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Lionsgate announces release date for Kick-Ass and moves Stallone’s Expendables

2 September 2009No CommentPosted by Phil

Two movies that I've been looking forward to for a while, Kick-Ass and The Expendables, have been given release dates.

First up, Kick-Ass has been scheduled to make its anticipated premiere on April 16, 2010 basically kicking off next years summer movie season, granted I consider that season starting in May, but April gives us all a taste of what we hope is a good summer season for action-packed blockbusters.

From Fandango: "Mark Millar's violent comic tale of wannabe superheroes is adapted by writer/director Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake) with this Marv Films production. Aaron Johnson stars as a teen who steps out of his house one day with a mask and a painted baseball bat and starts to fight crime even though he has no superpowers. Lyndsy Fonseca co-stars as the character's object of desire, with Nicolas Cage also appearing as an ex-cop whose hatred of a drug lord forces him to train his daughter to be a lethal vigilante."

The next film written and directed by Sylvester Stallone, The Expendables, originally had a release date this April but Lionsgate decided to move Stallone's next big action film to August 20th, 2010. The good thing about the move is that it seems like a good fit for Stallone and an action films - Rambo 5 should have been released in August, at least in my opinion. What really sucks, we literally have to wait just under 1 year to see Stallone's next film. It's not clear if there was a major reason for the move but I'm guessing Lionsgate just was trying to take advantage of good scheduling.

From Fandango: "Sylvester Stallone gears up for a men-on-a-mission film with the Nu Image/Millennium Films war picture The Expendables. Jason Statham and Jet Li co-star alongside the brawny filmmaker as a group of mercenaries who undertake a near-impossible operation to overthrow a dictator in South America. Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Terry Crews, and UFC star Randy Couture co-star in the action-packed production."

Source: AICN