'Machete' (2010)

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Here we have a first look image of Tom Savini in Robert Rodriguez?s next feature film Machete, based off of his classic grindhouse trailer. Savini co-stars in the film with Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson, Jeff Fahey, Elise Avellan and Electra Avella.

The feature version of the trailer finds Machete (Trejo) a renegade former Mexican Federale, roaming the streets of Texas after a shakedown from drug lord Torrez (Seagal). Reluctantly, Machete takes an offer from spin doctor Benz (Fahey) to assassinate McLaughlin (De Niro) a corrupt Senator. Double crossed and on the run Machete braves the odds with the help of Luz (Rodriguez), a saucy taco slinger, Padre (Marin) his ?holy? brother, and April (Lohan) a socialite with a penchant for guns. All while being tracked by Sartana (Alba), a sexy ICE agent with a special interest in the blade slinger.

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Fox Wins Studio War For Robert Rodriguez' 'Machete'; Now His New Filmmaking Home

EXCLUSIVE: The auction ended late Friday night and I've been putting together what happened ever since. Certainly you'll recall the big cool quotient around Machete, that famously fake trailer by Robert Rodriguez from Grindhouse. It was considered the single best thing about that Weinstein Co double-feature flop that also included Quentin Tarantino's pic. Rodriguez' fake trailer hinted at a good story (Mexican day laborer is set up, double-crossed, and left for dead -- then starts everyone's worst nightmare) and carried an even better catchphrase ("They just ****ed with the wrong Mexican.") Machete's YouTube video alone has 1.4 million views, which wasn't lost on Hollywood. The result was 6 studios all very interested in domestic distribution rights to Rodriguez' latest -- Sony, Lionsgate, Warner Bros, Fox, Paramount, and The Weinstein Co.

Rodriguez had made the fake trailer into a real movie outside the studio system. With help from Rick Schwartz's Overnight Productions, Rodriquez indie financed Machete with $20 million from selling international rights to Sony and making some other global sales and another $5 million he borrowed. Rodriguez not only wrote and produced the pic but he also co-directed it with Ethan Maniquis. It stars an eclectic cast to put it mildly of Robert De Niro, Lost's Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan, and Danny Trejo. With the picture now in the editing room, Rodriguez and his longtime agent WME's Robert Newman (who's been there from the start of the writer-director's career) decided to look for domestic distribution.

All six interested studios screened about 15 to 30 minutes of footage. Newman's proposal was for $9 million upfront, no P&A commitment but the guarantee of a wide release, and a big backend gross participation for Rodriguez. (I'm told in the 10%-12% neighborhood.) Both Fox and Paramount said yes, and then, in an unusual move, Newman went back to the two studios and asked for more gross percentage and an overall production deal for Rodriguez.

Paramount balked, so did Fox. But Fox reminded everyone that it was already very much in the Robert Rodriguez business making Predators, and Tom Rothman really wanted him to have a home there, and Rodriguez and Rothman get along well, so a deal was clinched.

Which leads me to one of the most interesting aspects of this behind-the-scenes. Since The Weinstein Co had first-look on Machete, why didn't it do the deal? After all, when Harvey and Bob started their successor company to Miramax, they did it on the back of their longtime relationships with Tarantino and Rodriguez. And they're making Spy Kids 4 with Robert. "I really don't know why. That's for Harvey to answer," one insider tells me. Rival studios are speculating TWC couldnt come up with the $9M. Yet a Weinstein Co insider claims it could have scooped up the pic for just $3.5M but didn't because "we saw the footage and it's not very good at all." Sounds like sour grapes amid the indie studio's layoffs, pic pushbacks, money woes. (Weinstein Co Gets "New Lease On Life"?)

Well, that certainly makes it clear now more than ever that the Weinsteins wont be Rodriguez' filmmaking base anymore. And that his new home of Fox just ****ed with the right Mexican.

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Lindsay Lohan is about to let it all hang out in her latest film role ? and we?re not talking about her emotions, either.

Not only will the 22-year-old actress go topless as gun-toting socialite April Benz in Robert Rodriguez?s new action flick, Machete, but she goes skinny-dipping with her on-screen mom!

HollywoodLife.com got a hold of the original Machete script, and as of now, Lindsay ? who has about 10 minutes of screen time as gun-toting socialite April Benz ? is slated to get wet and naked while swimming in a waterfall with Alicia Rachel Marek, 34, who plays her mother, June.

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nothing we havent seen before :rofl:

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Release date announced for 'Machete'

Twentieth Century Fox has announced a release date for Robert Rodriguez's upcoming movie Machete.

According to Deadline Hollywood, the film will open on Labour Day weekend.

The picture stars Danny Trejo, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez and Lindsay Lohan.

Rodriguez wrote and co-directed the project, based on his fake trailer from 2008's Grindhouse, with editor Ethan Maniquis.

Fox recently won a studio bidding war to secure the domestic distribution rights to the movie.

Machete arrives in US cinemas on September 30.

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Release date announced for 'Machete'

Twentieth Century Fox has announced a release date for Robert Rodriguez's upcoming movie Machete.

According to Deadline Hollywood, the film will open on Labour Day weekend.

The picture stars Danny Trejo, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez and Lindsay Lohan.

Rodriguez wrote and co-directed the project, based on his fake trailer from 2008's Grindhouse, with editor Ethan Maniquis.

Fox recently won a studio bidding war to secure the domestic distribution rights to the movie.

Machete arrives in US cinemas on September 30.

I think that source has the release date wrong. Everything I'm seeing shows a release date of Sept 3, 2010 for US. I just wanted to point that out for those in the US who are interested in seeing the film :D http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=54801

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WOW! I just now realized something. For those who watched the popular show Nash Bridges, Don Johnson and Cheech Marin reunite for this film. I had completely forgotten about that. I SO hope that they have some interaction that pays homage to Nash Bridges. That was one of my favorite shows when I was growing up.

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