On December 19, 2012, it was reported that Jackie Chan had agreed to join the sequel on the condition that he would have more than a minor role. CinemaCon: Posters for SPIDER-MAN 2, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2, TF4, THE BOXTROLLS, EXPENDABLES 3, and Many More". The CGI looks pretty bad, which is odd considering this isn't a cheap movie, but a bad director made it look cheap. On July 31, 2014, the film's studio, Lionsgate, filed a lawsuit in California federal court against ten anonymous individuals for copyright infringement. Unlike the first two films in the Expendables franchise, this film received a PG-13 rating instead of an R rating, which received backlash from the fans.

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As both the young and veteran Expendables fight one another, Barney convinces them to work together to take down Stonebanks. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 31% based on 178 reviews, with an average rating of 4. The film lacks that real cinematic look, I don't know if it's because of the type of camera, so everything looks too artificial, it doesn't have the look that older films had, where everything looked monumental. As our own Sean O'Connell noted when the film first arrived in theaters, it is perhaps one of the most brutal PG-13 films that has ever been released, but the MPAA decided to give it a pass because the theatrical cut featured virtually no blood (because the consequences of violence is the problem, right?

On October 31, 2012, it was confirmed that Nu Image and Millennium Films were in the process of pre-selling international distribution rights for The Expendables 3.

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Instead of highlighting the all-star cast as the previous ones, this trailer focused on the new additions to the cast, prominently Lutz, Ronda Rousey and Ortiz, contrasting their young characters with the more experienced ones of Stallone and Grammer.

The Chinese government would never allow a team of mercenaries, especially working for American intelligence, to operate from Chinese soil, nor would the team be able to hide their departure by plane from the authorities.

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Since its release, Stallone regrets the PG-13 rating, saying that it was "a horrible miscalculation on everyone's part in trying to reach a wider audience but in doing such, diminish the violence that the audience expects. They are forced to retreat when Stonebanks drops a glide bomb on them from his helicopter, and Caesar is severely injured. In March 2013, Stallone confirmed he was writing a script for the sequel and that he intended for the film to be more humorous with moments of drama. The Expendables—led by Barney Ross and formed by Lee Christmas, Gunner Jensen, and Toll Road—extract former member Doctor Death, a medic and knives specialist, from a dictator’s fortress prison-camp during his transfer on a train.They recruit Doctor Death to assist them in intercepting a shipment of bombs meant to be delivered to a warlord in Somalia.

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The Expendables 3 is a 2014 American action film directed by Patrick Hughes and written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt and Sylvester Stallone. However, when Stallone first submitted the film to the MPAA, they assigned it with the usual R rating and had to be trimmed down to be rated PG-13.

Principal photography began on August 19, 2013, in Bulgaria and at the Nu Boyana Film studio in Sofia [1] and ended on October 22. At this point, many of you who saw The Expendables 3 in theaters may be asking yourselves, "How could it actually get any more violent? Stonebanks sends Barney a video, challenging Barney to come after him and giving him his location in Azmenistan. In September 2013, Terry Crews revealed in an interview that Jason Statham survived an on-set mishap when the truck he was driving plunged into the Black Sea after its brakes had failed. Barney is thrown into a river, while Smilee, Luna, Thorn, and Mars are captured by Stonebanks' crew.