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Lionsgate has released two pieces of outdoor artwork for Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables , coming to theaters on April 23, 2010. The action-adventure, which follows a team of mercenaries on a mission to overthrow a South American dictator, stars Stallone, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Charisma Carpenter, Giselle Itie, Brittany Murphy, David Zayas and Amin Joseph.

StudioCanal has announced that it will be teaming with Neal Moritz's L.A.-based Original Films to reboot 1993's Cliffhanger , the action adventure thriller directed by Renny Harlin and starring Sylvester Stallone.

Imagining the fate of characters pulled from fact or fiction has become standard stuff in the book trade. Gerald Kolpan’s "Etta” (Ballantine Books, $25) gloms on to the story of Etta Place, companion of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (and the latter’s lover), whom Kolpan imagines was a Philadelphia society woman called Lorinda Jameson.

TRANSFORMERS REVENGE OF THE FALLEN is coming to theaters in just over 60 days, but the voice cast still isn't complete. Director Michael Bay has Leonard Nimoy in mind for a robot but is afraid to ask. Michael Bay...afraid? Can't be. Must be a doppleganger.

The big-screen return of Conan the Barbarian is still on the docket for director Brett Ratner.

The Reading Eagle reports that Paramount Pictures will start filming M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender in Reading, Pennsylvania on Thursday. Here's an excerpt ...

Most interestingly, it sounds like GREEN HORNET director Michel Gondry will be muting his signature handmade aesthetic in order to, presumably, deliver a more studio-friendly summer film.

Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson replaces Forest Whitaker in the action pic.

Universal studios have begun work on their adaptation of EA Games' third person action-adventure Dante's Inferno, with the studio hiring scribe Dan Harris.