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Spy Kids’ Alexa Vega no longer a kid in first image from Machete Kills

Spy Kids star Alexa Vega is all grown up. She’s also turning heads with this first official from Robert Rodriguez’s upcoming Machete Kills, the sequel to Mexploitation cult action flick Machete. Vega plays the very non-childlike character KillJoy in Rodriguez’s sequel, the bodyguard of a whorehouse, presumbly the one presided over by Sofia Vergara’s Madame ….

Zoe Saldana joining Sofia Vergara, Jessica Alba and Michelle Rodriguez in Danny Trejo’s Machete sequel Machete Kills

Danny Trejo spoke to MovieHole about his next project, Robert Rodriguez’s highly-anticipated follow-up to the modern day Mexploitation film Machete, titled Machete Kills. Trejo says that the film kicks off in about three weeks, and says “The sequel to Machete, Machete Kills is going to be a lot more over-the-top than Machete. We’ve got Sofia ….

DiCaprio to play Viking in Mel Gibson-directed historical action film

Mel Gibson will direct Leonardo DiCaprio in an untitled period drama centering on Viking culture, according to Variety. William Monahan – who wrote The Departed, Body of Lies, and the upcoming Gibson-starring Edge of Darkness – is penning the screenplay, with shooting expected to start in fall of 2010. According to the report, the principals ….

Charlize Theron circling female Road Warrior sequel lead role

According to E Online, Oscar-winner Charlize Theron is director George Miller’s choice to play the female lead in the upcoming long-in-development sequel to Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Mad Max 4. However, original Road Warrior Mel Gibson apparently won’t be donning any leather this time around. When he announced that he would commence work on Mad ….

Cast and plot details for M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil

Director M. Night Shyamalan recently formed a production company called The Night Chronicles, which will generate one thriller per year for three years. Shyamalan will not direct the films himself, but produce, write treatments, and choose writers & directors. The first film on tap is Devil, which was scripted by Brian Nelson (Hard Candy, 30 ….

Cult Cinema Icons: Not Quite Hollywood grindhouse movie trailers

I found this great playlist that was created to honor the recently released grindhouse documentary Not Quite Hollywood. Not Quite Hollywood is the wild, wonderful, untold story of “Ozploitation” films. It irreverently documents an era when Australian cinema got its gear off and showed the world a full-frontal explosion of sex, violence, horror and foot-to-the-floor ….