MUMBAI: For the second week in succession, Expendables 2 maintained its number one position at the US and Canadian box office with $13.5 million in ticket sales from Friday till last Sunday.
The film, starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger has earned $52.3 million during two weekends.
Action sequel, The Bourne Legacy, took the number two spot with collections of $9.3 million in its third weekend. Para Norman, the film which released a week ago raked in $8.6 million.
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Expendables 2 takes pole position for second week in a row
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No one to take on The Dark Knight
MUMBAI: There is no beating The Dark Knight… Though Sony‘s sci-fi action epic Total Recall opened up collecting $26 million in the weekend, it was well behind the $36.4 million earned by The Dark Knight Rises in its third weekend.
Also a new release, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days also opened below expectations as it collected $14.7 million. The film, that cost $22 million to make, is already on solid ground financially.
The Aurora theater shooting and the 2012 Summer Olympics continue to mute movie going. Domestic ticket sales plummeted 25 per cent from the same weekend last year while research firm NRG continues to warn studios that 20 per cent of the movie-going audience is skittish after the shooting. Around 16 per cent viewers have reported that they would be watching the Olympics this weekend.
Heading into the weekend, Sony projected a domestic opening between the $25 to $30 million range for its film, although many believed that it would gross a little higher and would possibly jump the $30 million mark. The remake cost at least $125 million.
Total Recall, directed by Len Wiseman and starring Colin Farrell in the role made famous by Arnold Schwarzenegger, is counting on a strong international run to boost its bottom line. Incidentally, it opened in 10 Asian markets this weekend earning $6.2 million. -
The Expendables 2 to release on 24 August
MUMBAI: Multivision Multimedia, an independent distribution house in the Indian subcontinent, will be releasing The Expendables 2 in India on 24 August.
The film is a re-union of the old-school mercenaries, where the team is compelled to seek revenge when one of their brothers is viciously killed. Hell-bent on payback, the crew cuts a swath of destruction through opposing forces, wreaking havoc and shutting down an unexpected threat in the nick of time.
The film, produced by Danny Lerner, Les Weldon, Avi Lerner and Kevin-King Templeton and directed by Simon West, features Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Jean Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Liam Hemsworth, Scott Adkins, Amanda Ooms and Charisma Carpenter among others.
The film was shot in Bulgaria late 2011 and its principal photography was completed in Hong Kong and New Orleans early this year.
The film will be released in more than 800 screens across the country in four different languages.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger to return to action films with Ten
MUMBAI: Arnold Schwarzenegger has decided to return to making action fims with Ten, a project written by screenwriter Skip Woods and director David Ayer.
Ten revolves around the members of an elite DEA task force who depart from their usual operations and steal millions from a drug cartel safe house. Just when the team thinks they got away with it, someone begins to take out them out one by one.
The film, that will be financed by QED International, will be distributed in the US by Open Road Films.
Schwarzenegger‘s casting puts the project on the runway after several years of development. Bruce Willis and Patrick Alessandrin (District 13: Ultimatum) once were attached to star and direct, respectively.
Schwarzenegger, who is acting in The Tomb, will appear in The Expendables 2 that is to be released in August.
Ayer, known initially as a screenwriter with films like Training Day under his belt, had made his directorial debut with 2005‘s crime drama Harsh Times.
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Stallone to pair with Schwarzenegger again
MUMBAI: Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger have been teamed by Summit Entertainment for a film titled The Tomb about a thrilling prison escape.
The film, to be produced by Summit Entertainment, will be directed by Swdish filmmaker Mikael Hafstrom. While Stallone will play a structural security expert, Schwarzenegger will be an inmate.
Incidentally, Schwarzenegger had earlier teamed up with Stallone for a cameo in The Expendables and The Expendables 2, due to hit the silver screen in August.
Recently, both Schwarzenegger and Stallone ran into each other for shoulder surgery at the same hospital.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger signs second film
MUMBAI: Arnold Schwarzenegger, who some time ago marked his return to films when he signed up for The Last Stand, is in talks to star in an action film Captive.
The film will have him play an American real estate mogul who is kidnapped and held for ransom. The character, he will play, is held in an armoured truck hidden in a Sao Paolo landfill from which he tries to escape.
No other casting announcements have yet been made.
Once a director for the film is finalized, the filmmaker Furls Films hope to start filming Captive next year.
Schwarzenegger‘s link to the film comes days after it was revealed he will play a small role in Sylvester Stallone‘s The Expendables 2.