If you’re an action junkie, you’re pretty much already sold on Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables. I need not explore the plot of the film, because with a cast consisting of Stallone himself, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, Terry Crews, Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke, you need no other [...]
Entertainment Tonight has posted one of their typically superficial, bare bones set visits, this time of Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2, in which their reporters interview Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and the Black Widow herself, Scarlett Johansson.
Most of the footage revolves around the race track sequence we’ve seen a dozen set pictures [...]
Mickey Rourke has taken the reins from Channing Tatum in a film version of Philip Carlo’s book The Ice Man. The book centers around the mystique of Richard Kuklinski, a real-life contract killer for the Italian-American mafia who happened to slay 200 people until his death in 2006.
The man was particularly cruel, and I don’t [...]
That’s right, we’ve got the first picture of The Wrestler star Mickey Rourke as the villain better known as Whiplash in Jon Farveau’s comic book adaptation sequel, Iron Man 2. Coming out in May 7, 2010 with the help of Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures, here’s your first look of the baddie!
The incorrigible Mickey Rourke is currently midway through the filming of Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2 and recently chatted about his character, the villainous Whiplash.
“I’m having the time of my life!” he enthused about joining the Iron Man franchise. “It’s been really brutal, because my Iron Man suit weighs 23lb. It’s sort of a half-suit, [...]
Recent reports of The Wrestler star Mickey Rourke said he was given a cut for his role as the main villain in Iron Man 2 for $250,000. Looking at it as measly, especially after being nominated for an Oscar and being the talk of the town, he declined the offer.
Now he’s back on board, apparently with a bigger [...]
What can be said about 1983, well I was 5 years old and don’t recall too much. But I must say that as soon as I was old enough a certain genre of films were encapsulating my life. The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and the like made that era what it is today.
With [...]
The fellas over at /film have two new clips from the upcoming film The Wrestler by Darren Aronofsky. Since the premiere of this long awaited film at Cannes earlier this year; Oscar buzz has been all over it. Mickey Rourke plays a retired professional wrestler that the story follows as he finds his way through [...]
