Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and with special guests Babu Patel and Giovanna Rampazzo, This Just In is a subset of The 250 podcast, looking at notable new arrivals on the list of the 100 worst movies of all-time, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, Steven C. Miller’s Escape Plan 2: Hades.
At time of recording, it was ranked 100th on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show notes:
- Recorded 20th July 2019.
- Note: Darren misidentifies the movie that Swarzenegger tricked Stallone into making as Cobra; it was Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.
- Escape Plan 2: Hades at The Internet Movie Database.
- Kirsten Howard at Den of Geek examines Bruce Willis’ recent direct-to-DVD filmography, January 2017.
- Richard Corliss at Time Magazine muses on the post-movie-star era, March 2008.
- Talking Movies at the BBC wonders if the era of the movie star is over, January 2019.
- Kyle Buchanan at Vulture on whether there will ever be another movie star as big as Will Smith, March 2015.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes on the reality that Chris Hemsworth is not a movie star, December 2015.
- Will Smith jokes with The Wrap about the potential of his computer-generated younger self, July 2019.
- Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson muses on the box office potential of Escape Plan 2: Hades with ScreenRant, January 2018.
- Patrick Brzeski reports at The Hollywood Reporter on Escape Plan 2: Hades as a Chinese co-production, January 2017.
- Sylvester Stallone posts on Instagram about his dissatisfaction with Escape Plan 2: Hades, June 2019.
- Nicholas Raymond at Screenrant on how Arnold Schwarzenegger tricked Sylvester Stallone into starring in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, October 2017.
- Gwynne Watkins at Yahoo! on how Sylvester Stallone almost starred in Beverly Hills Cop, August 2016.
- Nick Allen at The Telegraph on the ascent of the Chinese box office, June 2019.
- Alex Abad-Santos at Vox on how China turned Venom into a commercial smash, November 2018.
- Germain Lussier at /Film on the Chinese cut of Iron Man 3, May 2013.
- Brandon Katz at Observer on Pacific Rim: Uprising and the battle between the Chinese and American box office, March 2018.
- Nash Jenkins at Time Magazine on how Transformers: Age of Extinction broke box office records in China, July 2014.
- Jeremy Kay at Screen Daily on the viewership figures for Adam Sandler’s Murder Mystery, June 2019.
- Zack Sharf at IndieWire reports on the development of Red Notice at Netflix, July 2019.
- Bryan Rolli at Forbes on Bird Box‘s success at Netflix, January 2019.
- David Volodzko at Forbes on the Huawei scandal and the tense relationship between the United States and Canada, December 2018.
- Colin Lecher and Russell Brandom at The Verge on the potential security risk posed by Huawei, March 2019.
- Julia Horowitz at CNN reports on the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, CFO on Huawei, December 2018.
- Tracey Samuelson at MarketPlace on tensions between the United States and Japan in the eighties, November 2018.
- Steve Rose at The Guardian on the concept of “movie jail”, January 2019.
- Padraig Cotter at ScreenRant on the production of Escape Plan 3, September 2017.
- Donald Clarke at The Irish Times talks about how Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson was “badly miscast in the role of himself”, January 2006.
- Shawn Setaro at Forbes on the efforts of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson to conceal his Vitamin Water earnings, September 2015.
- Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson talks to CNBC about his range of headphones, March 2015.
- Shannon Liao at The Verge on how Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson “forgot” that he made eight million dollars in bitcoin, January 2018.
- The Guardian reports on Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s bankruptcy, Feberuary 2017.
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Filed under: The Bottom 100, This Just In | Tagged: babu patel, bottom 100, box office, bruce willis, China, curtis "50 cent" jackson, dave bautista, Direct-to-video, escape plan, escape plan 2, film, giovanna rampazzo, sequel, sylvester stallone |
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