Title: Haywire’ Director: Steven Soderbergh Starring: Gina Carano, Antonio Banderas, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum, Michael Angarano Espionage action thrillers have failed to hold viewers captive in recent years, as many of the genre’s recent entries have only served as platforms for the most memorable stunts by the male leads. Once again, Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh was unafraid to push the limits of filmmaking by crafting a realistic female character-driven spy movie. ‘Haywire’ proves that women can be just as effective as men in any job they set out to do. ‘Haywire’ follows highly trained operative Mallory Kane (played by Gina Carano), who works as a highly-trained black-ops…

Title: Haywire Director: Steven Soderbergh Starring: Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas So was this Steven Soderbergh’s final project for film school? The question is posed for it seems that the stylish director (Ocean’s flicks, Traffic, Contagion, etc.) couldn’t afford a talented lead for Haywire. Plus, the sound edit, uh, sounds as if a micro-budgeted indie filmmaker made this on his Macbook. Actually, one could probably get better sound out of that computer. Obviously, this isn’t Soderbergh’s senior project and there was some coin behind it ($25 million) as you can surmise from the talented cast that chimed in on this 93 minute flick….

Matt Bomer spoke with Entertainment Weekly recently about his strip-teasing role in Steven Soderbergh’s “Magic Mike.” In the interview (which also contains new pictures from the film), Bomer talked about the newfound respect for women and their various waxing regimens. Bomer said that for the film, he had to get waxed, and it hurt. “I had never been waxed before,” he said. “I’m not a very hairy individual to beginwith, but it was painful. But more than that…it was more the feeling of feeling kind of prepubescent again[.]” “…[T]he regrowth process was really s—y,” he said. “[I]tchy, uncomfortable. I have a newfound appreciation for women, between the waxing, self-tanning, the…

How about some pretty pictures to take back to the office for this short and sweet work week? Bane and Batman make an official showing on the cover of the upcoming edition of Empire magazine while Marvel gives its Avengers the spotlight in two massive character banners. Over in the casting department, The Walking Dead‘s Jon Bernthal is going big screen for Ric Roman Waugh’s Snitch and there’s a good shot that Hugo‘s Asa Butterfield could lead the adaptation of Ender’s Game. There’s also some casting drama surrounding Tyler Perry’s latest, courtesy of the recently married and recently discovered Kim Kardashian’s role in The Marriage Counselor. Lionsgate gives Hunger Games…

Title: Haywire Director: Steven Soderbergh Cast: Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum, Michael Angarano, Bill Paxton Steven Soderbergh is an interesting throwback to directors of yore, in that he is far less precious with his career than many of his contemporaries, and seems to regard the medium of film as inherently a place to explore, and play around. This means not only that he’s rather astonishingly prolific, but also engages in willful genre experiments (the “Ocean’s” trilogy, certainly, as well as something like “Solaris,” and even “Contagion”), plus low-fi adventures like “Full Frontal,” “Bubble” and “The Girlfriend Experiment.” Rather than own one genre or mood,…

Think about how many new movies hit the big screen a weekend. Must be a lot of films in the works at once, right? Most certainly and this edition of the Movie News Cheat Sheet is a testament to that. We’ve got a handful of casting updates including the possibility of Joseph Gordon-Levitt joining Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained as well as news that Steven Soderbergh might have finally found his Man from U.N.C.L.E., Bradley Cooper. Word also arrived that MGM might pick up Eminem’s Southpaw after the production was dropped by DreamWorks while Universal moves forward with its Battlestar Galactica feature by hiring a writer. But, of course, we’ve also…

A new International movie trailer for Haywire from Steven Soderbergh has been dropped to the web. The action flick stars mixed martial artist and lead actress Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor and Michael Fassbender, as well as Channing Tatum, Michael Douglas and Antonio Banderas. The trailer follows Carano as a black ops super soldier who is betrayed by her own kind. After wiping the floor with Channing Tatum, Carano is seen in the action filled and very intense trailer kicking an enemy out of a window, snapping someone’s neck with her powerful legs, and basically just kicking some serious ass. Carano is a believable lethal weapon which makes Haywire all the…

MTV caught up with director Steven Soderbergh on his latest project, the much awaited stripper chronicles of Channing Tatum – Magic Mike. Giving the music outlet an update on the Tatum’s interesting life before making it big in Hollywood, Soderbergh shared “that’s gonna be crazy; the stories are crazy.” Just what fans have been dying to hear! Revealing some additional details behind the project he was extremely excited to make, the director did clear up the fact that Tatum’s life is a huge part of the flick, but loosely based. “It’s a fictionalized version of what Channing went through. Channing’s sort of playing a version of himself and Alex is…

A discussion and review the week’s new movie release from your favorite entertainment and celebrity website. Hello everyone, this is episode 13 of the Movie Night Podcast. This week Rudie Obias and Perri Nemiroff discuss the start of the Fall movie season with new outbreak movie, “Contagion” and new family/fighting drama, “Warrior”. Subscribe on iTunes or Download and Listen Here. “Contagion” features Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Demetri Martin, Elliott Gould, Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Ehle, Chin Han. It was written by Scott Z. Burns and was directed by Steven Soderbergh. “Warrior” features Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte and Jennifer Morrison. It was…

Contagion begins with Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow), a woman on her way back from a business trip in Hong Kong. She isn’t feeling too well and opts to point a finger at the usual culprit, jet lag. However, just days later her symptoms intensify, she has a seizure and passes away. This is no common cold or even a freak contraction of the bird flu or contact with anthrax; it’s a new type of virus, one with the capacity to wipe out millions. Apparently the subject matter of the film didn’t disturb the cast too much because a nice chunk of the gang shook some hands on the red carpet…