Aside from the huge piracy leak that left The Expendables 3 available to downloaders weeks before release, one of the things that hurt the old-men-blowing-up-stuff franchise was its PG-13 rating. The first Expendables was a hard and unapologetic R. The second was a PG-13 film that added digital blood in to make it R. The […]
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Sylvester Stallone Admits That A PG-13 ‘Expendables 3’ Was “A Horrible Miscalculation”
November 24th, 2014 
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‘Turtles’ Defend Top Position From ‘The Expendables’
August 17th, 2014 Adrian Garza The summer film season is now reaching its conclusion with the arrival of not only a star-packed blockbuster and a silver screen adaption of a YA-fiction novel, but yet another buddy cop comedy. Despite all of that action between the new titles, not one has surpassed last week’s top film, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or […]
‘Expendables 3’ Leaks 3 Weeks Early, Pirated Copy Downloaded 189,000 Times in 24 Hours
July 25th, 2014 James Shotwell Somewhere in the world right now Sylvester Stallone is pissed. Somewhere else, a recently fired Lionsgate employee is crying into a pillow about making a mistake that may have cost the iconic studio tens of millions in lost profits. Wednesday night, a DVD-quality copy of the upcoming movie Expendables 3 leaked online more than three […]
New ‘Expendables 3’ Trailer Teases All-Star Cast, Franchise Finale
April 4th, 2014 James Shotwell Expendables 3 will not debut in theaters until August, but earlier today fans got their first taste of the action planned for the all-star action franchise’s final bow. Starring the usual gang of Stallone, Statham, Li, Crews, Ludgren, Couture, and Schwarzenegger, the third and final entry of The Expendables‘ franchise is shaping up to be […]
‘Frasier’ Star Kelsey Grammer Takes Nic Cage’s Spot In ‘The Expendables 3′
September 18th, 2013 James Shotwell We have spent many hours at UTG HQ hypothesizing about who would make the cut for the upcoming third installment of The Expendables, but not a single member of our 30+ member writing staff saw this one coming. That said, it’s pretty damn cool. Deadline is reporting that Frasier and Cheers legend Kelsey Grammer is […]
Lionsgate Confirms ‘The Expendables 3’ Cast, Reveals Plot
August 19th, 2013 James Shotwell The Expendables 3 started filming overseas today following weeks of casting rumors. Everyone from Nic Cage to Jackie Chan was attached to the latest installment in this multi-hundred million dollar action franchise, but it was not until a press release sent out this afternoon hit our inbox that anything concrete had surfaced. Hitting theaters in […]
EDITORIAL: “The Expendables 2: Why Stallone’s Ragtag Crew of Action Heroes Didn’t Deliver the Box Office Goods in Their Second Outing”
August 22nd, 2012 Boris Paskhaver For an action movie with 11 genre heavyweights, The Expendables 2 really didn’t do that much damage at the box office this weekend. The testosterone-soaked sequel, delivered a mere two years after the original, took in a mediocre $28.75 million, an opening gross 17% lower than that of the original. Factor in the higher budget […]
Clint Eastwood, Nicolas Cage, Harrison Ford, Jackie Chan for Expendables 3?
August 14th, 2012 Dane Sager Producer Avi Lerner recently sat down with Total Film to discuss The Expendables 2 and the possibility of The Expendables 3. Avi announced that they were talking with Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, and Wesley Snipes for various roles, but the only one who he confirmed for Expendables 3 is the one and only Nicolas Cage. How […]
DAMMIT: Chuck Norris Whines About Profanity, “Expendables 2” Goes PG-13
January 19th, 2012 James Shotwell All jokes about his crazy toughness aside, Chuck Norris severely underestimates his standing in current pop culture. Recently, Norris sat down with foreign news website Gazeta to discuss his upcoming role in the highly anticipated action epic Expendables 2. During the interview, Norris let out some information about the upcoming feature that many fans of […]
“The Expendables 2” confirms Van Damme, Norris, Adkins, and more
September 6th, 2011 James Shotwell After the insanely successful box office debut of The Expendables, does it really come as a surprise to anyone that a sequel is well along the way to becoming a reality? Earlier today, Screenrant posted an article confirming Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Scott Adkins, and Arnold Schwarzenegger will be among the stars appearing in […]