but sadly, due to the nature of the story, they didn’t share much screentime. That said, the scenes between Statham and Stallone still proved to be the highlight of what is easily the worst entry in the saga to date. The fourth film has received poor reviews and grossed about half its production budget back. While this likely means the franchise is done – for the time being, anyway – they’re set to reunite once more for the David Ayer-directed Levon’s Trade (via Deadline).
This will adapt the novel of the same name by comic writer Chuck Dixon, with Statham playing the titular character. In the book, Levon Cade dusts off his black ops past when a friend’s daughter goes missing and his old skills are put to the test when he unearths a conspiracy. It should be noted that, like Homefront before it, Stallone is writing the script for Levon’s Trade, and is (currently) not set to play a role. The movie will also re-team Statham and Ayer, following their upcoming action flick The Beekeeper.

Why Stallone & Statham’s New Movie Already Sounds Better Than The Expendables 4
Levon’s Trade sounds like the kind of meat and potato action movie Stallone and Statham have made their careers on, and Ayer behind the camera should ensure it’s anything but generic. Hopefully Levon’s Trade will wash away the disappointment of Expendables 4, which didn’t even have any outstanding setpieces to make up for how uninspired the story was. The Expendables 4’s ending may have teased a possible fifth outing, but it seems to have closed a once-promising series on a bad note. While their old franchise might be done, with Levon’s Trade Stallone and Statham are making it clear their creative union isn’t finished just yet.

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

Stallone also revealed that actor Dolph Lundgren sent him to the hospital during one fight scene in Rocky IV.
“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
“For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all,” Stallone told Lundgren. The Swedish actor joked in a separate interview that all he did was “obey orders,” explaining, “[Stallone] was the boss. I did what he told me.”
Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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