Also in Friday afternoon’s round-up of news briefs, Will Ferrell joins a new comedy. WWE champ gets back in front of the camera and a court in Beijing sends a group of execs from a VOD site to prison in one of the harshest sentences ever.
Ted Beats The Dark Knight Rises Abroad
The foul-mouthed creation by Seth MacFarlane and starring Mark Wahlberg is open in 10 overseas territories and scored number one in almost all of them. It’s international cume is $54.5 million in 20 territories and it’s still set to debut in 38 more, Deadline reports.
Will Ferrell Gets an Internship
He joins Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Rose Byrne in the project directed by Shawn Levy and written by Vaughn. The story revolves around two men in their early 40s who are layer off and try to reinvent themselves as interns at an Internet company that is run by managers in their 20s. Variety reports.
Randy Orton Back in the Ring for 12 Rounds: Reloaded
The three-time WWE World Heavyweight champion will star in the follow-up of the action franchise. He’ll play an emergency medical technician who’s being pursued by a vigilante threatening his family, Deadline reports.
WWII Pic About Epic Battle In the Works
A film about the battle for Monte Cassino – one of the most bitterly-fought land campaigns of World War II – is being made to coincide with the battle’s 70th anniversary. 200,000 soldiers participated from 30 countries with 55,000 allied troops and 20,000 German troops injured or killed. John Irvin will direct, BBC reports.
Beijing Court Send 6 VOD Execs to Prison
China has issued its harshest penalties for online streaming of copyright infringed material on execs from…
It’s a curious version of the real pro wrestler Kurt Angle that you get from the ring persona he’s projected over the years as a star of the WWE (née WWF) and now TNA Wrestling, where he’s currently the reigning World Heavyweight Champion. The real-life former Olympic wrestler has played off his 1996 gold medal win as wrestling’s bona fide “American Hero” since his 1998 WWF debut, juggling multiple wrestling companies and countless ring titles while a version of his own personal life, warped through the wrestling world’s faux-realist backstage lens, is broadcast every week to millions of fans. But what Angle really wants to do — what he wanted to do even before pro wrestling came calling — is act. Seriously act.
That’s just one revelation the burgeoning thespian Angle shared when he rang Movieline to discuss Warrior, his latest film, one in which he has nary a line but commands the world’s attention as Koba, the fearsome Russian champ standing between dueling brothers Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton in an all-important MMA tournament. For Angle, multiple roads led to his joining the cast of Gavin O’Connor’s sports drama: His intimidating physical presence, for sure, but also the fact that he’s long wanted to stretch his acting muscles and acknowledges that he may not be quite ready to launch into bigger roles.
Read on as Movieline speaks with Kurt Angle about his circuitous route from the Olympics to the WWF to acting, how the WWE may have stifled his film career in the wake of fellow wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s own career transition, how mulling a switch to UFC helped him train for Warrior,…
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