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The first U.S. trailer for Gerard Butler's Gamer has come out, and it shows a nice mix of rough-and-ready convicts-trapped-in-a-video-game action. It's like Statham's Death Race, only on legs and reimagined by the Crank guys. More »
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You know what to expect from Crank 2 in its very first seconds, when the words "Fuck You Chev Chelios" flash on screen in 8-bit videogame script. Because Chev is your hero. Spoilers ahead. More »
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We shared a few minutes with Jason Statham's main Crank lady, and she spilled on upping the insanity-sex ante from the original, beating up Bai Ling, and a possible third Crank movie. More »
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Crank 2's script may have been the "most offensive" Jason Statham ever read - but that was before costar Bai Ling rewrote it. Bai told us about catfights, upskirts and the craziest movie ever. Spoilers! More »
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The brand new Crank High Voltage spot shows the not-dead-yet Chev Chelios sporting a robotic heart with the battery power of one hour. When the power's out, it's time to taste a power cable. More »
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Chev Chelios is back, and we couldn't be happier. We're looking forward to Crank 2's insane antics, especially its 1,000 ways of torturing Jason Statham while keeping him sexy. New pics await you, below. More »
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The number one question on everyone's mind with Crank 2 is, How the heck is Chev still alive and kicking? This trailer lays it all on the line. More »
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Pain, violence, gross pulsing veins — yep, Crank 2 is delivering all the goods I want from this cracked-out Jason Statham flick. Check out each poster separately below. More »
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Click to viewWhy is Jason Statham so angry in this new Crank 2: High Voltage set picture? Probably because an evil mobster cut out his heart and replaced it with a machine, and now he has to shock himself every few minutes. "High voltage is an understatement," he said about the movie. "They locked themselves in a room for three days with five bottles of tequila and wrote the most offensive, outrageous script I've ever read." Click through for full frontal Statham (well, with clothes on) from the set of the world's most offensive actioner. Some spoilers about the plot ahead. More »
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Death Race is full of awesome exploding car-fu, but it's in the service of a crash course (sorry) in dystopia for the Internet age. The race in question is a prison game which nobody can ever really win, webcast to millions of viewers who might as well be in prison. In fact, Death Race is a good object lesson in why subtlety is overrated. Even the fact that Jason Statham only has one facial expression helps keep the movie's bleak message alive. Click through for spoilers and details and stuff. More »
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Framed character Jensen Ames (Jason Statham) got a raw deal when meany-face prison warden Joan Allen framed him for murder just so she could use his racing abilities in her prison car race game, Death Race. The resulting movie includes murder, deadly car races and Joan being evil, but somehow this newly released redband trailer still feels like it's pulling its punches — except for Jason Statham. Time for this bad boy Brit to sit down and teach the cast of Death Race how to kick ass in an R-rated trailer properly, or just kill them all. Especially Tyrese Gibson, for saying "It's party time." Click through for details, and a behind-the-scenes video. More »
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An off-handed comment from Jason Statham to the L.A. Times has sparked speculation that Statham could play blind lawyer/superhero Daredevil. Famed Daredevil artist Frank Miller, who was sitting there when Statham made the comments, said he approved of the casting, further fueling the speculation that the duo could collaborate at some point. In other terrible superhero casting news, blond American Gladiators star Titan (aka Mike O'Hearn) says he's auditioning to play World War II super-soldier Captain America. After Ed Norton and Robert Downey Jr., it's hard to believe Marvel will stoop to casting a reality TV show star as the Sentinel of Liberty. And as for Statham, I'm as eager as anyone to see Ben Affleck's terrible Matt Murdock buried forever, I'm not quite desperate enough to reach for Statham's trademark growl/smirk. [LA Times and Slashfilm] More »
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The official website for Death Race, the quasi-remake of road-rage classic Death Race 2000 starring Jason Statham, just went live. And it includes this glimpse of the metal mask that Statham wears as Frankenstein, the star racer of the prison where he's locked up. Statham wears that mask as he pretends to be the dead superstar, racing against other felons in the super-popular televised race, where the prize is survival. Click through to see a gallery of desktop themes from the website, including some awesome fiery car porn. More »
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Here's the first picture of Gerard Butler from Game, the movie about prisoners being forced to play a deadly game to the death, while they're controlled by spoiled teenagers. He looks every bit the psycho killing machine, dealing out death and destruction at the whim of his rich online controller. Writer/directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (the Crank movies) promise "sex and violence and twisted shit from our brain," but also intense drama. Click through for details, and another pic. More »
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Boom goes the dynamite, as Jason Statham unflinchingly walks away from a splodey fireball, as his new film Death Race desperately tries to resurrect some of the bad-ass cred that it lost by reducing the gore content from the original Death Race 2000. Sorry buddy — Walk away from as many explosions as you like, this movie still won't beat its predecessor. In a future world where prisoners race to the death for our viewing pleasure, Jensen Ame (Statham) must race to live after he's framed for murder. Click for a new gallery of the cast and cars. More »
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On the heels of Iron Man's radical chest surgery, Jason Statham sports a huge-ass incision down the front of his chest, plus bloodied scratches, on the set of Crank 2, which is filming in Malibu. An evil Chinese mobster has stolen Chev Chelios' heart. And no, not in the "love that dare not speak its name" kind of way. Amy Smart is reappearing in the sequel and, Bai Ling plays a hooker that follows Chev around trying to help. Nasty set pictures, spoilers — and details about Crank 3 — after the jump. More »
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The first reports from early screenings of September's Death Race have popped up online, and the dystopian race-for-your-life movie sounds just as silly as you'd probably expected. Starring Jason Statham, Death Race is less a remake of 1970s cult classic Death Race 2000 than a movie inspired by it. It features lots of weird video-game touches, and some very over-the-top graphic violence, courtesy of director Paul W.S. Anderson (Event Horizon). Click through for details and spoilers. More »
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Crank 2 picks up the "Jason Statham must keep his adrenaline up or die" premise of the original Crank, and adds a lunacy factor of 100. In the sequel to the Speed clone, Statham's "nearly indestructible" heart has been replaced with a battery-powered artificial ticker, which he has to keep zapping with electricity, or it'll run down. The sequel will also delve into the character's childhood, and what makes him such a maniac. More »
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This morning's piping hot helping of spoilers include some new details about Star Trek... and a very bizarre rumor about the hard-drinking Montgomery Scott, played by Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz). We also have some bizarre and awesome new details about Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race and a tidbit about Wolverine. And we have new Lost spoilers, plus two new clips. It's all because we're fighting for a spoil! Or something. More »
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Jason Statham, who seems to have made a career out of kicking down doors, screaming, and shooting people, took a meeting with Marvel as part of an audition process for Namor, The Sub-Mariner. We'll pause while you process that for a bit. Just imagine the smooth-headed, Cockney-slinging Statham as the Prince of the Seas. Complete with a little speedo and wings on his ankles. Oh and the Spock ears, and those pointed eyebrows. Can you picture it? Neither can we. Thankfully, it doesn't seem to be happening. Another near movie disaster, narrowly averted. [IESB] More »
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A remake of the 1975 cult classic that inspired Grand Theft Auto, Death Race 2000, is on the way next year. But this version has all the testosterone drained out. Gone are the point systems for running over pedestrians, gone is the entire revenge plot that had David Carradine after the President, and gone is the fact the "Death Race" was shown on national television. What does that leave you with? More »
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