Review: 'Cake' starring Jennifer Aniston, Anna Kendrick, and Sam Worthington

Oh quiet down, Team Jennifer fans: your favorite Friends star wasn't snubbed by the Oscars for her grief-stricken performance in Cake. That's not to say she isn't deserving of some measure of kudos for taking on a role much darker than we've seen since she was briefly an indie darling for The Good Girl. Aniston does deserve credit for that, but the film itself is an inelegant look at misery and depression that holds her back from reaching real emotional depths.

The oddly-titled Cake is just as odd of a nut to crack. At times it's so bleak and humorless that to watch it can be a real drag, but then the next moment it resembles a snarkier version of Spanglish, which is about as lame as that sounds. Aniston takes a break from the lame rom-coms and gives an intermittently powerful performance as Claire Simmons, a woman scarred in just about every way imaginable. Both physically and emotionally she is a damaged woman, who hides her pain by the constant taking of prescription pills and a "who gives a crap" attitude about everything. That includes her treatment of loyal housekeeper Silvana (Adrianna Barrazza), who functions as a sort of cheerful enabler to Claire's negativity. Claire is so terrible she's lost just about everyone: her husband (Chris Messina) has long since moved on; her support group wants her to seek help elsewhere; and even her physical therapist (Mamie Gummer) thinks she's given up.

While the story of an extreme depressive's turn towards redemption can be a powerful one if told with an honest accounting of struggles involved, Cake takes an unnecessarily quirky route and never quite recovers. After nearly killing herself on drugs, Claire begins to see visions of and have combative conversations with Nina (Anna Kendrick), a former member of her self-help group who committed suicide. Nina becomes obsessed with Nina's life, visiting her former home and encountering her widowed husband Roy (Sam Worthington), who seems remarkably open to being stalked by an unstable woman. He doesn't seem to mind that she keeps showing up out of the blue, and Claire doesn't mind using him to make herself feel better. She doesn't mind using anybody, for that matter. Claire is a user, first and foremost.

Claire is also not especially likable. She's not nearly as funny as the screenplay wants her to be, and every attempt to make her so comes across as mean-spirited and selfish. There isn't enough consistency in her character to make us pity her, and it's a complete disservice to Aniston who dives into Claire's grief with both feet. We've never seen her play a character this unhappy, this sour, this defeated by life, and it's startling given the sexy comedic roles she's had of late. While it doesn't rank with some of the more challenging female performances that did get Oscar nominations, Aniston has set herself up for greater dramatic roles in the future. With the warm, comforting Barrazza they make for an interesting oil & water duo to watch when not tripped up by shapeless screenplay. Unfortunately, Cake is an unsatisfying meal too unsure tonally and lacking in any serious revelations on breaking free of despair.

 Rating: 2.5 out of 5

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Jennifer Aniston Drinks and Pops Pills in First Trailer for 'Cake'

We've been down this route with Jennifer Aniston before; the one where he takes on a completely stripped down role in an indie feature and turns everybody's head with her acting. That was more than a decade ago with The Good Girl, a film that earned her an Indie Spirit Award nomination and other accolades. Earlier this year Aniston began generating some festival buzz for Cake, which sees her once again stripping down the glamor (rather than just stripping down as in Horrible Bosses 2 or We're the Millers) in taking on the darkest role of her career.

But is the film any good? Well...that's up for debate. While the reviews were split after it premiered at Toronto, the real proof may be that producers failed to find distribution, ultimately being forced to start their own company to release it.  Rarely is that such a good sign. Aniston plays Claire Simmons, an emotionally crippled woman who begins obsessing over the suicide by a member (Anna Kendrick) of her support group. Meanwhile, the self-absorbed Claire begins having an affair with the dead woman's widower, played by Sam Worthington. Adriana Barraza, William H. Macy, Felicity Huffman, Lucy Punch, Chris Messina, Britt Robertson, Mamie Gummer, and the late Misty Upham co-star with Daniel Barnz (Beastly) directing.

We've seen a complete transformation in Aniston as she's embraced her risque side in R-rated comedies, but dramatic roles have been few. The thing is, she's actually pretty good when given the opportunity to branch out into more serious work. Cake may not be the film that gets her any awards contention but it may open the door to other opportunities. After a one-week Oscar qualifying run next month Cake will open in January.



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First Trailer for 'Kidnapping Freddy Heineken' Starring Sam Worthington and Anthony Hopkins

There's just something about Sam Worthington and starring in movies with painfully on-the-nose titles. A couple of years ago he starred in Man On a Ledge, which was about *wait for it* a man standing on a ledge. And soon he'll be seen in the crime thriller Kidnapping Freddy Heineken, which is about the true case of the kidnapping of beer mogul Freddy Heineken. Way to keep things simple, Worthington.

Daniel Alfredson (The Girl Who Played with Fire) is directing a film about the crime, and the first trailer for it is probably more promising than it has any right to be. A large part of the reason is the cast, which has Worthington, Ryan Kwanten (True Blood), and Jim Sturgess as three of the kidnappers with Anthony Hopkins as Heineken. Heineken was kidnapped back in 1983 and held for a ransom of about 35 million Dutch guilders, the largest ransom payout in history. The criminals spent years on the run afterwards but the film seems to be focused mainly on the planning of the crime and the clashing personalities within the group, manipulated further by a chatty Heineken.

Kidnapping Freddy Heineken is still wrapping up production so nothing on a release date yet.

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Anna Kendrick and Sam Worthington Serve Up 'Cake' with Jennifer Aniston

After a couple of $200M R-rated comedy hits in Horrible Bosses and We're the Millers, Jennifer Aniston is going a different route with the indie drama, Cake. And while director Daniel Barnz (Beastly, Won't Back Down) scored quite a coup getting her to headline the film, the rest of the cast is shaping up to be even more impressive.

According to The Wrap, Anna Kendrick, Sam Worthington, William H. Macy and his wife Felicity Huffman, Britt Robertson (Tomorrowland), Chris Messina, Lucy Walters (Shame), Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Camille Mana (Smart People), and Manuel Garcia Rulfo have joined the cast. Patrick Tobin's script wound up on the 2013 Black List and has Aniston playing "an acerbic woman named Claire who becomes fascinated by the suicide of Nina, a woman in her chronic pain support group. As she uncovers the details of Nina's suicide and develops a poignant relationship with Nina's husband, Claire also grapples with her own very raw personal tragedy." Kendrick will play Nina who reappears as a ghost to taunt Claire, with Worthington as Nina's husband.  Messina will be Claire's ex-husband while Huffman is the facilitator of a support group.

No word on when filming will begin or how this will fit into Kendrick's schedule. She has Pitch Perfect 2 coming up, and recently wrapped Disney musical, Into the Woods. She had three movies at Sundance that are all expected to drop some time this year: Joe Swanberg's Happy Christmas, Life After Beth opposite Dane DeHaan, and Marjane Satrapi's The Voices.

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Review: 'Sabotage' Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger

To put it bluntly, Arnold Schwarzenegger's post-politics comeback has been one Predator-sized flop. What has he really accomplished other than trampling over his former glory as an iconic action hero? Not even joining the equally grizzled stars of The Expendables could help, and the solo films he's starred in have been pretty embarrassing. Bet you already forgot Escape Planand that was barely six months ago. What Arnold needed, and quite badly, was to stop trading on his past (uh oh Terminator fans) and be a different type of bad ass. Fortunately, that's when End of Watch director David Ayer came calling with Sabotage, simply Schwarzenegger's best film in years.

Ayer has made a living off gritty cop thrillers, usually focusing on corruption and brotherhood, and Sabotage is no different. It allows for Schwarzenegger to be the leader of a group that aren't just a bunch of muscle-bound stereotypes, but characters with some pretty serious flaws. He plays John "Breacher" Wharton, the head gorilla in a special DEA unit full of rowdy hair-trigger animals. Mireille Enos, Terrence Howard, Josh Holloway, Joe Manganiello, Max Martini, Sam Worthington, and Kevin Vance make up his rough 'n tumble squad who specialize in vulgarity and gunning down drug cartels. During one particularly bloody raid, Breacher's unit makes away with a cool $10M in cash, quite literally flushing it down the toilet. But when they come back to claim it, the money is nowhere to be found. All they've got to show for the theft is the federal government breathing down their necks and a lengthy suspension.

Well, they do get one more thing: dead. Pretty soon after reforming, members of the team start dropping like flies. Breacher calls it an "occupational hazard" but when guys are having their entire homes plowed under by trains, or getting gutted like a fish and nailed to the ceiling, it's clear somebody is sending a message. Already on edge, the unit begins to turn on one another as they try to sort out who the bad guys are and if there's a traitor in their close-knit family.  Olivia Williams plays a dogged federal agent assigned to the case, and when she's not making off-color jokes with her partner (Harold Perrineau) she's trying to figure out what Breacher's team is hiding.

Ayer piles up red herrings quicker than the bullets and bodies stack up, and for the most part the mystery remains at barrel's length, throughout. You might be surprised to learn the story is based on an Agatha Christie novel, And Then There Were None, and it walks the line between whodunit and brutal action flick pretty well until the plot starts to unravel towards the end. While the less said about it the better, there's a major twist surrounding a character's deeply personal motivation that casts everything in a new light. It also serves to needlessly burden a film that wasn't built on the sturdiest of legs, and we see in the rushed shoot-out finale an attempt to just wrap things up neatly. Stacks of dismembered and splattered bodies, along with a healthy amount of torture, should fend off anyone with a nervous stomach. Safe to say this is the most violent film Schwarzenegger has ever been a part of, although it's not nearly as torturous as Jingle All the Way.

Mainly it's good to see Schwarzenegger as an authoritative, deeply intelligent and intimidating character; playing his age without making light of it. He gets a lot of help from a great supporting cast, better than a movie like this would normally bother to assemble. Enos is deadly as a squirrelly, drug-addicted member of Breacher's team who may be more trouble than her ass-kicking and smart mouth are worth. The mark of a great director is getting the best out of his actors, and Ayer has invigorated Schwarzenegger in a way we haven't seen in a long time. Hopefully we see him take on more films like Sabotage rather than trying to recreate the past.

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Sam Worthington and Robin Wright Scale 'Everest'

With Baltasar Kormakur's mountain-climbing flick Everest recently moving to a fall 2015 release date, perhaps to accommodate a potential awards run, the director is adding a couple of big names to the cast. Robin Wright and Sam Worthington have joined the cast which already includes A-list dudes Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, John Hawkes, and Josh Brolin.

Based loosely on Jon Krakauer's book, Into Thin Air, the film recounts a doomed 1996 expedition to scale the world's highest mountain until they were hit with harsh weather conditions near the summit. Worthington will play Guy Cotter, while Wright will play Brolin's wife, Peach Weathers.

Everest will open in 3D on September 18th 2015.

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Red Band Trailer for 'Sabotage' Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger

We've seen plenty of trailers for David Ayer's cop thriller, Sabotage, and the emphasis has been on Arnold Schwarzenegger and the intense action. While that's still prevalent in this new red band footage, there's more of an emphasis on the moral dilemma faced by his character as the walls close in around him.

Schwarzenegger plays the head of a DEA task force charged with taking down a ruthless drug cartel. When millions of dollars in cash goes missing after the bust, his team starts disappearing one-by-one, and we see that his family also become a target. This continues to look like the most promising Schwarzenegger film since his return, and he's surrounded by a great cast hat includes Mireille Enos, Terrence Howard, Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams, Joe Manganiello, Josh Holloway, and Harold Perrineau.

Sabotage hits theaters March 28th.


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Arnold Schwarzenegger Confronts Joe Manganiello in New 'Sabotage' Clip

So far all of the trailers and promos for Sabotage suggest this may be the first Arnold Schwarzenegger film worth getting hyped for in a long time. Directed and co-written by End of Watch's David Ayer, it looks like the sort of no-nonsense cop flick the director has always been successful with (he also wrote Training Day), and maybe he can help Arnie get back on track.

A new clip has been released, coming just a few days after a very promising UK trailer hit the web. Schwarzenegger leads a DEA task force that robbed a drug cartel for millions, only to get picked off one-by-one in the following days. In this clip we see a confrontation between Schwarzenegger and Joe Manganiello over "occupational hazards", like getting murdered and stuff. Never mind that Manganiello would probably hurl the Governator into the next county if this were real, it's still a pretty cool, intense piece of footage. It also gives us a look at the starry supporting cast that includes Sam Worthington, Mireille Enos, and Terrence Howard.

Sabotage locks and loads on March 28th.

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New Bullet-Riddled Trailer and Clip from 'Sabotage' with Arnold Schwarzenegger

The combination of writer/director David Ayer and Arnold Schwarzenegger holds a lot of potential. Ayer is coming off his most successful cop flick yet in End of Watch, one that showed he has quite a few tricks up his sleeve. Schwarzenegger is in desperate need of a hit film that doesn't have the word 'Expendables' in the title, and perhaps the best thing for him to do is take on a no-frills thriller like Sabotage, from a director who specializes in them.

A new UK trailer and red band clip have been released, and if we've got people counting the number of F-Bombs in The Wolf of Wall Street, maybe we can get someone to count the number of spent bullets in Sabotage. Schwarzenegger stars as the head of an elite DEA unit that walks way from a successful drug cartel raid with millions in cash. But just as they think they've gotten away with it, their members start getting picked off one-by-one. Leave the kids at home for this one.

Also starring Mireille Enos, Olivia Williams, Joe Manganiello, Terrence Howard, Sam Worthington, Harold Perrineau, Max Martini, and Josh Holloway, Sabotage opens March 28th.

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Idris Elba and Sam Worthington Join Noomi Rapace in 'Alive Alone'

Filming should have already begun on Alive Alone, a thriller we learned would star Noomi Rapace and Matthias Schoenearts. But personal reasons have caused Schoenaerts, best known for starring opposite Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone, to drop out of the production. Fortunately, first-time director Khurram Longi has found a couple of worthy replacements in Idris Elba and Sam Worthington.

According to Deadline, Elba and Worthington have come aboard the NYC-set film which is now targeting a March start. Longi penned the Black List-approved script which has Elba as an ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee now working as a taxi driver, who finds salvation in a prostitute (Rapace) on the run from a feared crime boss played by Worthington.

Rapace and Elba starred in Prometheus together but it sounds as if they'll be getting a lot closer now. Be jealous, ladies. Worthington will be seen next in Sabotage alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, while Elba has a pair of crime thrillers in No Good Deed and The Gunman.

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New Red Band Trailer for Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Sabotage'

Nothing's quite been working out for Arnold Schwarzenegger of late. He teams up with Sylvester Stallone in Escape Plan and nobody shows up; he taps into his glory days with The Last Stand and audiences stay away in droves. Then when he agrees to come back for a Terminator reboot everybody asks if he's too old. So what's the former Governator to do? Drop all the baggage and get to a down 'n dirty action flick like Sabotage.

A new red band trailer for the film has been released, and one can see why it's been rated 'R' for "strong bloody violence". Believe it or not this was based on an Agatha Christie novel (And Then There Were None), Schwarzenegger stars alongside a cornrowed Joe Manganiello, Terrence Howard, Mireille Enos, Olivia Williams, Josh Holloway, Max Martini, Sam Worthington, and Harold Perrineau as the leader of an elite DEA unit who steal millions from a drug cartel during a bust. Thinking they've gotten away with the crime, they soon find themselves getting picked off one-by-one.

This one looks pretty straight-forward and exactly the sort of lean action film Schwarzenegger should be doing nowadays. Directed by David Ayer, Sabotage opens March 28th.

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Shocker? Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana Returning for 'Avatar' Sequels

Not that there was ever any doubt, but Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana have been officially confirmed to return for all three Avatar sequels. Worthington returns as Jake Sully with Saldana as Neytiri, with Stephen Lang also set to return as the "villain" Colonel Quaritch.

THR has a little something to add, revealing that Sully and Neytiri will have kids now, presumably the first interspecies parents in all of Pandora. Cameron had this to say...

"Jake Sully is a rare combination of passion, strength, street smarts and soul, which requires a lot from an actor. Sam brought to the role a combination of sensitivity, vulnerability and strength. Zoe captured every aspect of the character I envisioned, bringing to Neytiri a mix of delicacy, fierceness and incredible physicality. I am beyond pleased they'll be returning with us to Pandora."

Cameron hired Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, and Shane Salerno to pen all three sequels, which are due to begin filming back-to-back this fall for release in 2016, 2017, and 2018.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger is Out to Destroy in New 'Sabotage' Trailer

After years of making movies about corrupt cops, David Ayer struck gold with End of Watch, which wasn't so much about corruption as it was about loyalty and friendship between partners. It was a great film, and Ayer is touching upon similar themes in his latest, Sabotage, although with a lot more explosions and 100% more Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Schwarzenegger is backed by an impressive ensemble from top to bottom: Joe Manganiello, Mireille Enos, Terrence Howard, Olivia Williams, Martin Donovan, Sam Worthington, Harold Perrineau, and Max Martini, in a story about an elite DEA task force that robs a cartel safe house for $10M. Just when they think all is clear, they start getting picked off one-by-one. So the corrupt cop angle is there, as well, but this one is obviously more of a straight-arrow action movie.

Sabotage opens on April 11th.


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Arnold Schwarzenegger Packs Tons of Guns in First 'Sabotage' Trailer

Let's just say that Arnold Schwarzenegger has had a difficult time getting back into the groove ever since his return to acting. Outside of his appearances in The Expendables, audiences have basically shunned other flicks like The Last Stand and Escape Plan, avoiding them like they were the video tape in The Ring or something. But that's not going to stop him from taking another shot at a hit, and he's going to get a lot of help doing just that in Sabotage.

After a handful of new photos emerged yesterday, the first trailer for Sabotage (formerly Breacher, Ten)  has been released and it packs quite an ensemble. Directed by David Ayer (End of Watch), the film co-stars Josh Holloway, Sam Worthington,Terrence Howard, Max Martini, Mireille Enos, Harold Perrineau, Olivia Williams, and Joe Manganiello in the story of a DEA task force that steals $10M from a recent drug cartel bust. The team think they're in the clear until each starts getting picked off one-by-one by a mysterious assassin.

It doesn't look too much different than everything else Arnie has been doing lately, but maybe having so much talent around him will change his luck. Sabotage kicks down the door April 11th 2014.


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Sam Worthington Says 'Avatar' Sequels Will Shoot Next October

James Cameron has been working on his Avatar sequels practically since the moment the top-grossing film of all-time was completed, which was four years ago. Considering how groundbreaking it was in terms of pushing forward 3D technology, and the director's desire to further move the envelope, it's not surprising it's taken so long. There have been multiple dates tossed around for the trio of follow-ups, with Cameron recently stating that production would begin by the end of this year. But that doesn't seem to be happening, and now star Sam Worthington has revealed when filming will actually take place.

While appearing on an Australian radio show, Wortington was mostly battered by the hosts with gossip surrounding his relationship with Lara Bingle (she's extremely hot, by the way). But when he was able to get in a word edgewise he stated production on the Avatar films will begin next October....

Worthington: "We are going to start this time next year and we will do two, three and four. In one shot, we'll do them simultaneously. I'll be grateful if it finishes."

He added that the scripts by  Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, and Shane Salerno are still being written, and the whole thing has taken so long Worthington thinks Cameron may be "building a ship to Pandora."

Avatar 2 is scheduled to hit theaters in December 2016, with the next one a year later, and the final film in 2018. 

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Jim Sturgess, Ryan Kwanten, and Sam Worthington Are 'Kidnapping Freddy Heineken'

Despite having directed the Swedish versions of The Girl Who Played with Fire and its sequel The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Daniel Alfredson has yet to make a name for himself here in America as his brother, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy helmer Tomas Alfredson. That could be about to change as he recently signed on to direct Anthony Hopkins in Kidnapping Freddy Heineken, a true crime story about the famous beer mogul. And now with filming set to begin later this month, an impressive trio of young stars has come aboard.

Ryan Kwanten (True Blood), Jim Sturgess, and Sam Worthington have joined the film in unspecified roles, but perhaps the story it depicts will clue us in. Based on the best-selling book by Peter L. de Vries, the film centers on the 1983 kidnapping of Alfred "Freddy" Heineken and his driver, leading to a whopping ransom payout of 35 million Dutch guilders, which is about $50M today. Hopkins will play Heineken, and it can probably be assumed that at least a couple of the new additions will play his kidnappers.  The high-profile story continues to be talked about in the Netherlands, with de Vries' book remaining on the charts there for the last 20 years. An investigative journalist, it was de Vries who found where one of the kidnappers had been hiding for years after escaping from prison.

Kidnapping Freddy Heineken is expect to hit theaters next year.

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Sure Shots: Kevin Costner; Olga Kurylenko; Sam Worthington

* Kevin Costner, who is currently filming the football comedy Draft Day, is set to reteam with his The Upside of Anger director, Mike Binder. He'll produce and star in Black and White, an indie drama about a couple caring for their biracial granddaughter after own daughter is killed. When his wife also dies, Costner's character finds himself at odds with the child's other grandfather, who seeks sole custody. Filming is set to begin this summer. [Deadline]

* Olga Kurylenko can currently be seen starring in Oblivion alongside Tom Cruise, and prancing around in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder, but she's already lining up her next gig. She's joining the cast of Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters, Mark Waters' adaptation of Richelle Mead's six-issue YA series. She'll sink her teeth into the role of Kirova, the headmistress of a special school for vampires. Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry will take on the lead characters of Rose and Lissa, a guardian and her vampire best friend who share a special bond.

*Just a few days after Brit Marling replaced Olivia Wilde in The Keeping Room, the casting continues as Sam Worthington is the latest to join her and the previously announced Nicole Beharie and Hailee Steinfeld. Directed by Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), the film follows a pair of Southern sisters and their African-American slave who, in the dying days of the Civil War, must defend their home against a group of soldiers broken off from the invading Union army.

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Joe Manganiello joins Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sam Worthington in 'Breacher'

Rememember when True Blood's hunky werewolf, Joe Manganiello, was in the mix to play Superman in Man of Steel? Seems like forever ago, right? Well, just hitting the final list of contenders(his schedule prevented his getting the job) seems to have worked wonders for his career, as he's been showing off his pecs in everything from the unfortunate What to Expect When You're Expecting to the surprisingly deep Magic Mike. Now he's landed another major role that will have him working alongside two of today's biggest action stars.

Manganiello is in talks to join the cast of Breacher, a *shocker* cop thriller from David Ayer(Street Kings, Dark Blue) that currently stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sam Worthington. Based on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, the film follows a DEA task force who rob a cartel safe house, only to find themselves getting picked off one-by-one after thinking they got away with the job. Manganiello will play a guy named Grinder, who has a change of heart and tries to contact the cops. Dawn Olivieri(House of Lies) and Terrence Howard co-star.

Written by Skip Woods(X-men Origins: Wolverine), production kicks off in October. You can still find Manganiello slogging through another horrible season of True Blood. Can they spin his character off into something else, please? Or just kill him off so he can do more movies? [THR]

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Sam Worthington joins Arnold Schwarzenegger in cop thriller, 'Ten'

Sam Worthington and Arnold Schwarzenegger. A couple of years ago these two were in very different positions than they are now. Worthington was looking like the action movie star of the future after hitting it big in Avatar and lining up a number of projects that would put him front and center. Schwarzenegger was facing an uncertain Hollywood future after winding down his terrible controversial political career. Now after a few duds in a row, Worthington's sort of drifting until the Avatar sequels come around, and Schwarzenegger has never been busier.

Maybe the Governator can teach the new kid a thing or two as Worthington has joined him in the cast of Ten, the latest cop flick from David Ayer. Ayer has built his career chronicling the corrupt tales of the boys in blue, writing or directing Training Day, Dark Blue, S.W.A.T., Street Kings, Harsh Times and the upcoming End of Watch. Written by Skip Woods(The A-Team), the film follows a DEA task force that steals millions from a drug cartel, only to get picked off one by one. Agatha Christie's best-selling novel, Ten Little Indians, forms the basis for the story, with an added adrenaline punch. Arnie joined back in May, but we still have no clue what he'll be doing. The same goes for Worthington.

Ayer has been making the same movie for fifteen years now, so I expect Ten will be no different. At least End of Watch looks different visually, even if the story of two reckless cops is old and tired. [Variety]


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Trailer Time: The Debt, starring Sam Worthington and Helen Mirren

I had completely forgotten that they were remaking The Debt, which is based off the 2007 Israeli film about a team of Mossad agents who kill a notorious Nazi criminal, only to have him resurface 30 years later. The original I had a lot of problems with, but I didn't expect to see it remade so soon. Especially not by John Madden, the director behind Shakespeare in Love and 2005's Proof(one of my faves of that year).

The Debt stars Sam Worthington(Avatar), Helen Mirren(Calandar Girls), Ciaran Hinds(Munich), and Tom Wilkinson(Duplicity). It's set for release on December 29th, 2010. Check out the trailer, and as always hit us up with your thoughts!

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