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Jason Momoa In The Mix To Play Drax The Destroyer In 'Guardians Of The Galaxy'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • February 15, 2013 4:31 PM
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There was a moment, however fleeting, when Jason Momoa was supposed to be the next big thing. But then "Conan The Barbarian" came out, and it was awful and tanked, and the only thing the actor has done since was Sylvester Stallone's "Bullet To The Head," which met a similar fate. But could a Marvel movie be in the cards?
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Review: Walter Hill's Sylvester Stallone-Starrer 'Bullet To The Head' Is A Blast From The Past

  • By Jessica Kiang
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  • January 30, 2013 6:57 PM
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About as unreconstructed as it's possible to get, Walter Hill's first feature in 10 years, "Bullet to the Head," finds the veteran action director utterly mired in the tropes of the '80s R-rated action film. And we enjoyed the hell out of it. With nothing but the Himalayan crags of Sylvester Stallone's face to suggest the last 30 years of filmmaking ever happened, Hill has -- crafted seems the wrong word -- rammed together an action movie in which the plot is laughable, the quips are quippy and the action nasty -- no graceful, balletic, parkour bullshit here, just guns, fists, explosives and, gloriously, axes. This is gristly, muscly action, Stallone's aging sinews standing up remarkably well to the task of dispatching opponents fleshily against concrete, steel and marble surfaces when he's not simply shooting them. There is absolutely nothing defensible about the movie's leering treatment of women, or the casual racism played frequently for laughs, or even the utter nihilism of its hero, but it's so patently unrepentant, and so oddly even-handed in having all of its characters seem mindbendingingly dumb, that it kind of gets a pass.
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More: Bullet To The Head, Sylvester Stallone, Jason Momoa, Walter Hill, Review

Watch: Sylvester Stallone & Jason Momoa Go To The Bathroom In Clip From 'Bullet To The Head'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • January 24, 2013 3:16 PM
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  • 1 Comment
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Oh yeah, this movie. We sorta forgot "Bullet To The Head" was even coming, and the marketing campaign seems to be...quiet...perhaps befitting of an early winter release. But with a week to go before it comes out, the push to get people to fork over their hard-earned cash is becoming more prominent.
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More: Jason Momoa, Sylvester Stallone, Bullet To The Head

New Images Of Sylvester Stallone, Jason Momoa & Christian Slater In Walter Hill's 'Bullet To The Head'

  • By Cain Rodriguez
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  • November 19, 2012 11:05 AM
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  • 2 Comments
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While we didn’t have much hopes for the Walter Hill and Sylvester Stallone collaboration, “Bullet In The Head,” the film premiered at the Rome Film Festival last week and it made quite the impression on on our own Jessica Kiang who called it both "extraordinarily silly" yet a "geniunely fun" throwback to the mindless action flicks of the 1980s.. And now, a batch of new images have emerged for from the action film to give you a closer look.
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More: Sylvester Stallone, Bullet To The Head, Jason Momoa, Christian Slater, Sarah Shahi, Sung Kang

The Rock Might Be A 'Badass For Hire'; Josh Holloway Numbers 'Ten' & Jason Momoa Hunts 'Wolves'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • August 27, 2012 3:26 PM
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With "The Expendables" and "Red" bringing the old people B-movie thing back into vogue, and while those films wink at '80s action movie conventions, "Dan Mintner: Badass For Hire" drives a truck through them. And who better to get on board than Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson? 
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More: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Dan Mintner: Badass For Hire, Josh Holloway, Ten, Jason Momoa, Wolves, Breacher

Empire Big Screen '11 Review: By Crom, 'Conan The Barbarian' Is Unbelievably Awful

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • August 16, 2011 10:00 AM
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  • 22 Comments
For a good quarter of a century, since Arnie hung up his loincloth in 1984's "Conan The Destroyer," people have been trying to bring Robert E. Howard's pulp sword-and-sorcery hero back to the big screen, most notably in John Milius' unmade "King Conan," while The Wachowskis, Robert Rodriguez and Brett Ratner have also made various attempts at the material. Finally, he's returned for some rapin' and pillagin', thanks to Lionsgate and "Friday the 13th" director Marcus Nispel, with "Game of Thrones" star Jason Momoa as the Cimmerian. We caught the film's European premiere at Empire Big Screen tonight: was it worth the wait?
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Film Studios, Review, Genre Films, Ron Perlman, Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Conan The Barbarian, Millenium Entertainment

Jason Momoa Says He's Writing A Sequel To 'Conan The Barbarian'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • August 8, 2011 2:46 AM
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  • 2 Comments
The trailers have looked terrible thus far, but audiences seem to be digging swords-and-sandals pics these days both on the big and small screen. As we already know "300" was a massive hit, "Spartacus" on Starz! is one of the network's biggest shows and "Immortals" and "Wrath Of The Titans" (yes, that title is now official) are on the way with "300: Battle Of Artemisia" in development. All this to say that if next week's "Conan The Barbarian" is a hit, actor Jason Momoa might add screenwriter to his job title.
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'Conan' Star Jason Momoa Cast As Bad Guy In Stallone/Walter Hill Actioner 'Headshot'

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • June 22, 2011 1:24 AM
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"Game of Thrones" hasn't just been one of the best series of the just-finished TV seasons, one that improved week-on-week, but it also proved to be a big hit, increasing its audience by nearly 40% between its premiere and its finale on Sunday. The survivors are set to get going on a second season in July, but it's undoubtedly given a career boost to everyone involved, even those who were gruesomely dispatched across the first season.
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More: Films, Actors, Walter Hill, Headshot, Sylvester Stallone, Jason Momoa, Sung Kang

Watch: Smoky & Husky Voiced Teaser For 'Conan The Barbarian'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • March 12, 2011 7:20 AM
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  • 6 Comments
If you don't know the name Jason Momoa, you probably soon will. THR reports that movie theater industry folk are set to give the actor (a somewhat premature) CinemaCon Rising Star Award on March 31. Clearly, they think this guy has got the goods and they'll be hoping his mane of hair and big muscles will be a draw when "Conan The Barbarian" opens later this year.
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More: Films, Actors, Genre Films, Jason Momoa, Conan The Barbarian

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