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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320253/ Edit Storyline Barney Ross leads the "Expendables", a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road and loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the merciless dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee head to the remote locale to scout out their opposition.

The Expendables

Avec la sortie du film The Expendables , les grands actionners (comprendre, films d’action purement jouissifs et bourrés de testostérone) reviennent à la mode. On reparle des Stallone , Schwarzenegger (d’autant plus avec le Predators tout frais sorti des bobines), Statham, Li et autres Bruce Willis avec délectation en se rappelant leurs grands faits d’armes de la fin des années 80-90. Cependant, il ne faut pas oublier que les deux plus grands symboles de ces actionners ne sont autre que ces messieurs Sylvester Stallone et Arnold Schwarzenegger , deux monstres du cinéma d’action qui ont cependant connus des carrières mouvementées et malgré tout assez similaires…c’est sur ces dernières que nous allons revenir après avoir revu pour le plaisir la bande annonce de The Expendables : Lire la suite : Les années 80 – le graal des actionners <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>

Retour sur les carrières de Stallone et Schwarzenegger

http://oblikon.net/analyses/the-expendables-retour-sur-les-carrieres-de-stallone-et-schwarzenegger/

Box-office US : démarrage musclé pour les "Expendables" !

http://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18596958.html Les "Expendables" de Sylvester Stallone débutent leur carrière au box-office américain avec autorité en totalisant 35 millions de dollars de recettes pour leur premier week-end d'exploitation. Julia Roberts, quant à elle, fait un retour plutôt réussi. Il aurait été dommage que les Expendables ne réalisent pas une performance musclée pour leur premier week-end d'exploitation. Avec plus de 35* millions de dollars de recettes, le film d'action de Sylvester Stallone , emmené par un casting de folie, est au rendez-vous : meilleur démarrage pour l'acteur bodybuildé (presque le double de son récent John Rambo ) et sensiblement au niveau d'un Inglourious Basterds , qui avait engrangé 38,1 millions l'an dernier à la même époque. A titre de comparaison, Expendables pourra par exemple se vanter d'avoir mieux débuté que L' Agence tous risques , par exemple. Comme quoi, les "vieux" ont toujours de la ressource.
En plein revival 80′s, Stallone a rassemblé le plus gros casting de films d’action du cinéma. The Expendables aurait été sympatoche … si s’était effectivement tourné dans les années 80 ! Stallone , Statham , Li , Lundgren , Rourke et bien d’autre stars des vidéoclubs se sont donnés rendez-vous chez Stallone pour faire vibre notre fibre de fans de films d’action des 80′s. Côté casting, si il manque Van Damme (un scénario pas assez bien ?), Chuck Norris (parce qu’il les aurait tous éclaté ?) et Steven Seagle (plus préoccupé par jouer de la Machete ), il y a donc de quoi prendre bien son pied avec des scènes de bastons que l’on attendait depuis un bout de temps pour savoir qui a la plus grosse … musculature. http://myscreens.fr/2010/cinema/expendables-critique/

Review

Weekend Box Office: Expendables Explodes

Proving once again that films aimed at older audiences have theoretically stronger legs than those aimed at teens, The Expendables and Eat Pray Love both had strong weekend multipliers and both performed at or above realistic expectations. With all the hub-bub regarding 'the guy movie vs. the chick flick', both films posted exceptional opening weekends and both respective marketing teams should be commended. As for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World , its frontloaded and underwhelming debut proves that geek cultures is not mainstream culture, and that hardcore geek interest should not be mistaken for mainstream interest. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-mendelson/weekend-box-office-expend_b_682678.html
http://www.hollywood.com/news/boxoffice/7119795/the-expendables-leads-monday-s-box-office-with-3-9m?page=all Monday Daily Box Office Rally First Place - Sylvester Stallone 's The Expendables fought off the competition to hold down the top spot at Monday's box office, taking in $3.9 million from 3,270 theaters across America. The old-school actioner has grossed $38.77 million since it opened Friday with help from stars like Jason Statham , Jet Li , and even an appearance by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger .

'The Expendables' Leads Monday's Box Office

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5 action stars missing from The Expendables

http://www.joe.ie/entertainment/entertainment-features/5-action-stars-missing-from-the-expendables-004504-1 By Leo Stiles The Expendables explodes into Irish cinemas this Friday in a fountain of blood and testosterone and should be the perfect antidote to a summer of flaccid superheroes and limp chick flicks. The film, allegedly Sylvester Stallone’s action movie swansong before he retires, has assembled the finest collection of ass-kickers on the planet and lets them loose to do what they do best; blow shit up. The cast of this film is inspired with 80s action kings such as Stallone and Dolph Lundgren mixing it up with the likes of Jason Statham, Jet Li and 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin in what may be the biggest posturing competition of all time. No matter how good or bad the film may be, we can’t help but applaud Stallone’s 100 per cent commitment to old-school meathead moviemaking. Stallone has been doing the press rounds for his movie and has said that he called in all sorts of favours to get his dream cast together and that he knocked on just about every steroid-pumped door.
When news about The Expendables -- an action movie that would bring together stars like Sly Stallone, Jet Li, and Jason Statham -- hit in 2008 , we wondered who else would join the ensemble affair. By the time Mickey Rourke, Dolph Lundgren, and Randy Couture signed on , it was clear Sly was digging lots of old and new-school names out of the woodwork. But even after Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed to make appearances, some names didn't, specifically Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal .

Stallone Explains Why Van Damme & Seagal Wouldn't Do 'The Expendables' - Cinematical

http://blog.moviefone.com/2010/08/17/van-damme-seagal-the-expendables-stallone/
http://perezhilton.com/2010-08-17-the-truth-at-last-why-seagal-and-van-damme-snubbed-sly

Why Seagal and Van Damme Snubbed Sly!

Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme didn’t have enough of a sense of humor for The Expendables! We were wondering what was up with Seagal and Van Damme. It didn’t make sense to us that they would pass up on a possibility to actually be in a theatrically released film.