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With the lead star so eager to get going on another 'Charlie's Angels' installment, what's the hold up?

You grew up on 80's and 90's action movies, then you should be really excited for "The Expendables," Sly Stallone's homage to that era of violent tongue-in-cheek cinema.

One of "24's" favorite villains, former president Charles Logan, is coming back. Gregory Itzin has signed for a multiepisode arc on the upcoming eighth season.

Producer Stephen L'Heureux tells Mania.com that a "Sin City" sequel aims to go into production in the second half of next year. The sequel will be based on an original script by Miller who co-directs with Robert Rodriguez. Miller is also attached to direct and is working on the screenplay for "Hard Boiled", based on the comic about an insurance investigator-turned-cyborg assassin.

In an interview with MTV News, "Star Trek" rebooter J.J. Abrams said that he would not return to direct the fourth "Mission" Impossible" movie. "I'm producing with Tom," he said recently. "My guess is, given other things, that I will not be directing the movie." Abrams didn't really address rumors claiming that Tom Cruise would not star in this new chapter, but here are a few more things he did say: "I don't want to give anything away yet, but I will say that it's a story that will feel consistent with the world that has been created," he explained.

The most talked about scene for Sylvester Stallone's upcoming "The Expendables" film finally got filmed this past Saturday morning in Los Angeles.

Ethelmae's Blog reports that Stallone, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger all showed up at the Hollywood Presbyterian Church to shoot "a pivotal scene that sets up the whole movie" according to publicist Maria Lascala, a scene that has the three action stars playing off of each other.

Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman's in-the-works "Doc Savage" adaptation has a writer, and his name is Shane Black.

A promo trailer for writer/director Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables has made its way online and can be watched using the player below! Lionsgate will release the action-adventure, starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Eric Roberts, Dolph Lundgren, Charisma Carpenter, Giselle Itie, Brittany Murphy, David Zayas and Amin Joseph, on August 20, 2010. The film follows a team of mercenaries on a mission to overthrow a South American dictator.

We told you earlier in the week over on SciFi Squad that Entertainment Tonight would be unveiling a whole ton of set footage from their trip to visit Iron Man 2, and in case you missed the program last night, that footage is now online.

Studio finalizing deal for bigscreen adaptation -- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe have found a new home at Sony.