New Trailer for Ensemble Drama 'Reach Me' starring Sylvester Stallone, Thomas Jane, and Terry Crews

What you may not know about Sylvester Stallone is that he really has an artist's soul. Sure, in the movies he's either beating somebody's head in with his fists or blowing them to pieces with machine guns the size of small planets, but that's not who he is really. And in the upcoming inspirational drama Reach Me he gets to show that softer side we rarely get to see, for better or worse.

All the B-leaguers in Hollywood make up the Reach Me ensemble, which centers on a group of troubled people who are all helped by a mysterious self-help guru's book. Nobody seems to know who the author is, though, or that he has problems of his own. Tom Berenger, Kevin Connolly, Kyra Sedgwick, Nelly, Cary Elwes, Thomas Jane, Terry Crews, Danny Trejo, Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Cohan, Ryan Kwanten and Tom Sizemore star, with John Herzfield (15 Minutes) directing.

Reach Me hits VOD and gets a limited theatrical run beginning November 21st.

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Fall in Love with Brazil in Two Trailers for 'Rio, I Love You'

Brazil is a beautiful place even when it's not hosting the World Cup, but many of the Hollywood depictions we get are of the seedier side, like in 2002's amazing City of God. The producers behind the new omnibus film Rio, I Love You want to show the romantic side of Rio de Janiero with the help of a cast of international superstars, and here are two trailers for it.

While not as star-studded as the earlier films Paris, je t'aime and New York, I Love You (you won't see Bradley Cooper in this one, for instance) the cast and filmmakers have a much broader global flavor. Directors such as Jose Padilha (Robocop), City of God's Fernando Meirelles, Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty), and John Turturro (Fading Gigolo) lead ten segments on love and fate in the South American city.

Featuring Ryan Kwanten, Emily Mortimer, Jason Isaacs, Vincent Cassel, and Harvey Keitel, Rio, I Love You opens in Brazil on September 11th.

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Sylvester Stallone, Nelly, and Terry Crews Look for Answers in 'Reach Me' Trailer

"There's no stopping someone that will stop at nothing", begins the trailer for Reach Me, a dramatic ensemble that features Sylvester Stallone in the rare role that doesn't require him to blow anything up or punch someone in the face. It's been nearly two decades since Stallone put on his drama hat in Cop Land, a film that was ripped at the time but has since been recognized as one of the actor's finer performances....at least compared to his latter Rocky, Rambo, and The Expendables efforts. And now Stallone is ready to show what he can do again but the trailer suggests the film may not be up to par.

Stallone is surrounded by a cast that immediately pegs this as something headed for Redbox with the quickness. Kelsey Grammer and Terry Crews (Sly's buds in The Expendables 3), Cary Elwes, Thomas Jane, Ryan Kwanten, Tom Sizemore, Tom Berenger, Kevin Connolly, The Walking Dead's Lauren Cohan, Agents of SHIELD's Elizabeth Henstridge, Kyra Sedgewick, ex-New York Giants fullback Jarrod Bunch, Nelly, and Danny Aiello star as a group of people who are all connected by a self help guru's book, but little do they know he's just a reclusive former football coach with his own problems.

John Herzfeld (15 Minutes) directed and wrote the script so if it looks like a poor man's Crash then he's the one to hold responsible. Reach Me will open on October 24th.

Reach Me Official Trailer (2014) Sylvester Stallone, Tom Jane HD by Newest Trailer

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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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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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Ryan Kwanten and Amy Smart board Flight 7500, from director of The Grudge

If you hated that spaight of lousy J-Horrors we were subject to back in the mid 2000s, like One Missed Call, Dark Water, and so forth, then you've got Takashi Shimizu to blame. The Japanese filmmaker began the craze with the legitimately scarey Ju-On series, and then had the nerve to dumb them down and bring them here as The Grudge and it's awful sequel. Since then we havent' seen much of him stateside, but now he's primed to make a comeback by directing the airline thriller, Flight 7500.

Ryan Kwanten, best known as Jason Stackhouse on HBO's True Blood will star, alongside Amy Smart(Crank), in a film about a flight across the Pacific Ocean which begins to experience strange events after one of the passengers dies mysteriously.  The script comes courtesy of Craig Rosenberg, who most recently gave us the lousy remake, The Uninvited.

Kwanten will be seen next in the live-action role playing comedy, The Knights of Badassdom. Smart is currently starring in The Reunion, the WWE Studios film starring John Cena.

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